Yearly Archives: 1999

AT&T, OTHERS FOCUS ON THE FAMILY

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced new pricing plans last week that could build on the success of the carrier's Digital One Rate plan by...

AQUIS LOSS TOTALS $1.7M FOR PERIOD

PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Aquis Communications Group Inc. reported second-quarter financial results with a net loss of $1.7 million, or 12 cents per share, compared with a...

WIRELESS ABSENT FROM KENNARD’S SOUTH AFRICA EVENT

WASHINGTON-In what a spokeswoman for the Personal Communications Industry Association termed a "comedy of errors," the wireless industry and the Federal Communications Commission last...

AETHER TO OFFER SCHWAB SERVICE

OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Aether Systems Inc. said Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. selected it to help develop a wireless trading service for Schwab customers.The planned...

CDMA GROWTH RISES 171 PERCENT

COSTA MESA, Calif.-The CDMA Development Group said cdmaOne subscriber growth increased 171 percent from June 1998 to June 1999, reaching nearly 35 million global...

FCC TO RULE ON SPECTRUM CAP THIS MONTH

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is expected this week to announce it will consider lifting the spectrum cap-the restriction that a telecom carrier can control...

LUCENT TO EXPAND BELLSOUTH’S SOUTHERN NETWORKS

ATLANTA-BellSouth Mobility Inc. signed a three-year $180 million contract with Lucent Technologies Inc. to expand BellSouth's network in Georgia and southern Florida.Terms of the...

CHINA UNICOM ORDERED TO DISSOLVE VENTURES BEFORE OCTOBER

BEIJING-China Unicom said Chinese regulators ordered it to kill more than 40 "irregular" joint ventures with foreign investors by the end of the month,...

POWERTEL UNVEILS TWO-NUMBERS, ONE-PHONE SERVICE

WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. said it is introducing services that allow customers to use two telephone numbers on one wireless handset.The first, called Appear...

NONTRADITIONAL PLAYERS AIM TO TAKE STARRING ROLES IN TELECOM

NEW YORK-As the Internet accelerates the globalization of telecommunications, mergers and acquisitions among traditional and nontraditional players have eclipsed initial public offerings as the...

CDMA ROAMING EXPANDED IN ASIA

HONG KONG-The CDMA Development Group announced it expanded automatic roaming services throughout Asia.Code Division Multiple Access operators Hutchison Telecom in Hong Kong, Japan's DDI...

BUYITNOW.COM TO RESELL PAGE MART PRODUCTS

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced Internet commerce firm BuyItNow.com L.L.C. has agreed to sell PageMart advanced messaging products and services under an exclusive agreement.

AAPT SELECTS SAMSUNG TO BUILD CDMA NETWORK

NEW YORK-AAPT Ltd. announced last week it awarded Samsung Electronics of South Korea a $205 million turnkey contract to design, construct, operate, maintain and...

COURT GRANTS MOTIONS IN PATENT DISPUTE

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced the U.S. District Court in San Diego has granted the company's motions for summary judgment in its long-standing litigation with...

SAMSUNG TO TRIAL 3G CDMA STANDARD WITH SPRINT PCS

DALLAS-Samsung Telecommunications America and Sprint PCS announced plans to begin trials using Samsung's third-generation Code Division Multiple Access technology.The trial, the first of several...

TELECOM ITALIA STATES INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION PLANS

MILAN-Telecom Italia released a statement Sept. 2 announcing, among other news, plans to expand its international mobile phone business.The company said it will focus...

TIA PUBLISHES FDMA SYSTEMS BULLETIN

ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association published "Project 25 Frequency Division Multiple Access Common Air Interface Conformance Test Addendum 1," TSB102.BAAB-A-1. The bulletin provides FDMA...

WIRELESS KNOWLEDGE BEHIND IN SERVICE INTRODUCTION

When Wireless Knowledge L.L.C. announced its intention to create a service linking wireless devices to information based behind corporate firewalls, regardless of airlink standards,...

QUALCOMM STOCK STUMBLES A BIT AMID MOBILE-PHONE EARNINGS CONCERNS

Intense pricing competition in the Code Division Multiple Access handset market may put the squeeze on Qualcomm Inc.'s fiscal fourth-quarter results, some analysts said...

ERICSSON TO EQUIP VELOCOM CONSORTIUM

DENVER-VeloCom Inc. said its consortium in Brazil, Canbra Telefonica, awarded a $200 million, five-year contract to Ericsson Inc. to supply 1.6 GHz Code Division...

WIRELESS INDUSTRY SORTS THROUGH UNIVERSAL SERVICE PROPOSALS, DECISIONS

WASHINGTON-A recent agreement by giant wireline telcos about how to reduce the charges long-distance companies pay to local exchange carriers to connect their customers'...

U.K. GOV’T APPEALS ROAMING RIGHTS DECISION

The U.K. government has decided to appeal a recent court decision that determined the Department of Trade and Industry could not force existing wireless...

VIEWPOINT: GET ON WITH IT

Five years after Congress approved a law designed to help law enforcement catch criminals, rules to implement the digital wiretap act have been decided....

WAP MAKES HEADWAY INTO EUROPE

The Wireless Application Protocol made strides in Sweden, Germany and Finland last week, adding to its gaining momentum in Europe.In Germany, Nokia Corp. and...

PENNSYLVANIA TO DEPLOY OPENSKY NETWORK

LOWELL, Mass.-M/A-Com Inc. and AMP Inc. entered into a $95 million contract under which M/A-Com's OpenSky Wireless Internet Protocol network will be deployed for...
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