JACKSON, Miss.-Tritel Inc., a member of the AT&T Wireless network, launched wireless phone service in Birmingham, Ala., under the SunCom brand name."The Birmingham area has been waiting for a wireless carrier that offers a true national coverage area and Tritel is finally here," said...
SAN FRANCISCO-When people in Atlanta think of the top two wireless service providers, BellSouth Wireless Services and Sprint PCS come to mind. In Minneapolis, the top two are AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Sprint PCS. And in San Diego, it's Sprint PCS and Vodafone...
ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc., an AT&T Wireless Services affiliate, launched its SunCom digital wireless service in Oxford, Miss., and Fort Smith, Ark., bringing the total number of markets with SunCom service to 30."Oxford and Fort Smith are important cities in their own right, and...
CANCUN, Mexico-The big push to interoperate GSM and TDMA standards is well under way, allowing customers using either standard to roam around the world and giving U.S. TDMA operators a breath of life in their ongoing struggle with CDMA carriers for domestic market share.The...
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-Rural Cellular Corp. selected GiantBear.com Inc. as its provider of Web-to-wireless information services.RCC said it would host a friendly user trial later this year of the service. If the trial is successful, the company's subscribers will have access to GiantBear.com's custom local...
BERLIN-A consortium comprised of Telefonica, Orange and Sonera will join U.S.-based MCI WorldCom and 10 other groups in bidding for third-generation licenses in Germany. The auction is set to begin in early July.The German regulator will sell 12 frequencies of radio spectrum to support...
ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. revealed it has received an unsolicited tender bid from Growth Capital Corp., which has offered to buy up to 900,000 shares of common stock from Geoworks shareholders at $20 a share.Geoworks urged its shareholders to reject the offer, saying the offer...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Excite@Home Inc. launched a wireless portal service called Excite Mobile for customized news, directions, weather and other personal information for users of Web-enabled wireless devices.The portal allows users to personalize their information choices by controlling their placement on the home menu, Excite...
PARIS-Ericsson France and FinGO are working together to develop mobile Internet solutions dedicated to finance and e-brokerage services and to jointly prepare their evolution toward General Packet Radio Service and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System technology.The new applications are scheduled to be tested in Ericsson...
BOSTON-Research firm Strategy Analytics said it found commuters are spending increased time in their cars and consequently are placing a high priority on personalized advertising, information and entertainment that provides more value."The same music, the same advertising and the same traffic information for everyone...
OKLAHOMA CITY-Dobson Communications Corp. completed its $125 million acquisition of Texas 9 Rural Service Area encompassing the towns of Brownwood, Stephenville, Hamilton and Hillsboro, Texas."Texas 9 fits well with our existing Texas 10 and Texas 16 cluster," noted Ed Evans, president of Dobson Communications....
WASHINGTON-Apparently not able to get a majority of the commission to agree with him, Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard has directed staff to release proposed rules that would allow large carriers to bid on some of the spectrum scheduled to be re-auctioned in...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry's push to enter the populous Chinese market got a big boost last week as several undecided Democrats and Republicans announced they will vote for permanent normal trade relations with China, a swing in momentum driven by stepped-up lobbying from the Clinton...
HAYWARD, Calif.-Certicom Corp., an encryption technology company, completed its public offering of 1.25 million common shares at $46.30 per share on the Nasdaq National Market.The proceeds from the offering, totaling more than $57.8 million, will be used to expand the company's sales and marketing...
WASHINGTON-Wireless technology increasingly is seen as the end-all, be-all to the digital divide issue. But will it get here soon enough?The Clinton administration, through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the Rural Utilities Service, said last month that wireless solutions to the digital...
WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association Foundation on Tuesday night gave its Eugene C. Bowler Award to Dale Hatfield, chief of the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology."You cannot separate Dale's passion for technology from his desire to help people," said William Kennard, chairman of...
BCE Inc., Canada's largest telecommunications company, finished the spinoff of its stake in telecommunications equipment supplier Nortel Networks Corp., closing a transaction valued at approximately $59 billion.BCE distributed its 35-percent ownership interest stake of 504.9 million shares in Nortel Networks to its common shareholders...
WASHINGTON-As the World Radiocommunication Conference opens today in Turkey, trade and spectrum issues governing third-generation mobile-phone technology remain heavily mired in controversies that are likely to play out in coming months as competition for the multibillion dollar global wireless market heats up.On one front,...
PacketVideo Corp. closed a $16.5 million round of financing, bringing the total equity capital raised to more than $41 million. The company said proceeds will go toward working capital, funding research and developing and supporting additional resources for engineering, sales and marketing.Motorola Inc. made...
WASHINGTON-The manner in which the Federal Communications Commission reviews license transfers came under scrutiny last week as key senators questioned the process, the Department of Commerce voiced its support and a key House telecommunications lawmaker vowed to move legislation next month.License transfers are a...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. released first-quarter earnings, elected a new chairman and completed both the acquisition of NationPage and initial construction of a nationwide Asynchronous Transfer Mode network.Metrocall's first quarter net loss was $47.7 million, compared with a net loss of $42 million last year....
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. introduced a nationwide advertising program that allows e-marketing service provider CoolSavings to extend its content to Metrocall's messaging devices using the company's Preview Channel information service.Metrocall's information service uses Motorola Inc.'s i Kno! architecture.
SWINDON, United Kingdom-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Siemens Information and Communications Mobile Group will form a third-generation Universal Mobile Telecommunications System terminal collaboration to prepare for the rollout of 3G UMTS networks.According to the companies, the collaboration will include joint marketing, pre-sale support, terminal supply,...
As last week's Love Bug virus painfully illustrated, more computer viruses are being spread via e-mail, and they are growing increasingly destructive.But despite the growing popularity of wireless e-mail services, the Love Bug fiasco remained largely a non-event in the wireless world. While some...
