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WASHINGTON-With the United States facing $4 billion in retaliatory tariffs from the European Union by month’s end, telecom and high-tech firms find themselves split on competing legislation to repeal tax breaks for U.S. exporters. The export subsidy issue directly impacts …

PISCATAWAY, N.J.-Greece’s National Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT) has awarded a five-year exclusive contract to Telcordia Technologies Inc. for number portability. Telcordia will support the provision of fixed and mobile number portability to Greece’s 16 million phone lines, comprising 10 …

PISCATAWAY, N.J.-Greece’s National Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT) has awarded a five-year exclusive contract to Telcordia Technologies Inc. for number portability. Telcordia will support the provision of fixed and mobile number portability to Greece’s 16 million phone lines, including 10 …

Numerous wireless companies are making product and partnership announcements at SuperComm in Atlanta this week. Here is a roundup of the news and announcements: SandCherry Inc. and BEA Systems Inc. introduced a joint solution based on the SandCherry SoftServer platform …

CHELMSFORD, Mass.-WaterCove Networks and Telcordia Technologies have teamed to create a CAMEL (Customized Applications for Mobile Network Enhanced Logic) Phase 3 solution that delivers prepaid data services to wireless carriers. The new solution uses Telcordia’s service creation and real-time charging …

HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. said it has teamed with other companies to release the application programming interface for operations support system initiative in the wireless arena. The other companies include BEA, Cygent, Digital Fairway, Ericsson, MetaSolv, Motorola, NEC, Nortel, Sun Microsystems …

NEW YORK-To celebrate World Environment Day, a group of telecommunications carriers, equipment vendors and industry associations formed the Global e-Sustainability Initiative last week, an alliance billed as the first of its kind. “Modern telecommunications, a major theme of this year’s …

There are a lot of ways to get in touch with Patrik Falstrom. He’s got telephone, mobile phone, fax machine, e-mail and snail mail addresses. It’s quite a lot of numbers, and it can take quite a while to hit …

LAS VEGAS-Telcordia Technologies Inc. announced an agreement with CTI Squared Ltd. to offer robust, carrier-grade, scalable IP-based Unified Communications services for wireless and wireline carriers, ASPs, ISPs and other providers. Telcordia’s Unified Communications offering has been enhanced with CTI2’s W.W. …

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 …

NEW YORK-Despite the hope and hype around consumer and corporate use, vertical applications remain today’s stronghold for wireless data, said Jeffrey Schlesinger, wireless technology analyst for UBS Warburg. Recognizing this fact, many large and small companies have made a foray …

WOODBRIDGE, N.J.-BellSouth Wireless Data L.L.P. said it will launch a wireless Web proxy server and microbrowser based on Geoworks Corp.’s AirBoss technology. The deal will allow all devices operating on BSWD’s Mobitex-based Intelligent Wireless Network to access wireless Internet content. …

NEW YORK-Seeking to become a dominant player in the emerging lithium-ion polymer battery field, Valence Technology Inc. plans to buy all rights to this technology that now are held by Telcordia Technologies Inc., formerly Bellcore. Valence, with facilities in Henderson, …

CHICAGO-Telcordia Technologies Inc. said last week it will now offer the Telcordia Service Management Gateway for Wireless Number Portability. The announcement comes two years before wireless carriers must begin wireless number portability functions. While wireline carriers began phasing in local …

There are 27 miles separating Silicon Alley from the sprawling corporate campus of Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J. But the distance between the region’s Internet hotbed and the heart of telecommunications research is shrinking. Small wireless start-ups in …

While still slow to be adopted by wireless operators, wireless location service providers have accelerated their efforts to deliver effective technologies that can determine a wireless user’s position within the network. SignalSoft Corp., a platform and applications developer, formed an …

BOULDER, Colo.-Telcordia Technologies Inc., a provider of operations support systems to the telecommunications industry, joined SCC Communications Corp.’s Alliance Program. As part of the program, Telcordia will combine its Exchange Link interconnection clearinghouse service with SCC’s TelConnect service to provide …

Blame it on the glut of recent mergers and acquisitions. Blame it on the abundance and promise of working at a start-up company. But for these reasons and more, recruiters and human resource managers throughout the wireless industry are coming …

ATIS The members of Standards Committee T1, a telecommunications network standards development organization sponsored by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions, chose leaders for its full committee and six technical subcommittees at the group’s national meeting. E. Raymond Hapeman, of …

NEW YORK-Comverse Technology Inc., Woodbury, N.Y., spun off Ulticom Inc., its Signaling System 7 network software unit, in an initial public offering that sold April 4. Lehman Brothers Inc., New York, was lead underwriter for the IPO of 4.25 million …

NEW YORK-Tivoli Systems Inc., an Austin, Texas-based subsidiary of IBM Corp., has created a Service Provider Business Unit to execute its new Net Generation Initiative for managing complex telecommunications systems. As part of these developments, announced at a press conference …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Motorola Inc. and Telcordia Technologies Inc. revealed plans to develop a next-generation call agent as Telcordia’s contribution to the Aspira platform-a multicompany vision to merge wireline and wireless networks in a third-generation Internet protocol environment. The two signed …

NEW YORK-Comparatively few of the hundreds of telecommunications billing companies in business today are publicly traded, but that list could grow by one if Daleen Technologies Inc., Boca Raton, Fla., proceeds with a planned initial public offering scheduled for late …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Telcordia Technologies Inc. signed what it said is its biggest international agreement to date with South Africa’s incumbent telecommunications carrier Telkom. Telcordia will provide its end-to-end integrated service activation and assurance solution to replace Telkom’s existing operations support …

MORRISTOWN, N.J.-Telcordia Technologies Inc.’s software development group earned a level-five rating from Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute. The ranking is the highest possible based on the Capability Maturity Model developed at Carnegie Mellon. The assessment involved an evaluation of …