HONOLULU-RAM Paging Hawaii, a Hawaiian paging company, said it will start operating under the name of its parent company, Arch Wireless Inc."Arch Wireless has grown to become one of the leading wireless messaging providers in the United States, and we believe RAM Paging will...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-The former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, William E. Kennard, made his first step into the private sector by joining the board of directors of personal digital assistant maker Handspring Inc."I am delighted Bill Kennard has agreed to join the Handspring...
LEIPZIG, Germany-Phone maker Siemens AG has laid off 2,000 temporary workers in Leipzig, Bottrop and Kamp-Lintfort, Germany.The company, which expects its handset sales to surge by 15 percent around the world, cut those jobs by not extending work contracts in its mobile-phone units.
MADRID, Spain-Telefonica and Spanish utility company Iberdrola signed an agreement under which Telefonica will acquire all Iberdrola shareholdings in the Brazilian telecom operators in which both companies have stakes. Iberdrola will receive more than 19 million Telefonica shares, valued at about $313 million.The agreement...
LENEXA, Kan.-Sprint PCS and Lucent Technologies Inc. completed an over-the-air data call using cdma2000 1xEV-DO, with transmission speeds up to 2.4 Megabits per second.Sprint, which is testing the technology through June, will test increased data throughput and capacity as well as applications including Web...
NEW YORK-With NEC Corp. and Sony Corp. serving as "trend setters" among their in-country peers, Japanese electronics equipment companies are poised to follow the lead of their American and European competitors toward contract manufacturing, said Peter McGowan, managing director of the Lehman Brothers Inc....
NEW YORK -Simon Hayward, vice president and research director of The Gartner Group, Stamford, Conn., is waiting for the real "WAGs" to come to the fore and realize the unfulfilled vision of a "Supranet" of anytime, anywhere data communications.These wireless application gateways of the...
BEIJING-China's largest wireless carrier, China Mobile, said it plans to close its analog wireless network by the end of the year, according to international press reports. The company plans to encourage analog users to migrate to its GSM network with offers of free airtime,...
HELSINKI, Finland- Nokia Corp. said that the decision in a March meeting of the Third-Generation Partnership Project to establish future compatibility between versions of the wideband CDMA standards shows that W-CDMA technology has reached the maturity level required for commercial operation.Pertti Lukander, director of...
MONTREAL-Telesystem International Wireless Inc. has closed the sale of its interests in Brazilian cellular operations Americel S.A. and Telet S.A. to an affiliate of Bell Canada International Inc. and Telecom Americas Ltd. for proceeds totaling $153 million.
In the RCR Wireless News article, "Omvia intended to aid in customer retention," (March 19, page 40) the story incorrectly states the relationship between SpeechWorks International Inc. and IVB. IVB recently sold off its share holdings in Speech Works.In the headline of the news...
HANNOVER, Germany-The wireless multimedia company PacketVideo Corp., and T-Mobil, which provides mobile telecommunication services in Germany, announced they will conduct trials of PacketVideo's end-to-end wireless multimedia technology over T-Mobil's advanced General Packet Radio Service network.T-Mobil engineers will test PacketVideo's interoperability with T-Mobil's infrastructure and...
On the heels of a similar situation involving Lucent Technologies Inc., Motorola Inc. late Friday denied published reports that it faces a serious liquidity problem."Motorola today is financially sound. Any suggestion or erroneous report that Motorola faces a serious liquidity problem is simply not...
WASHINGTON-Last December, two months after President Clinton ordered government studies on spectrum availability for third-generation wireless systems and at a time when mobile-phone and Pentagon officials were intensely studying the issue, Senate Armed Services Committee member James Inhofe (R-Okla.) quietly directed the General Accounting...
Even rumors did not forgive Lucent Technologies Inc. last week as the telecom equipment maker scrambled to reassure its nervous investors that it was not doomed to bankruptcy."The rumors that Lucent is filing for bankruptcy are baseless and irresponsible," said Deborah Hopkins, the company's...
PARIS-An Alcatel executive said the company is not fully committed to the mobile handset business, because of the strong advantage of competitors Nokia and Motorola, according to international press reports.The reports quoted Chairman Serge Tchuruk as saying the French company could be an active...
WASHINGTON-The White House on Friday said President George W. Bush intends to nominate Kevin J. Martin, Kathleen Q. Abernathy and Michael J. Kopps to the Federal Communications Commission."It sounds like a great slate and Cingular looks forward to working with them," said Ben Almond,...
The plan is ambitious, to say the least.Metrocall Inc. and WebLink Wireless Inc. announced last week a plan to merge by concurrently filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a business move that apparently has never been done before. The struggling companies face a number of...
A new company out of Andover, Mass., hopes to make the Palm personal digital assistant feel even more like a personal computer than ever before.Kada Systems Inc. launched Monday with its Kada Mobile Platform, a software application platform it claims is the smallest and...
WASHINGTON-Fears about the timely deployment of enhanced 911 Phase II service appear to be coming true even as the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission expressed optimism that the Oct.1 deadline will be met.In the last week alone, one of the nation's largest carriers...
One local multipoint distribution service wireless broadband carrier folded under the financial burden of the stock market last week, and now the futures of several others hang in the balance, potentially impacting the stability of an entire industry that just a year ago was...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa-Verizon Wireless launched its digital wireless service in Cedar Rapids, which includes coverage to Iowa City, Waterloo/Cedar Falls and Dubuque.According to the company, features of the new digital service include caller ID, text messaging, superior voice quality, longer battery life and enhanced...
LISLE, Ill.-Tellabs has revised its revenue and earnings per share expectations for the first quarter of 2001.The company now projects first-quarter sales of about $772 million, compared with earlier estimates of $830 to $865 million. The company also lowered its expected earnings from 35...
