Yearly Archives: 2001

Verizon Wireless loses 11 sites in attacks

WASHINGTON—Verizon Wireless lost 11 cell sites in the attacks on Tuesday in New York and at the Pentagon but service has generally been restored...

Nextel donates phones

WASHINGTON—Nextel Communications Inc. said it donated 1,500 mobile phones to public safety and law enforcement officials in New York, Washington, D.C., and Boston in...

FCC commends communications industry

WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission today said the communications industry is doing a heroic effort to keep the nation's wireless, TV and wireline systems operating."I...

Metrocall’s Jacoby among attack victims

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Steven D. "Jake" Jacoby, chief operating officer and executive vice president of wireless messaging company Metrocall Inc., was on board American Airlines Flight...

Zucotto licenses Sun technology

SAN DIEGO—Zucotto Wireless Inc. recently announced its has licensed Sun Microsystems' Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) technology for its XPRESSOcore processor family.With the...

JP Mobile releases new SureWave version

DALLAS—JP Mobile has released the newest version of its SureWave Mobile Server, which delivers wireless e-mail and corporate applications to enterprises.According to JP Mobile,...

Wireless attorney killed in Pentagon crash

WASHINGTON—Karen Kincaid, 40, a lawyer with the law firm of Wiley, Rein and Fielding, was on the airplane that was flown into the Pentagon,...

AT&T on target

SAN FRANCISCO—AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced early this week that it will meet its third-quarter subscriber addition target of 700,000 to 750,000.The company also...

Wireless World to be rescheduled

NEW YORK—Following the September 11 tragedy at the New York World Trade Center, coordinators of the Wireless World 2001 trade show, which was scheduled...

Cingular network update

Cingular said its network continues to operate normally, with approximately a 20-percent increase in attempted calls nationwide. There are no blockages or network outages....

CTIA to continue

SAN DIEGO—This year's Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's Wireless I.T. & Internet show will begin today and continue as scheduled until further notice.

Financial markets closed

DENVER—All U.S. financial markets have been closed following the attack on the World Trade Center in New York.

PCIA cancelled

LOS ANGELES—The Personal Communications Industry Association's annual trade show, which should have begun today, has been cancelled. There are no plans to reschedule.

U.S. Wireless files for bankruptcy

SAN RAMON, Calif.-U.S. Wireless Corp. filed for bankruptcy in the U.S Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware last week, claiming more than $22.2...

DoCoMo plans 3G FOMA launch

TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it will launch commercial service of its third-generation FOMA wireless service Oct. 1 in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, Japan, with...

Vyyo cuts staff, says it has no bankruptcy plans

Vyyo Inc. reduced its work force by approximately 75 percent to less than 50 employees due to "uncertainty in the fixed wireless market and...

Products

WCitiesLocation-based information service provider WCities launched a geo-coded wireless service that provides location-specific information to individual users' cell phones. According to Tan Rasab, the...

CompuCom releases evaluation program

DALLAS-Digital infrastructure solutions provider CompuCom Systems Inc. released a new wireless evaluation program aimed at helping businesses understand the value of wireless.The company said...

County Transit buys Aether system

OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Aether Systems Inc. said Wisconsin-based motor carrier County Transit Inc. purchased its MobileMax2 wireless communications system, which Aether said will help County...

China’s approves 19 CDMA handset firms

BEIJING, China-China's state Development Planning Commission said it has approved 19 firms to make CDMA handsets to cater to part of its 120.6 million...

People

Berliner Communications Inc.Doreen Trant has been promoted to chief operating officer of Berliner Communication Inc. Trant previously served as the company's vice president...

Say goodbye to the network

The incompatible requirements for Value Added Service creation and wireless network development will drive the very separation of the wireless brand operation from the...

Testing: the unmentioned piece of the live 3G call

Even as vendors grab news pages with reports of successful live calls over their third-generation networks, one piece is often left out: behind every...

Arena Technik enters buy-out agreement for Gameplay

LONDON-Gaming company Arena Technik Ltd. announced a buy-out agreement with Gameplay plc, under which it acquired all technology assets and software associated with gaming...

Broadband startup interested in Metricom

The acclaimed but expensive Ricochet high-speed wireless data network built by Metricom Inc. may be getting a second chance courtesy of Aerie Networks, a...
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