AT&T

Audiovox Audiovox Communications Corp. announced it would start shipping the newest version of its flagship handset, the CDMA-9100 tri-mode Web-browsing cellular phone. The company said the phone operates on the 800 MHz AMPS/CDMA, 1900 MHz AMPS/CDMA and 1900 MHz personal …

Infowave Thomas U. Koll was appointed Infowave Software Inc.’s new chief executive officer. He previously was vice president of Microsoft’s Network Solutions Group and was responsible for the company’s worldwide business with telecommunications companies in wireline and wireless markets. Koll …

AUSTIN, Texas-Schlumberger Ltd.’s smart-card business announced it scored an agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to supply the company with subscriber identify module smart cards for AT&T’s new GSM network expansion. AT&T plans to upgrade its TDMA network with a …

Dear Editor, As the third employee of AT&T’s cellular subsidiary AMPS (I was director of engineering) and as the first President/COO of MetroMobile CTS (an aggressive nonwireline carrier of the mid-1980s), I have found your articles on the early days …

NEW YORK-The story of NTELOS Inc. and Citizens Communications Inc., as told at Legg Mason Wood Walker’s recent “Future of Rural Telecommunications” conference, demonstrates the wireless opportunity’s expansion well beyond urban centers. “We’ve done this so quietly we haven’t shown …

In a marriage of convenience, carriers are signing temporary dotted lines to outsource their network management to vendors as they migrate to the next generation of wireless technology. The trend, which concedes to vendors a pivotal role in positioning carriers …

LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz.-Amid the scorched desert ground abutting the lush greens of golf courses, the future of the wireless Internet was the topic of discussion in the small community of Litchfield Park, Ariz., where industry consultant Andrew Seybold held his …

NEW YORK-Some recent developments have brightened the longer-term prospects for smart cards in North American wireless communications, although the picture gets cloudier when framed as an immediate prospect. Opportunity is knocking for expansion of their use in provisioning of telecommunications …

AT&T Wireless Group jumped into the very active debt capital market last week selling off $6.5 billion worth of senior unsecured notes, the largest private bond sale ever by a U.S. company. The bond sale followed Qwest Communications International Inc., …

NEW YORK-With its announcement March 5 of commercial product availability, RadioFrame Networks Inc. officially threw its hat into the ring of players competing to improve indoor coverage, an important step toward landline replacement. In late 1999, Rob Mechaley founded the …

Winstar Communications Inc. beat analyst expectations for the fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31, reporting its revenues increased 59.1 percent to $225.1 million, and its total revenues for the year increased 70.4 percent to $759.3 million, compared with 1999. …

JACKSON, Miss. (AP)-WorldCom Inc., the nation’s second-largest provider of long-distance service, on Wednesday laid off about 6,000 U.S. employees, or roughly 7 percent of its worldwide work force, as part of a restructuring announced last year, a company source said. …

Leap Wireless International Inc. launched its Cricket Comfortable Wireless service in Wichita, Kan., where consumers can take advantage of Leap’s unlimited local calling plans for $30 per month. AT&T Wireless Services Inc. began offering service to customers on the island …

ARLINGTON, Va.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate TeleCorp PCS Inc. launched its SunCom digital wireless service in Milwaukee, with plans to expand service to Madison, Racine and Appleton, Wis., in the coming months. “In addition to the attractiveness of the market-healthy …

LONDON-As speculated earlier this week, Vodafone Group plc said it agreed to acquire AT&T’s Corp.’s 10-percent economic interest in Japan Telecom Co. for $1.35 billion in cash. Following the completion of the transaction, Vodafone will hold 25 percent of Japan …

Sierra Wireless has announced the addition of Microsoft Corp. to the WirelessReady Alliance. Alliance members, including wireless device manufacturers, software application vendors, and wireless and value-added enterprise service providers, work together to deliver wireless data solutions to the mobile computing …

BEIJING-Huawei Technologies, based in China’s southern boomtown of Shenzhen, is poised to become a global player in the telecommunications field. Already China’s largest producer of telephone switches, the company is now branching out into the mobile field and aggressively moving …

What is the future of the TDMA wireless interface? The issue is far from trivial. TDMA serves more than 60 million digital and 15 million analog customers and stands as the number-one technology in terms of subscribers, operators and coverage …

TORONTO-The move was surprising but not totally unexpected. After many denials, U.S. carrier AT&T Wireless finally announced last November it is switching from TDMA wireless technology to the rival European-developed standard GSM technology. Moving in lock step, Rogers AT&T Wireless …

Alcatel Egypt. With MobiNil for an extension of its GSM network. Value: US$37.1 million France. With Cegetel for the supply of a UMTS network. Value: Undisclosed Ericsson Canada. With Rogers AT&T Wireless for a 3G network, including a complete GSM/GPRS …

As technologies duel and markets discriminate, the impression is growing that TDMA will roll over in the dust trail and exhaust fumes of GSM and CDMA as both whistle past into the next generation of technologies. But advocates of TDMA …

NEW YORK – Audiovox Communications Corp., Hauppauge, N.Y., has tapped into the computer expertise of its 5 percent owner, Toshiba Corp., to develop a combination cell phone and personal digital assistant that will go on sale late this year. Verizon …

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless introduced Customer Advantage, a program designed to ensure customers receive benefits of the company’s wireless service. The program includes calling plan flexibility, designed to help subscribers find a calling plan to better fit their needs; equipment upgrades, …

AT&T Corp. is reported to be in “exploratory discussions” with Dobson Communications Corp. regarding a potential transaction between the two companies, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The report cites an AT&T filing with the Securities and …

In rhythm with an economy on the retreat, telecommunications giant Lucent Technologies Inc. seems to be on the decline. Against a background of outsized estimates, employee downsizing, technological miscues and a haunting investigation of its accounting practices, the company’s credit …