WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association Foundation on Tuesday night gave its Eugene C. Bowler Award to Dale Hatfield, chief of the FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology. “You cannot separate …
BCE Inc., Canada’s largest telecommunications company, finished the spinoff of its stake in telecommunications equipment supplier Nortel Networks Corp., closing a transaction valued at approximately $59 billion. BCE distributed its …
WASHINGTON-As the World Radiocommunication Conference opens today in Turkey, trade and spectrum issues governing third-generation mobile-phone technology remain heavily mired in controversies that are likely to play out in coming …
PacketVideo Corp. closed a $16.5 million round of financing, bringing the total equity capital raised to more than $41 million. The company said proceeds will go toward working capital, funding …
WASHINGTON-The manner in which the Federal Communications Commission reviews license transfers came under scrutiny last week as key senators questioned the process, the Department of Commerce voiced its support and …
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. released first-quarter earnings, elected a new chairman and completed both the acquisition of NationPage and initial construction of a nationwide Asynchronous Transfer Mode network. Metrocall’s first quarter …
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. introduced a nationwide advertising program that allows e-marketing service provider CoolSavings to extend its content to Metrocall’s messaging devices using the company’s Preview Channel information service. Metrocall’s …
SWINDON, United Kingdom-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Siemens Information and Communications Mobile Group will form a third-generation Universal Mobile Telecommunications System terminal collaboration to prepare for the rollout of 3G UMTS …
As last week’s Love Bug virus painfully illustrated, more computer viruses are being spread via e-mail, and they are growing increasingly destructive. But despite the growing popularity of wireless e-mail …
SQUAW VALLEY, Calif.-Livemind Inc. launched its wireless application service provider program at Red Herring’s Venture 2000 conference by wirelessly enabling Internet merchants GiftCertificates.com, MotherNature.com and RestaurantRow.com with its mobile-commerce solution. …
DAYTON, Ohio-Lexis Publishing, a provider of products and services for the legal profession, and GoAmerica Inc., a wireless Internet service provider, will co-develop a Web-based wireless product and service for …
Dear Editor, In writing in the April 24 issue on the absurdly high bids for U.K. 3G licenses, “U.K. Prices: Up, up and away,” RCR states: “But the United Kingdom’s …
KPN Telecom is said to be in discussions with Spain’s Telefonica regarding a possible US$54 billion merger. At press time, international reports said the companies had agreed in principle to …
Qualcomm Inc. appears to have gotten its way in Japan. DDI Corp., which plans to take over IDO and KDD in October, is expected to file for a third-generation license …
MILAN, Italy-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it is committing technical and business expertise in Italy to promote collaborative projects with government, industry and academia to accelerate development and introduction of third-generation …
Chile Nexus Telocation Systems Ltd. formed a joint-venture company in Chile to deploy communication and location services. The new company, Ubinet Telecom S.A., will offer two-way messaging, car and personal …
LONDON-ICO Global Communications announced the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of Delaware has approved ICO’s plan of reorganization. The plan and related plans of arrangement in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands have …
On the heels of press reports that the British government soon will require mobile phones to carry health warnings, a Swedish team of medical investigators released findings from a new …
ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. launched its Mobile Site service as a complement to its existing Mobile ASP solution. Mobile Site pulls data from a Web site and reformats it for wireless …
WASHINGTON-Even with President Clinton’s decision last week to dramatically improve global positioning system accuracy for civilians, vendors that offer a network-based E911 solution say their products are still valid. Meanwhile, …
