Yearly Archives: 2001

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...

PDA price wars pummel industry

As the nation's two dominant personal digital assistant makers watch their stocks crumble, their revenue expectations halved and the fires of a price war...

HP, MobileStar enter access agreement

RICHARDSON, Texas-Hewlett-Packard and MobileStar Network Corp. announced an agreement allowing HP mobile computer users to access MobileStar Wi-Fi public access locations throughout the United...

Sagem takes Celestica stake

TORONTO, Canada-France's Sagem SA has contracted 40 percent of its mobile phone manufacturing unit to Canada's Celestica Inc.Under the deal, Celestica will acquire Sagem's...

Nextel, Qwest to use Etrieve e-mail solution

Wireless e-mail company Etrieve Inc. scored two major deals with two major carriers in separate announcements today, moves that will make its services much...

Nokia still dominates handset market

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. remains the leader in handset sales, with Siemens AG nudging Ericsson from its No. 3 position in the first quarter of...

.NET may dominate wired, wireless Web

Microsoft Corp.'s competitors are calling the attention of anti-trust authorities to the company's new initiative .NET as the software player's latest strategy to extend...

Brazil auction cancelled after no bids received

Anatel, Brazil's telecom regulator, late last week canceled its planned auction of band E wireless licenses after receiving no bids.In March, Anatel managed to...

Manufacturers own patents to cut radiation

WASHINGTON-While the wireless industry steadfastly maintains the safety of cell phones, top mobile-phone manufacturers during the past decade have quietly sought-and received-patents to reduce...

People clamor to take part in DoCoMo trial

Worldwide rollout of next-generation wireless services went 2 for 1 last week as both Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo and U.K.-based Vodafone Group plc introduced...

Lucent, Alcatel end talks

Citing pride and financial stress for the collapse of the Lucent-Alcatel merger talks last week, analysts do not expect any suitors to walk up...

Telematics’ bread and butter still safety

Despite predictions that Web access would be a highly sought-after feature of telematics services, today's market is demanding more and better safety and security...

Environmental group launches campaign against towers

WASHINGTON-An environmental group told the Federal Communications Commission it must conduct a nationwide environmental impact statement before approving any more towers or risk being...

WTR settles cancer suit: Accord earmarks $250,000 for Carlo-headed registry

WASHINGTON-Wireless Technology Research L.LC., the organization headed by Dr. George Carlo that clashed with the cellular industry after researchers found genetic damage from mobile-phone...

Commission crib notes

Greetings new Federal Communications Commissioners! As you begin this new journey in your life, charged with making decisions that will affect millions of U.S....
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