Yearly Archives: 2000

Business Briefs

Everypath Inc, a wireless application services provider and technology enabler, collected $60 million in series C financing, bringing the total amount raised to $76...

Effort under way to place i-mode content on WAP phones

As NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service continues to grow in popularity, several industry players are offering solutions to make i-mode content compatible with WAP phones.One...

Telephia releases results via Point.com

SEATTLE-Point.com Inc. and Telephia Inc. released customer satisfaction survey results for 24 wireless markets, providing consumer ratings of the service and network performance quality...

Rogers launches comparison shopping service

TORONTO-Rogers AT&T Wireless launched a wireless shopping comparison service in conjunction with BuyBuddy.com, an online independent comparison shopping guide.The service is available on the...

Business travelers making more calls

NEW YORK-Not only are more business travelers carrying wireless phones, but they are making more calls on the road from those phones, according to...

SEC rules on information dissemªination

Wall Street insiders may lose some of their edge after a ruling last week by the Securities and Exchange Commission preventing officials of public...

Brazilian incumbents ask for choice of frequency

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Anatel should allow the current operators of cellular mobile service in Brazil the option of choosing the frequency for additional spectrum for...

Zagat.com to make restaurant guide available wirelessly

SAN DIEGO-Zagat.com, one of the larger restaurant review and location content providers, has tapped Wireless Knowledge L.L.C. to wirelessly enable its restaurant guide.While it...

Dobson buys Conductus products

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Superconducting wireless systems manufacturer Conductus Inc. signed a purchase agreement with Dobson Communications Corp. for a minimum of 200 Conductus ClearSite systems to...

Service prices drop nationwide

LOS ANGELES-Cellular phone service prices dropped an average of 4 percent nationwide in June to $40.64, according to a survey by Econ One, a...

Company starts bandwidth-trading business

NEW YORK-Arbinet-thexchange Inc. has completed a year-long process of implementing what it calls the first carrier-grade bandwidth trading solution, company officials said at last...

Palm aims to gain market momentum

Palm Inc. introduced four new personal digital assistants as part of its fall line of products. They include the Palm m100, the Palm VIIx...

Viewpoint: Cloaks and daggers

Used to be if you wanted to enter the world of cloaks and daggers, you would try to be recruited by the CIA, or...

Wireless Internet Briefs

I3 Mobile Inc. opened a development center in Dallas focused on WAP, speech recognition, location, m-commerce and advertising applications. The facility will serve as...

Viewpoint: Talking it up

Let's hear it for U.S. wireless carriers.For so long we've heard how American operators lag behind their European counterparts in the wireless world. I...

Sprint PCS adds to wireless Web offerings

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS partnered with three companies to provide additional services for its wireless Web offering.Sprint and DataChannel Inc., an XML-based enterprise information...

TeleCorp, Tritel shareholders OK merger

ARLINGTON, Va.-Shareholders of AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s two largest affiliates, TeleCorp PCS Inc. and Tritel Inc., approved the merger of the two companies at...

Reports predict high interest in mobile data services

BOSTON-Two companies released reports that highlight the potential of wireless Internet access and mobile data communications and their possible effect on the electronic commerce...

Mobilocity launches financial practice

NEW YORK-Mobilocity Inc. formally launched its Mobile Financial Services Practice-a program designed to pioneer mobile applications targeting the banking, brokerage and insurance industries-by partnering...

Carrier marketing centers on wireless data world

The realm of wireless data is uncharted territory for most consumers, but carriers also are feeling their way through the darkness, searching for the...

D.C. Briefs

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has denied a request from NextWave Telecom Inc. to review an earlier decision that...

Meltronix launches Bluetooth development program

SAN DIEGO - Meltronix Inc., a semiconductor interconnect company serving wireless Internet, broadband communications and Internet equipment markets, launched a Bluetooth wireless technology business...

Siemens plans to add 1,000 workers

MUNICH, Germany - Siemens AG expects its mobile division to take on 1,000 new workers at its German production sites in Kamplintfort, Bocholt and...

SpectraSite earnings increase in 2Q

CARY, N.C.-SpectraSite Holdings Inc. reported significantly increased revenues for the second quarter ended June 30 of $77.8 million, compared with $14.4 million reported for...

American Tower revenues triple to $167 million

BOSTON-American Tower Corp. reported revenues for the second quarter ended June 30 of $167 million, a significant increase from the $50.2 million reported for...
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