ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J.-Integrated Systems Research said its new FleetTrack automatic vehicle location system is the first to offer users automatic switching from Cellular Digital Packet Data to analog cellular service. …
The International Telecommunication Union announced network experts who met in Geneva earlier this month agreed on six sets of specifications for IMT-2000 networks. The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector, under the …
CURITIBA, Brazil-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Inepar S/A Industria e Construcoes, a Brazilian energy and systems manufacturer, announced they formed a joint venture to supply power equipment to Brazil’s telecommunications market. …
RESTON, Va.-Ztango.com Inc. introduced software solutions that enable the delivery of Internet-based services to digital wireless phones and Wireless Application Protocol-based smart phones. Ztango.com’s software delivers custom information and news, …
NEW YORK-Winstar Communications Inc., New York, will receive $900 million from its sale of a 13-percent stake to a group of investors, including Microsoft Corp., the fixed wireless access carrier …
BALTIMORE-In what he hopes will be the first of many such appearances, Thomas Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, last week told 800 civic leaders here that the …
WebLink Wireless Inc., formerly PageMart Wireless, announced several companies have joined its Enterprise Solutions Provider Program in the last week. The most recent addition is JP Systems Inc., which said …
1994 December Alain Rossman forms Libris Inc., hires two engineers to develop what eventually becomes the backbone for WAP. 1995 March Libris completes software prototype. 1996 June Libris changed to …
NEWBURY, United Kingdom-Vodafone UK and Nortel Networks said they are planning a trial early next year in London of wideband Code Division Multiple Access third-generation wireless radio and Internet Protocol …
LONDON-ICO Global Communications said the due diligence process of Eagle River Investments L.L.C.’s investment in the company has been extended, to be completed no later than by Jan. 18. Eagle …
WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc. received the financial backing to allow it to pay the government the full $4.7 billion it bid for personal communications service licenses in 1996. “The plan would …
ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks Corp. and TSR Wireless L.L.C. announced they have teamed to conduct a holiday campaign in support of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve’s Toys for Tots program. Shoppers who …
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week sent letters to the Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration urging that wireless carriers be given eligible telecommunications carrier …
DUBLIN, Ireland-Esat Telecom’s board of directors said the offer made by Newtel AB in a hostile takeover bid is “derisory and fundamentally undervalues the group,” in a statement released last …
NEW YORK-Sweden’s L.M. Ericsson has majored on the infrastructure side of provisioning to wireless carriers within the United States while playing a comparatively minor role as a wireline network supplier. …
LINCOLN, Neb.-EF Johnson Co. announced it received a contract from Motorola Inc. for $3.7 million to provide the mutual aid equipment for the shared Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials 25-compliant …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson said it signed a $200 million contract with Diginet Americas to further build out Diginet’s fixed wireless broadband network throughout Latin America. The agreement expands Ericsson’s previous agreement …
WASHINGTON-A federal judge last week approved a new antitrust settlement between the Justice Department and Nextel Communications Inc., allowing Nextel to acquire more 900 MHz dispatch radio licenses in 14 …
At the recent Practicing Law Institute’s Telecommunications Conference, Thomas Sugrue, chief of the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, gave a humorous presentation describing the wireless industry. Here is how the wireless …
PRAGUE, Czech Republic-The Czech government agreed to sell some of its 51-percent stake in SPT Telecom, the country’s fixed-line monopoly. The tender should be completed by the end of 2000 …
