NEW YORK-AT&T Corp. registered for sale with the Securities and Exchange Commission $13.248 billion of AT&T Wireless Group tracking stock, which would by far be the largest initial public offering in American history.AT&T said it plans to issue 360 million shares of the wireless...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp., a broadband wireless Internet Protocol service provider, entered a definitive agreement with Bachow Communications Inc. to acquire 39 GHz licenses in 14 markets covering a population of approximately 37 million people.ART will issue 2.2 million common shares as consideration...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications and International Bureaus have approved the merger of Bell Atlantic Corp. and Vodafone AirTouch plc's wireless assets, as well as VoiceStream's purchase of Aerial Communications Inc.The bureaus said "the creation of two new national wireless competitors likely will...
RESTON, Va.-American Mobile Satellite Corp. is offering an "instant rebate" promotion on its Skycell services to the 55,000 former customers of Iridium L.L.C.The promotion, which expires on June 13, offers customers up to $400 on Skycell activation fees and listed equipment.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-AirFlash Inc. officially unveiled the AirFlash powered by Inktomi service, which uses Inktomi Corp.'s e-commerce engine, following a strategic alliance and equity investment by the company. It is scheduled for availability by June.AirFlash powered by Inktomi uses AirFlash's SmartZone technology, a location-based...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is expected this week to issue a public notice that will include in the July 26 scheduled re-auction of personal communications services C- and F-block licenses the licenses of most, if not all, of the bankrupt C-blockers.At press time, a...
Aether Systems Inc. launched a $15 million national television and print advertising and branding campaign last week in support of its growing wireless data systems and services business.The "Wireless Solutions for a Portable Planet" campaign that began with print ads earlier in the year...
LONDON-Vodafone AirTouch plc said its offer for Mannesmann AG closed March 27, after valid acceptances representing 98.62 percent of the issued share capital and nearly 500 million shares of Mannesmann had been received.Vodafone AirTouch said it issued on March 30 a fifth and final...
LINCOLN, Neb.-Transcrypt International Inc. received final approval in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska on the settlement of pending shareholder class action lawsuits against the company and certain of its former officers.Transcrypt noted that the settlement resolves an identical stockholder class...
RESTON, Va.-American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced it has partnered with Internet service providers EverGo and StarQuest, which will distribute its eLink wireless e-mail service.Under the agreements, the ISPs will offer their customers wireless expansion of their current e-mail accounts.
Paging Network Inc. told the Securities and Exchange Commission it must delay filing its 10-K Annual Report and fourth quarter results for 1999 until April 14, past the March 30 due date.Officially, the company said its ongoing merger with Arch Communications Group Inc. has...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. reported that PacketVideo Corp.'s PVPlayer decoding software and PV Author encoding software will provide streaming media support for TI's next-generation Open Multimedia Application Platform.The new software will support the delivery of full-motion video and audio over wireless networks on mobile information...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-OracleMobile.com announced its first voice recognition-enabled service for its oramobile.com wireless portal. The service is a movie guide with content from Hollywood.com and Map-Quest.com enabled with Motorola Inc.'s Voice Markup Language technology, allowing users to request and receive movie listing information and...
Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) is an American beauty.Gephardt, captivated with the rise of Clinton-Gore and hungry to become the next House speaker, apparently has decided that nice, button-down politicians come in last. As such, Gephardt has embraced the Third Way. He has shed his...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-The Commercial, Government and Industrial Solutions Sector of Motorola Inc. reported a definitive agreement to acquire the Communications Systems Division of Communications Systems Technology Inc., a privately owned electronics business.Motorola noted that CSD's product portfolio of voice/data switching, remote-control and advanced-communications solutions will...
REDMOND, Wash.-British Telecommunications plc, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced they plan to work together to create high-speed data applications for mobile devices domestically and abroad.Under the agreement, Microsoft will dedicate a development team to create mobile applications configured for existing and...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. signed an agreement to purchase personal communications service operating licenses in Phoenix, Reno, Nev., and Roswell, N.M., from Beta Communications L.L.C.The deal is expected to add approximately 3.7 million potential customers to Leap's domestic subsidiary, Cricket Communications Inc.
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Inciscent, the wireless application service provider formed by Metrocall Inc. and several partners, said it has finalized an agreement with PSINet Inc. for Internet service provider services.The agreement calls for PSINet to provide Internet access, Internet Protocol backbone, hosting services and technology support...
It's only been two weeks since Iridium L.L.C. shut off its network in disgrace, and already Globalstar L.P. is feeling the skepticism analysts and the media have heaped upon it as a result.The company's stock, which has fallen 75 percent so far this year,...
More mobile satellite service providers and distributors have developed promotional offers aimed at former Iridium L.L.C. subscribers now left without service after the company terminated service abruptly two weeks ago.American Mobile Satellite Corp. launched its "Instant Rebate" promotion offering up to $400 off its...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's controversial move to the Portals in the late '90s still haunts the agency as it tries to convince Congress to increase its budget by 13 percent."What you are doing is rewarding fraud. I think there was fraud practiced on this...
NEW YORK-L.M. Ericsson's mobile satellite phones for Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. have received type approval from the European Telecommunications Standards Institute.The new phones are compatible with both Globalstar's satellite service and Global System for Mobile communications networks and are scheduled to begin shipping immediately.
American wireless firms and the U.S. government are cautiously optimistic about a move the European Commission plans to make to open Europe to competing third-generation wireless standards.The EC early this month plans to officially ask the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to standardize all technologies-including...
NATICK, Mass.-edocs Inc., a provider of Internet billing and customer management software and services, introduced a bill presentment and payment distribution module for Palm Inc.'s Palm VII handheld computer, allowing the delivery of bills, statements, trade confirms and other transactional documents to the device...
