Yearly Archives: 2000

IBM divisions to sell AMSC’s eLink service

IBM Corp. and American Mobile Satellite Corp. took their existing business relationship to another level last week, allowing AMSC to better target the potentially...

TeleCorp, Tritel to merge properties in $5.3 billion deal

AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s two largest affiliates, TeleCorp PCS Inc. and Tritel Inc., agreed to merge in an all-stock, tax-free transaction.The deal is valued...

Triton to purchase IBM’s broadband modem product line

ORLANDO, Fla.-Triton Network Systems Inc., a provider of broadband fixed-wireless network products, entered into an agreement with IBM Corp. to purchase the assets and...

NTT gears up for 3.5G research

TOKYO-An NTT laboratory is gearing up its efforts to develop Advanced Wireless Access (AWA), a next-generation wireless system that will enable users to access...

Bezeq to offer integrated wireless and fixed services

JERUSALEM-Bezeq Israel Telecom Ltd., the state-owned telecommunications company, announced a plan to allow cellular telephone users to route incoming calls through either their mobile...

Bluetooth makes noise at CeBIT

HANNOVER, Germany-After a year of industry enthusiasm and the wild market forecasts that have surrounded the short-range wireless technology Bluetooth, the silicon-chip developers used...

Broadband wireless looking to score

PHOENIX, United States-Some observers have compared the broadband wireless industry to a hockey game: lots of skating around, many dramatic clashes, but not much scoring.Still,...

Cable & Wireless agrees to PCCW offer

HONG KONG-After courting competing bids for several weeks, Cable and Wireless plc accepted a US$35.9 billion cash and stock offer for its Hong Kong...

CDMA rollout remains uncertain

BEIJING-China Unicom and Qualcomm signed a landmark agreement in February, paving the way for Chinese manufacturers to get CDMA production licenses. Unicom wants to...

Rural Australia criticizes digital transition

MELBOURNE, Australia-Telstra's new CDMA mobile phone network has come under fire from rural Australians following the closure of about 80 percent of the carrier's...

Consolidation: consumer friend or foe?

DUBLIN, Ireland-The news that Mannesmann has conceded defeat in its battle with Vodafone AirTouch merely underlines the momentum behind consolidation in the European mobile...

WAP: Soon to be forgotten?

CANNES, France and HANNOVER, Germany-Visitors at the ever-expanding GSM World Congress, held in February in Cannes, France, could have mistaken the huge exhibition as...

WIRELESS DATA BRIEFS

Motorola and Psion agreed to build products, expected to be released in the first half of 2001, using a new platform from Symbian. Symbian...

Licenses

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) expects to hold an auction for the remaining narrowband PCS licenses as early as mid-2000. In preparation for the...

Which wireless operating system? … Does it really matter?

Much has been made of the battle for supremacy of the operating system for the wireless data terminal market. With the number of Internet-enabled...

Who will win the smart-phone OS war?

The focus on the mobile industry has been enormous during the last year. Device vendors, service providers, application developers, infrastructure vendors and content providers...

PHS business rebounding

TOKYO-The number of Japanese PHS subscribers expanded in the December-January time frame, demonstrating that the long-ailing PHS business is starting to revitalize.The number of...

Products

HandsetsPhilipsPhilips introduced several new handsets. The Ozeo GSM dual-band mobile phone offers a new user interface and a large LCD display with five text...

Canada’s Rogers AT&T makes first 3G call using Ericsson EDGE

MONTREAL-The transmission was delayed 20 minutes because the test PC had crashed. And the picture quality, to put it kindly, was choppy. Nevertheless, in...

Middle Eastern consortium recommended for third license

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Cell C, the consortium backed by Middle Eastern conglomerate Saudi Oger with CellSaf as a local partner, has been officially named as...

Unifon and Personal ready for national competition

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-A change in the Argentine cellular telephony scene will take place in April when the current regional duopoly model is replaced by...

Singapore makes bold liberalization move

SINGAPORE-Singapore has fast-forwarded its liberalization plans for the telecommunications sector by a staggering two years, effectively throwing the industry wide open almost immediately.The move,...

VIEWPOINT: An unpleasant aroma

International roaming is a key selling point for all three digital cellular standards. The GSM community in particular often claims that roaming capability is...

New network to face tough opposition

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The wireless market in Tanzania is gaining momentum with Vodacom's pending rollout of a new GSM network. The new entrant is no...

SBC rips out CDMA systems

DENVER, United States-SBC Communications said it will convert the remaining Ameritech wireless properties it owns from CDMA technology to TDMA technology.SBC and Ameritech merged...
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