1999

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 week. The Adserver allows paging carriers to offer customers what DSI calls “Totally Free Paging.” Integrated …

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 P. Gandhi, a prominent RF scientist at the University of Utah, contends some testing of …

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 and in New York had players of all sizes scrambling to keep up. On the business …

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 access to small- and medium-sized businesses, as well as finance business development activities in Europe. Denver-based …

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 step to providing a complete package of end-to-end, broadband communications services to enterprise customers throughout …

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 services of greatest interest to consumers and quantified their level of interest and willingness to pay …

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 restructuring will allow 3Com to focus more on its networking connectivity and infrastructure interests, the …

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 will reduce the number of wireless facilities in communities across the country in the future. John …

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 strategic alliance designed to create seamless mobile communications services worldwide. “In general, we’ve seen a lot …

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 offering. The company said the bond offering consists of three-year notes due Sept. 15, 2002, carrying …

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 deployed by Carolina PCS I Ltd. Partnership, said AirNet. “This highlights the power of the open …

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 in the last century of the millennium, nothing significant happened on Sept. 9. Why does this …

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 closer to resolving technical issues related to operating cdma2000 technology multicarrier systems on Global System for …

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 urged a federal court here to reject challenges to the proposed relaxation of the 1995 Nextel …

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, wireless offer manager, location services, for Lucent Technologies Inc., said many commercial services could be …

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 and voting rights of Nokia, said the company. The merger does not affect Nokia Corp.’s key …

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 and operating two-way wireless messaging networks. The company said the antenna, which uses Spatial Division Multiple …

Every day does not produce news about the 3G standards process; it just seems that way. The basic reason, as Jimmy Durante once succinctly put it: “Everybody wants to get into de act.” There seems to be consensus that if …

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 took seven weeks. “The BroadVision One-To-One Business Commerce software is incredibly easy to use and deploy,” …

SAN FRANCISCO-Continued growth of the Internet and continued deregulation are fueling the tremendous change in the telecommunications equipment market, said Sutro & Co. in its newly issued research report. Sutro’s Quarterly Telecommunications Review reports that rapid growth is rendering some …

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 complementary product offerings that will enable easy integration of GPS-based location technology in a variety of …

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 designs, manufactures and sells broadband data communications systems, including wireless cable modems. Sprint also agreed to …

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 as the Sprint PCS NP1000. Sanford Weisman, senior vice president of sales and marketing for NeoPoint, …

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 commercial launch. The low-earth-orbit satellite carrier said it appointed Anthony Navarra, current acting chief operating officer, …

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 Committee T1’s Technical Subcommittee for Wireless/Mobile Services and Systems, sponsored by the ATIS, approved forming …