Kyocera Wireless Corp. hopes to reach two fast-growing markets with its QCP 6035 Smartphone, combining the functionality of a tri-mode CDMA phone with a personal digital assistant incorporating Palm Inc.'s latest 3.5 operating system.The hybrid, set to launch during the first quarter of next...
Starting Jan. 1, several cities in Utah, including Salt Lake City, Cedar City and South Salt Lake, will levy a $1-per-month tax on cellular phones to tap what city officials see as a substantial revenue source.Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson first proposed the...
WASHINGTON-Carriers last week overwhelmingly warned the Federal Communications Commission that while they will make their best efforts to meet implementation deadlines for enhanced 911 Phase II, they are concerned that solutions-whether they be handset, network or hybrid-will meet the time lines or accuracy requirements...
Over the past several weeks, Sprint PCS has rolled out several additions to its Wireless Web service designed to target the consumer market, particularly teen users.In the last month, users of Sprint's Wireless Web service have seen new folders added to their launch screens...
Arch Wireless Inc. reported a third-quarter net loss of $66.2 million, or $1 per share, compared with $68.2 million, or $1.42 per share, reported for the last third-quarter period. Arch was expected to close its merger with Paging Network Inc. Nov. 10. Net revenues...
PARIS-SkyPoint, a Spanish telecom operator with a wireless access license in the 26 GHz band, selected Alcatel to supply its local multipoint distribution service (LMDS) equipment. The initial phase of the project is valued at US$84 million.SkyPoint's network is currently being deployed throughout seven...
PARIS-SkyPoint, a Spanish telecom operator with a wireless access license in the 26 GHz band, selected Alcatel to supply its local multipoint distribution service equipment. The initial phase of the project is valued at $84 million.SkyPoint's network is currently being deployed throughout seven major...
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 companies that set up the forum are China Mobile, China Unicom, Datang, Huawei, Motorola,...
NEW YORK-The $41.6 billion bid by Deutsche Telekom AG for VoiceStream Wireless Corp. was the largest merger announced last quarter and the second-largest during the first nine months of this year, Mergerstat L.P., Los Angeles, reported.The semiconductor sector, with mergers totaling $49.5 billion, led...
A new company is hoping to put those hours spent idling in traffic to good use by bringing together mobile-phone users and radio advertisers with one number, free of charge.Privately held e-Wireless Inc., founded by former Becker Beepers founder and president Dean Becker, recently...
ST. LOUIS-Both leading presidential candidates in last Tuesday's debate here reiterated plans to beef up the military with next-generation technology, positions that could conflict with President Clinton's directive to force the Pentagon and others to surrender radio spectrum to third-generation mobile-phone carriers.In a post-Cold...
The prospect of playing video games on wireless devices is becoming a factor in the entertainment content being developed for the wireless Internet movement.Ignition Corp., founded by several former McCaw Cellular and Microsoft Corp. executives, has backed the idea through its involvement in UIEvolution,...
CHICAGO-When Bridget Glavaz touched down in Los Angeles recently, she pulled out her handheld computer, a Palm VII, and started addressing two critical issues. She needed directions to her appointment downtown, so she logged onto Mapquest.com. Equally important, she wanted a hot hazelnut mocha,...
LONDON-Sema Group and the United Kingdom's Association of Train Operating Companies have agreed on a new contract to replace and maintain ATOC's paper reference books with Windows powered Pocket PCs.Sema said it expects the Pocket PC devices will eventually contain all timetables and fares...
BEIJING-Vodafone, the world's largest mobile-phone operator by total subscriber numbers, is set to take a 2-percent stake in China Mobile (Hong Kong), the listed subsidiary of parent China Mobile Telecommunications in Beijing. Vodafone agreed to purchase shares valued at $2.5 billion in China Mobile...
HONG KONG-China Mobile Hong Kong is buying seven mobile-phone networks from China Mobile Communications, its parent company, for about US$33 billion. China Mobile Hong Kong will sell US$2.5 billion of shares to Vodafone Group plc to help pay for the acquisition, giving Vodafone a...
FAIRFAX, Va.-Verestar Inc. has purchased Swisscom's satellite business assets, including four Standard A antennas at the Satellite Network Access Point facility in Leuk, Switzerland; seven antennas in Basle, Geneva and Zurich, Switzerland; and direct fiber links to New York and London, the company said.
CHICAGO-"Spectrum is like money, everyone always wants more of it and you can never get enough of it," said Mark Kelley, chief technology officer of Leap Wireless International Inc.It is a widely held theory in the wireless industry. But is it accurate?This was a...
CHICAGO-In a wireless data environment increasingly cluttered with multiple email addresses and multiple wireless devices, Postini Corp. is hoping to score with a simple solution-enabling end users to read emails on wireless devices.Postini plans to do this using the customer's existing email address and...
TAMPA, Fla.-GTE Telecommunication Services Inc. announced it signed contracts with seven wireless operators to facilitate and manage their worldwide roaming agreements.The operators include Appalachian Wireless, Bell Mobility, BellSouth Cellular, First Cellular of Southern Illinois, Iusacell of Mexico, Midwest Wireless and U.S. Cellular.GTE TSI said...
BASKING RIDGE, N.J.-Avaya Communications Inc., the former Enterprise Networks Group at Lucent Technologies Inc., celebrated its just-completed $8 billion spin-off by introducing a half-dozen additions to its Enterprise Class IP Solutions product line.The spin-off, completed on Sept. 30, involved Lucent shareholders of record on...
IndiaThe government-owned Department of Telecom Operations (DTO) will start its cellular mobile service in some cities by March 2001. It will soon float a tender for the supply and installation of about 1.5 million lines of GSM equipment on a turnkey basis.The service would...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth got the agency to delay the vote on telecom building-access rules, but brow beating from Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) appeared to have contributed to assurances that the controversial matter will not be sidetracked and will be voted on in...
NEW YORK-If Silicon Valley's view is correct, all distribution of products and services will migrate to the Internet and companies will therefore close their call centers and stores. But this concept is far from accurate, others argue."The idea of disintermediating channels and going on...
