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WASHINGTON-In the world of wireless enhanced 911, the Fourth of July fireworks were not just up in the sky. Carriers, public-safety officials and government spent the holiday week reacting to a strongly worded letter from Thomas Wheeler, president of the …

A major question in the wireless data industry today seems to be: How do you make money? The recent refrain from industry watchers is that wireless data is set to soon explode, both in the United States and worldwide-but exactly …

ATTW added to S&P 500 AT&T Wireless Group, which has been spun off to AT&T Corp. shareholders, replaced Potlatch Corp., an integrated forest products company, in the S&P 500 Index at the close of trading July 6. Standard & Poor’s …

NEW YORK-Citing “consistently strong operating results” and a “very good liquidity position,” Moody’s Investors Service raised the ratings July 5 on approximately $1.3 billion in debt of Triton PCS, which in 1998 became the first affiliate of AT&T Wireless Services …

NEW YORK-NTT DoCoMo of Japan says it will open an office here to work with its United States partner AT&T Wireless while also planning to open another office in Washington D.C. to work with the Federal Communications Commission.

Expand coverage. Reduce interference. Increase capacity. Enable higher bandwidth. These are the four corners of Conductus Inc.’s philosophy in rolling out its ClearSite solutions for first-, second- and next-generation air-interface standards. To bring these lofty dreams to fruition, the company …

WASHINGTON-In an effort to prove it is a viable company and at the same time help a struggling icon, bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. said on July 2 it has signed a contract with Lucent Technologies Inc. to begin building out …

Unplugged Games Inc. officially released its MobileStage gaming product, a wireless video game platform for carriers designed to increase revenues through multiplayer games and specialized billing systems. “It, in many ways, is the core of our business,” said Eric Goldberg, …

If there were ever any doubts that voice-recognition technology would become a big business, New York state swiftly put those questions to bed when it passed a state law two weeks ago banning the use of mobile phones while driving. …

NEW YORK-edocs Inc., which develops software for online account management and electronic billing, has announced a contract with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. As the foundation for its upcoming online account management offering, AT&T Wireless will use three edocs’ software products: …

While voice is still the key application for wireless carriers going into the 21st century, a variety of other data-centric applications are becoming more important. Carriers and the rest of the industry are looking toward mobile gaming, banking, messaging and …

Network coverage is the unexciting side of the wireless industry. Sure, most carriers proclaim to have excellent coverage in their markets, but real-world results are often lacking. Someone in the wireless industry recently discussed a conversation she tried to have …

PARIS-AT&T Latin America in Colombia has chosen Alcatel as a strategic partner to deploy a local multipoint distribution service network in two of the most important cities in Colombia including Medellin and Bucaramanga. “The multi-year contract will offer small and …

NEW YORK-TrinTel Communications Inc., an Irving, Texas, builder, owner and operator of wireless communications towers, has secured $50 million in new private equity investment, the company said June 25. Austin Ventures, which led the initial venture-capital financing for TrinTel in …

BOSTON-It may be a little battered and bruised, and missing a few former compatriots, but the wireless broadband industry made a strong showing in Boston last week at the Wireless Communications Association International 2001 convention. Conference participants used humor and …

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruling that the Federal Communications Commissions illegally repossessed NextWave Telecom’s personal communications services licenses has turned a once $17 billion windfall for the federal government, and much needed capacity …

Just beating a federally mandated deadline, Verizon Wireless sold off its Chicago interests in PrimeCo Personal Communications last week to a telecommunications investment group led by Southern California-based Clarity Partners L.P. Other members of the investment group include Pacific Capital …

NEW YORK-Kyocera Corp., Motorola Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. showcased new wireless phones at the TechXNY PC Expo 2001 last week that are more than conversation pieces. PC-EPhone In early July, San Diego-based distributor PC-EPhone Inc. will begin marketing …

Texas Instruments Inc. said it has developed a hardware and software chipset solution for GPRS class 12 wireless handsets. HiddenMind Technology Inc. announced it merged with AnyDevice Inc., a move the companies said will allow them to offer an integrated …

NEW YORK-AT&T Corp., New York, will distribute AT&T Wireless shares to AT&T common stockholders at a ratio of 0.3281 of a share of AT&T Wireless for each outstanding AT&T share, the company said June 25. AT&T, which had approximately 3.531 …

TOKYO- NTT DoCoMo, in cooperation with KPN Mobile and E-Plus, is scheduled to launch i-mode-like services in the Netherlands and Germany in the fourth quarter. Access, a Japanese provider of microbrowsers for non-PC devices including NTT DoCoMo’s i-mode service, is …

WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc., a one-time poster child for everything that went wrong with the government’s C-block auction for PCS licenses, said it stands ready to continue to build its network, following an appeals court ruling last Friday that said the …

NEW YORK-A noteworthy dynamic has developed in which major players like AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Cingular Wireless and Sprint PCS are actively promoting prepaid services, while smaller providers like Dobson Communications Corp. and TeleCorp PCS want to minimize its role. …

WASHINGTON-While policy-makers struggle to balance commercial spectrum needs and national security, the outcome of industry efforts to secure the military’s 1700 MHz band for third-generation wireless systems could be influenced greatly by Pentagon budgetary constraints, international pressure, presidential politics and …

Forget about 3G speed. Bring on the services. “Today’s network speed and coverage are more than adequate for most of the so-called 3G services,” said Matin B. Dunsby, global wireless initiative leader of Deloitte Consulting, echoing the often understated fact …