September 2000

NEW YORK-Andersen Consulting released its Mobile Micropayments prototype, illustrating how consumers can purchase items using an Internet billing solution from a wireless phone without incurring charges on their phone bills …

OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Aether Systems Inc. signed an agreement with ePhones to resell BlackBerry handheld devices using Aether Wireless’ e-mail services through the ePhones Powered Network. Aether said its BlackBerry offering …

Korea-based LG TeleCom Co. Ltd. moved one step closer to Java-enabled handsets last week, announcing a collaboration with AppStream Inc. to use AppStream’s Java software technology solution in its next …

SAN DIEGO, United States-Wireless Facilities said Siemens selected the company for phase two of its expansion of Kuwait’s Mobile Telecommunications Co. dual-band GSM network, which Wireless Facilities said it originally …

MINNEAPOLIS-Verizon Wireless services will be offered at more than 350 Best Buy stores nationwide beginning in October, complementing the retailer’s current national wireless two-way messaging and paging relationship with Verizon …

SARATOGA, Calif.-AirFlash Inc. launched its Strategic Location-Relevant Partner Program by announcing nine U.S. service and content providers, including MasterCard International. SLRP program partners may integrate their digital content and services …

Bluetooth seemed like a simple idea when introduced in 1998 as a low-cost, cable-replacement technology designed to be embedded in wireless devices. Early forecasts had Bluetooth-enabled products on the market …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. announced stronger wireless customer growth forecasts for 2001 and 2002, with cash earnings per share in each year expected to range from 12 percent to 16 …

SCHAUMBURG, Illinois, United States-Motorola said it named Guillermo Acedo Romero as general manager of the company’s wholly owned cellular operating companies in northern Mexico. Acedo is former chief executive for …

CAMBRIDGE, England-Interest group Cambridge3G was launched to establish Cambridge, England, as a leading test bed in Europe for the early rollout of third-generation mobile services. The initiative is backed by …

For the most part, the telecommunications industry has survived a furious buildout period during the past five years with nary a scratch-or so it believes. If we take a long-range …

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint de Mexico S.A. de C.V., a subsidiary of Brightpoint Inc., entered into an agreement with Mexican radio spectrum license holder Unefon S.A. de C.V. for the provision of integrated …

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Audiovox Corp. released financial results for its third quarter ended Aug. 30, showing a 58.5 percent increase in net sales to $470.3 million, compared with $296.7 million posted during …

WASHINGTON-The House telecom subcommittee last week voted to include wireless carriers in a new scheme for carriers to compensate each other for carrying each other’s traffic. The bill, which now …

WASHINGTON-A bill that would allow low power TV broadcasters to offer high-speed access to the Internet passed the Senate last week, said Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) chairman of the communications …

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Private Equity and London-based TLcom Partners invested an undisclosed financial amount in privately held Xypoint, a provider of software and network services for wireless location services. …

MUNICH, Germany-U.S. chip manufacturer Amtel Corp. plans to take over Siemens AG’s North Tyneside semiconductor factory in northeastern England, with plans to supply Siemens with specific semiconductor products and help …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-After spending the spring revamping his organization and moving it in a new direction with a new show, Jay Kitchen, president of the Personal Communications Industry Association, is upbeat …

Being the new kid on the block is always a challenge. Besides trying to keep your own sense of identity, there is the pressure of trying to fit in to …

With all the wireless enabling solutions, wireless application service providers, devices, software and networks available today, it’s not too difficult to see how dot-coms and corporate entities mulling wireless extension …

LOS ANGELES-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. kicked off its Safe School Program in Orange County, Calif., by donating wireless phones, airtime and school supplies to Edison Elementary School in Santa Ana, …

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan-Canadian Wireless cable and data services provider Image Wireless communications signed a $10 million contract extension for ADC Telecommunications Inc.’s Axity Broadband Wireless Access System, a carrier-class solution enabling …

Amrel Systems Amrel Systems Inc. released a more powerful version of its Rocky II+ ruggedized mobile notebook computer, certified under MIL-STD 810E, MIL-STD 461C and IP54, offering an Intel Pentium …

India The government-owned Department of Telecom Operations (DTO) will start its cellular mobile service in some cities by March 2001. It will soon float a tender for the supply and …

TOKYO-Rohm, the largest specialist maker of custom integrated circuits, decided to increase the number of its IC designers by 400 by 2003, to cope with rapid expansion in demands for …