AT&T Wireless Services Inc. started testing third-generation wireless technology at AT&T Labs research center in Menlo Park, Calif., where the company has established a testbed for wireless data transfer using General Packet Radio Service equipment from a variety of vendors. "Our focus in California...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-InfoSpace Inc. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. plan to develop and market the delivery of promotions and discounts to AT&T Digital PocketNet wireless Internet service customers.InfoSpace said it will provide its mobile commerce technology allowing subscribers to choose the promotions and discounts they...
PARIS-Lloyd Carney knows U.S. carriers hate him for saying it, but the facts speak for themselves."Europe is the dominant player in the wireless data space," he said last week in Paris. "The U.S. lags behind."As Nortel Networks' president, wireless Internet, Carney used his company's...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it is offering a prepaid feature called AT&T eMinutes, which allows the company's prepaid customers to refill account voice minutes online for immediate use.The company said the program is the first to offer national prepaid wireless minutes for...
NEW YORK-The conventional wisdom that communications software and enhanced services were "a one-night stand as an investment opportunity," has faded away amid a proliferation of new carrier requirements, said Susan Passoni, vice president of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp.Excluding electronic commerce, DLJ projects...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission late Friday approved the transfer of GTE Corp.'s communications licenses to Bell Atlantic Corp. contingent on 25 conditions, including putting some wireless properties into a trust until they can be sold so as to not violate cellular cross-ownership rules."There will...
A new company called Informio was established today, created with the goal of voice-enabling enterprise applications, either hosted at its data center or at the enterprise, and providing wireless carriers access to these applications, which can be marketed to end users as an enhanced...
NEW YORK-Teligent Inc., Vienna, Va., has found a way to bend radio signals around buildings, dramatically enlarging its actual footprint without much additional network infrastructure.The fixed wireless carrier has nine months left on an exclusive one-year contract with Remec, a San Diego company that...
ATLANTA-After first entering the Colombian wireless market just last month and in line with its aggressive Latin American expansion strategy, BellSouth Corp. announced it increased its stake in operator Celumovil. As part of the deal, Celumovil will purchase Colombian wireless carrier Cocelco for $370...
We have e-mail, e-commerce and e-tailers, among other "electronic" conveniences. The "e" phenomenon has spread quickly across all aspects of business and industry, and now wireless customers with questions or problems can access "e-customer service" to find help.Of course, customers still have the option...
Plantronics Inc. announced it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed offering by a stockholder of 1 million shares of Plantronics common stock.Corrigo secured $12 million in a second round of financing from CMGI@Ventures, the venture capital...
Pine Belt Wireless, based in Arlington, Ala., said it will introduce prepaid wireless services to its cellular and personal communications services markets using National Telemanagement Corp.'s SmartPay Wireless real-time billing system. SmartPay Wireless is an account-based system that eliminates the added expense and limitations...
There's a virtual reality about government spending these days. Just ask Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.), ranking minority member of the House Appropriations Committee.Faced with GOP cuts in Clinton-proposed budgets for the Federal Communications Commission, the Commerce Department and other agencies in fiscal 2001, Obey...
DALLAS-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it will conduct noncommercial trials with Nortel Networks Corp. of its General Packet Radio Services technology in several major U.S. cities beginning this summer.AT&T Wireless said it plans to deploy third-generation Time Division Multiple Access Enhanced Data for Global...
ALTANTA-Convergence was the word at SuperComm 2000 this year, with computing firms like Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. both naming wireless Internet a priority for their business strategies going forward.The endorsement by these computing industry leaders is yet another indication the wireless Internet...
WASHINGTON-The importance public image holds for competitive wireless carriers was highlighted last week when a major daily newspaper here-pointing to the lack of mobile-phone service in underground subways that run through some poor black and Latino neighborhoods-questioned whether Verizon Wireless was engaged in redlining...
The prospect of calling party pays looks like a dying one in the United States, as the Federal Communications Commission appears to be backing away from the issue, and many wonder if the service is needed in light of nationwide rate plans.The wireless industry...
PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Third-generation wireless revenue will increase from $4.3 billion in 2002 to $63 billion in 2007, while wireless infrastructure purchases will grow from $4 billion to $34 billion during the same five-year period, according to a new study from The Phillips Group."For those companies...
WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. announced two strategic investments as part of a plan to manage DigiPH PCS properties.The carrier said it will purchase a 49.9-percent equity interest in Eliska Wireless Ventures I Inc., an entity in which Eliska Wireless Investors I L.P. and Sonera...
NEW YORK-WebLink Wireless Inc., Dallas, will target teen-agers and twenty-somethings with a two-way messaging and e-mail service it plans to debut this summer.Subscribers who sign a year-long service contract for $15 monthly will receive an $80 rebate on the $179 retail price of the...
Time will tell if new prepaid plans offered by U.S. nationwide operators this year spur more growth in the wireless industry.Verizon Wireless plans to introduce a new nationwide prepaid pricing strategy in the third quarter. Though it won't release the details, Verizon said the...
WASHINGTON-Even as reports of wireless carriers being close to running out of telephone numbers reached the Federal Communications Commission, the FCC began reviewing comments on additional regulatory measures to help with number conservation.Large wireless carriers-like AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Sprint PCS-are running out...
Article intended to highlight many contributionsTo the editor: I am concerned that there may be a misperception resulting from my article published by RCR on March 27, 2000, that the U.S. government in some way "favors" CDMA over other wireless technologies. This has been inferred...
Two-way messaging took a leap forward last week as Motorola Inc. introduced a new two-way pager and JP Systems Inc. implemented a mobile Internet portal service.Motorola unveiled its Talkabout T900 two-way messaging device, which features a full Qwerty keyboard, a flip-top screen and a...
