BOCA RATON, Fla.-SBA Communications Corp., a tower developer and owner, has closed on 203 of the 275 towers included in its agreement with TeleCorp PCS Inc., an affiliate of AT&T Wireless. The entire sale is expected to be finalized in the second quarter. The...
NEW YORK-Winstar Communications Inc. traded its 12.5 percent senior notes due 2008 at a record low price of $400 per $1,000 bond. According to Arsenio & Company, an investment bank specializing in corporate evaluations and equity research, Winstar senior notes face this 60 percent...
WASHINGTON-The trade association for state legislators said recently it will try to find "common ground" on the use of wireless devices while driving."Our goal was to bring the various stakeholders together. Safety advocates in the same room with telecommunications carriers, automobile manufacturers and state...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-By issuing approximately 1.7 million of its shares, Canadian Wi-LAN Inc. will purchase California-based UC Wireless, furthering its position in the global broadband wireless market. With the purchase, Wi-LAN will receive UC Wireless' proprietary Versatile Intelligent Network Environment technology and their expertise...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-TruePosition Inc., which provides integrated wireless location products, announced its flagship Wireless Location System now includes support for GSM.The TruePosition System, which has undergone technology development and system testing for more than three years, also functions with the AMPS, CDMA and...
SAN FRANCISO, United States-Listen.com announced that Listen Japan acquired Japanese mobile-phone content company Noel. Both companies provide music and entertainment content and services.One of Noel's most popular offerings is a subscription-based service that allows Japanese consumers to access ring tones, pictures and tour information...
@Road, which provides location-enhanced wireless Internet solutions for mobile resource management (MRM), announced it will collaborate with Blue Wireless to develop voice-enabled solutions for the @Road LocationSmart Technology platform. By using Blue Wireless' voice portal technology, @Road said its customers will have voice-based access...
MADRID, Spain-The controversy over the Spanish government's plans to impose an annual 160 billion peseta (US$866 million) "supertariff" on spectrum use has taken a new twist. Anna Birules, the minister of science and technology, announced the rate could be revisable on a yearly basis....
BEIJING-At a mobile industry conference in Hangzhou, attended by 27 handset manufacturers, it was decided to fix the output target for this year at 80 million handsets. According to incomplete statistics, 53.96 million handsets were produced in China in 2000, considerably more than the...
BEIJING-A spokesman for China Mobile said the company would further delay the one-way billing system beyond the proposed implementation period of early 2002, citing the "need for further research and complicated technical adjustments."The new billing system could sharply reduce revenues, triggering lower stock prices...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Attempts by mobile operators that acquired third-generation (3G) licenses to share networks have received a firm "no" from at least one European country regulator. While Germany's RegTP has stated that license documents clearly indicate each winner must build its own network, regulators...
MOSCOW-Russian Communications Minister Leonid Reiman, who is known to back European-developed technologies, confirmed that the U.S.-developed IS-95 standard is doomed in Russia."I continue to believe that the standard has absolutely no prospects for the Russian market. We shall stick to the line," the minister...
NEW YORK-ICO-Teledesic Global Ltd. and New ICO Global Communications Holdings Ltd. have withdrawn plans for the public sale of securities related to their planned merger.New ICO also has applied for a waiver of the bankruptcy court requirement that it sell its Class A Common...
LONDON-AlterEgo Networks, a provider of Internet software and services, will team with BT Cellnet, a mobile operator based in the United Kingdom, to combine BT Cellnet's wireless data GPRS network system with AlterEgo's Adaptive Performance Suite of software solutions.According to the companies, the combination...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Networks announced the Nokia Activ Signet Solution, a solution for secure mobile e-commerce.Aimed at corporate customers, especially financial institutions, the new solution will enable certificate and digital signature validation and online certificate enrollment. It requires the Enterprise Edition of the Nokia Activ...
TOKYO-Qualcomm Inc. announced VectorOne, an integrated hardware and software solution that provides directional information for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies' Mobile Station Modem family of integrated circuits, beginning with the MSM3300 solution.AP One systems Co. Ltd. of Tokyo, which provides electronic sensor technology, will provide geomagnetic...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc., announced SECOM Co. Ltd., a Japanese provider of security services, will launch COCO SECOM, a safety service for locating the position of people and vehicles, which represents the first commercial deployment of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies' MSM3300 Mobile Station Modem integrated circuit...
LAS VEGAS-Motorola Inc. will develop end-to-end network solutions for cellular and PCS carriers operating on the 850 and 1900 MHz bands, continuing expansion of its worldwide portfolio of GSM communications offerings.The new GSM 850 and 1900 MHz network solutions will offer full voice and...
LAS VEGAS-Motorola Inc. announced its Global Telecom Solutions Sector has successfully transmitted live video over its own third-generation CDMA 1xEV-DV solution in its lab in Arlington Heights, Ill.According to the company, the new solution enables real-time voice, data and multimedia services on existing cdma2000...
LAS VEGAS-OmniSky's service will run on two new devices and will enhance support for corporate e-mail.The company demonstrated its service running on the Kyocera QCP 6035 smart phone for the CDMA network, which it said shows its desire to extend its wireless service to...
Dennis Roberson is sitting at a large, round conference table talking about the mandate he was given three years ago to "fix" Motorola Inc.'s storied research lab.As the conversation progresses, he reaches inside his breast pocket and pulls out a cell phone made with...
SAN DIEGO-Novatel Wireless Inc., which provides wireless data communications access solutions, and Tech Data Corp., which provides IT products, logistics management and other value-added services, announced an international distribution agreement.Novatel Wireless' product portfolio of wireless computing devices will be available to the more than...
PEORIA, Ill.-Rohn Industries Inc., a provider of infrastructure equipment, has put in place a new secured credit facility, which the company said will help finance its recently announced self tender offer and stock purchase transactions.The new facility initially offers up to $20 million of...
Advanced Technology Workshop on Ceramic Technologies for MicrowaveMarch 26-27 IMAPS/CII. Adam's Mark Hotel, Denver. www.imaps.org/forms/ceramic2001regist.htm.3rd Annual Tower Investment SymposiumMarch 26-27 Shorecliff Communications. New York City. www.scievents.com.The 3G Wireless Seminar: Promises and RealitiesMarch 26-27 Alexander Resources. Phoenix. (972) 818-8226.CRM FocusMarch 26-28 IIR. World Trade Center, Boston....
