Yearly Archives: 2001

Triton PCS raises funds

BERWYN, Pa.-Triton PCS Holdings Inc. said it raised about $112 million through its offering of 6 million shares of company stock.Proceeds from the offering...

CTIA takes stand on siting rules

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association last Friday filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming regulations aimed at historic preservation "favor intensive government oversight...

USAToday.com now on Sprint’s Wireless Web

WASHINGTON-USAToday.com news and information are new featured within the News & Weather, Business Tools and What's New categories on Sprint PCS' Wireless Web.USAToday.com said...

Alamosa Holding completes mergers

LUBBOCK, Texas-Sprint PCS affiliate Alamosa Holdings Inc. completed its merger with Roberts Wireless Communications L.L.C. and Washington Oregon Wireless L.L.C., increasing Alamosa's licensed population...

WASP market to reach $3.6B by 2005

BOSTON-The wireless application service provider market will grow to $3.6 billion by 2005 and is in the same formative stages as the fixed Internet...

Crown grows revenues, net loss widens

HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. reported revenues for the fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31 of $202 million and $649.2 million, respectively, compared with...

Recent downgrades bring Lucent near junk-bond status

In rhythm with an economy on the retreat, telecommunications giant Lucent Technologies Inc. seems to be on the decline.Against a background of outsized estimates,...

@Track, Minorplanet execute agreement

RICHARDSON, Texas- @Track Communications Inc. announced the execution of a stock purchase and exchange agreement with Minorplanet Systems plc, a provider and distributor of...

Ericsson, IBM join forces for mobile Internet offerings

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson and IBM Corp. said they will join to help financial services companies deliver mobile Internet offerings that go beyond today's business-to-consumer...

Arch Wireless gets stock boost

WEST BOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Wireless Group's shares jumped up 14 percent at the start of trading Feb. 15 to about $1 per share after announcements...

Wireless tracking provisions part of anti-crime bill: Customer privacy at issue

WASHINGTON-A new anti-crime bill would streamline law enforcement's ability to clone numeric pagers and raise the legal standard for location-based mobile phone wiretaps, changes...

Revised forecasts, layoffs follow disappointing Alltel results

Alltel Corp. followed its disappointing fourth quarter financial results with reduced 2001 financial forecasts last Thursday, including slower customer additions and plans to cut...

Furchtgott-Roth believes Powell could reform FCC without congressional oversight

WASHINGTON-There is probably not a need for Congress to pass legislation to reform the Federal Communications Commission especially if new FCC Chairman Michael K....

Susan Ness to leave commission

WASHINGTON-Susan Ness, the most senior member of the Federal Communications Commission, is planning on leaving the agency before the end of her recess appointment;...

Correction

In the RCR Wireless News article, "Cellport finds positive landscape for its product in negative problem," (Feb. 12, page 33) the founder and chief...

American spectator

I am beginning to see a pattern.President Bush talks about restoring integrity to the White House, a not so subtle reference to the Clinton...

Multiple devices, multiple uses

Many discussions about what's inherently wrong with the wireless Internet, m-commerce or mobile data in general seem to end up placing the blame squarely...

Privacy Coalition urges lawmakers to sign privacy pledge

WASHINGTON-The Privacy Coalition is calling on lawmakers at the state and federal levels to sign what it is calling a privacy pledge.The privacy pledge...

Loral Space reports more than $1B loss

NEW YORK-Loral Space & Communications Ltd. reiterated in its fourth quarter and year-end 2000 financial results that it is substantially revising its plan for...

AOL, VoiceStream enter agreement

BELLEVUE, Wash.-America Online Inc. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. reported a comprehensive services, content and marketing agreement to provide America Online's features and services to...

LizardTech, Intel partner on imaging technology

SEATTLE-Imaging technology company LizardTech Inc. partnered with computer chip giant Intel Corp. to enter the wireless Internet market with a product the company said...

Seagull teams with Symbol

ATLANTA-Seagull, a provider of e-business enabling software, announced a partnership with Symbol Technologies, a supplier of rugged wireless devices and wireless network solutions.As partners,...

FCC’s enforcement policies scrutinized at Practicing Law Institute conference

WASHINGTON-Enforcement of government rules, including telecommunications rules, should be efficient and fair and have the consent of the governed, said FCC Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth.Furchtgott-Roth...

WorldCom revises Intermedia merger terms

CLINTON, Miss.-WorldCom Inc., the nation's largest wireless reseller, revised the terms of its merger with Intermedia Communications Inc. to settle a lawsuit filed by...

Handset sales rise 46 percent in 2000

Despite some `hiccups' within the industry and key supply channels, phone sales worldwide grew 46 percent to 412.7 million units last year, according to...
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