JACKSON, Miss.-Tritel Inc. reported operating statistics for the fourth quarter of 1999, its first quarter as a public company.The company ended 1999 with 24,600 subscribers and reported it added another 26,750 subscribers through the first two months of 2000, bringing its total to 51,350...
WASHINGTON-Two key Senate lawmakers, backed by industry, state and local leaders, said they see no obstacles to passing legislation that would simplify the way mobile phone calls are taxed."It is so imminently sensible," said Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), a Senate Commerce Committee member at last...
SigmaOneSigmaOne Communications Corp., a provider of location systems and services for wireless carriers and the wireless Internet, reported the development of the company's wireless location system for Global System for Mobile communications carriers in the United States and Europe. Designed to operate as either...
TEL AVIV, Israel-BreezeCom Ltd., a developer and manufacturer of broadband wireless access products, filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of 4.5 million of its ordinary shares.CIBC World Markets, Dain Rauscher Wessels and US Bancorp Piper...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. launched a new advertising campaign touting itself as "the communications company that releases the power of e-Interaction.""We are moving the BellSouth brand into the e-space and clearly staking our position there," explained William Pate, vice president of advertising and public relations for...
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. formed ADC Ventures, a venture-capital fund focused on investing in emerging and start-up companies in the United States, Europe and Israel that are engaged in developing high-performance, next-generation broadband communications technologies.The new venture will be managed by Robert Switz, senior vice...
XYPoint made several enhancements to its wireless phone location services last week through partnerships with Vicinity Corp. and GeoVector.XYPoint partnered with Vicinity to provide wireless customers with location-based information services via a voice user interface blended with text messaging technology, the company said. The...
WALTHAM, Mass.-Lycos Inc. said it will offer visitors to its Web portal a wireless-enabled, online calendar service from AnyDay.com, under a $12 million distribution agreement the two entered.The AnyDay service allows users to manage and integrate multiple schedules from desktop computers as well as...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. introduced a text-to-speech and voice-recognition Internet access system called PhoneBrowser, designed to extend Web-based information to phone users through voice commands and responses.Lucent said PhoneBrowser allows users to access the Internet from any telephone and access sites using natural...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission have released a policy statement on the advertising practices of long-distance companies-specifically 10-10 dialing, sometimes referred to as dial-around services.FCC Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth dissented saying, "certain carriers' marketing may be confusing, misleading, or even fraudulent...
MCLEAN, Va.-LCC International Inc., a wireless telecommunications consulting firm, has been selected by Nucentrix Broadband Networks Inc., a provider of wireless broadband Internet Protocol services, to support it in its efforts to obtain permanent licenses from the Federal Communications Commission to provide two-way fixed...
Daniel R. Hesse, president of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., said he is leaving the company to head a Seattle-based Internet start-up called TeraBeam Networks. Mohan Gyani, AT&T Wireless' chief financial officer and former CFO of AirTouch Communications, will replace him.Hesse is leaving as AT&T...
WASHINGTON-Last week's retirement announcement by House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley (R-Va.) has thrust into the spotlight a battle royale between Reps. Billy Tauzin (R-La.) and Mike Oxley (R-Ohio) for the right to head the prestigious panel in coming years.For competition between the gregarious...
NEW YORK-Deutsche Telekom officially ended its negotiations to buy Qwest Communications International Inc. and U S West Inc. March 9, but the German carrier is continuing its search for acquisitions outside its borders.In a statement released in the late evening, Qwest said, "a major...
SYDNEY, Australia-Telstra, Australia's largest telecom provider, announced it will cut 10,000 jobs over the next two years including up to 220 senior management positions as part of a restructuring. The reductions are part of a program to reduce expenses by about $398.8 million per...
After one week and 16 rounds of bidding, incumbent operator Orange plc led all third-generation license bids in the United Kingdom with a $632.9 million bid for License B. The auction for five licenses, which is expected to last another one to five weeks,...
WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association said Thursday that it is eliminating 10 positions as it "recharges its organization to further advance wireless industry.""In 1999, PCIA had the best fiscal year in its history. To continue this success, we are setting a new strategic...
WASHINGTON-When wireless customers begin to really use their wireless phones to access the Internet, who will they use? An Internet service provider of their choice or will they be forced to use the mobile-phone company's ISP?The answer Chris Gent, chief executive officer of Vodafone...
Philadelphia, like many big American cities, has its share of thorny issues: crime, poverty, drugs, rotting schools and urban flight.But last Wednesday, one issue overshadowed them all in The Philadelphia Inquirer. The paper led, front-page banner headline and all, with a hearing last Tuesday by...
Broadband wireless access equipment vendor Wavtrace Inc. this week plans to introduce its new PTM 2000 product at the Broadband Wireless World Forum in San Francisco.The PTM 2000 is an evolution of the company's original adaptive Time Division Duplex-based point-to-multipoint system design. Steven Warwick,...
WOBURN, Mass.-Alpha Industries Inc. reported it is shipping record numbers of its advanced gallium arsenide radio-frequency integrated circuit switches and GaAs power amplifiers under a new contract with an unnamed U.S. wireless handset manufacturer."Alpha is growing its business at its largest customer. Our success...
NEW|ORLEANS-GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. said it has purchased the Jambala Mobility Gateway from L.M. Ericsson to complement its Interim Standard-41 to Global System for Mobile communications message conversion, which is part of GTE TSI's GlobalRoam solution.With this acquisition, GTE TSI now provides one-stop shopping...
Wireless 2000 was the place to be. It was the place where dot-com met wireless, and that made it the single-most noteworthy and newsmaking event of the week in the worldwide technology arena.I thought the show was great. Great speakers, great sessions, great exhibits,...
MANILA, the Philippines-Globe Telecom, the second-largest cellular phone operator in the Philippines, announced a $2.3 billion merger with another Philippine wireless service provider, Isla Communications. The agreement allows Ayala Corp., Singapore Telecom and Deutsche Telekom to partner in the country.Globe Telecom is a joint...
