Colorado Springs, Colo.-based Noochee Solutions, formerly DMW Worldwide, soon will introduce its new SmartMarket Internet marketing software solution for telecommunications service offerings. While most customer care solutions are targeted toward …
Nokia reported it is developing a solution enabling immediate access to mobile commerce sites via Wireless Application Protocol-enabled phones. Partnered with Hewlett Packard, IBM and Nocom, the collaboration hopes to …
LAKE FOREST, Calif.-Telenetics Corp. said it formed a strategic alliance with GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. allowing it to use GTE’s cellular control channels to transmit Telenetics’ wireless data technology. Telenetics …
WASHINGTON-Gov. Michael Leavitt, chairman of the National Governors’ Association, last week released a report that he says shows that telecommunications carriers are over-taxed. “We are suggesting with this paper that …
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Corp. launched a new program and Web site-developer. sprintpcs.com-designed to help Web developers create their own Sprint PCS Wireless Web applications or simply make their own Web …
HONG KONG-An Asian Internet company is looking to block the proposed merger between Cable & Wireless HKT Ltd. and Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., Reuters reported. Pacific Century CyberWorks Ltd. hinted that …
ALEXANDRIA, Minn.-The Securities and Exchange Commission declared effective Rural Cellular Corp.’s registration statement for a follow-on offering of 2.39 million shares of the company’s class A common stock to be …
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.-Oral arguments began Feb. 10 in a case that offers a glimpse of the ways some carrier-reseller relationships are strained due to wireless telephony’s transition from luxury to …
AGOURA HILLS, Calif.-According to a recent J.D. Power and Associates study, nearly half of telecom service customers polled expressed interest in bundled services from just one telecommunication company. The report …
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. reported its financial and operating results for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31. Company revenues increased to $157.9 million during the quarter from $116.2 million during …
Scandinavia Millicom International Cellular S.A., a worldwide cellular telephone and telecommunications company, said it sold 900,000 class B shares from a total of almost 6 million class A and class …
SAN DIEGO-Wireless Knowledge L.L.C., a joint venture company between Microsoft Corp. and Qualcomm Inc., has been selected by Sprint PCS as a Premier Partner in its recently announced Application Developer’s …
BOSTON-American Tower Corp. said it plans to make a private placement of $300 million of convertible notes due 2010 with the option granted to the initial purchasers of an additional …
RESTON, Va.-American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced a marketing alliance with Critical Path Inc. for wireless e-mail services and also released fourth-quarter financial results. Critical Path is an Internet messaging and …
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel announced it formed five operating regional headquarters as part of a deal announced Feb. 1 calling for Alltel to exchange wireless properties in 13 states with Bell …
Alcatel is banking on the next generation of wireless systems to make inroads in the U.S. Global System for Mobile communications market. With a GSM foothold in Europe and several …
Aether Systems Inc. rose to the top of the news last week after it was identified as Metrocall Inc.’s mysterious third investor and joint venture partner-joining PSINet Inc. and Hicks, …
WASHINGTON-“The vision of robust competition laid out in the [Telecommunications Act of 1996] is beginning to unfold,” said the FCC’s Office of Plans and Policy in a report released on …
LYNCHBURG, Va.-Com-Net Communications Inc. announced it completed the acquisition of Ericsson’s Private Radio Systems business. Ericsson will retain a minority interest in the new company, Com-Net Ericsson Critical Radio Systems …
I came to the wireless communications industry several years ago from the world of geographic information systems-an industry I thoroughly enjoyed because of its vast applications but which I always …
