Yearly Archives: 1998

ORBCOMM LAUNCHES EIGHT LEO SATELLITES

DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P. reached a major milestone in its plan to provide global satellite communications service with the successful launch of eight low-earth-orbit...

OMNIVOICE BETA TRIALS DIGITAL PAGING TECHNOLOGY

SAN DIEGO-OmniVoice Technologies Inc. announced plans to commence beta trials of its digital voice paging technology with Mexican paging provider Digitel.OmniVoice's technology allows paging...

D.C. NOTES: AN OPEN LETTER…

Dear Senator McCain: As chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, you have taken courageous stands on many major controversial issues of the day. Even at...

INDUSTRY URGES CALEA GRANDFA THER DATE EXTENSION

WASHINGTON-Despite action by the Federal Communications Commission earlier this month to extend the compliance date on the digital wiretap act, the debate over its...

FCC MAY FURTHER EXTEND WIRELESS NUMBER PORTABILITY

WASHINGTON-The postponement of arguments in a federal appeals court on the wireless number portability issue seems to bode well for the industry because it...

QUALCOMM TO TRIAL PDQ PHONE

ORLANDO, Fla.-Qualcomm Inc. announced plans to begin market trials of its pdQ smart phone, which integrates 3Com's Palm Computing platform with its Interim Standard-95...

BELLSOUTH UPDATES SAO PAULO STATUS

ORLANDO, Fla.-BellSouth Corp. reported the buildout of its Sao Paulo, Brazil, Time Division Multiple Access network is proceeding rapidly. The company is part of...

BUSH TO SPEAK AT CTIA’S WIRELESS ’99

WASHINGTON-Former President George Bush is scheduled to speak as an honorable guest at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's Wireless '99 conference, on Wednesday, Feb....

WINS COULD BE NEW PLATFORM FOR COMPETITION

Wireless intelligent network deployments remain slow in the United States as mobile phone carriers have focused on building out digital networks and spending money...

CALENDAR

September 28 - October 2The Division of Executive & Management Development at Southern Methodist University. Cox School of Business on the SMU campus, Dallas....

MCCAIN INTRODUCES LEGISLATION CONNECTING E911 FEES TO TOWERS

WASHINGTON-If you listen to the wireless communications industry, strongest signal procedures will not be necessary once legislation to underwrite wireless E911 upgrades with fees...

UWCC RECONSIDERS DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CHOICE

ORLANDO, Fla.-Carriers in the Asia-Pacific are beginning to re-evaluate their choice of digital technology, opening a new door for Interim Standard-136 Time Division Multiple...

ADC TESTS COMPLY WITH CALEA

ADC Telecommunications Inc. said the NewNet CALEAserver tests on JSI Telecom's digital collection platform used by policing agencies, called VoiceBox, were successful for compliance...

PACBELL MOBILE TO UPDATE NAME

SAN FRANCISCO-Pacific Bell Mobile Services, the wireless subsidiary of Pacific Telesis Group, announced it will conduct business as Pacific Bell Wireless and Nevada Bell...

INDUSTRY BEGINS TO LOBBY TO PROVE WIRELESS COMPETES WITH WIRELINE

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry is at a "watershed point," and is now beginning to compete in earnest with wireline telephony, said Tom Wheeler, president of...

PEOPLE

INTERDIGITALGerard Pepenella was hired by InterDigital Communications Corp. as vice president and general manager of broadband Code Division Multiple Access technology. He will collaborate...

PRICE DENIES PURSUING MERGER WITH VANGUARD

Price Communications Corp.'s president Robert Price said his company is not pursuing a merger agreement with Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. despite recent reports that...

PRODUCTS

HEWLETT PACKARDA complete test solution for installing and maintaining radio-frequency infrastructure systems for Cellular Digital Packet Data and mobile data base station equipment was...

QUALCOMM OFFERS OPEN SYSTEM SWITCH FOR IS-95 NETWORKS

ORLANDO, Fla.-Qualcomm last week at PCS '98 announced it now is offering its cdmaOne Interim Standard-95 network with an open system radio-switch interface, meaning...

RAM MOBILE TO EQUIP LONCO OF U.K.

UNITED KINGDOM-Ram Mobile Data U.K. announced it was awarded a three-year contract to provide all nationwide field service communications in the United Kingdom for...

ROGERS CANTEL HAS ONE RATE PRICING

TORONTO-Rogers Cantel Inc. introduced new One Rate pricing plans that offer one-rate calling for calls originating in Canada and terminating either in Canada or...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Global information technology spending will increase at a 10-percent compound annual growth rate from $1.59 trillion last year to $2.62 trillion in 2002, according...

NORTEL TO TEST NETWORK

TAIPEI, Taiwan-Northern Telecom Ltd. signed a memorandum of understanding with the Taiwan National University for a trial of a broadband wireless access demonstration network.The...

MOTOROLA OFFERS PLAIN PAPER FAX

ORLANDO, Fla.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group has implemented an end-to-end plain paper fax solution for Code Division Multiple Access-based fixed wireless networks, which has...

WLL MARKET FORECAST TO GROW 50 PERCENT ANNUALLY THROUGH 2002

WASHINGTON-Factors such as new wireless local loop licensing, reduced equipment costs and increasing acceptance of wireless as an alternative to wireline communications will contribute...
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