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FCC Proposes
Allowing Large Telecom Firms to Bid on Wireless Licenses
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission recommended allowing
large wireless companies to bid for many PCS spectrum licenses
that were previously reserved for new and small carriers. (The
Industry Standard) (Wall
Street Journal) (Bloomberg)
(Upside Today)
Iridium Seeks
to Sell Assets to Investment Firm Castle Harlan
Iridium is seeking bankruptcy court approval to sell most of its
assets to New York buyout firm Castle Harlan Inc. (Dow
Jones Business News) (AP)
(InfoWorld.com)
(Mobile
Computing)
IBM Plans to
Form Wireless E-Commerce Partnerships with Web-Services Companies
IBM said that it would form partnerships with eight Internet
professional services firms in an effort to establish its software
as a standard platform for mobile e-commerce. (CBS
MarketWatch) (Wall
Street Journal) (Reuters)
inSilicon Offers
Faster Wireless Web Technology
The company is offering a new semiconductor with software
that increases the speed of Java-based systems on wireless Internet
devices. (Reuters)
Amazon to Sell
Handspring Visors Online
Amazon will sell the Handspring Visor and Visor Deluxe, as
well as the complementary Springboard add-on cartridges, making
it the first online retailer to sell the company's devices. (CNET
New.com)
AvantGo to
Deliver Yahoo Content to Mobile Devices
AvantGo users will be able to access Yahoo news, weather,
sports, stock quotes and movie listings on data phones, personal
digital assistants, pagers and other wireless devices. (Mobile
Computing)
Compaq Drives
WAP Deals with Hand-Held Device Subsidies
Compaq has made reduced-price hardware deals with mobile operators
in Germany, and may be preparing to introduce subsidized WAP/Compaq
hardware bundles with operators in other European countries. (The
Register, U.K.)
U.K. Plans
Spectrum Auction
The U.K. government is planning to hold a spectrum auction
in September, according to a report in The Financial Times.
(IDG.Net)
Vodafone AirTouch
Said in Agreement with British Telecom to Take Control of Spain's
Airtel
Airtel SA is Spain's second-largest wireless phone service.
(Bloomberg)
Wireless Technology
Sees Dramatic Growth in Zimbabwe
The country's three mobile phone players, Net One, Econet
and Telecel have drastically improved telecommunications in the
country and experts are estimating that the growth of the sector
between 1997 and now to be over 200 percent. (Africa
News Service)
Telecom Italia
Agrees to Buy Stake in Brazil's Globo.com
Globo.com and Telecom Italia are planning to develop regional
partnerships for Internet content and wireless communications
technology. (AP)
New Law Boosts
Telecom Competition in Venezuela
Key features of the new law include allowing subscribers to
keep their original telephone numbers when changing companies
and equal tax terms between fixed-line and wireless services.
(Reuters)
WAP Faces Threat
in Europe from NTT DoCoMo's i-mode
NTT DoCoMo is about to bring i-mode service to Europe, posing
a serious threat to the struggling WAP standard. (Wall
Street Journal) China Mobile is extending a free trial of
WAP-enabled web surfing until September 21 because of slow demand.
(Reuters)
(China
Daily) Analysts differ on what's really in store for the WAP
market. (Computerworld)
Iowa's Wireless
Companies Draw Complaints
About 470 wireless phone-related complaints have been filed
with the Iowa attorney general's office since 1996. (The
Des Moines Register)
Mesa Communications
Group Acquires Spectrum Resources Towers
According to tower market analyst Jim Fryer, president of
TowerSource.net, the purchase puts Mesa on the map as a new presence
in the industry. (Internet.com)
Chicago Lawmakers
Hear Testimony against Car Phone Restrictions
The Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, the Fraternal Order of
Police and a couple of average Chicagoans who rely heavily on
their cell phones joined the cell phone industry in opposing the
ban introduced by Ald. Burton F. Natarus (42nd). (Chicago
Sun-Times) (Chicago
Tribune)
Wearable Computing
Heads for the Mainstream
Wearable computing, once considered the realm of geeks and
vertical markets, is gaining more acceptance in corporate America
as demand rises for increasingly portable, wireless solutions.
(eWeek)
News Publishers
Urged to Gear Up for the Wireless Web
The big questions many content publishers are asking is --
What's the revenue model for wireless content? (Editor
& Publisher Online)
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