NEW YORK-Bolstered by their respective strengths in network infrastructure and mobile handsets, the Scandinavian giants, Ericsson Inc. of Sweden and Nokia Corp. of Finland, reported strong quarterly results last week.Nokia, which released its earnings April 27, reported profits of $822 million, a 76-percent increase...
Last week's article detailing Siemens AG's plans to re-enter the U.S. market should have indicated that only the company's mobile communications business is moving to a San Diego facility. The company's cordless phone business will stay in Austin, Texas.
NEW YORK-Clariti Wireless Messaging, Fort Washington, Pa., said it plans to introduce commercially a voice-mail service delivered over FM subcarrier channels by the end of this year.In the United States, the company will be the exclusive operator of its Clariti Wireless Voicemail service. Because...
WASHINGTON-The California Public Utilities Commission has embarked on a proceeding that could spark a national trend to protect telecom consumer rights in this new era of deregulation and competition.The initiative, which responds to a flood of complaints against wireless carriers and other telecom service...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Mobility DCS is offering customers a variety of new options for their wireless telecommunications needs.The first is the company's new Rollover Plan, which allows customers to roll over unused minutes from their monthly plans to the following month."When a customer buys minutes, they...
WASHINGTON-The Strategis Group is predicting a big year for fixed wireless broadband followed by continued strong growth in the near future.The group noted in a recent study, "World Wireless Broadband: LMDS, MMDS, and Broadband WLL," that revenues from wireless broadband are projected to reach $16.3...
LOS ANGELES-Oberthur Card Systems developed a betting application for Cable & Wireless HKT Mobile Services enabling mobile subscribers to place bets using their mobile phones.The application allows customers to place bets on horses or races, purchase lottery tickets with the choice of manual or...
Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc. reported more than 40,000 subscribers had signed up for the company's wireless communications service as of March 31, an increase of 43 percent from the same period last year.Cellular antenna systems provider Metawave Communications Corp. announced the initial public offering...
NEW YORK-Bell Atlantic Corp. increased adjusted net income for the first quarter by 10 percent to $1.3 billion from $1.2 billion in the first quarter of 1999.The company also reported adjusted earnings per diluted share rose to 80 cents per share in this year's...
NEW YORK-For market watchers waiting to exhale, the AT&T Corp. Wireless Group's $10.6 billion initial public offering proved not just big, but also graceful, as it took center court April 27.Nearly double the size of the last record-breaker, the United Parcel Service Inc. IPO...
WASHINGTON-Prepaid cellular plans, increased licensing and expanded competition throughout the region will drive future wireless growth in Latin America, according to a report by the Strategis Group."Latin America Cellular/PCS Markets," showed the region recorded a 47-percent penetration growth rate in 1999 compared with 1998,...
Personal communications services operator Powertel Inc. reached positive operating cash flow in the first quarter and added a company-record 110,000 subscribers.The Southeast PCS company, which analysts suspect soon may be gobbled up by VoiceStream Wireless Corp., said its growth in prepaid customers helped propel...
The GOP-led Congress thought it had the answer. Responding with indignant outrage to alleged technology transfers from U.S. satellite firms to China and Russia in recent years, Republicans passed legislation that shifted high-tech export oversight from the Commerce Department back to the State Department...
BRAMPTON, Ontario-Nortel Networks Corp. reported company revenue increased during first-quarter 2000,. from $4.2 billion in 1999 to $6.3 billion.Including acquisition-related costs and one-time gains and charges, Nortel recorded a net loss applicable to common shares of $730 million, or 52 cents per share, compared...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced it signed a contract with Jilin Mobile Communication Co. to offer commercial Wireless Application Protocol solutions to Jilin's 1 million Global System for Mobile communications subscribers in China.Nokia noted deliveries of the company's Artus Messaging Platform, including both WAP gateway...
Nextel Communications Inc. last week delivered strong first-quarter results and introduced Nextel Online Internet access.Nextel said it added a company record 540,300 domestic digital customers and 93,700 proportionate international customers in the first quarter, ending the three-month period with about 5.6 million digital subscribers...
Wireless Application Service Provider 2Roam Inc. announced strategic alliances with AdForce, MediaPlex, eCoupons and iQ.com to deliver advertising, coupon and e-marketing services to mobile consumers.Arch Communications Group Inc. said it has been named a preferred messaging provider of paging and messaging services for BellSouth...
Now that wireless phone providers have jumped on the Wireless Application Protocol bandwagon, it seems only fitting that the dedicated data network providers should follow suit.And they are, with help from Neomar Inc., a start-up firm in San Francisco that has created a WAP...
RESTON, Va.-American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced it has changed its name to Motient Corp., with the new Nasdaq symbol MTNT."Motient is information in motion, solutions in motion and instant messaging for business-to-business and business-to-consumers," said Walt Purnell Jr., president and chief executive officer of...
NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular SA announced that its wholly owned Tele2 (UK) Ltd. subsidiary won a Wireless Telegraphy Act license from the U.K. Radio Communications Authority. The license allows Tele2 to develop a commercial broadband fixed wireless access service in the United Kingdom.The license...
Third-generation technology has become a sensitive issue in Japan as the U.S. government pushes for free technology choices there and Qualcomm Inc. possibly ponders applying for a Japanese 3G license.The sensitivity stems from a plethora of Japanese newspaper reports indicating that all three companies...
InfoSpace Inc., a provider of infrastructure services for Web sites and devices, said wireless Internet opportunities continue to represent the company's biggest opportunity and fastest-growing area.Within that space, InfoSpace is betting mobile commerce services will play an important role in providing value to its...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Intel Corp. is expected to announce the formation of its Intel Wireless Competence Center in Beijing to promote wireless Internet technology in China, Reuters reported.The center will allow Chinese companies to develop technologies enabling new services for broadband Internet, with Intel assisting...
Gary Hermansen, former senior vice president and general manager of Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s consumer products group, left the company to become chief executive officer of start-up firm Brightmail Inc.Hermansen served as vice president of sales and marketing for Wireless Access Inc. and played a...
