IRVINE, Calif.-Primal, a provider of Internet-enabled customer management software to the communications industry, signed an order to provide Metrocall Inc. with its customer care and billing system, Connect CCB.According to Primal, the new system is a Web-based, Internet Protocol and wireless customer care and...
ATISThe members of Standards Committee T1, a telecommunications network standards development organization sponsored by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions, chose leaders for its full committee and six technical subcommittees at the group's national meeting. E. Raymond Hapeman, of Telcordia Technologies Inc., and Wayne...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association is soliciting speaker submissions for its GlobalXChange conference program providing information and research covering a range of strategic business, marketing and technology issues to wireless, computing and Internet executives.PCIA is seeking members of the press, industry analysts and...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. extended its infrastructure supply relationship with Orange in the United Kingdom by $316.2 million.The additional equipment to be delivered includes Global System for Mobile communications base station equipment, triple-mode Nokia UltraSite and MetroSite mobile multimedia solutions, and supply services covering network...
Big business spends billions of dollars on infrastructure. No matter whether the business is an airline or a telecommunications company, the economic theory is the same. To be able to provide good service to the public over a wide geographic area requires a huge...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. signed a memorandum of understanding with New World Mobility to further develop third-generation mobile services in Hong Kong. A field trial is scheduled to begin this month.The trial system will be based on Nokia's wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.-NTCH Inc., the holding company of communications investor, Glenn Ishihara, launched its Code Division Multiple Access-based personal communications services network in Grand Junction, Colo., under the brand name ClearTalk."The fact that a seven-month-old company launched an operating network is the result of...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and Globe Telecom, a Philippine telecommunications company, singed an agreement to expand Globe Telecom's Handyphone service, the company's Global System for Mobile communications-based Cellular Mobile Telephone System.Under the agreement, Nokia will supply mobile switching centers, home location registers, short messaging centers,...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. signed a multi-year supply agreement that will enable VoiceStream to expand its Global System for Mobile communications 1900 network and services, and bring Wireless Application Protocol-based mobile Internet services to consumers.The system delivery includes the entire range...
WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc. appears to have gotten the attention of the House Judiciary Committee with a letter sent to its chairman last week complaining that the Federal Communications Commission is knowingly conducting a misinformation campaign."The March 23rd letter is designed to divert attention away...
Nextel Communications Inc. will soon announce commercial availability of wireless Internet service, people close to the company say.According to the company's Web site, its Nextel Online service already is available in 44 markets. Nextel is offering three flat-rate pricing packages ranging from $15 per...
RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. announced Nextel Worldwide, the company's first service and dual-mode handset providing customers with worldwide technological compatibility on one phone, using one phone number.Subscribers of Nextel Worldwide will use the i2000 dual-mode handset from Motorola Inc. The i2000 works on both...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration last week accused nine countries of violating global telecom trade agreements, with Japan and Mexico cited as the worst offenders.The U.S. trade representative's report follows by a week the White House's charge that Japan has not lowered interconnection rates, which telecom...
ENGLEWOOD, Colo.-Telecom Wireless Corp., a digital wireless platform builder, singed a letter of intent to acquire Fanz.net Inc., a Seattle-based free Internet service provider."We are very excited about Fanz.net strategy as it supports two of our strategies," said Dr. James Roberts, chairman of the...
LISLE, Ill.-Tellabs reported it expects first quarter net earnings to be lower than analysts' estimates with revenue of approximately $630 million for the quarter ended March 31, an increase of 35 percent from the same period the previous year.The company blamed lower gross profit...
WASHINGTON-What to do with the often confusing tax structures of both mobile phones and the Internet collided in back-to-back hearings by the House telecom subcommittee on Thursday.The collision occurred because Internet taxation has been met with a divided commission report and mobile-phone taxation has...
NEW YORK-"The $1 trillion that came out of Nasdaq in the last five days will be looking for places to invest when things get better," Thomas M. Galvin, chief investment officer and equity strategist for Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp., said April 6.The...
NEW YORK-StarMedia Network Inc., an Internet company targeting Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking audiences, said 13 percent of its audiences have Internet access via a mobile device. The findings are part of the company's second-annual user study of the Internet usage trends of its target markets.The...
NEW YORK-VoiceStream Wireless Corp. is prepared to wage war on two fronts in the battle of the titans for transnational control of wireless telecommunications, John Stanton, VoiceStream's chairman and chief executive officer said.Although focused on expanding its domestic footprint through acquisitions of carriers and...
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute agreed last week to standardize all technologies the International Telecommunication Union has accepted for the third-generation market.RCR reported last week the European Commission planned to officially ask the European standards body to take up this work. The ETSI board...
NEW YORK-Comverse Technology Inc., Woodbury, N.Y., spun off Ulticom Inc., its Signaling System 7 network software unit, in an initial public offering that sold April 4.Lehman Brothers Inc., New York, was lead underwriter for the IPO of 4.25 million shares, sold at $13 each,...
The flurry of consolidation in the wireless industry leads the industry observer to believe a nationwide presence is a necessity to compete in this market going forward.AT&T Wireless Services Inc. raised the bar in 1998 offering its nationwide plan, the Digital One Rate plan....
MILPITAS, Calif.-Solectron Corp., a supply-chain facilitator for customized electronics technology, completed the acquisition of Alcatel's manufacturing assets in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, and will assume full manufacturing responsibility for Alcatel's printed circuit board products focused on the networking and telecommunication industries.The acquisition calls for Solectron...
The CDMA Development Group said it expects handset makers to introduce commercial Code Division Multiple Access handsets with subscriber identity modules by the end of the year to allow for global roaming.The CDG announced late last month that the Telecommunications Industry Association will approve...
