Yearly Archives: 2000

Nando launches WAP news service

RALEIGH, N.C.-Nando Media has launched a 24-hour news service for Internet-enabled wireless phones and pagers using Wireless Application Protocol technology.

D.C. Notes: The end of regulation

Wireless regulation is a temporary state of affairs. Some years from now there will be very few, if any, wireless rules. This is not...

Novatel supplier CDPD modules to Symbol

SAN DIEGO-Novatel Wireless Inc. has agreed to deliver 75,000 Merlin Cellular Digital Packet Data modem modules to Symbol Technologies Inc.Symbol said it plans to...

Orange acquisition gives France Telecom U.K. foothold

NEW YORK-In a move that, ironically, furthers consolidation in Europe's deregulated telecommunications market, France Telecom said May 30 it would buy Orange plc from...

Motorola to resell Orbcomm services

DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P. said Motorola Inc.'s Market Solutions Division, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., will become a reseller of Orbcomm satellite communications services used...

Profilium develops wireless ad software

Internet-enabled mobile devices are fast becoming the new playground for advertisers, since for the first time, companies don't have to anticipate where a potential...

3G revenue to reach $63B in 2007

PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Third-generation wireless revenue will increase from $4.3 billion in 2002 to $63 billion in 2007, while wireless infrastructure purchases will grow from $4...

Small paging operators excited about future

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.-Despite the outlook by many in the industry that paging is a market in decline, Southeastern Communications Association members are excited abut...

Palm builds offerings to attack enterprise market

In an effort to encourage businesses to use palmtop personal computers as mobile access tools to enterprise systems, Palm Inc. released its HotSync Server...

New FCC rules could cost wireless carriers

WASHINGTON-The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission last week rejected the notion that new rules designed to reduce the amount consumers pay for long-distance...

Viewpoint: Let competition shape the market

As the wireless Internet evolution develops, government should resist the temptation to bury the industry in regulations and instead, let competition for customers shape...

Products

Cimarron TechnologiesWith the addition of versatile hardware options, Cimarron Technologies' Skymark VehicleTracker now allows dispatchers to view mapping software in both digital or database...

Hutchison to invest $400M in China Unicom

HONG KONG-Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. said it will invest $400 million in China Unicom in its pending initial public offering. In addition, the companies will...

Ford named associate publisher

DENVER-Tracy Ford, editor of RCR, has been promoted to associate publisher of RCR and its sister publication, Global Wireless.She will continue in her duties...

Blink.com launches wireless feature

NEW YORK-Blink.com, a provider of bookmark management and Web searching services, launched its wireless feature, Blink Mobile, the company announced.Blink Mobile will allow Blink.com's...

Castle Harlan leads in race to save Iridium

Castle Harlan Inc., a New York City-based merchant bank, pulled away from its fellow contenders last week in the race to save Iridium L.L.C....

FCC opens re-auction to big firms

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will delay the re-auction of C-and F-block licenses to give the wireless industry time to digest rules that allow large...

CMG delivers new version of portal

NASHUA, N.H.-CMG Telecommunications released version 1.2 of its WAP Service Broker, a Wireless Application Protocol portal that includes an online service and user profiling...

CPP leaves limelight

The prospect of calling party pays looks like a dying one in the United States, as the Federal Communications Commission appears to be backing...

Aether, Data Critical form alliªance

BOTHELL, Wash.-Aether Systems Inc. and Data Critical Corp., which provides wireless communications to the health-care industry, signed an agreement to enter an alliance for...

DoCoMo approaches international markets

While wireless operators worldwide have formed joint ventures and made strategic acquisitions and investments, Japan's NTT DoCoMo has remained in Japan, developing wideband Code...

DoJ uses wireless plans against Microsoft

WASHINGTON-To bolster its case for splitting Microsoft Corp. into two companies-a remedy U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson may agree to as early as...

Deal lets EuroTel customers buy prepaid vouchers at ATMs

BUDAPEST, Hungary-Euronet Services Inc. said it signed an agreement with EuroTel, a Global System for Mobile communications wireless service provider in the Czech Republic,...

Faith Hill to promote Alltel plans

LITTLE ROCK-Alltel Corp. signed Faith Hill to help it launch Total Freedom, its national digital wireless rate plans that eliminate all roaming and long-distance...

Motorola solution targeted at commercial kitchens

STRATFORD, Conn.-Motorola Inc. and Food Automation Service Techniques Inc. announced a solution to speed the implementation of Internet-enabled appliances in commercial kitchens.FAST said it...
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