Nortel Networks Corp. reported overdue first-quarter results, including revenues of $2.54 billion, an increase of 4 percent from revenues of $2.44 billion reported during the first quarter of last year. Revenues were down slightly from fourth quarter revenues of $2.62 billion.Net loss for the...
Motient Communications Inc. announced it will shut down the rural sections of its network, reducing its DataTAC network coverage from 200 million people to 137 million. The move is not totally unexpected-Motient has been bleeding customers and revenues for years, and has lately been...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Siemens AG showed off their new wares in conjunction with the CeBIT trade show in Germany. Such announcements are especially important for Siemens, which has weathered questions over the future of its mobile-phone business.Indeed, Siemens came out of the...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission and the United South and Eastern Tribes have agreed to a set of voluntary best practices for siting towers on lands of cultural significance to some Native American Tribes.USET represents 24 tribes from Maine to Florida to Texas. The FCC...
WASHINGTON-ATIS today released a comprehensive plan to craft new industry standards for converging multimedia architectures across wireline, PCS/cellular and Wi-Fi networks.ATIS said the Mobile Wireless Services Priority Work Plan is the result of more than a year of technical assessment and analysis of mobile...
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill.-Motorola Inc. and Avis Rent A Car recently announced several enhancements to the Avis Assist mobile-phone-based navigation system.The service, which targets traveling business people, includes a global positioning system-enabled Nextel Communications Inc. handset powered by Motorola's Viamoto software that can be mounted in...
WASHINGTON-California Public Utilities Commission member Carl Wood (D) has lost majority support for his telecom consumer plan, with fellow Commissioner Geoffrey Brown (D) deciding to draft an alternative bill of rights because of differences with Wood on sections of the proposal that have come...
IRVINE, Calif.-Verizon Wireless introduced its North America's Choice rate plans, extending home airtime rate areas across sections of Canada and Mexico.The plans, which Verizon Wireless said would initially be available for its West Area consumer markets and Midwest territory business users, include four tiered...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless has upgraded its Web site, www.verizonwireless.com. Enhanced sections of the Web site include consumer education, customer satisfaction, customer accounts, Spanish-speaking customers, business services, company information, employment, becoming a vendor and contact information."These enhancements to the Verizon Wireless site are part of...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. officially formed their previously announced "Roadrunner" joint venture to build out GSM/GPRS service along more than 4,000 miles of rural highways in Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah.The companies also...
REDMOND, Washington, United States-AT&T Wireless Services and Cingular Wireless officially formed their previously announced "Roadrunner" joint venture to build out GSM/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) service along more than 4,000 miles of rural highways in Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas...
HELSINKI, Finland-Tele2, Sweden's second-largest telecom operator after Telia, has confirmed plans to present a joint bid with London-based Star Capital Partners to acquire Italian mobile operator Blu's network. A sale has been in the cards since 2000, when Blu failed in its attempt to...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Just weeks after flagging disappointing financial results and with revenues failing to increase in line with expectations, Logica has decided to close its product development facility in southern Ireland. The Cork facility employs approximately 50 staff. The development work undertaken there will be...
NEW DELHI, India—Indian cellular operators have demanded immediate removal of cellular-phone ownership as a criterion for mandatory filing of income-tax returns, saying it is discriminatory. The move led to a fall in new subscriptions during April.Under a new scheme, the Finance Ministry made it...
MOSCOW—Two major Russian GSM carriers—MTS and Vimpelcom (BeeLine)—launched their first third-generation (3G) Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) network trial sections this month, and a third carrier is to follow suit in early 2002.Vimpelcom launched its section comprising two base stations, a controller and a...
NEW YORK—Fanlink Networks plans to debut its "fan-friendly" wireless technology at the Minnesota Vikings vs. New Orleans Saints NFL game this Sunday at the Louisiana Superdome.The new technology will allow ticket holders to order food, drinks and merchandise and have the purchases delivered to...
LONDON—Sweden's Ericsson was appointed the main supplier by all three GSM operators in Nigeria.These contracts follow on from the recently granted GSM licences to EWN (Econet Wireless Nigeria), Nitel and MTN. The deals with the Nigerian operators will allow Ericsson to strengthen its position...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Aeris.net, a Web-to-wireless telemetry network operator, and American Innovations, a supplier of remote monitoring systems, have teamed up to offer what they say is a surer way to prevent explosions and leaks in the more than 2 million miles of pipelines traversing...
As wireless technologies wax stronger in the market, established wireline corporations such as IBM Corp., Cisco Systems and Microsoft Corp. are learning to leverage both divisions as a fruitful business model.The corporations have been churning out a series of products and solutions ranking them...
The weak economy has turned profit into loss, changed workers into job applicants and dropped high stocks into the tank.Now, it seems to have transformed love into poison between some vendors and some of their shareholders as demonstrated by a series of class-action lawsuits...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will begin examining the relationship between wireline and wireless carriers and which regulators-federal or state-have jurisdiction over interconnection.It is a "question of our jurisdictional basis for addressing the intercarrier compensation rules that we should use for wireless interconnection," said Jane...
Vast Solutions Inc., a wireless data company spun off in the Arch Wireless Inc.-Paging Network Inc. merger last year, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy earlier this month in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas.Chapter 7 bankruptcy is the most severe...
As Bluetooth-enabled products continue their slow introduction into the marketplace, a new study by Frost & Sullivan forecasts global shipments of Bluetooth products to reach more than 11 million units by the end of 2001, equaling $2.5 billion in revenues."Although the delays in the...
LAS VEGAS-Whether we like it or not, most of us are plugged in, turned on or otherwise connected to everyone else on this planet. But in spite of these universal ties, there is growing interest in maintaining individuality, or so it seemed at the...
