NEW ORLEANS-BellSouth Cellular Corp. announced it will begin a Wireless Application Protocol trial with customers in some of its Global System for Mobile communications markets next month in a partnership …
NEW ORLEANS-BellSouth Wireless Data said it plans to introduce a portfolio of secure wireless electronic-commerce offerings by the end of this year. The company also announced several companies it is …
NEW ORLEANS-Motorola Inc. and Audible, a provider of Internet-delivered spoken audio content, demonstrated at Personal Communications Showcase ’99 in New Orleans the direct downloading of spoken audio content to digital …
BASKING RIDGE, N.J.-AT&T Corp. reported 90 percent of its wireless cell sites are back on the air and cellular service in metropolitan New York/New Jersey “is rapidly returning to normal.” …
MADRID, Spain-Nortel Networks was selected by Airtel Movil S.A. to supply a wireless/wireline packet network valued at about $50 million during the next two years. The converged network will be …
NEW ORLEANS-Aquis Communications Group Inc. is in the process of buying bankrupt paging carrier SourceOne Wireless Inc. of Chicago. John Adiletta, Aquis president and CEO, said his company first entered …
ORLAND PARK, Ill.-Andrew Corp. said it will supply Powertel Inc. with its Heliax coaxial cable, RingFlare connectors, SureFlex cable assemblies, SureGround radio-frequency grounding kits and surge arrestors. Andrew’s installation accessories, …
BOSTON-American Tower Corp. entered into an agreement with TV Azteca S.A. de C.V. in Mexico under which American Tower will loan up to $120 million to TV Azteca in exchange …
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Qualcomm Inc. selected American Wireless to distribute a broad line Qualcomm’s consumer products, American Wireless announced. Carriers, retailers, resellers, dealers and independent agents can order Qualcomm Code Division …
MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp. signed a multimillion dollar contract for Global System for Mobile communications base station subsystem equipment with High Plains/Midwest L.L.C., a wireless service provider operating in Kansas. …
NEW YORK-AirGate PCS Inc., a Sprint PCS affiliate headquartered in Atlanta, last week was hoping to raise about $100 million in an initial public offering of 6.3 million shares at …
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-AudioVox Communications Corp. introduced a new line of “clamshell” style cellular handsets. The line will debut with the PCX-3500XL. Made exclusively for PrimeCo Communications L.P., the phone has a …
SAN FRANCISCO-Telstra Corp. Ltd. announced the commercial availability of its Code Division Multiple Access wireless network across the metropolitan Adelaide, Australia, area. Coverage also will extend to the Adelaide Hills, …
NEW ORLEANS-The fiery politics that once characterized the third-generation standards-setting process is rapidly dying, members of a 3G panel said at the PCS ’99 show last week in New Orleans, …
SAN MATEO, Calif.-RightPoint Inc. said VoiceStream Wireless Corp. is implementing RightPoint’s real-time e-marketing suite to personalize its customer sales and support Web site. RightPoint said it’s e-marketing suite enables visitors …
The U.S. cellular adoption level is fast approaching 30 percent-not bad. However, it’s also a long way from the penetration rates we see in Europe, particularly in the benchmark countries …
OREM, Utah-Q Comm International Inc., a regional telecommunications provider specializing in prepaid cards and wireless phone services, announced it signed an agreement with Page Tel Cellular to market its prepaid …
In 1989, I started my career in wireless as an outside sales rep for Metro Mobile (which would later become part of Bell Atlantic Corp.) in my hometown of Columbia, …
SEATTLE-Point.com, an online retailer of wireless phones, service plans and accessories, announced two separate agreements allowing users of ZDNet, The New York Times on the Web and New York Today …
International joint ventures formed by manufacturing concerns, and the failure rates of these companies, have been well-documented over the years. The pioneering efforts of telecommunications service providers from developed countries, …
