Yearly Archives: 1999

DSI DEBUTS `FREE PAGING’ PLATFORM

CULVER CITY, Calif.-DSI Technology Inc. said it will begin selling its new Adserver Internet platform at the Personal Communications Showcase in New Orleans this...

SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY DEBATES VALIDITY OF RF ABSORPTION TESTS

WASHINGTON-Millions of cellular telephones may be getting safety approvals by the Federal Communications Commission despite possibly exceeding the agency's radio-frequency radiation exposure guidelines.Professor Om...

NEXTWAVE BANKRUPTCY SAGA CONTINUES ON ALL FRONTS

WASHINGTON-The saga of the NextWave Telecom Inc. bankruptcy, like a hurricane in the ocean, kept churning last week as a variety of activities here...

INTEL INVESTS IN FORMUS

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. said it invested in Formus Communications in an effort to build out Formus' networks, which will provide improved broadband Internet...

NEXTLINK BEGINS WIRELESS TEST IN L.A.

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Nextlink Communications Inc. announced it has begun a field test of its broadband wireless technology in the Los Angeles area."This is another important...

PEOPLE WILLING TO PAY $2 PER MONTH FOR LOCATION SERVICES, SURVEY FINDS

LOS ANGELES-Driscoll-Wolfe Marketing & Research Consulting conducted a multiclient marketing research study on consumer interest in location-based mobile communication services, and identified the location-based...

3COM SET TO SPIN OFF PALM UNIT

Confirming weeks of speculation, 3Com Corp. announced it plans to spin off its Palm Computing subsidiary into an independent public company by next year.The...

PCIA: CONSOLIDATION WILL CURB ANTENNA-SITING GROWTH

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association last week attempted to neutralize legislation to curb antenna siting by telling Congress that consolidation in the tower business...

AT&T-BT ERASE WIRELESS BORDERS

The need to add a wireless play in global telecommunications alliances became clearer last week as AT&T Corp. and British Telecommunications plc announced a...

AT&T PRICES $450M BOND

NEW YORK-In fulfilling a commitment made earlier this year, AT&T Corp. announced it had priced a three-year $450 million all-minority lead and underwritten bond...

AIRNET TESTS INTEROPERABILITY WITH LUCENT SWITCH

MELBOURNE, Fla.-Interoperability testing between AirNet Communications Corp.'s base station subsystem and a Lucent Technologies Inc. mobile switching center was successfully completed and will be...

STOCKPILE INFORMATION AS Y2K LOOMS, SENATOR SUGGESTS

WASHINGTON-With the exceptions of 9-pound babies being born and people getting married at the ninth hour of the ninth day of the 99th year...

3GPP2 GROUP RESOLVES SOME TECHNICAL ISSUES FOR 3G

ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association announced the Third-Generation Partnership Program 2 (3GPP2) has completed its international harmonization workshop on global 3G and has moved...

DOJ URGES COURT TO DISMISS ARC, GEOTEK MISGIVINGS ABOUT NEXTEL DECREE

WASHINGTON-The Justice Department, already embroiled in controversy over a secret wireless licensing pact with Nextel Communications Inc. and the Federal Communications Commission, last week...

LOCATION SERVICES COULD BE PUT IN PLACE TODAY

Wireless carriers could deploy commercial location services in advance of the phase II enhanced 911 services deadlines mandated by the Federal Communications Commission.Gary Ritter,...

NOKIA MERGES WITH NOKITERRA

HELSINKI-Nokia Corp. and Nokiterra Oy merged, giving Nokia approximately 64.3 million of its shares, corresponding to approximately 5.3 percent of the total share capital...

WIRELESS ONLINE OFFERS TWO-WAY MESSAGING ANTENNA

LOS ALTOS, Calif.-Wireless Online Inc. introduced an antenna system for two-way messaging called the WOL-2000R, which it said reduces the cost of planning, deploying...

U.S. SPECTRUM POLICY: GOING FOR WARD? GOING BACKWARD? OR BOTH?

Every day does not produce news about the 3G standards process; it just seems that way. The basic reason, as Jimmy Durante once succinctly...

CELLMANIA.COM LAUNCHES BROADVISION E-COMMERCE SOFTWARE

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-BroadVision Inc. announced CellMania.com was the fastest e-commerce site to launch using BroadVision's One-To-One Business Commerce software. Time to market for CellMania.com...

INTERNET, DEREGULATION FUEL CHANGE IN TELECOM EQUIPMENT MARKET

SAN FRANCISCO-Continued growth of the Internet and continued deregulation are fueling the tremendous change in the telecommunications equipment market, said Sutro & Co. in...

SIRF CREATES NEW GPS ARCHITECTURE

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-SiRF Technology Inc. announced an alliance with location technology product and services provider Integrated Data Communications. The two companies plan to develop...

HYBRID NETWORKS WINS SPRINT BROADBAND CONTRACT

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. said it agreed to purchase $11 million in convertible debentures in Hybrid Networks Inc., a San Jose, Calif.-based company that...

NEOPOINT 1000 SHIPS TO SPRINT PCS

LA JOLLA, Calif.-NeoPoint Inc. said it has begun volume shipments of the NeoPoint 1000 smart phone to Sprint PCS, which will market the handset...

GLOBALSTAR NAMES EXEC TEAM

NEW YORK-Globalstar L.P., shifting focus from a development company to an operating company, named a new senior operating team in preparation for its impending...

ATIS TO DEVELOP STANDARDS FOR WIRELESS FIXED ACCESS

WASHINGTON-A standards subcommittee of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions plans to create a new working group to develop standards for fixed-access solutions.The Standards...
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