Wireless Services

WASHINGTON-2002 offers the wayward wireless industry a chance to begin to redeem and redefine itself. But it won’t be easy, and survival skills will be essential. Indeed, with economic sluggishness …

Boingo Wireless Inc. launched with plans to provide wireless Internet access at speeds up to 11 Megabits per second in major hotels, airports and coffee shops. Founded by Sky Dayton, …

WAYNESBORO, Va.-Continuing its sale of what it calls excess spectrum, Ntelos Inc. signed two separate definitive agreements to sell certain personal communications services licenses. The first agreement calls for Ntelos …

A new organization is being created to represent the views of American GSM and TDMA wireless carriers as they convert to third-generation wireless technologies such as GPRS, EDGE and W-CDMA. …

The next-generation upgrade path battle between GSM and CDMA escalated last week as U.S. Cellular Corp., which serves more than 3 million wireless customers, said it plans to overlay its …

A new organization is being created to represent the views of American GSM and TDMA wireless carriers as they convert to third-generation wireless technologies such as GPRS, EDGE and WCDMA. …

CHICAGO—AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced GSM/GPRS services in the Chicago, Indianapolis and Kansas City areas geared towards the business market. The carrier said businesses will be able to access the …

WASHINGTON—AT&T Wireless Services Inc. filed a stock shelf offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell up to $4 billion in stock and debt securities. The carrier said it …

NEW YORK—GoAmerica Inc. made yet another major announcement, this time that it is acquiring OutBack Resource Group of San Luis Obispo in order to expand its efforts in Java technology, …

HELSINKI, Finland—Tele2, the Swedish mobile telecom headquartered in Stockholm, has reinforced its mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) strategy in Europe through the launch of MVNO services in the Netherlands. Tele2 …

BELLEVUE, Wash.—Wireless and Internet software and application services provider InfoSpace Inc. said the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California approved its bid to purchase certain Excite.com media …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—The Personal Communications Industry Association’s (PCIA) Site Owners and Managers Alliance (SOMA) announced it has formed the SOMA Technology Committee, which will promote effective communications and an understanding of …

DETROIT-OnStar is working with Verizon Wireless to make it cheaper for OnStar Personal Calling customers to forward calls from a handheld Verizon phone to the OnStar phones embedded in their …

ATLANTA-The University of South Florida plans to use Air2Web’s wireless platform to extend wireless services to students, faculty and staff beginning in January. The University’s IT department is developing applications …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Coinciding with its Telecom Africa 2001 event this week in Johannesburg, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) released a report detailing the state of telecommunications in Africa. The report …

WASHINGTON—The negotiators finally reached a settlement agreement Thursday that will give the PCS C- and F-block licenses of bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. to the re-auction winners. It remains unclear whether …

ATLANTA—The University of South Florida plans to use Air2Web’s wireless platform to extend wireless services to students, faculty and staff beginning in January 2002. The University’s IT department is developing …

BEIJING—UTStarcom has signed a contract worth US$11 million with fixed-line operator China Telecom to expand a local wireless network in Henan province. China Telecom does not have a wireless operator …

NEW YORK—AT&T Wireless Services Inc.’s chief financial officer, Joseph McCabe, said during a JP Morgan investor conference that the company might sell its towers to focus on marketing and customer …

ARLINGTON, Va.—The Telecommunications Industry Association has released a third-quarter supplement to its 2001 Multimedia Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast. The supplement explores policies, technologies and market drivers for domestic and …

WOODBURY, N.Y.—Two new deals show voice-driven wireless services are becoming more and more popular within the industry. First, Comverse, a unit of Comverse Technology Inc., announced T-Mobile International’s wireless German …

REDMOND, Washington, United States—Nokia and AT&T Wireless Services reported the completion of the first live Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) data call using GSM/EDGE technology and a live …

PRAGUE, Czech Republic—All three incumbent mobile operators in the Czech Republic have refused to pay the minimum US$180 million price set for the country’s third-generation (3G) licenses, sending the licensing …

BEIJING—China’s plans to reassign radio bands for third-generation (3G) mobile services will not affect the small but budding local wireless services offered by fixed-line carrier China Telecom. The service has …

REDMOND, Washington, United States—AT&T Wireless Services said in its third-quarter earnings report that it has decided to exit the fixed wireless business during the next several months. AT&T Wireless said …