Yearly Archives: 2000

Triton, Samsung sign sales agreement

ORLANDO, Fla.-Triton Network Systems Inc. formed a sales and marketing agreement with Samsung Corp. to market Triton Network Systems' Invisible Fiber broadband wireless products...

Do unions have future in New Economy?

WASHINGTON-While the Communications Workers of America succeeded in winning concessions that make it easier to organize wireless workers at Verizon Communications-the nation's largest mobile...

Verizon files for $5B IPO

NEW YORK-Verizon Communications hopes to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering of its Verizon Wireless business, according to documents filed Aug. 24...

FCC vows to vigorously enforce RF safety deadline

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it will vigorously enforce wireless radiation safety rules that go into effect later this week."We are serious about this...

Virgin Mobile coming to America

One of the world's most savvy and chic brand names is coming to the U.S. mobile-phone market next year.Virtual network operator Virgin Mobile USA...

Wi-Lan to build network for Air2Lan

CALGARY, Alberta-Air2Lan will build a nationwide broadband wireless network using Wi-Lan Inc.'s broadband access products, the companies announced.Air2Lan launched high-speed Internet access service in...

Ericsson, WorldCom to develop Internet services

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced plans to work with WorldCom's UUNET Internet communications subsidiary to develop Internet services for mobile operators.The companies plan to work...

Despite steep fluctuations worldwide, U.S. wireless prices remain stable

BOSTON-Europe's wireless service market saw consumer prices fall an average of 20 percent this year compared with last year, led by Germany's 45-percent drop...

Indian carrier to sell off four GSM licenses

NEW DELHI, India-Ailing Indian GSM operator Koshika Telecom has decided to sell majority stakes to pay license fees to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT)....

NetPace prepares to boldly enter m-commerce space

Union City, Calif.-based NetPace continues to develop a suite of wireless m-commerce applications, aiming to preview its yet-unnamed flagship wireless application platform next month."We...

PacketVideo adds consumer apps

SAN DIEGO-PacketVideo Corp. has expanded its Programming Division to include consumer application development for mobile devices, re-naming the unit the Consumer Applications & Services...

SCI provides PowerLoc products

TORONTO-Paradigm Advanced Technologies Inc., through its PowerLoc wireless location division, entered a contract with Atlanta-based Special Circuits Inc. to make SCI a provider of...

Private wireless asks to revise trunking rules

WASHINGTON-The private-wireless industry asked the Federal Communications Commission to revise its procedure for classifying systems with trunked operations.Centralized trunked (YG) systems could be converted...

CTIA urges FCC to suspend CALEA deadline

WASHINGTON-Reminding the Federal Communications Commission that a federal appeals court said earlier this month that government must implement the digital wiretap act in a...

Qsent targets consumers

LAKE OSWEGO, Ore.-Qsent Inc. has been formed to provide wireless Internet services aimed at the consumer market.Patrick Cox and Kevin Anderson, formerly of Metro...

Quake communicator gets type approval

SAN DIEGO-Quake Wireless Inc. which manufactures subscriber communicators for the Orbcomm low-earth-orbit satellite network, announced the company's QHE-2500 heavy equipment tracking and monitoring communicator...

Metrocall partners with SalesMountain

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. has partnered with SalesMountain Inc. to deliver local sale alerts and specials advertising to Metrocall messaging subscribers.Customers may receive SalesMountain's aggregated...

Silicon Wave raises $52M

SAN DIEGO-Silicon Wave Inc., which supplies radio-frequency systems-on-a-chip for wireless and broadband communications, raised $52 million in its fourth round of financing.The financing included...

Sonera zed prepares cautious entry into wireless Internet

NEW YORK-In November and December, Sonera zed U.S. Inc. "will dip its big toe into the waters of mobile commerce to see if they're...

New Sprint PCS Wireless Web suite targets enterprise applications

Almost exactly one year after becoming the first wireless carrier to introduce wireless Internet service to customers, Sprint PCS has introduced a new program...

Small office employees to generate $20B in annual service revenues

BOSTON-Very-small-office employees will generate $20 billion in annual service revenues for wireless companies this year, according to a report by Strategy Analytics.The report, "Very...

Swisscom reorganizes

BERNE, Switzerland-Swisscom said it plans to reorganize the company's corporate structure, transforming the Swiss telecom company into a group of operationally independent companies by...

FASB works to eliminate mergers as pooling of interests

NEW YORK-The Financial Accounting Standards Board, Norwalk, Conn., expects by early next year to complete its project to eliminate the advantageous tax treatment of...

TI acquires Burr-Brown

DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. finalized its acquisition of analog semiconductor developer Burr-Brown Corp. in a stock-for-stock transaction.TI will issue 1.3 shares of its common stock...

Intel powers up for wireless Internet with new chip architecture

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Intel Corp., the world's biggest chip company, last week announced a new chip architecture designed to benefit a wide variety of wireless...
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