Yearly Archives: 2001

Business Briefs

Banking giant Wells Fargo & Co. announced it launched its Wells Wireless mobile banking service, which is powered by 724 Solutions Inc.'s financial services...

Australian government allocates funds for mobile projects

SYDNEY, Australia-The Australian Minister for Communications, Information Technology announced that more than $2.8 million had been allocated through the $233 million Networking the Nation...

Borland to support iDEN tool kit

Motorola Inc. said Borland, a provider of Internet access infrastructure and application development tools, will provide its JBuilder 4 Foundation development environment as part...

Kasten to secure BlackBerry for Defense contract

STERLING, Va.-BlackBerry, Research In Motion Ltd.'s handheld e-mail computer favored by high-powered executives, will soon move from the boardroom to the battlefield under a...

Survival of the fittest?

Newly named Leader of the Pack FCC Chairman Michael Powell got it right last week when he declared that wireless is the killer app.He's...

Microcell premieres i.Fido wireless data offerings

Nine months after investing an initial $33 million into its mobile Internet services development company Microcell i5 Inc., Canadian wireless operator Microcell Solutions Inc....

Japan Telecom reports 5M users

TOKYO-Japan Telecom Co. Ltd., the country's third-largest wireless operator, reported subscribers for its Internet-enabled cell phones reached 5 million customers."Thanks to communications functions and...

Nokia wins contract in Venezuela

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. signed a deal to deliver a $50 million GSM network expansion in the southern and eastern parts of Venezuela.The contract, signed...

Indian liberalization is telecom opportunity

NEW YORK-The largest democracy in Asia represents a substantial opportunity for American companies seeking to serve India's growing telecommunications market and to import to...

Vodafone denies rumor of Verizon IPO delay

LONDON-Vodafone plc denied reports that it plans to delay its planned flotation of U.S. joint venture Verizon Wireless, saying it is simply waiting for...

Danish study finds no cancer link to wireless use

WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry, buoyed last week by the third study in two months that failed to link mobile phones to brain cancer and other...

Metrocall inks Philadelphia contract

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. announced today it won a competitive bid process to supply wireless communications to the city of Philadelphia, which calls for the...

Orbcomm seeks to auction off its business

DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P. said it is seeking bankruptcy court approval to begin an auction process to sell the business as a going concern.Orbcomm...

S&P places Pinnacle on CreditWatch

NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's placed its "B+" corporate credit and "B" senior unsecured debt ratings on Pinnacle Holdings Inc. along with the company on...

Leap to buy markets from AWL Group

SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. stands to gain licenses covering about 2.4 million people, the company announced, due to deal with American Wireless License...

Carrier stocks underpriced

NEW YORK-With the stocks of mobile operators down from their 52-week highs, despite some recent rebounding, now is a good time to buy them,...

After 31 years, Crosby crosses from ITA to Access Spectrum

WASHINGTON-After 31 years, he's been there and done that.Now it is time for Mark E. Crosby, president of the Industrial Telecommunications Association, to leave...

DT-VoiceStream price up for renegotiation

Deutsche Telekom AG's $35 billion proposal to buy U.S. GSM operators VoiceStream Wireless Corp. and Powertel Inc. has been delayed as DT and VoiceStream...

Metricom seeks financing as rising star crashes

High-speed wireless data access provider Metricom Inc. posted a fourth-quarter loss and said it will postpone the introduction of its Ricochet data network in...

U.S. Cellular adds tagline

CHICAGO-U.S. Cellular Corp. debuted a new company tagline, "We connect with you," supported by consumer and business-to-business advertising campaigns. The company said the tagline...

SEC investigates Lucent for fraudulent accounting

NEW YORK-The Securities and Exchange Commission is conducting a formal investigation of Lucent Technologies Inc. for possible fraudulent accounting practices, The Wall Street Journal...

Industry may consider reversed 911 solution: Facing looming 911 deadlines, CESA offers to go to bat for industry

WASHINGTON-Facing deadlines to implement location-based wireless 911 technology, two major vendors and an advocacy group presented wireless carriers a plan to give carriers extra...

Powell not a crusader against Digital Divide

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell last week signaled he will not get in the way of President Bush's plan to overhaul the schools...

Wmode aims to connect carriers, content providers

So far, the question has been: Who drives the traffic?Do content providers for the wireless Internet push user traffic for wireless carriers, increasing their revenue...

Quality vs. quantity: Local plans hurt network quality, users complain

In an attempt to expand their customer bases, some wireless operators have taken to rolling out wireless local loop-type services allowing customers to pay...
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