NEW ORLEANS-The Federal Communications Commission will decide by early April whether to restrict bidding in the scheduled re-auction of personal communications services C- and F-block licenses to small businesses-known as designated entities-and those who do not exceed the spectrum caps, top FCC staffers told...
HONG KONG-The board of directors of Cable & Wireless HKT has appointed an independent committee of the board to consider the terms of the offer announced Feb. 29 by Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd. to acquire C&W HKT through a wholly owned subsidiary of PCCW.Cable...
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. said The Free Network, a multilevel marketing company with some 55,000 marketing representatives, will sell Arch's paging products to current and potential customers.Arch will provide fulfillment and customer support services for sales resulting from The Free Network. The program...
HONG KONG-After courting competing bids for several weeks, Cable and Wireless plc accepted a $35.9 billion cash and stock offer for its Hong Kong wireless operator from Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd. The deal is one of the largest ever in Asia.The agreement beat a...
HANOVER, Germany-Motorola Inc. named several new partners to its Web W/O Wires Alliance Program, including Amazon.co.uk, Digital Bridges, Sports.com and AvantGo.com, allowing users to access content from each on Motorola's line of Internet-enabled phones.
ATLANTA-BellSouth Mobility Inc. introduced its One Number Service in certain markets, allowing subscribers to consolidate multiple contact numbers-including office, mobile, home and fax numbers-into a single telephone number, while offering subscribers advanced call-routing and management features.BellSouth is using Call Sciences' Personal Assistant single-number service...
WASHINGTON-The sponsor of a controversial antenna-siting bill in the Virginia General Assembly pulled the measure last week apparently at the urging of top officials.The bill, recently passed by the Senate, would have repealed last year's Virginia Supreme Court decision that affirmed the authority of...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Triton Network Systems Inc., a provider of broadband fixed-wireless network products, entered into an agreement with IBM Corp. to purchase the assets and hire approximately 50 employees associated with IBM's broadband modem product line in exchange for 5.5 million shares of its series...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s two largest affiliates, TeleCorp PCS Inc. and Tritel Inc., agreed to merge in an all-stock, tax-free transaction.The deal is valued at about $5.3 billion.TeleCorp is AT&T Wireless' largest affiliate, with 142,231 subscribers at the end of last year and markets...
IBM Corp. and American Mobile Satellite Corp. took their existing business relationship to another level last week, allowing AMSC to better target the potentially lucrative business-to-business market IBM commands.The agreement calls for IBM to jointly market AMSC's eLink wireless messaging and e-mail forwarding service...
NEW ORLEANS-Bell Atlantic and Vodafone AirTouch plc are on track to complete their joint venture April 1 with some aggressive plans for pushing wireless growth and a new nationwide brand.Chris Gent, chief executive of U.K.-based Vodafone AirTouch, told last week's Wireless 2000 audience that...
CAMARILLO, Calif.-AML Communications Inc. reported the settlement of two related securities class-action lawsuits filed in March 1998 in state and federal courts in California against the company and certain of its current and former officers and directors.An agreement has been entered into with counsel...
NEW ORLEANS-Amazon.com Inc. intensified its wireless presence last week, announcing a new Web address exclusively for mobile e-commerce customers as well as alliances with Bell Atlantic Mobile and Motorola Inc.The new site, located at www.amazon.com/phone/, is accessible from any Wireless Application Protocol-enabled phone and...
MELBOURNE, Australia-Telstra's new CDMA mobile phone network has come under fire from rural Australians following the closure of about 80 percent of the carrier's analog AMPS network on 31 December.Most of the criticisms of the new CDMA service surround difficulties with reception. The network,...
BEIJING-China Unicom and Qualcomm signed a landmark agreement in February, paving the way for Chinese manufacturers to get CDMA production licenses. Unicom wants to build a 10 million-line CDMA network this year and is evaluating 12 bidders to supply the equipment.But barely a week...
HONG KONG-After courting competing bids for several weeks, Cable and Wireless plc accepted a US$35.9 billion cash and stock offer for its Hong Kong wireless operation from Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd. The deal is one of the largest ever in Asia.The agreement beat a...
PHOENIX, United States-Some observers have compared the broadband wireless industry to a hockey game: lots of skating around, many dramatic clashes, but not much scoring.Still, like a hockey game, broadband wireless attracts plenty of fans. Interest is downright rabid among telecom carriers, equipment vendors and...
HANNOVER, Germany-After a year of industry enthusiasm and the wild market forecasts that have surrounded the short-range wireless technology Bluetooth, the silicon-chip developers used the giant CeBIT 2000 exhibition to unveil products that appear to provide the first step on the path toward implementation.Key...
JERUSALEM-Bezeq Israel Telecom Ltd., the state-owned telecommunications company, announced a plan to allow cellular telephone users to route incoming calls through either their mobile phones or the nearest fixed-line phones. The proposed One Phone service requires government approval.The company said it hopes to reach...
TOKYO-An NTT laboratory is gearing up its efforts to develop Advanced Wireless Access (AWA), a next-generation wireless system that will enable users to access data at a speed of up to 36 Megabits per second (Mbps).NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa...
MELBOURNE, Australia-The explosive growth in mobile telephony and the last chance to buy personal communications services (PCS) spectrum in the 1.8 GHz band have led to a fierce bidding war among Australian carriers. The auction for spectrum in all mainland state capital cities also...
The UMTS Forum said it welcomed proposals by the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity Conference Preparatory Group (APG) for adoption of the 2520-2670 MHz band to support the terrestrial component of IMT-2000. APG proposed that administrations make up to 160 megahertz of additional spectrum available for IMT-2000.AustraliaVirgin...
NEW DELHI, India-Countries in Asia and Southeast Asia specifically hit by economic crisis in the late 1990s are on the recovery path, paving the way for exponential growth in the wireless industry in the next two years. Early signs of this fast-track growth are...
DENVER, United States-Attention to wireless security concerns has emerged as several internationally recognized corporate security software firms stated their intentions to concentrate on the wireless industry going forward."Everybody has made the leap that there's going to be a wireless front-end to that Internet world....
