Yearly Archives: 2001

Palm may branch into two firms

Executives for personal digital assistant giant Palm Inc. last week discussed the possibility of splitting the company's operating system business and its device manufacturing...

UWCC disagrees with Shosteck report

BELLEVUE, Wash.-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium announced they disagree with several conclusion in the CDMA Development Group's sponsored June 2001 study "GSM or CDMA: The...

House panel hears much rhetoric, few answers on E911 deployment

WASHINGTON-The House telecom subcommittee heard testimony last Thursday on what Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) called "the most compelling issue to come before it this...

Industry effort to delay 3G auction gains steam

WASHINGTON-The cellular industry, putting the brakes for now on major legislation to avoid unnecessarily provoking the Pentagon, is floating a stop-gap plan on Capitol...

Sprint PCS, Virgin crawl to alliance

As the Virgin Mobile rumor factory continues to pump out news stories, Sprint PCS finally brought some substance to the situation. The wireless carrier...

Adaptive Broadband ready to look at options

After months of struggling to beef up its customer base and emerge, even slightly, from debt, Adaptive Broadband Corp. said it's officially open to...

Economy keeps manufacturers pinned

The economy cast a pall over the vendor space last week with major equipment makers wallowing in job cuts, negative credit ratings, earnings forecast...

ITU definition of 3G technology:

144 kilobits/second or higher in high mobility (vehicular) traffic;384 kilobits/second for pedestrian traffic;2 Megabits/second or higher for indoor traffic.

Businesses have difficulty managing wireless devices

DENVER - A survey commissioned by wireless device management provider Reason Inc. and conducted by nVision Research of corporations that use wireless devices revealed...

World Briefs

SINGAPORESAMSys Technologies Inc., a company that provides radio frequency identification (RFID) reader hardware, and Tunity Pte. Ltd. of Singapore, an Asia-Pacific RFID channel development...

BT, DT to share 3G networks in U.K., Germany

BT Wireless and Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile International said their operating companies in the United Kingdom and Germany plan to cooperate on the rollout of...

Tower buildout slows as colocation grows

Tower companies tend to fall into a safe and cozy place in the hard driving, fast moving wireless machine, seemingly immune to the pitfalls...

SuperComm 2001 echoes recent message: get back to basics

Their words were cautious yet wise, and at times peppered with remorse, but as Cingular Wireless Chief Executive Officer Stephen Carter and Verizon Wireless...

Popular partnerships: Vendors team to reinforce strengths, shore up weaknesses

Major hardware and software vendors are teaming up to reinforce their strengths and shore up their weaknesses as the wireless industry marches to the...

New players not scared off by sluggish PDA market

"Come on in, there's room for everybody!"That's apparently the call a variety of companies hear when it comes to the personal digital assistant market....

Wireless bill could fuel 3G spectrum fight

WASHINGTON-An upcoming House bill could diminish the Pentagon's role in deciding the terms and conditions governing the transfer of Department of Defense spectrum to...

Germany relaxes UMTS network buildout rules

FRANKFURT, Germany-In a win for new entrants in Germany's mobile market, RegTP, the German telecom regulator, said it would allow the country's six Universal...

D.C. Briefs

The commercial wireless division of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau allowed the Friends of the Earth and the Forest Conservation Council to withdraw a...

Palm debuts Bluetooth card for PDAs

While many Bluetooth companies have made small-stake announcements at the Bluetooth Congress in Monte Carlo, computing heavyweight Palm Inc. stepped up to the high-rollers...

Affiliates take advantage of brand relationship while serving individual market needs

The use of affiliates to manage and operate local markets is common in the wireless industry. While the larger carriers use affiliates to help...

Calling Dr. Carlo

Dr. George Carlo has missed his true calling. Carlo, who led the six-year, $28 million effort to study any potential links between wireless phone...

Thanks for balanced paging coverage

As predictable as ants at a picnic, the summer of 2001 finds the mainstream press proclaiming the death of the paging industry. This time...

Iridium ships 1000 secure phones, announces availability of data services

LEESBURG, Va.-Iridium Satellite L.L.C. began shipping last week an order of 1,000 phones pursuant to a contract signed with the Defense Information Systems Agency...

Telematics provider establishes consulting service

GOTHENBURG, Sweden-Telematics service provider WirelessCar has established WirelessCar Consulting, a global telematics consulting service designed to provide knowledge, advice and specialized training in all...

Federal appeals court denies SBT in fight with FCC, Nextel

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday denied Small Business in Telecommunications' often-quixotic attempt to turn back the...
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