Yearly Archives: 2000

Lucent premieres next-generation DSPs

Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group plans to unveil today a digital signal processor system-on-a-chip family for next-generation wireless and Internet networks that provides significant...

FCC OKs Metricom’s WCS equipment

LOS GATOS, Calif.-Metricom Inc. said the Federal Communications Commission approved its WCS Wired Access Points equipment. The company now has FCC approval for all...

UbiquiTel goes public

NEW YORK-UbiquiTel Inc., the Bala Cynwyd, Pa., affiliate of Sprint PCS, went public June 7 with an offering of 12.5 million shares priced at...

House rejects FCC, NTIA 2001 budget increases

WASHINGTON-A House appropriations subcommittee last week slashed administration-proposed budgets for the Federal Communications Committee and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, prompting criticism from...

Products

TektronixTektronix Inc. launched a new Global System for Mobile communications cell analysis product, the Cell Analyzer, which combines the key functions of the Actix...

SSG to use MobileDispatch

SOMERSET, N.J.-Scantron Services Group said it will use Dynamic Mobile Data Systems Inc.'s MobileDispatch and wireless technology to help it reduce the response time...

Leap completes Smartcom sale

SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. completed the sale of its Chilean wireless venture, Smartcom PCS, to Spanish utility company Endesa S.A.Leap received $300 million...

Surf unveils networking software

TERADYON, Israel-Surf Communications Solutions Ltd. unveiled a software product that enables wireless equipment manufacturers to provide converged internetworking solutions for their network service provider...

ADC to trial MMDS service with Telinor TV

MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. said Telinor Television S.A. de C.V., a Mexican wireless pay-TV company, will begin field trials of new technology for business data...

Nokia unveils 3G network planning tool

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. unveiled its Totem Vantage network planning tool, designed to enable the fast deployment of third-generation networks.The company said the in-house developed...

CMG, Mirapoint cooperate on messaging

UTRECHT, Netherlands-Mobile messaging provider CMG Telecommunications and Mirapoint Inc., an Internet messaging infrastructure provider, are working together to provide mobile operators the ability to...

DMC Altium passes ETSI tests

ATLANTA-Digital Microwave Corp.'s Altium broadband fixed wireless access products passed the European Telecommunications Standards Institute qualification tests and now conform to European telecommunications standards...

World Briefs

Hong KongTranscrypt International Inc. signed an agreement with Union Communications of Hong Kong for the exclusive distribution of all of Transcrypt's voice security and...

Fixed wireless trial ends in Romania

BUCHAREST, Romania-Harris Corp. said it completed field trials of its ClearBurst 28 GHz broadband wireless access microwave radio in Bucharest. The system is being...

M1 completes GPRS data call

HELSINKI, Finland-Singapore wireless operator M1 demonstrated a General Packet Radio Service packet data call over its live network using Nokia Corp.'s GPRS technology."While other...

Comverse deploys prepaid system for Telefonica

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Network Systems, a division of Comverse Technology Inc., installed and launched systems enabling prepaid services for more than 1 million subscribers of...

Telefonica denies mobile-phone virus reports

MADRID-Telefonica denied reports that a virus is getting into the mobile phones of its customers and sending rude messages about the company to phone...

France Telecom to sell Crown stake

HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. said France Telecom agreed to sell approximately 24.9 million shares of Crown Castle common stock through Salomon Smith Barney Inc....

France chooses beauty contest for 3G license award

PARIS-The French government has decided not to auction third-generation licenses later this year and will instead award the licenses through a "beauty contest." The...

Nokia, SK Telecom announce 3G guidelines

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and SK Telecom announced extensive planning guidelines for third-generation IMT-2000 networks including coverage design, radio resource management, handover parameter planning and...

Alltel to test technology

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel will test a new wireless voice and data technology that is expected to improve how the company deploys competitive local telephone...

Verizon acquires Georgia RSA

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless said it plans to acquire the cellular service market designated Georgia-RSA 5 from Blackwater Cellular Corp.The acquisition will add 25,000 customers....

Carrier Access Corp. announces field trial

BOULDER, Colo.-Carrier Access Corp. and Nera Telecommunications announced the field trial of a new wireless broadband network at TechTel, a competitive local exchange carrier...

Middle East, Africa poised for growth

WASHINGTON-Cellular and third-generation technology subscribers in the Middle East and Africa will increase from approximately 15 million people this year to almost 40 million...

Motorola unveils Bluetooth products

NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. is targeting telematics and personal computers in its product debut this week at the Bluetooth Congress in Monte Carlo, Monaco.Telematics uses...
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