Yearly Archives: 2000

SkyGo announces wireless marketing platform

SAN MATEO, Calif.-SkyGo unveiled plans for a wireless interactive marketing platform that will be available for licensing to credit card companies, wireless services providers...

Sunday partners for 3G development

HONG KONG-Sunday Communications Ltd. announced plans to work with Nortel Networks, Hewlett Packard and PacketVideo to develop wireless Internet services for customers in the...

Sybase subsidiary to support business users

Anticipating substantial future growth in the mobile and wireless computing industries, Sybase Inc. launched a new subsidiary to provide mobile business-to-business services and support.Sybase...

Telespatial to use infoUSA services

MCLEAN, Va.-Telespatial Inc. will use info-USA.com's online directory content, under a licensing agreement between the two companies.Telespatial is a wireless application services provider of...

TeleCorp turns on Lucent switch

ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. put into commercial service a new switch in its Arkansas region to accommodate the company's westward network expansion and to...

Telenor acquires Thai stakes

OSLO, Norway-Telenor AS announced it entered an agreement to acquire a 30-percent stake in Thai mobile carrier Total Access Communication Public Co. Ltd. and...

Consumers want wireless access to e-mail, surveys say

Two surveys that are attempting to track what people want from the wireless Web have revealed that consumers value wireless access to e-mail.Telephia Inc....

Tiaxa launches Latin American wireless portal

MIAMI-Tiaxa launched its panregional wireless Internet portal in Latin America, offering wireless phone users personalized, location-sensitive mobile Internet services.The company noted it can capitalize...

TowerCom adds West Coast towers

ATLANTA-TowerCom Enterprises L.L.C., a company that owns, develops and manages wireless communications towers, said it purchased certain tower assets in California and Arizona and...

Wireless industry’s readiness for data debated

PHILADELPHIA-The wireless industry is not ready for the advent of wireless data even as data is becoming increasingly important to the wireless industry and...

Furchtgott-Roth assails wireless for not protesting fees

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry received a stinging rebuke Thursday about its lack of action on a Federal Communications Commission item that could increase the amount...

US Unwired IPO priced lower than expected

NEW YORK-Sprint PCS affiliate US Unwired Inc. squeaked through its initial public offering May 18, pricing its 8-million-share deal at $11 each, $2 below...

Viewpoint: High-tech cheating

How ironic that during a time industry chooses to celebrate the heroic side of the wireless phone industry, we also can see how wireless...

Vyyo, Remec pair for MMDS equipment

CUPERTINO, Calif.-Vyyo Inc. said it has joined Remec Inc. to develop customer premises equipment products for use in multichannel multipoint distribution system broadband wireless...

Webraska opens access to navigation server to wireless carriers

LONDON-Webraska Mobile Technologies, a provider of traffic maps and navigation services on Internet mobile phones, is opening access to its Global Navigation Server to...

Multiband approach gains followers at WRC

WASHINGTON-After a shaky start, Clinton administration officials last week said progress is being made at the World Radiocommunication Conference on a global multiband spectrum...

Yahoo! to provide WAP content to Telecom Italia

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Yahoo! Inc. signed an agreement with Telecom Italia Mobile to provide a range of Yahoo!'s Wireless Application Protocol-enabled content and services in...

$411 million of fixed wireless licenses sold

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week raised nearly $411 million as it sold 2,173 licenses for fixed wireless service in the 39 GHz band."Winning...

FrontPorch expands line to include wireless Internet solutions

Front Porch Communications L.L.C., a hardware and software solutions developer for Internet service providers since 1998, expanded its offerings last week to include wireless...

RangeStar raises funds

APTOS, Calif.-RangeStar Wireless raised $25 million in its mezzanine round of funding, which the company said it would use to continue development of its...

Hotpalm.com to provide platform to ComTelco

ATLANTA-Mobile e-commerce solutions provider Hotpalm.com announced a strategic alliance to provide the wireless platform for ComTelco International Inc., a telemanagement, computer telephony integration, hospitality...

Globalstar funds running out

Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. said its money will run out in five months unless it gets help. In the meantime, ongoing efforts to establish a...

GoAmerica offers handheld service

HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Inc., a wireless Internet service provider, will provide wireless Internet access for the Handspring Visor handheld computer through its Go.Web service.The service...

Mobilkom Austria to implement GPRS

VIENNA, Austria-Motorola Inc. and Mobilkom Austria, a Global System for Mobile communications operator in Austria, signed a contract to implement a mobile data General...

Italy considers hybrid UMTS process

MILAN, Italy-The Italian government has proposed to use a two-stage process to award five Universal Mobile Telecommunications System licenses later this year. The proposal...
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