2002

MIAMI-TracFone Wireless Inc. introduced its Double Minute AutoPay payment program for its prepaid service that doubles all purchased airtime minutes for plan members. TracFone said customers who enroll in the …

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-TruePosition Inc. released a wireless location platform designated for small and medium-sized wireless operators. The solution uses Uplink Time Difference of Arrival technology, which TruePosition already has …

MURRAY HILL, N.J. -Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has signed separate contracts with two Indian operators, Reliance Infocom and Tata Teleservices, to deploy nationwide cdma2000 wireless networks. Lucent did not …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Pen&Internet LLC, creator of riteMail, a handwritten e-mail application, has teamed with T-Mobile dealer RACO Industries to market riteMail products and services through its reseller network and to T-Mobile …

BOSTON-American Tower Corp. amended provisions of the loan agreement for senior secured credit facilities of some of its subsidiaries. The provisions ease the company’s pro forma debt service covenant, tighten …

PORTLAND, Ore.-Metro One Telecommunications Inc. reported that Sprint PCS would not renew its contract to provide enhanced directory services to the wireless operator once the current contract expires at the …

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. will stop accepting customers on its slow-speed packet-data CDPD network by next year, and will shut down the network in 2004. The company is working …

LAS VEGAS-The Association of Wireless Professionals (AOWP) announced at last week’s CTIA Wireless I.T. & Internet conference that it has reached a worldwide membership of 1,500. “This announcement marks a …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Agilent Technologies Inc. is standing by the promise of 3G and releasing new products it believes will position carriers to deploy next-generation networks despite the current downtrodden economic …

RESTON, Va.-MapInfo’s chief technology officer George Moon will participate in an LBS Market Panel at this week’s Location-Based Services Symposium, hosted by the GeoSpatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) and …

WILMINGTON, Del.-A U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del., denied NII Holdings Inc.’s proposed Chapter 11 reorganization plan noting its filed documents violated a number of provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, …

MANILA, The Philippines-While Globe Telecom and Smart Communications are now offering multimedia messaging service (MMS), such issues as interconnection, standards of interoperability and rates have to be tackled, according to …

REDMOND, Wash.-Microsoft Corp. announced it will acquire location-services company Vicinity Corp. in a deal valued at about $96 million. Microsoft said it will integrate Vicinity into its MapPoint Business Unit. …

LONDON-Cellular subscriber numbers in nine Middle East countries are set to overtake the number of fixed-line customers by the end of 2002, the latest report from the Arab Advisory Group …

TORONTO-Sierra Wireless Inc. reported a surprise third-quarter profit Tuesday as sales of its wireless modems came in higher than management had expected. The Vancouver-based company posted a profit of US$503,000, …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Messaging companies Wireless Services Corp. and CMG Wireless Data Solutions announced they set up a service to allow mobile customers to send text messages to other users in Canada, …

WILMINGTON, Del.-Bankrupt Devon Mobile Communications L.P. said it will attempt to sell, via auction, substantially all of its site tower assets and will assume related executory contracts and unexpired leases. …

NEW YORK-Julia Butterfly Hill, who lived in a redwood tree nicknamed “Luna” for two years to protest old growth forest destruction, has reached an out of court settlement with OmniSky …

COLUMBIA, Md.- Peak Technologies was awarded as the largest reseller for Symbol Technologies last year, selling about $28 million worth of Symbol products. “Peak Technologies was our leading reseller again …

NEW YORK-Andrew Corp., Overland Park, Ill., reported a fiscal 2002 net loss of $26.4 million, or 30 cents per share, and sales of $865 million. Last fiscal year, the company …

BETHESDA, Md.-Access Spectrum LLC said federal regulators have given permission to its subsidiary to provide band management services in the 220-222 MHz band. The Federal Communications Commission’s action enables ASL …

TORONTO-Nortel Networks said it reported a third-quarter net loss of US$1.8 billion, or 42 U.S. cents a share, compared with US$3.47 billion, or US$1.08 a share, a year earlier. Excluding …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada-Infowave Software said Swiss operator Sunrise/TDC selected Infowave’s Mobile Application Gateway to offer wireless e-mail services to its subscribers. The services, which provide corporate users with real-time, …

MOSCOW-Russia’s biggest carrier Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) again delayed the launch of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) into commercial operation because of a lack of demand. The carrier initially planned the …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson experienced a dramatic decline in sales last quarter, to $3.6 billion from $5 billion during the third quarter of last year, and its net losses increased to …