MADRID, Spain-While third-generation services have grabbed most of the limelight in wireless news, in Spain a group of companies has been quietly rolling out high-speed voice and data services using LMDS technology. The first of these is FirstMark, which recently unveiled broadband services in...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-New proposals from the European Commission covering how telecom operators will be regulated have been met with hostility by GSM Europe, the European arm of the GSM Association. The group claimed the proposals will significantly increase the chances of EC intervention in...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Complying with an agreement signed between the two major political parties, the Uruguayan Congress approved the sale of up to 40 percent of Ancel, the state cellular telephony operator.It is the first step toward the entrance of new companies to a market...
MUNICH, Germany-Cellplus, a wholly owned subsidiary and mobile operator of Mauritius Telecom, has awarded Siemens Telecommunications a turnkey contract to design and implement a full WAP-enabled solution.This solution, which will take the form of a phased approach, is intended to see Cellplus become the...
BOSTON-Econet Nigeria Ltd. has paid for its digital mobile license, thus becoming the third company after NITEL and MTN Nigeria Limited to pay for its licenses in Nigeria.Communications Investment Limited, which was one of the three winners at the last digital mobile license auction...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Telia AB said it will sell its financial interests in Brazilian mobile operator Tess to Telecom Americas for $950 million. Telia has a 62-percent stake in Tess, which has about 940,000 wireless subscribers.Telia and Telia Overseas are selling all their preferred shares in...
CINCINNATI-Integrated billing and customer-care services provider Convergys Corp. and Geneva Technology Ltd., a billing software provider based in Cambridge, England, have agreed to merge in a stock-for-stock transaction, the companies announced. Based on Convergys' closing stock price March 5 of $39.35, the deal is...
TOKYO-Citing a delay in hardware development, Japan Telecom Co. Ltd. said it would delay the deployment of third generation services from this December until summer 2002. The delay will place Japan's third-largest operator more than a year behind market leader NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s 3G...
BOTHELL, Wash.-Infowave Software Inc., which provides software that connects enterprise applications to wireless devices, and Novatel Wireless Inc., which provides wireless data access solutions, announced an agreement to jointly market and sell wireless enterprise solutions to corporations.The joint solution will provide corporations with Novatel's...
BOSTON-PacketVideo Corp. and Nortel Networks have agreed to co-market streaming video solutions integrating PacketVideo's end-to-end wireless multimedia system into Nortel's UMTS application and services framework for wireless data access.Nortel said the solution will be based on the MPEG-4 standard and will be tested to...
ARMONK, N.Y.-Melard Technologies Inc., a business-to-business mobile and wireless data systems and services provider, announced an agreement with MobilePlanet, a multichannel direct reseller of name-brand mobile computing and wireless products.MobilePlanet will make Melard's SIDEARM, which the company describes as a ruggedized handheld computer, available...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.-Verizon Wireless signed a multi-year contract with Western Union Financial Services Inc. allowing Verizon Wireless' prepaid customers to use the Western Union SwiftPay service to replenish minutes on their accounts.Western Union said the program will be phased in around the country over the...
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC, a fiber optics, network equipment, software and integration services supplier for broadband, multiservice networks, announced Singl.eView Web, a new application for its Singl.eView platform.Singl.eView Web is an Internet-based convergent billing and customer management solution. With this new solution, designed specifically for communication service...
It was the wild, wild West of wireless history.After the breakup of AT&T, in which the company lost its cellular business, the Federal Communications Commission began allocating cellular licenses to the Baby Bells and others. One of those others was McCaw Cellular Communications Inc.,...
AudiovoxAudiovox Communications Corp. announced it would start shipping the newest version of its flagship handset, the CDMA-9100 tri-mode Web-browsing cellular phone. The company said the phone operates on the 800 MHz AMPS/CDMA, 1900 MHz AMPS/CDMA and 1900 MHz personal communications services frequencies. The new...
InfowaveThomas U. Koll was appointed Infowave Software Inc.'s new chief executive officer. He previously was vice president of Microsoft's Network Solutions Group and was responsible for the company's worldwide business with telecommunications companies in wireline and wireless markets. Koll also served as general manager...
RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. announced alliances with DST Innovis and PeopleSoft to provide Nextel Wireless Web customers with customer relationship management solutions allowing mobile sales representatives, field technicians and dispatchers in the cable and satellite TV business to improve customer care, communications and efficiency...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS and Compuware Corp. will jointly develop and market customized e-business applications for use on Sprint PCS' Wireless Web.Compuware's Professional Services to be made available will include wireless meter reading, real-time tracking for the transportation industry, mobile-phone applications, enterprise resource planning...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Sierra Wireless, which manufactures wireless data modems, announced Channel Connections, a new program that supplies channel partners hoping to increase sales in wireless data products and services with tools, training, support and expertise.According to Sierra Wireless, Channel Connections is designed to help...
MINNEAPOLIS-Spanlink Communications Inc., which provides unified communication integration services and products, has partnered with MessageMachines Inc., a developer of an advanced messaging platform for wireless cross-device alerts and notifications.According to the companies, this marketing and sales alliance will leverage MessageMachines' enhanced messaging capabilities within...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-iPass Inc., which provides global remote Internet access services, and Certicom, which provides mobile e-business security, partnered to enable mobile professionals to securely access corporate databases and applications from handheld devices from anywhere.The alliance includes joint sales and marketing initiatives, interoperability and...
AUSTIN, Texas-Schlumberger Ltd.'s smart-card business announced it scored an agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to supply the company with subscriber identify module smart cards for AT&T's new GSM network expansion.AT&T plans to upgrade its TDMA network with a GPRS/GSM overlay and will use...
NEW YORK -"The sky is not falling, but the weather has changed," said Kirk Walden, national director of PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree Survey.Venture-capital investments in American companies involved in wireless and wireline communications weathered the last quarter of 2000 well, especially considering the changed conditions. In...
