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Canadian wireless vendor VCom Inc. said it struck a $1 million cash deal to purchase several subsidiaries of Wave Wireless Corp., including WaveRider Communications (Canada) Inc., WaveRider Communications (USA) Inc., …

VICTORIA, British Columbia—Canadian wireless vendor VCom Inc. said it struck a $1 million cash deal to purchase several subsidiaries of Wave Wireless Corp., including WaveRider Communications (Canada) Inc., WaveRider Communications …

WASHINGTON-Customers of at least one rural telecommunications cooperative are cutting the cord at the rate of five to 10 per month, J. Frederick Johnson, executive vice president and general manager …

SAN JOSE, Calif.—PayPal quietly launched a service for customers to make purchases or send money to other users from a mobile phone. The world’s largest supplier of online payment services …

Free Wi-Fi in Orlando is coming around again. Sort of. Orlando experimented with free Wi-Fi in early 2004 in one square mile of its downtown business district. But barely anyone …

CAMPBELL, Calif.-Wireless telecommunications company P-Com Inc. said it reached an agreement with Agilent to restructure its $1.7 million obligation to the company. Under the new deal, P-Com said it will …

CAMPBELL, Calif.-Wireless product provider P-Com Inc. will acquire fixed wireless broadband solutions provider Speedcom Wireless Corp. for 67 million shares of P-Com common stock and the assumption of some liabilities …

CAMPBELL, California, United States-P-Com announced more than US$1 milion in orders for its point-to-point products to customers in China. The orders are from system integrators serving Chinese telecom companies, P-Com …

CAMPBELL, Calif.-Wireless product and services provider P-Com Inc. announced it will merge with Telaxis Communications Corp., a developer of wireless fiber optic connectivity products, a move that will expand both …

CAMPELL, Calif.—P-Com Inc. announced its Tel-Link point-to-multipoint microwave radios have passed testing requirements set by China’s Ministry of Information and Industry (MII) for use in China. “China represents one of …

CAMPBELL, Calif.—P-Com Inc., a manufacturer of point-to-point and point-to-multipoint wireless systems, said it is going forward with a restructuring plan that includes strengthening the management team, introducing new products and …

CAMPBELL, Calif.-P-Com Inc. said it was provisioned by Beijing P-Com, its Chinese joint venture partnership, to supply a combination of P-Com and Ceragon Networks Ltd. fixed wireless access systems to …

GroupServe GroupServe announced Tom Stroup, president, will also take on the role of chief executive officer. Stroup’s first task as CEO will be to oversee the commercial product launch of …

MMTA Anne-Rivers Forcke was appointed chairman of the MultiMedia Telecommunications Association’s Media Relations Committee. Forcke is a relationship marketing strategist for the Global Small Business group at IBM Corp., where …

NEW YORK-Western Multiplex Corp., Sunnyvale, Calif., a broadband wireless access equipment provider, went public last week with a 7.5-million share offering of common stock, priced at $12 each. The company, …

Two years after putting Western Multiplex on the selling block, Glenayre Technologies Inc. signed an agreement to sell its microwave radio business to Ripplewood Holdings L.L.C. of New York and …

CAMPBELL, Calif.-P-Com Inc. received a $2 million purchase order from Tele.ring Telecom GmbH, an Austrian fixed access company known as 1012 privat. P-Com will provide 26 GHz point-to-multipoint equipment for …

Latin America Cellular/personal communications services handset shipments to Latin America showed a significant technology shift from analog Advanced Mobile Phone Service to digital Time Division Multiple Access technology during the …

Electofuel Electrofuel Inc. announced the Lithium Ion SuperPolymer battery, which has an energy density of 470 Wh/liter and 183 Wh/kilogram, almost doubling the previous endurance records of rechargeable batteries. With …

NCR NCR Corp. introduced a software product that allows carriers to perform event-driven marketing by analyzing customer behavior and predicting a customer’s readiness to respond to particular marketing efforts. Called …

It has been more than 15 months since the first local multipoint distribution service auctions ended and brought broadband wireless access networks to reality. By all accounts, the prospect for …

BOCA RATON, Fla.-Siemens and P-Com Inc. announced they successfully completed the first phase of the commercial deployment of their point-to-multipoint Wireless Access solution with WinStar Communications Inc. in Washington, D.C. …

It’s been more than a year since Glenayre Technologies Inc. first announced its intention to divest the Western Multiplex microwave business unit, yet the company continues to search for a …

INTERDIGITAL Gerard Pepenella was hired by InterDigital Communications Corp. as vice president and general manager of broadband Code Division Multiple Access technology. He will collaborate with Gary Lomp, chief technology …

NEW YORK-Siemens Telecom Networks will provide point-to-multipoint equipment and systems-integration services for WinStar Communications Inc.’s wireless broadband demonstration network in Washington, D.C. WinStar has engaged Siemens to integrate P-Com’s point-to-multipoint …