Monthly Archives: May, 1998
SKY FALLS ON PAGER SERVICE
They say a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, a lesson paging carriers learned in a painful way last Tuesday evening...
POWELL: FCC SHOULD CONSIDER LIBERATING REGULATIONS
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is "quickly approaching the chicken-and-egg question" with respect to how the agency should respond to explosive competition in the wireless...
AAA SEEKS QUASI PUBLIC-SAFETY STATUS
WASHINGTON-The Automobile Association of America said last week it should be given "quasi public-safety" status by the Federal Communications Commission. This status would allow...
ERICSSON AWARDED CHINESE CONTRACT
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson was awarded a $78 million contract by the Wuhan Posts & Telecommunications Bureau to provide a complete Global System for Mobile...
SPRINT TAKES STEPS TO LET CABLE PARTNERS LEAVE
Sprint Corp. is expected to announce this week a plan that would restructure its ownership in Sprint Spectrum L.P. and allow its cable partners...
NEITHER SIDE CHANGES STANCE ON CALEA
WASHINGTON-Comments filed last week at the Federal Communications Commission prove no one in the debate over digital wiretap has changed their tune as to...
IUSACELL LAUNCHES SERVICE IN 2 REGIONS
PHILADELPHIA-Less than two weeks after it purchased two 10-megahertz licenses in northern Mexico for $58 million, Iusacell began offering digital personal communications services.Bell Atlantic...
DESPITE CALIF. PROBLEMS, ENRON TO PROGRESS
SkyTel Corp. said its six-year airtime provision agreement with Enron Energy Services Inc. is still on track as planned, despite media reports that the...
AMID CASH TROUBLES, GEOTEK PLANS TO RESTRUCTURE
NEW YORK-Geotek Communications Inc., Montvale, N.J., said it plans to restructure the company because it does not have the finances to continue current operations...
COMMQUEST WINS SOS CHIPSET ORDER
ENCINITAS, Calif.-CommQuest Technologies Inc. won a multimillion-dollar contract to design and supply chipsets for SOS Wireless Communications Inc.'s emergency 3-button phone, after it completed...
ETSI AND QUALCOMM MAY HAGGLE OVER IPR
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute may be at a crossroads now that Qualcomm Inc. has outlined the terms under which it will grant intellectual...
NEWS BRIEFS
Personal communications services provider PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. signed a roaming agreement with GTE Wireless that will expand its PrimeTravel coverage area to 45...
PAY-PHONE RULING COULD DERAIL PCIA’S COIN-IN-BOX OPTION
WASHINGTON-Paging service providers that want the Federal Communications Commission to institute a coin-in-the-box mechanism for toll-free calls placed at pay phones may have a...
PANEL TO PROBE SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER ALLEGATIONS
WASHINGTON-House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) last week said a select committee, patterned after the 1973 Watergate panel, will be formed to investigate alleged satellite...
LUCENT TO SUPPLY TELECORP INFRASTRUCTURE
WASHINGTON-TeleCorp PCS Inc. signed an exclusive contract valued at $280 million with Lucent Technologies Inc. to supply the infrastructure for its Time Division Multiple...
D.C. NOTES: ETIQUETTE LESSONS
Thanks to the Seinfeld Gang of Four, taxes, CALEA, CPNI, WTR, moratoria, universal service, E911 and swervey drivers have now been eclipsed as major...
TELCO SYSTEMS OFFERS HDSL FOR BACKHAUL
Telco Systems Inc., Norwood, Mass., is scheduled to announce Tuesday it has integrated High-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line technology from PairGain Technologies Inc., Tustin, Calif.,...
LUCENT TO EQUIP DDI AND IDO FOR 3G TRIAL
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it will supply equipment for a trial third-generation network operated by Japanese carriers DDI Corp. and IDO Corp.The...
VIEWPOINT: FOR THE BIRDS
This one's for the birds, but I hope you will take it seriously and do the right thing.The solutions seem so simple as to...
IRIDIUM DEMOS MSS CALL
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-Iridium L.L.C.'s satellite communications system using digital wireless technology developed by Motorola Inc. was demonstrated with phone calls placed on the system last...
AFRICA’S WIRELESS SUBSCRIBERS NEARLY EQUAL TO FIXED
Mobile communications is a key factor shaping the growth of the global communications industry, according to a report from BT World Communications.Nearly 150 million...
LUCENT ENHANCEMENT TESTS SIGNAL STRENGTH
OTTAWA, Canada-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has developed a way to predict wireless signal strengths inside buildings and in downtown areas that the company...
TELECOM, INTERNET FUEL VENTURE-CAPITAL INVESTMENTS
NEW YORK-First-quarter venture capital investments in wireless and other telecommunications totaled $396 million, nearly double that of the same period in 1997 and triple...
BILLS TO BALANCE LAW ENFORCEMENT NEEDS AND PRIVACY
WASHINGTON-As the battle over digital wiretap rages on, the FBI is engaged in another battle to gain access to data files that have been...
SWEDISH SURVEY LINKS CELL PHONE USE TO ILLS
WASHINGTON-In two unrelated developments that could reignite the debate over whether wireless technology poses health risks, a new Swedish survey has found possible links...