LAS VEGAS-TSI Telecommunication Services Inc., a global supplier of interoperability solutions, made announcements regarding several newly formed strategic alliances at CTIA Global Wireless 2001.The company signed a technology agreement with AT&T Wireless Services supporting simplified international roaming capabilities. The agreement will enable AT&T Wireless...
NEW YORK-A private placement of $450 million of eight-year senior subordinated notes, which American Cellular Corp., plans to issue, received a speculative-grade rating of B from Standard & Poor's Corp., the debt rating organization said March 9. Jointly owned by AT&T Wireless Services Group...
The path to third-generation services for many wireless operators appears to be anything but smooth. While Asian carriers seem to be taking the high-speed approach, European carriers recently have seen their paths clogged by uncertainty. For U.S. carriers, 3G plans are being dictated by...
WASHINGTON-With the Federal Communications Commission having reaffirmed last month that state courts are not prohibited under the telecom act from awarding monetary damages in lawsuits against wireless carriers, the mobile-phone industry suddenly finds itself vulnerable to consumer litigation on a wide range of business...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-BT Cellnet and its wireless services arm Genie are to launch a data service to allow mobile users and field workers wireless access to corporate networks. The two BT divisions have agreed to team up with the U.S. infrastructure developer Seven to...
AudiovoxAudiovox Communications Corp. announced it would start shipping the newest version of its flagship handset, the CDMA-9100 tri-mode Web-browsing cellular phone. The company said the phone operates on the 800 MHz AMPS/CDMA, 1900 MHz AMPS/CDMA and 1900 MHz personal communications services frequencies. The new...
AUSTIN, Texas-Schlumberger Ltd.'s smart-card business announced it scored an agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to supply the company with subscriber identify module smart cards for AT&T's new GSM network expansion.AT&T plans to upgrade its TDMA network with a GPRS/GSM overlay and will use...
NEW YORK-The story of NTELOS Inc. and Citizens Communications Inc., as told at Legg Mason Wood Walker's recent "Future of Rural Telecommunications" conference, demonstrates the wireless opportunity's expansion well beyond urban centers."We've done this so quietly we haven't shown up yet on the tables...
In a marriage of convenience, carriers are signing temporary dotted lines to outsource their network management to vendors as they migrate to the next generation of wireless technology.The trend, which concedes to vendors a pivotal role in positioning carriers for the new technologies, moves...
WASHINGTON-Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) told state regulators last week that the answer to how to get broadband services to rural American might be wireless."We can't wire rural America. ... We have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. We know we can't wire rural...
Leap Wireless International Inc. launched its Cricket Comfortable Wireless service in Wichita, Kan., where consumers can take advantage of Leap's unlimited local calling plans for $30 per month. AT&T Wireless Services Inc. began offering service to customers on the island of Hawaii, expanding its...
ARLINGTON, Va.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate TeleCorp PCS Inc. launched its SunCom digital wireless service in Milwaukee, with plans to expand service to Madison, Racine and Appleton, Wis., in the coming months."In addition to the attractiveness of the market-healthy size, right demographics and strong...
NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. "is learning our way back because we have made a lot of mistakes," Janiece Webb, senior vice president and general manager of the company's Internet Software and Content Group, said in a keynote address at the recent Internet World Wireless 2001...
LONDON-As speculated earlier this week, Vodafone Group plc said it agreed to acquire AT&T's Corp.'s 10-percent economic interest in Japan Telecom Co. for $1.35 billion in cash. Following the completion of the transaction, Vodafone will hold 25 percent of Japan Telecom's equity.The acquisition marks...
SAN DIEGO-PacketVideo Corp.'s wireless media software server, PVServer, is now available on Sun Microsystems Netra family of carrier-grade servers running Sun Solaris UNIX.Sun Microsystems also placed an equity investment in PacketVideo."Our investment in PacketVideo is a great example of Sun's support of emerging, open...
Sierra Wireless has announced the addition of Microsoft Corp. to the WirelessReady Alliance. Alliance members, including wireless device manufacturers, software application vendors, and wireless and value-added enterprise service providers, work together to deliver wireless data solutions to the mobile computing market. "As a global...
DENVER, United States-While some countries in Latin America are moving forward with advanced wireless networks, Central American nations are not likely to see commercial next-generation systems any time soon. Mass-market demand for data services remains weak due to low incomes, and market development lags...
As technologies duel and markets discriminate, the impression is growing that TDMA will roll over in the dust trail and exhaust fumes of GSM and CDMA as both whistle past into the next generation of technologies. But advocates of TDMA technology are quick to...
ADC introduced the Axity Base Transceiver Station, designed for multicell deployments. The product will allow carriers to address capacity issues of super-cell network architectures and fill out coverage areas. It accommodates early deployments of single carriers and can expand to multiple carriers as capacity...
In rhythm with an economy on the retreat, telecommunications giant Lucent Technologies Inc. seems to be on the decline.Against a background of outsized estimates, employee downsizing, technological miscues and a haunting investigation of its accounting practices, the company's credit rating suffered downgrades from two...
With AT&T Wireless Services Inc. behind it, Panasonic Telecommunications Systems Co. hopes to rise out of the shadows of the U.S. market and push its weight around with two new lightweight multi-network wireless phones.The products, ProMax and DuraMax, mark Panasonic's entry into the U.S....
NEW YORK - Although widespread adoption of wireless data remains more goal than reality, network operators, device makers and wireless applications developers have not wasted their efforts building the foundation for its eventual surge, said Jason Tsai, wireless services and data analyst for C.E....
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Network Systems, a division of Comverse Technology Inc., signed an agreement with AT&T Wireless Services to provide its unified messaging solution for AT&T Wireless' recently announced third-generation network.Comverse said its unified messaging platform will enable AT&T to provide its customers with a...
WASHINGTON-Despite uneven progress of fixed wireless broadband carriers in recent years, the ability of newcomers to the local market-small and large alike-to offer voice, data, video and Internet services competitively hinges on key policy decisions confronting regulators, the courts and the Bush administration.2001 will...
