June 2000

NEW YORK-Nextel Communications Inc., Reston, Va., can expect a total of 302 current and former employees to file complaints against it with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, alleging discrimination based …

OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Aether Systems Inc. announced new application hosting and development abilities designed to allow rapid deployment of wireless Internet services using Extensible Markup Language. Aether XML is designed to …

Comverse Technology Inc. made an undisclosed investment in Speedwise Technologies Ltd., a privately held firm specializing in software designed to accelerate the time required to browse and download Web content …

Lucent Technologies Inc. and Sprint PCS announced they will conduct a joint trial of 1XEvolution technology, a third-generation technology based on High Data Rate technology. The trial will begin over …

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it is offering a prepaid feature called AT&T eMinutes, which allows the company’s prepaid customers to refill account voice minutes online for immediate use. …

LONDON-U.K. mobile carrier BT Cellnet said it launched commercial service on the world’s first General Packet Radio Service network. The “always on” service will increase the speeds at which users …

One thing Cricket Communications Inc. did not plan on when it decided to offer a wireless service that competes with landline telephony was the fact that handsets break faster. In …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. introduced a free online billing system for most of its wireless customers, allowing them to analyze their calling patterns and pay bills with a credit card …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced optional enhancements for its E6380A Code Division Multiple Access test sets allowing engineers and technicians to conduct measurements of cdma2000 SR1 base stations. Agilent …

SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France-The European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s Technical Committee Special Mobile Group, which has been responsible for setting Global System for Mobile communications standards, announced it will close. ETSI said …

After months of inconsistent and negative reports that it was slipping further into financial trouble, Globalstar L.P. released a statement clarifying its future funding requirements. Globalstar previously stated that, without …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Cellmania.com introduced wireless e-commerce solutions Mfinder and Mstore, created for businesses pursuing mobile customers. Mfinder is a directory of Web sites written in Wireless Application Protocol. It reviews …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry, breaking with the public-safety community, last week urged the Federal Communications Commission to scrap efforts to improve technical capabilities of 911-only mobile phones donated to charitable organizations …

PARIS-Lloyd Carney knows U.S. carriers hate him for saying it, but the facts speak for themselves. “Europe is the dominant player in the wireless data space,” he said last week …

Instant messaging is considered a key element to what the wireless industry calls pervasive messaging, meaning the ability to send a text message from any device-such as a computer, pager …

PHILADELPHIA-Connexus Corp.’s *CD service has integrated its audio sampling technology with Wireless Application Protocol technology, enabling music identification on wireless Web devices. According to Connexus, the *CD service uses proprietary …

AT&T Wireless Group announced it entered agreements with Verizon Wireless to acquire wireless systems in San Diego, San Francisco and Houston for approximately $3.3 billion. “This is a critical move …

WASHINGTON-A group of wireless and telecommunications executives are planning to roll out a new service they hope will lead to residential wireless broadband service with what could be megabit data …

Europe is embarking on a third-generation license auction frenzy the rest of this year, and operators are not happy about it. Since the United Kingdom raked in a whopping $35 …

WASHINGTON-A coalition of dispatch radio operators urged the Federal Communications Commission to restrict Neoworld Inc. from readily reselling to Nextel Communications Inc. licenses purchased from Geotek Communications Inc.’s creditors in …

The GSM community, which has struggled to make inroads in Latin America, was ensured access to an important market as the Brazilian government granted personal communications services licenses in the …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission’s decision last week to encourage rather than mandate band-clearing arrangements at 700 MHz could be moot if a powerful lawmaker’s plan to get high-speed access to …

FALLS CHURCH, Va.-Mesa Communications Group L.L.C. announced it acquired a 25-percent ownership stake in Centerpointe Communications L.L.C., based in Arlington, Texas. Centerpointe manages approximately 2,000 communications towers for cable television …

NEW YORK-The conventional wisdom that communications software and enhanced services were “a one-night stand as an investment opportunity,” has faded away amid a proliferation of new carrier requirements, said Susan …

Not many 44-year-olds can put on their resum, that they built a nationwide wireless business from the ground up with a capital infrastructure budget larger than the Boston freeway project. …