BERWYN, Pa.-Triton PCS Holdings Inc. said it raised about $112 million through its offering of 6 million shares of company stock. Proceeds from the offering will be used for the expansion of the company’s network buildout, spectrum acquisition, working capital and general corporate purposes, according to Triton PCS.

HONG KONG-Nokia has signed a contract with CLP Power Hong Kong Limited (CLP Power) to supply an 800 MHz TETRA system which includes digital exchanges, base stations, dispatcher equipment, a network management system and terminals. TETRA networks will strengthen CLP Power’s operational communications by integrating TMR (Trunked Mobile Radio), mobile phone and pager functions. TETRA [...]

NORWAY-Telenor Mobile Communications, a Norwegian mobile operator, appointed Allgon Systems, a global supplier of radio-based infrastructure solutions, its exclusive supplier of GSM repeaters. According to the agreement, Allgon Systems will supply TMC with standard and compact repeaters, band selective and channel selective repeaters and associated fiber optic coverage solutions. Installation services including site survey, measuring, [...]

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 point out Mark Twain’s words from more than a century ago: [...]

CANNES, France-Sun Microsystems Inc. and Openwave Systems Inc. announced they will be working together to accelerate the delivery of end-to-end mobile Internet services solutions. The companies said they plan to jointly test and optimize interoperability among their infrastructure products. Specifically, Sun and Openwave said they will test the interoperability of Sun Enterprise servers, Sun StorEdge [...]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-Nextel Communications Inc. Wireless Web Service customers will now have access to CBS SportsLine.com content thanks to an agreement between the two companies. SportsLine.com will provide access to up-to-date coverage of a wide variety of sports on Nextel phones with the latest scores, news, standings, schedules, transactions and injury reports, as well as [...]

ATLANTA-Southern LINC released a new version of My LINC, which the company said will allow customers to connect directly to Web sites providing relevant business information. The company’s customers previously had to use a branded portal.

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association last Friday filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming regulations aimed at historic preservation “favor intensive government oversight and unwieldy bureaucratic procedures.” The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, focuses on regulations recently promulgated by the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. The ACHP [...]

Microsoft Corp. threw its rather large hat in the wireless arena at last week’s 3GSM World Congress, announcing plans to launch software aimed at multimedia-enabled phones that leverage its Windows-based software. Microsoft said the smart phone platform, code named “Stinger,” is built on a version of its Windows CE 3.0 operating system, specifically optimized for [...]

Qualcomm Inc. has rolled out a CDMA mobile station modem integrated circuits and system software to facilitate global roaming. The product, which belongs to what Qualcomm calls the MSM6xxx family, supports multimode, multiband second- and third-generation technologies. “It is the first wireless handset family to leverage a common overall systems architecture for baseband, radio and [...]