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Premier telecommunications equipment maker Lucent Technologies Inc.’s woes continued last week as it revised its first-quarter earnings downward while announcing an overhaul plan that will involve $1 billion in cost …

BEND, Ore.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. gained a new affiliate, Edge Wireless Communications L.L.C., which will provide mobile services to rural markets in four Western states and launch a personal communications …

Extolling them as “wings of light,” Nortel Networks hopes to illumine the wireless Internet space with four new initiatives. Basking in a 55-percent third-quarter growth, the Internet and communications company …

Rumors abound that limping telecom equipment maker Lucent Technologies Inc. is about to become red meat in the corporate cage. But no fat-cat company has yet confessed to appetite. In …

Motorola Inc. entered the wireless game sector this week in a major way, teaming up with UIEvolution to develop multi-player games for next-generation mobile handsets based on Sun Microsystems’ Java …

Under a new licensing agreement, Nortel Networks will be able to license Certicom’s Elliptic Curve Cryptography technology to create a virtual private network for handheld devices. Nortel said this will …

PARIS-Matsushita Communications Industrial Co., Ltd. and Nortel Networks moved to push the standards set by 3G Partnership Projects and their own products and services. Under a new agreement, the two …

No thanks to an accounting error in a week for thanksgiving, Lucent Technologies Inc.’s bleeding continued as it withdrew its projected fourth-quarter sales by $125 million, triggering a 14-percent share …

WASHINGTON-The Department of Justice is pointing to contracts it signed with four manufacturers to show it is cost-effective for telecom carriers to add additional capabilities to their networks to enhance …

LONDON-France Telecom’s Orange, a United Kingdom mobile-phone provider, decided to standardize on Nortel Networks’ Alteon Web switching products to support the expansion of its infrastructure. Orange is deploying ACEdirector 3 …

NEW YORK-The 2.4 GHz unlicensed radio-frequency band is getting a bit crowded these days, with cordless phones, microwave ovens and the new guest, Bluetooth, all tapping into it. By contrast, …

NEW YORK-More than any other part of telecommunications, the handset business “will go through the most severe changes in the next several years,” said Jeffrey Schlesinger, wireless technology analyst for …

Seven companies set up a TD-SCDMA Technical Forum in Beijing. TD-SCDMA is a third-generation (3G) mobile-phone standard developed by the China Academy of Telecommunications Technology (CATT) and Siemens. The seven …

BOSTON-Nortel Networks Corp. and Sprint PCS said they are cooperating to build the first access technology-independent wireless network test bed using Internet Protocol technology for both voice and data. The …

NEW YORK-Endwave Corp., a Sunnyvale, Calif., provider of radio-frequency subsystems, went public Oct. 16 on Nasdaq with an offering of 6 million shares of stock, priced at $14, the midpoint …

WOODBURY, Spain-Comverse Network Systems demonstrated its third-generation-capable unified messaging service, including video messaging, over Nortel Network Corp.’s Universal Mobile Telecommunications System network at the UMTS Conference in Barcelona, Spain. The …

Lucent Lucent Technologies Inc. announced that John Young, former president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Co. and a current member of the Lucent board of directors, will become chairman …

BARCELONA, Spain-Nortel Networks announced new Internet Protocol core network, base station and management offerings as part of its `Wings of Light’ strategy last week at the UMTS 2000 show in …

CUPERTINO. Calif.-John O’Connell joined Vyyo Inc. as its new chief executive officer, replacing Davidi Gilo, who will maintain his role as the company’s chairman of the board of directors. O’Connell …

Lucent Technologies Inc.’s slow and steady slide from Wall Street darling to Wall Street doldrums accelerated last week when the company issued a profit warning that triggered several downgrades and …

NEW YORK-As wireless and wireline carriers and Internet content providers seek to drive revenues through value-added services, the concept of presence has taken on new importance. Presence is shorthand for …

Flarion Technologies Flarion Technologies, a new company formed to commercialize a wireless data technology for Internet mobility market, announced that Matthew J. Desch has been appointed to a new seat …

NEW YORK-Solid Information Technology, known for network synchronization software, has received $50 million in second-round private equity investment. Robertson Stephens Inc. served as placement agent for the transaction, which is …

MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. reported that its NewNet OTSserver TDMA application and NewNet SMserver application were approved through the Nortel Network Wireless Interoperability Testing program, gaining the Nortel Networks Compatible Product …

NEW YORK-More than any other part of telecommunications, the handset business “will go through the most severe changes in the next several years,” said Jeffrey Schlesinger, wireless technology analyst for …