The story in the March 20 issue of RCR about Sema acquiring LHS incorrectly attributed the quote, "Basically they're overpaying. Sema has no track record of major acquisitions." to Michael Turits of Prudential Securities. It should have been attributed to Michael Finney of Donaldson...
Editor's Note: The companies listed below represent the 20 largest cellular carriers in the United States. Company rankings are based on the total number of subscribers for their majority-held or controlled markets. All subscriber numbers reflect year-end 1999 figures reported by each company.Triton Cellular Partners...
LAS VEGAS-The Motorola Inc. dealer meeting last week featured the infamously hot-tempered Mike Ditka, former coach of the Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints, and now a football commentator for CBS Sports, as its motivational speaker.Central to the theme of Ditka's speech was that...
Real estate owners told a House Judiciary subcommittee that forcing private building owners to give access to all telecom service providers would violate constitutional rights of landowners. The Real Access Alliance, comprised of 11 real estate trade associations, has mounted an aggressive lobbying campaign...
Nokia threw its support behind Motorola Inc.'s 1X Plus proposal last week and said it is evaluating making cdmaOne-based infrastructure equipment.Motorola announced earlier this month plans to challenge Qualcomm Inc.'s proprietary High Data Rate technology, introducing its own 1XRTT enhancement for cdmaOne carriers to...
SAN DIEGO-Peregrine Semiconductor and Symbol Technologies said they plan to jointly develop solutions for the Bluetooth wireless personal area networking market.The deal combines Peregrine's Ultra-Thin Silicon Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor technology and radio-frequency integrated circuit development prowess with Symbol's baseband processing, software and systems...
ROSH HA'AYIN, Israel-Hoping to continue its strong growth potential in the future, Partner Communications Co. Ltd., the only Global System for Mobile communications operator in Israel, formed a new company that will identify opportunities for investment and cooperation with start-ups with the potential to...
SAN DIEGO-PacketVideo Corp. has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its common stock.The public offering is being managed by an underwriting group led by Credit Suisse First Boston, with Banc of America Securities...
The Operators Harmonization Group-which began work more than a year ago as a loosely tied consortium of four operators trying to end the global debate over third-generation technology standards-is now an official organization.Earlier this month, 26 operators from around the world approved an international...
WASHINGTON-The chairman of the largest Internet service provider in the world last week called on Congress to give China permanent normal trade relations in an effort to reform China."Here in the United States, Congress is considering whether to extend permanent normal trade relations to...
SAN FRANCISCO-Wireless broadband network provider Nextlink Communications Inc. announced at the 2000 Broadband Wireless World Forum held in San Francisco last week that it has selected Nortel Networks' Reunion ATM-based point-to-multipoint Frequency Division Multiple Access and Time Division Multiple Access solution, jump-starting the rollout...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp. reported financial results for the fourth quarter and the year ended Dec. 31, 1999.For the year, the company reported net sales of $17.8 million, up from $4.5 million in 1998. Net operating losses were down for the year from $18.9...
WASHINGTON-With a little more than 18 months until the deadline for the implementation of enhanced 911 Phase II service, carriers are beginning to think about how they can make money from a government mandate that requires location technology.They are not alone. Vendors, too, are...
BURLINGTON, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. reported that KG Telecommunications has expanded its use of the company's FraudBuster service as a result of the merger between Tuntex Telecommunication and KG Telecommunications.According to Lightbridge, FraudBuster allows carriers to maintain a constant evaluation of their users, with reports and...
WASHINGTON-The FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau said on Friday that it has eliminated 99 percent of its infamous backlog-defined as items pending more than one year.In a presentation to the Federal Communications Commission, WTB Chief Thomas Sugrue said that only 630 items remain on a...
NEW YORK-AT&T Corp. said it will list its upcoming wireless tracking stock on the New York Stock Exchange following an initial public offering expected this spring.The new tracking stock will reflect the performance of the company's voice and data mobility business, as well as...
DALLAS-Looking to increase its presence in the consumer market, WebLink Wireless Inc. formed distribution deals with Kmart Corp. and BlueLight.com, the latter an independent e-commerce company formed by Kmart and Softbank Investment Capital.According to the deal, Kmart will offer WebLink products and services in...
HAMBURG, Germany-Gauss Interprise AG introduced a Wireless Application Protocol version of its VIP ContentManager Web Content Management system, which allows users without technical expertise to create Web sites.
SAN DIEGO-PacketVideo Corp. will provide its PVPlayer MPEG-4 decoding software to NEC Corp. for a demonstration of high-quality, one-way video streaming capability on NEC's video cell phone platform.According to PacketVideo, the PVPlayer software displays media content, regardless of network speed or protocol, through a...
ARLINGTON, Va.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. has purchased the TrunkMeter product form Invertix Corp. to streamline its operations and reduce interconnect costs.According to TeleCorp, TrunkMeter will enable its operations staff to monitor the use of costly telecommunications trunks, which connect its mobile switching centers to destinations...
MONTREAL-Telesystem International Wireless Inc. announced it closed a private placement of $300 million in 7.75-percent equity subordinated debentures convertible into TIW subordinate voting shares.Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. and Chase Capital Partners each have invested $150 million, and Hutchison has an option to purchase an additional...
Telematics services, despite their slow start, are on the cusp of becoming standard features on millions of cars, but the kinds of services that will emerge as the most beneficial and applicable to consumers still remains to be seen."I think the big challenge for...
SINGAPORE-Fixed and mobile telecom provider StarHub has selected Siemens Information and Communications Networks to supply and install Wireless Application Protocol gateway and portal software from Phone.com Inc.
NEW YORK-Telet, a Brazilian cellular operator, partnered with StarMedia Network Inc., an Internet company for Spanish-and Portuguese-speaking markets, to bring wireless Internet to Telet's subscribers. Claro On-line, the new service, will provide Telet's customers with messaging, e-mail and news services, StarMedia said.Telet holds a...
