NEW YORK-Qwest Capital Funding Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Denver-based Qwest Communications International Inc., was pleasantly surprised last week to find it had investors willing to purchase nearly $12 billion of its debt securities.The company, which had planned a private placement of $3...
The nation's largest wireless carrier created another plot twist in the ongoing E911 saga, filing a waiver petition with the Federal Communications Commission last Wednesday asking to change its location technology choice from a network- to a handset-based solution, citing the unavailability of a...
DENVER-Qwest Wireless last week filed to change its Enhanced 911 Phase II solution from a network-based solution to an assisted Global Positioning Satellite-or hybrid-solution.Qwest in November was one of the 14 carriers to file with the Federal Communications Commission for a network-based solution. Fifteen...
BlackstoneBlackstone announced Elaine Moncayo has joined its marketing department as marketing coordinator. In her new position, she will be responsible for internal marketing, including newsletter, brochures, Web site updates and presentations. She will work with both Blackstone employees and distributors in Miami and across...
Wireless e-mail company Etrieve Inc. scored two major deals with two major carriers in separate announcements today, moves that will make its services much more widely available to businesses across the country.In its agreement with Nextel Communications Inc., the carrier will sell Etrieve's e-mail,...
BeVocal, Sunnyvale, Calif., is taking its voice-activated software solutions and technology and making them available to wireless carriers, enabling those carriers to create and run voiceXML-based applications on their own networks.The BeVocal Foundation Platform is built on an open, standards-based architecture that supports nodes...
GoBeam Inc.GoBeam Inc. rolled out its GoBeam Dashboard, a dashboard user interface that enables customers to easily manage business communication services from a browser-based console. The service is accessible through the GoBeam Web site and requires no software to run. The GoBeam Dashboard includes...
Iridium Satellite L.L.C. appointed Gino Picasso president and chief executive officer. Picasso previously was president and chief operating officer of Ace*Comm Corp., a provider of operations support systems software. Dan Colussy, who headed up the team of investors that purchased and reorganized Iridium, will...
A number of wireless carriers released surprising first-quarter financial results last week showing stronger than expected customer additions despite continued uncertainty in the U.S. economy. "In fact, based on the results in so far, net additions are tracking 5-percent below , better than our...
NEW YORK-Emblaze Systems Inc. will optimize its patented streaming media technology for use in wireless devices running on Symbian's EPOC operating system, under an agreement announced last week.A simulation using content from Emblaze's content partners and Symbian-based smart phones will be available on Symbian's...
One local multipoint distribution service wireless broadband carrier folded under the financial burden of the stock market last week, and now the futures of several others hang in the balance, potentially impacting the stability of an entire industry that just a year ago was...
MobileSys Inc., a wireless messaging platform provider, reported an alliance with Siebel Systems Inc. to provide enterprise organizations with real-time wireless messaging for employees and customers."Our customers are asking for wireless data messaging solutions which serve both one-way and two-way communications and operate across...
SAN DIEGO-Kyocera Wireless Corp. reported it is voluntarily replacing approximately 11,000 of its QCP 3035 wireless handsets sold to Qwest Wireless customers in 12 states since December. Kyocera said it found under certain circumstances some of the phones, when used in analog mode on...
AT&T Wireless Group jumped into the very active debt capital market last week selling off $6.5 billion worth of senior unsecured notes, the largest private bond sale ever by a U.S. company.The bond sale followed Qwest Communications International Inc., Sprint Corp. and Verizon Communications,...
WASHINGTON-Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) told state regulators last week that the answer to how to get broadband services to rural American might be wireless."We can't wire rural America. ... We have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. We know we can't wire rural...
NEW YORK-Debt downgrades for telecommunications carriers last year outnumbered upgrades by a two-to-one margin, setting the stage for increased pressure on ratings this year, analysts for Standard & Poor's Corp. said.The freewheeling initial public offering market of the late 1990s gave new players unrealistic...
Indiqu Inc. wants to make your cell phone fun.The mobile games developer and marketer has signed several deals in the past few weeks to expand its coverage and improve its games offerings, all in a push to "transform wireless devices into personal entertainment terminals...
As likely winners begin to emerge in the re-auction of NextWave Telecom Inc.'s PCS licenses, it looks like these permits will be used in large part by major wireless players to shore up more spectrum, either to meet capacity needs today or for third-generation...
In an age of customer-service fumbles and a plethora of services, high-tech wizards dream of bundling as the lightning rod to greater revenues. So far, theory has proved superior to practice. But optimism may yet triumph.Unlike in the past when AT&T's monopoly reigned, competition...
LittlefeetLittlefeet Inc., a wireless network infrastructure developer, appointed Kai Cheong Chan as the general manager and sales director for the company's new regional office, which will serve Singapore and the Asia-Pacific region.Chan will be responsible for developing business relationships and managing distribution channels for...
Just as Sprint PCS was quick to offer wireless Web services, the company is jumping head first into the voice-recognition market, signing a new agreement with voice portal provider BeVocal Inc. to test speech-activated applications powered by BeVocal's Total Voice Portal Solution.The BeVocal deal...
WASHINGTON-Qwest Communications International Corp. was able to emerge from the union negotiating table without agreeing to allow the Communications Workers of America to have access to its wireless employees, something that neither Verizon Communications nor SBC Communications Inc. were able to do.Qwest announced Oct....
If you were to ask most wireless subscribers what they wanted out of their wireless service, you would get a variety of answers that led to one overriding desire-more. If a little is good, more has to be better.Wireless carriers increasingly are turning to...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it has signed up 29 co-sponsors for the Indian Telecom Training Initiative (ITTI 2000) to be held Sept. 25-28 in St. Paul, Minn.Co-sponsors include Alltel Corp., AT&T Corp., Ericsson Inc., Globalstar L.P., Lucent Technologies Inc., Lukas, Nace, Gutierrez &...
