OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. reported it has purchased equipment and developed a strategic alliance in anticipation of launching wireless Internet services later this year.A company spokesman said Dobson will use infrastructure software and applications developed by Phone.com Inc.to provide network capabilities for its Wireless...
WASHINGTON-Federal regulators, lawmakers and consumer groups are ratcheting up pressure for stronger privacy protections for consumers in the Digital Age, a development with major implications for the wireless Internet sector.On several fronts, digital privacy is showing signs of mushrooming into a major consumer issue...
LOS ANGELES-Cybiko Inc. introduced a digital, wireless, portable entertainment and communication system combining interactive gaming, instant messaging e-mail and personal information manager capabilities in one device."We are thrilled to be the first to introduce a new high-tech, wireless Internet appliance platform for the youth...
They may be working closer these days, but make no mistake about it, the GSM Association, the CDMA Development Group and the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium remain strong competitors.All three associations will convene this week in Las Vegas at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's...
WASHINGTON-A comprehensive proposal by European and Arab states covering third-generation mobile phone spectrum and other issues appeared to be disintegrating late last week at the World Radiocommunication Conference in Turkey, a development that is forcing the U.S. delegation to redouble efforts to keep its...
VoiceStream Wireless Corp. pronounced itself the fastest growing wireless company in the nation last week as it detailed its strategy for tying together former Omnipoint Corp. and Aerial Communications Inc. properties and its plans for wireless data service to analysts during its quarterly conference...
COSTA MESA, Calif.-Twice as many wireless customers subscribe to Code Division Multiple Access technology today than one year ago, according to a report by the CDMA Development Group.The Group said CDMA now reaches more than 57 million users worldwide, and it expects the continued...
The underwriters of Vyyo Inc.'s recent initial public offering exercised their options to purchase the entire over-allotment of more than 1 million shares of common stock, bringing the total offering size to approximately 7.7 million shares at $13.50 per share. The underwriters included Banc...
BCE Inc., Canada's largest telecommunications company, finished the spinoff of its stake in telecommunications equipment supplier Nortel Networks Corp., closing a transaction valued at approximately $59 billion.BCE distributed its 35-percent ownership interest stake of 504.9 million shares in Nortel Networks to its common shareholders...
DAYTON, Ohio-Lexis Publishing, a provider of products and services for the legal profession, and GoAmerica Inc., a wireless Internet service provider, will co-develop a Web-based wireless product and service for legal professionals.The venture will work to enhance the existing lexis.com Wireless Powered by GoAmerica...
While the Wireless Application Protocol has provided a common standard for microbrowser technology, several firms are looking to offer their own flavor of the wireless Internet experience, and not all are convinced WAP will remain the popular standard it is today. Pixo Inc. is...
OmniSky Corp. Chief Executive Officer Patrick McVeigh last fall promised to "kick the barn door open" to the Internet when he introduced a beta version of an end-to-end wireless Internet solution for the Palm V handheld computer.It's time to see how wide the door...
NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular S.A. said its Argentine subsidiary launched the first phase of its service rollout in the Buenos Aires area. Millicom Argentina also will provide wireless Internet services to the country's most populated cities-Cordoba, Vendozo, Rosario and Tucuman-during 2000.The fixed wireless network...
British Telecom (BT) could challenge an Internet alliance between Vodafone AirTouch and Vivendi announced just before Vodafone AirTouch's takeover agreement with Mannesmann in February, the Financial Times reported. The deal may be incompatible with existing contracts among the involved companies. The report said the...
LONDON-The wireless sector in the Middle East is still widely accepted as a vibrant and growing market, with the wireless Internet and several wireless trade shows coming on the scene.Nearly everyone who attended the GSM Gulf and Middle East Conference, a two-day event held...
RESTON, Va.-TRW Inc. formed a strategic partnership with Wireless Inc. to develop and market high-speed, broadband wireless Internet access equipment.The partnership includes licensing TRW's SpitFire point-to-multipoint access technology. The products developed would be marketed to service providers as an alternative to digital subscriber line,...
Phone.com Inc. fired the first shot against Geoworks' claim that it holds intellectual property rights to Wireless Application Protocol technology by suing the company.Geoworks claims its patent concerning a flexible user interface implicates all carriers, vendors and applications developers using WAP technology, while the...
Nextel Communications Inc. last week delivered strong first-quarter results and introduced Nextel Online Internet access.Nextel said it added a company record 540,300 domestic digital customers and 93,700 proportionate international customers in the first quarter, ending the three-month period with about 5.6 million digital subscribers...
NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular SA announced that its wholly owned Tele2 (UK) Ltd. subsidiary won a Wireless Telegraphy Act license from the U.K. Radio Communications Authority. The license allows Tele2 to develop a commercial broadband fixed wireless access service in the United Kingdom.The license...
InfoSpace Inc., a provider of infrastructure services for Web sites and devices, said wireless Internet opportunities continue to represent the company's biggest opportunity and fastest-growing area.Within that space, InfoSpace is betting mobile commerce services will play an important role in providing value to its...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. is expected to announce the formation of its Intel Wireless Competence Center in Beijing to promote wireless Internet technology in China, Reuters reported.The center will allow Chinese companies to develop technologies enabling new services for broadband Internet, with Intel assisting...
Content is king. That's the mantra repeated by many looking to make it big in the wireless Internet space these days. But for content to be valuable, it must be personal, and that is the driving force behind the growing interest in synchronization technologies...
STAMFORD, Conn.-i3 Mobile Inc., a personalized wireless Internet content and commerce services provider, said TeleCorp PCS Inc., an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate, will offer i3 Mobile services to its SunCom digital wireless customers."This is our first step in offering wireless data, and i3...
Sprint PCS announced better-than-expected results in customer growth, revenues and cash-flow losses for the first quarter and released some long-awaited information about customers using its wireless Web offering.The nationwide personal communications services carrier said it added 831,000 net subscribers, ending the quarter with about...
