TORONTO-Bell Mobility Inc.'s new Mobile Browser is providing plenty of new options to customers who want access to online services from their digital personal communications services phones.GetThere.com Inc., a provider of Internet-based business-to-business travel booking systems, will team up with Bell Mobility, a wireless...
AUSTIN, Texas-The consolidation in the telecom industry is providing start-up General Bandwidth with plenty of opportunity to showcase new integration technology.The company's G6 voice gateway allows telecom providers to route a variety of voice-over-broadband applications, whether wireless, digital subscriber line or cable lines, through...
The U.S. General Accounting Office said it is precluded from investigating the Federal Communications Commission's procedures in granting Nextel Communications Inc. enhanced specialized mobile radio licenses in the last decade because of a pending lawsuit regarding the 800 MHz auction.Rep. Donald Manzullo (R-Ill.) asked...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission rejected L.M. Ericsson's wireless 911 call-completion plan as deficient, but gave the Swedish phone manufacturer a three-month extension to comply with new rules that kicked in Feb. 13.The FCC said that while new 911 wireless rules encourage innovation and flexibility,...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS and enrev Corp., a battery operating systems developer, said they will work together to bring the benefits of enrev's technology to Sprint PCS consumers.The agreement calls for Sprint PCS to promote the use of enrev's Battery Operating System, a patented...
LOS ANGELES-According to the latest survey by Econ One Research, the average price of monthly cell phone service dropped about 8 percent in the past six months.The survey also showed that for January, the average price rose 1.4 percent from December. Econ One attributed...
The Department of Justice last week said SBC Communications Inc. has not sufficiently opened its local exchange market in Texas to be allowed into the long-distance market in that state. The Federal Communications Commission will make the final determination, but must give weight to...
WASHINGTON-President Clinton and other administration officials met with high-tech, security and civil-liberty representatives at the White House last Tuesday to address the recent wave of cyber attacks. The attacks come as the wireless industry makes inroads into e-commerce.Internet and telecom executives agreed to create...
BETHESDA, Md.-Comsat Corp. reported its mobile communications business unit received a five-year extension for satellite services supporting the Federal Aviation Administration's space-based aircraft navigation system.The extension expands the previously announced $57 million contract between Comsat and the FAA and has an estimated additional value...
Driven by the collision of wireless and the Internet, wireless e-commerce represents the single most powerful market disrupter of this decade. It will entice new "virtual" operators that will help redefine both the nature of wireless competition and the business and operational models required...
WASHINGTON-In another move in the litigative trench warfare that is the NextWave Telecom Inc. bankruptcy case, the federal government on Thursday filed a notice of appeal to preserve its rights to appeal the bankruptcy court's opinion stopping the Federal Communications Commission from canceling and...
HONG KONG-Pacific Century CyberWorks, the Asian Internet company vying for a tie-up with Cable & Wireless HKT, raised more than $1 billion through a share placement. The funds could help PCCW's possible bid for Cable & Wireless HKT and thwart a partnership between HKT...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. released its new Wireline-Wireless Mailbox, which enables customers to have one integrated voice mailbox for their home and cellular phones.The service, initially available in Atlanta, allows customers to receive messages from their home phone and their BellSouth Mobility wireless phone at a...
WOBURN, Mass.-Boston Communications Group Inc. announced it doubled its prepaid wireless subscriber base, reaching 2 million subscribers, in less than 12 months.The company attributed the increase to its expanded nationwide roaming network, real-time rating capabilities and the increasing commitment to prepaid programs from wireless...
BOSTON-AT&T Wireless and the Boston Celtics have teamed up for a new promotional relationship featuring Celtics legend Bill Russell.In addition to featuring the Hall-of-Famer in print, radio and point-of-sale advertising, one fan will win a lunch with Russell at the fan's home."We are extremely...
WOBURN, Mass.-Boston Communications Group Inc., a provider of prepaid services to wireless carriers in North and South America, is offering a discounted wireless prepaid solution to new members of the Rural Cellular Association.According to BCGI, the Prepaid Connection was created so carriers in small...
WASHINGTON-Yet another federal appeals court has been brought into the debacle known as the personal communications services C-block.Bankrupt PCS operator NextWave Telecom Inc. filed on Feb. 11 a petition for review with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit "for protective purposes."...
NEW YORK-In a Valentine's Day announcement, Teligent Inc., a point-to-multipoint carrier based in Vienna, Va., and Mannesmann Arcor AG & Co., said they had partnered to provide fixed wireless voice and data communications in Germany.Mannesmann AG, which recently agreed to merge with Vodafone AirTouch...
Tantau Software International Inc. unveiled an open mobile e-commerce platform, built specifically for the enterprise customer, that bypasses the typical constraints placed by carriers and operators on access to mobile Web sites.Tantau claims its software provides businesses with a multiplatform solution that takes full...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The Symbian initiative unveiled several new product enhancements through deals announced at the Symbian Developers Conference.An agreement with Communication Intelligence Corp. added the company's Jot handwriting recognition system, QuickNotes electronic note-taking application, WordComplete predictive text-entry utility and Sign-On biometric security application to...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Superconductor Technologies Inc. announced it received a purchase order for 27 of its SuperFilter Systems from an unnamed cellular service provider, increasing its backlog to 56 systems and causing its stock price to soar 135 percent last Wednesday.The order helped to increase...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Spectrian Corp. said forecasted orders for a product in its single carrier amplifier line have been delayed until later this year and will result in lower-than-expected revenues and earnings for the quarter ending March 31. The company said the problem is due to...
MADISON, Wis.-Sprint PCS launched service in the Madison, Wis., area as part of a nationwide network expansion covering more than 4,000 cities.As part of the launch, the company is offering a $50 rebate off any new phone with an activation plan.
MUNICH, Germany-Siemens Information and Communication Network unveiled its strategy for next-generation enterprise Internet Protocol communications.The Siemens Enterprise Convergence Architecture, called HiPath, enables a company's existing voice and data infrastructures and applications to interoperate globally over all networks by using an open standard and distributed...
