BROWSING: AT&T

BOSTON-American Tower Corp. said it will provide turnkey services for at least 1,500 sites in five regions for the AT&T Digital Broadband network.Under an agreement announced July 27, deployment of these sites is expected to be completed by year-end 2001, and additional markets may...

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it will offer two-way short messaging service later this year, giving the carrier a more seamless data offering with its affiliates.AT&T Wireless offers SMS service today and relaunched its PocketNet service, based on Cellular Digital Packet Data service, earlier...

WASHINGTON-Several instant messaging companies, telecom carriers and Internet service and content providers have formed an organization dedicated to achieving true instant messaging interoperability among competing platforms.The IMUnified coalition said it intends to create specifications by the end of August that will allow interoperable instant...

WASHINGTON-Deutsche Telekom AG, after announcing its intent to buy VoiceStream Wireless Corp. , spent last week trying to kill an appropriations bill rider that could kill the deal and others like it involving purchases of U.S. telecom firms by companies majority owned by foreign...

The upcoming U.S. spectrum auctions present some interesting times for the wireless industry.Auctions in the past were more predictable, primarily reserved for veteran executives experienced in running wireless networks.Today, the story is much different. Wireless has caught the attention of many powerful and nontraditional...

The road to higher data speeds for wireless networks is rooted in voice technology, but Flarion Technologies, a new venture company formed by Lucent Technologies Inc., hopes to bypass that road and develop a technology rooted in data.Flarion is developing flash-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing,...

The Third Generation Partnership Project, a standards body initially established by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to work on W-CDMA technology, last week agreed to include standards work on GSM technology as well.The organizational partners, which consist of standards-development bodies from the United States,...

WASHINGTON-The high-flying mobile-phone industry-poised to pick up its 100 millionth subscriber this week-could soon find itself in the throes of a major consumer backlash.Complaints about mobile-phone service-including dropped calls, busy signals, dead spots, improper billing, false advertising and poor customer service-have begun to resonate...

WASHINGTON-A congressional subcommittee and the wireless industry put pressure on the Federal Communications Commission to delay the upcoming 700 MHz auction, while private wireless wants the agency to go ahead with the guard-band auction.In addition, Verizon Wireless asked to delay the Nov. 29 re-auction...

REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Group will launch fixed wireless service in four more markets in the coming months and is partnering with vendors to cope with its aggressive deployment strategy during the next two years.Following a successful commercial rollout of the service in Dallas in...

Wireless carriers spend billions of dollars on spectrum to support the latest high-speed wireless applications that are designed to change the way the world communicates. Knowing they can't provide that potential to end users without the proper infrastructure, companies are also spending a little...

REDMOND, Wash.-America Online Inc. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said they have agreed to provide AOL content to AT&T Digital PocketNet subscribers.Beginning this fall, PocketNet customers will have access to AOL's suite of wireless services, including MovieFone's local movie listings and AOL email, news,...

BOGOTA, Colombia-Celumovil BellSouth acquired 100 percent of the shares of Cocelco, a wireless provider in Colombia, through a purchase on the Bogota stock exchange. BellSouth said the transaction creates the first nationwide mobile cellular operator in Colombia.Completion of BellSouth's acquisition of an additional 16...

BellSouth Wireless DataMichael McGarry was appointed regional vice president, Central Region, for BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. McGarry's team will be responsible for selling Interactive Messaging PLUS and industry solutions to Fortune 1000 companies. Prior to joining BellSouth, McGarry held vice president of sales positions...

LOS ANGELES-CreSenda Wireless Inc. formed a strategic alliance with AT&T Wireless Services to launch its Wireless Professional Series business applications over AT&T's CDPD network.The first product line in CreSenda's Wireless Professional Series is the WirelessRealty service, allowing real estate workers to access relevant data...

Adding to the list of carriers deploying its BrandFinder and MapBlast! location-based marketing information, Vicinity Corp. said Verizon Wireless will offer the services to its subscribers nationwide with Internet-enabled phones.Vicinity formerly had a similar relationship with GTE Wireless, which Verizon now owns. AT&T Wireless...

WASHINGTON-Wireless telecom trade advanced on two major fronts last week, as the United States and Vietnam struck a sweeping trade agreement and the Senate signaled it was prepared to vote on the historic China trade bill before Congress recesses for the month of August.China...

WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court on Friday sent back to the Federal Communications Commission rules that said wireless carriers must have consistent long-distance rates in all of their U.S. service areas.At issue is whether Congress intended for commercial mobile radio service carriers to be included...

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and BT Wireless announced the first phase of their strategic alliance designed to create seamless mobile communications services worldwide for global travelers and multinational companies.The carriers nine months ago announced the alliance called Advance, which complements the companies' cooperation in...

Wireless Knowledge L.L.C. introduced the latest version of its WorkStyle Server, version 3.0, which the company says completes its vision of allowing any device on any network to access a user's corporate data on a mobile basis.Release 3.0 adds support for Palm devices, Pocket...

AT&T Wireless Group is collaborating with Motorola Inc. to supply equipment for AT&T Wireless' "Project Angel" fixed wireless broadband technology abroad.Under terms of the agreement, AT&T Wireless said it will provide Motorola with a temporary license for a year to supply equipment to local...

Only here, in the democratic power center of the world, could leaking and stonewalling simultaneously be art forms worthy of the Smithsonian Institution.But it's true. In fact, this is the Golden Age of leaking and stonewalling. We are blessed with a plethora of new...

NEW YORK-Concourse Communications Group L.L.C., Mineola, N.Y., is on a mission to turn the problem of poor reception inside public facilities into a business opportunity that will benefit wireless carriers and their customers.Last week, Concourse announced a two-year strategic alliance with LGC Wireless of...

WASHINGTON-Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.), responding to angry constituents hit with unsolicited wireless junk mail, plans shortly to introduce legislation to ban mobile-phone spam."He saw this as the next wave and wanted to nip it in the bud," said Steve Maviglio, press secretary for Holt.The...