2001

SILVER SPRING, Md.-Wireless service provider IMC WorldCell announced it now offers Iridium Satellite phones and service, expanding WorldCell coverage to hard-to-reach places across the globe. Traveling WorldCell customers can rent …

FRANKFURT, Germany-As the company grapples with a slackening economy, Siemens AG may slash 3,000 more jobs to save money in its telecommunications divisions, according to the Wall Street Journal. “This …

WASHINGTON-XtremeSpectrum Inc., a hopeful entrant into the ultra-wideband market, has made a proposal that it believes will answer critics’ claims that ultra-wideband technologies will cause harmful interference to the global …

Finland’s Sonera said it will “take immediate steps to liquidate” Broadband Mobile ASA in Norway, partly because Enitel ASA, its equal partner in the third-generation wireless joint venture, already has …

One man’s asset recovery is another man’s poison. Like a stylized garage sale, wireless equipment manufacturers are auctioning off excess inventories, which are being shipped to needy markets in the …

WASHINGTON-Bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. insisted last week in meetings with industry, federal regulators and the press that it plans to build out its network, and further litigation only delays that …

WASHINGTON-Cingular Wireless customers in the Washington, D.C., area were without service early yesterday following a power outage at one of the carrier’s main switching stations in Maryland. Cingular said the …

NEW YORK-Nortel Networks Corp. and Sprint PCS affiliate Alamosa Holdings Inc. tapped the debt markets for a total of $1.65 billion last week, providing another reminder that telecommunications bond buyers …

Crown Castle International Corp., SpectraSite Holdings Inc. and SBA Communications Corp. reported positive revenues for the second quarter ended June 30, but they did not escape the current telecom shakedown …

The NextWave Telecom Inc. saga continued last week as the hopeful wireless wholesaler unveiled funding plans to roll out its network, while its potential wireless competitors/customers continued to look for …

NEW YORK-Stockholm-based Iquity Systems has established a U.S. headquarters near Wall Street to promote its Mobile Media Suite, which delivers recorded advertising messages to wireless customers interested in getting discounts …

PLEASANTON, Calif.-FunMail Inc. said it will support the Picture Messaging format from Nokia Corp. within its wireless messaging system. Under the system, users could simply type a short message service …

NEW YORK-Snaz Commerce Solutions, which provided wireless commerce products, said today it was forced to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which involves liquidating all the company’s assets. “I am disappointed …

HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Inc. and IBM Corp. today announced they are teaming to offer wireless data solutions to GE Power Systems, which supplies power generation technology. Under the deal, IBM Global …

TORONTO-Bell Canada and Nortel Networks have signed a deal valued at $117 million to expand Bell Mobility’s PCS networks to Alberta and British Columbia, using the CDMA 2000 1xRTT technology. …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. has agreed with Twentieth Century Fox International to offer its mobile-phone users in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom screensavers and logos of the movie Planet of …

NEW YORK-Iospan Wireless Inc. and Powerwave Technologies Inc. have joined forces to develop AirBurst-compatible broadband power amplifiers to enhance delivery of non-line-of-site fixed-wireless communications. Powerwave will supply its radio-frequency power …

NEW YORK-KPMG L.L.P. will conduct a survey to measure smart card use in North America, according to an Aug. 6 announcement of The Smart Card Alliance, formed earlier this year …

NEW YORK-Handspring’s handling of its initial public offering, which sold in June 2000, is under challenge in a class action lawsuit the New York law firm of Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, …

WASHINGTON-For every three new wireless subscribers there is one less wireline subscriber, said Stephen Pociask, president of TeleNomic Research L.L.C. “These phones do the same thing as your wired phone …

Just like the beginnings of the wired Internet, content on the wireless Internet is growing by leaps and bounds. Wireless Internet users now can schedule a flight out of Denver, …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Personal digital assistant giant Palm Inc. last week took a stab at operating system rival Microsoft Corp. in an announcement that Palm users will be able to create, …

A handful of wireless affiliates and regional cellular operators reported mixed results last week, showing the economic slowdown has not entirely missed wireless operators. Heading the list of mixed results, …

According to new reports from two major analyst firms, wireless data will be a huge business in the future, but not before software vendors, systems integrators and-especially-wireless carriers get in …

LONDON-The huge popularity of mobile phones in Europe has had an adverse effect on the once-necessary prepaid disposable (PD) calling cards, which are used instead of coins in public payphones …