INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. announced it entered into an agreement with AirTouch Cellular under which Brightpoint will provide warehousing and distribution services, fulfillment, repair and refurbishment and returns processing services for AirTouch Cellular's wireless handsets and accessories. The three-year agreement covers all of AirTouch Cellular's domestic...
Telecommunications companies are offering some of the largest bond sales ever.Sprint Capital Corp. on Thursday expanded its $3 billion global bond sale to $3.5 billion. The proceeds will cover negative cash flow associated with building out Sprint PCS's personal communications services markets. During last...
WOBURN, Mass.-Cable and Wireless Caribbean Cellular launched its prepaid service under the brand name "Freedom Prepaid Cellular" and selected the Systems Division of Boston Communications Group Inc. as the preferred system provider, with multi-island deployments in the Caribbean, said BCGI."This implementation of the BCGI...
WASHINGTON-A special Senate Y2K committee learned last week that ironically due to the lack of phase I enhanced 911 wireless systems, public safety answering points actually may be practicing Year 2000 scenarios.Meanwhile, the Senate failed to pass a bill to stave off frivolous lawsuits...
In the nascent broadband wireless access market, Bellevue, Wash.-based Wavtrace Inc., which develops systems for millimeter-wave frequencies, believes it has a head start on the competition after unveiling its first product earlier this year.Wavtrace's first installation was for Virginia Tech, a university that won...
CAMBRIDGE, England-Vodafone Group plc and the Automobile Association in the United Kingdom announced they have agreed to participate in the world's first commercial trial of the Cursor location system designed by Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd.The trial, set for next month, will involve 250 business...
SAN RAMON, Calif.-U.S. Wireless Corp. completed the first phase of a trial of its end-to-end wireless E911 system that integrates continuous caller location capability.The five-month trial included U S West Inc., Xypoint Corp., Nortel Networks, Western Wireless Corp. and William Communications Solutions L.L.C.During the...
WASHINGTON-Motorola Inc., the top American wireless manufacturer, is internally debating whether it can support what appears will be a weak U.S. position on third-generation mobile phone spectrum at the World Radiocommunication Conference next year.Motorola, according to sources, is distressed over what it regards as...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Uniden Multimedia Corp. began shipping for commercial and retail sale a new portable wireless communications Cellular Digital Packet Data modem, the Uniden Data 2000.The Data 2000 is a battery-powered Type II Personal Computer Memory Card International Association PC card that works with...
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash.-Integrated Data Communications, a company that has developed a handset-based wireless location technology, said a recent six-month trial found its system located half of wireless callers to within 70 feet and 30 percent of callers to within a 40-foot radius.IDC worked with...
LAS VEGAS-Tessco Technologies Inc. announced it was selected by IFR Americas Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. to be an equipment supplier. In addition, Ericsson Inc. selected Tessco to provide telesales and logistics services for Ericsson in North America.Tessco said it is the exclusive supplier of...
The U.S. Commerce Department says it provided support to CDMA vendors wanting to sell their products in China, but did not discriminate against Time Division Multiple Access technology when it encouraged China to expand Code Division Multiple Access networks during visits there in March."We've...
WASHINGTON-The previously announced Wireless Day at the Federal Communications Commission will occur June 10, said Thomas Sugrue, chief of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau."I am hopeful that (the agenda) will be devoted entirely" to wireless issues, Sugrue said, noting other bureaus may want to...
WASHINGTON-Americans who use wireless phones can vote for them to be on a stamp. The Postal Service was set to begin accepting votes for its "Celebrate the Century" stamp collection on Saturday.Wireless phones are nominated for the lifestyle category for the 1990s. "We have...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission could make a decision on the strongest-signal debate as early as this month at the public meeting, said senior FCC officials last week.While the details of the decision are still uncertain, it seems the cellular industry's efforts to convince the...
HOUSTON-Seven Seas Communications announced it will unveil a new line of satellite communications products at the Offshore Technology Conference this week, which will include products from Iridium L.L.C., Inmarsat and American Mobile Satellite Corp.'s Oceancell venture.Devices include Iridium handsets made by Motorola Inc. and...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said support center practices certification was given to its Wireless Technical Support Center in Naperville, Ill., which provides round-the-clock support to network operators in North America. The certification is part of a rigorous program to establish quality benchmarks for...
BOSTON-Strategy Analytics Inc. said it predicts there will be more than 28 million mobile data users by 2003, more than two-thirds of which will be consumer users.The findings are detailed in the reports, "Mobile Internet: Status and Key Trend Analysis" and "European and U.S. Cellular...
LAS VEGAS-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it will provide Oklahoma-based Pioneer Telephone Cooperative with an intelligent network platform, enabling Pioneer to build out its network in phases and offer advanced services such as prepaid, short message service and call screening.Lucent said additional applications such as...
ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc. announced it reached a definitive agreement with an affiliate of Saratoga Partners, a New York-based merchant bank, to sell substantially all of the assets of its subsidiary, Preferred Technical Services Inc.Saratoga Partners' affiliate will pay about $5 million for PTS in...
DALLAS-Nortel Networks introduced an end-to-end General Packet Radio Service solution based on its Passport ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) and Contivity Extranet switches.The Nortel Networks GPRS solution provides Global System for Mobile communications and Time Division Multiple Access digital wireless operators with the network infrastructure...
TOKYO-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it was selected by NTT DoCoMo to supply wideband Code Division Multiple Access equipment, including base transceiver stations and radio network controller/multimedia processing equipment, for NTT DoCoMo's next-generation wireless network.
U.S. government officials pressed L.M. Ericsson Chief Executive Sven-Christer Nilsson last week to lobby the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to adopt the tri-mode CDMA third-generation standard framework agreed to at a TransAtlantic Business Dialogue meeting months ago.Government officials are concerned over statements Ericsson made...
WASHINGTON-Perhaps denoting that local multipoint distribution service and the tremendous data possibilities it affords may be the wave of the future, the LMDS re-auction already seems more successful than the recently concluded PCS re-auction.While the PCS sale left some licenses still unclaimed after many...
