1999

Wireless data and electronic-commerce applications should become increasingly popular in the future, with users trading stocks, comparison shopping and making travel arrangements all via wireless devices. However, for such transactions to be completed, sensitive data such as personal identification information …

CARACAS, Venezuela-Venezuelan regulatory agency Conatel expects to award an additional cellular operating license early next year, according to a Reuters report. There currently are three other cellular carriers operating in Venezuela, with two others licensed. The dominant operator is Telcel, …

WASHINGTON-As the Clinton administration scrambles to strike a deal on China membership in the World Trade Organization before the start of a global trade conference later this month in Seattle, it appears that major telecom concessions made here in April …

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced a new service plan for its Digital One Rate program. The carrier said it offered a calling plan last week for up to 300 minutes of wireless airtime, with no roaming or long-distance charges, …

GENEVA-Russia’s Gazprom, the world’s largest supplier of natural gas, is completing the final stages of a $100 million trunked radio network built to service gas drilling towns located in one of the most remote and inhospitable regions on the planet. …

Dear Editor: I totally disagree with your unsupported conclusion that digital cellular phones are less dangerous than their analog counterparts. The exact opposite is true! The brain cells of digital cellular users are quite literally being “all shook up.” Digital …

Some confusion exists in the wireless industry over whether mobile-phone-component shortages are affecting the handset supply in the United States. Major handset suppliers say they aren’t struggling with component shortages, but one major carrier said its lower subscriber additions in …

Dear Editor: I read Alan Shark’s rebuttal in the Oct. 18 issue of RCR and feel it’s time Mr. Shark take a trip back into the trenches. His advocacy of auctions for private dispatch systems below 520 MHz is misguided …

NEW YORK-A key component of the IMT-2000 global wireless third-generation standard that the International Telecommunication Union evaluated this month comes from the kind of small, entrepreneurial company whose voice is often drowned out in this type of process. Golden Bridge …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-AirFlash.com Inc. said Finnish carrier Sonera Inc. has implemented its mobile location-based Internet services as part of the carrier’s recently announced mobile portal initiative. The initial service will include AirFlash.com’s Mobile Yellow Pages service that uses the company’s …

DENVER-U S West Wireless said it added nearly 60,000 customers during the third quarter, reaching a weighted average penetration rate of 2.6 percent. The personal communications services carrier said it ended the third quarter with 344,000 customers. Average revenue per …

TORONTO-Ericsson Australia and Solect Technology Group signed a partnership to jointly provide a range of wireless Internet Protocol solutions to the Australian market. Under the agreement, Ericsson will sub-license Solect’s billing and customer care solution, Internet Administration Framework, to end …

LONDON-Orange, the United Kingdom’s third-largest mobile operator, announced it is offering a new prepaid package, called Just Talk, that makes clear all conditions and charges upfront and offers existing prepaid subscribers the option of switching to a contract tariff, while …

WASHINGTON-Lost in the hoopla over the enactment of wireless 911 legislation last week is the growing prospect that the rollout of position location for the nation’s 80 million mobile-phone users will be seriously delayed in the same way that caller …

ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. reported a net loss of $994,000, or six cents per share, for the second quarter of fiscal 2000, compared with a loss of $4.6 million, or 29 cents per share, for the same period a year ago. …

Hungary Motorola Inc. said it is providing Hungarian mobile operator Westel 900 its Mobile Internet Exchange communications platform. The trial is Hungary’s first deployment of the Wireless Application Protocol. It will allow mobile users to access Internet content via Internet …

OSLO-Newly merged Telenor and Telia agreed to acquire a 30-percent stake in DiGi Swisscom Berhad, a Malaysian telecommunications group that operates a Global System for Mobile communications 1800 MHz network, said Telenor. The investment is valued at approximately $207 million. …

MUNICH-Siemens AG announced it won a contract to provide Global System for Mobile communications 900 MHz infrastructure equipment to Medi Telecom, the second GSM operator in Morocco. The contract is valued at more than US$100 million. Medi Telecom, which received …

SARASOTA, Fla.-Intelliworxx Inc. said it has joined Cerulean Technology Inc.’s Partner Program, running Cerulean’s PacketCluster Patrol and Rescue public-safety wireless solutions on its VoiceTablet computer, designed for voice-driven applications.

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said capacity problems and handset shortages constrained the company’s ability to add subscribers in the third quarter. The nation’s largest wireless operator added 269,000 subscribers in the third quarter, down 17.4 percent from the previous year …

BERLIN-IBM’s Lotus Development Corp. launched a unified messaging initiative aimed to extend the Lotus Domino platform to wireless devices, so users may access Domino-based e-mail, voice and fax messages from a variety of devices. To achieve this goal, Lotus said …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. announced its Commercial, Government and Industrial Solutions Sector acquired Software Corporation of America Inc., which markets wireless software applications and middleware for public-safety and other markets. SCA pioneered many of the software applications for Cellular Digital Packet …

WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. said it signed a letter of intent to add Metrocall Inc.’s CountDown prepaid paging to its CellEase prepaid services portfolio. According to the agreement, Metrocall will supply pagers from both Motorola Inc. and Cirkisys to …

SAN ANTONIO, Texas-SBC Communications Inc. reported revenues for the third quarter increased 9.4 percent to $12.5 billion from $11.4 billion reported for the same period last year, excluding one-time items. The company recorded net earnings of $2 billion, or 57 …

RCR’s Oct. 25 story reporting Ericsson AB’s third-quarter financial results should have indicated the company’s third-quarter net income was more than expected by analysts.