Credit-card processing firm Paymentech Inc. announced it has been chosen to process the automatic payment programs for recurring billing by Paging Network Inc., Western Wireless Corp. and AccessLine Inc. The recurring billing solution allows service providers to automatically receive payments from a customer's credit...
NEW ORLEANS-Nokia Corp. last week announced an infrastructure package that should reduce costs and increase efficiency for Global System for Mobile communications carriers, now will be available in the United States. The package components already are in use in Europe, said company officials.The services,...
NEW YORK-TeleCorp PCS Inc., an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate, Tuesday plans to debut its first commercial market, from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, La., at Wireless '99.Later in the quarter, TeleCorp, an F-block personal communications services carrier, expects to roll out commercially its...
Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. plans to introduce a new series of Code Division Multiple Access phones this week at Wireless '99 in New Orleans, including the company's first CDMA tri-mode handset.According to Peter Skarzynski, vice president of wireless sales and marketing at STA, the...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. and Nokia Corp. announced a long-term cooperation agreement involving the development of new technology for third-generation wireless telecommunications products designed for high data rate applications, such as Internet access.According to the multiyear agreement, InterDigital will deliver technology building...
C-block personal communications services operator Indus Inc. remains committed to launching Time Division Multiple Access service within the coming weeks despite buildout, zoning and technical struggles that delayed its launch date by about eight months.The company initially planned to launch service last summer in...
DinetDinet Inc. announced an advanced keypad will be installed in all of its models of mobile data terminals. The keypad provides a more tactile feel as well as improved radio-frequency shielding. Testing of the new keypad showed no failures occurring in 16 million pushes....
NEW YORK-Nearly 40 electronics manufacturers have joined forces with Sun Microsystems Inc. to develop new devices that run Jini programming language, some of which could come to market by late this year.Jini, pronounced "genie," is an enhancement of Sun's Java programming language, which permits...
Finland-based Nokia Corp. continued to put pressure on its competitors with mobile phone sales that more than doubled for the fourth quarter, while its Swedish counterpart L.M. Ericsson saw its mobile phone sales fall 3 percent for the fourth quarter.At the end of 1997,...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration, invoking powerful references to the World Trade Organization, competition and convergence, last week said the European Commission's response to U.S. concerns about potential trade barriers to third-generation mobile phone standards fell short, and urged Europe not to implement 3G before the...
Geoworks Corp. announced the latest stage in its continuing transformation last week with the introduction of a consulting division called the Professional Services group.The business unit was created to provide software development, strategic consulting, project management and quality assurance consulting services to the wireless...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commissioner Susan Ness last week added her voice to the growing drumbeat of U.S. opposition to European Union moves that could block the import of third-generation mobile phone technologies and limit harmonization of similar standards."A major concern I share with other U.S....
Unwired Planet Inc. took another step toward making its vision of Wireless Application Protocol devices and services a commercial reality by providing interoperability testing between its WAP-enabled UP.Link Server and WAP-encoded browsers produced by handset manufacturers.The first company to begin testing its proprietary browser...
LAS VEGAS-Topp Telecom Inc. unveiled its new $20 million national advertising campaign at the International Consumer Electronics Show last week, featuring TV ads produced by the director of the Little Caesar's "Pizza Pizza" campaign, as well as local radio spots.The company also announced Nokia...
Qualcomm Inc. may be ready to sell off its handset division as competition in the cdmaOne handset business intensifies and costs increase.Sources say Qualcomm is in discussions with Siemens Wireless Terminals concerning the sale of Qualcomm's cdmaOne handset division. Qualcomm and Siemens declined to...
Iridium Operating L.L.C. announced it closed $1.95 billion of new financing consisting of an $800 million senior secured credit facility, a $750 million guaranteed credit facility and $400 million in vendor financing from Motorola Inc. The new facilities will replace Iridium's existing $1 billion...
NEW YORK-Electric Fuel Corp.'s consumer battery division introduced a new line of zinc-air disposable batteries for L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc. and Nokia Corp. cellular phones.The new line includes 2,900 mAh batteries for the Nokia 5100 and 6100 series, the Ericsson 300, 600 and 800...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced 32 million of its shares owned by its Dutch subsidiary, Nokia Finance International B.V., will be transferred to Nokia's wholly owned Finnish subsidiary, Nokiterra.In all, 4.5 million Nokia A shares and 27.6 K shares, representing 5.3 percent of Nokia's share...
The State Department late last month urged the European Commission to allow U.S. third-generation wireless equipment and service providers a fair opportunity to compete in Europe.In a letter sent to EC Commissioner Martin Bangemann Dec. 19, the United States expressed concern Europe may be...
Convergys Corp. announced it established a revolving credit facility for $600 million. The funds are to be used for general corporate purposes, financing acquisitions and to repay inter-company debt to Cincinnati Bell Inc. as part of completing the spinoff of the company, said Convergys....
CanadaCell-Loc Inc. announced it expects to receive funding from the National Research Council of Canada's Industrial Research Assistance Program to assist in continued research and development of a Code Division Multiple Access Cellocate System. The Cellocate System is capable of locating any cellular telephone...
TeklogixTeklogix introduced the Teklogix 9150 Wireless Gateway, which features dual Personal Computer Memory Card International Association radio card slots that help it support mixed radio configurations. The 9150 allows users the flexibility to install a wireless backbone using open system access point architectures or...
China News reported merger plans in Taiwan's paging arena, with Taiwan Paging Network announcing its intention to buy Express Telecom and Ever Glory Telecom, as well as three mobile data service providers. The acquisition will mean TPN will become the first company to provide...
The International Telecommunication Union's 31 December deadline passed without resolution in the intellectual-property-right stand-off over third-generation technology, but the ITU has indicated it may push ahead anyway.The ITU warned the wireless industry in December it may only consider proposals for 3G technologies based on...
