Hong KongPhone.com Inc. and Sunday, a developer and provider of telecommunications and wireless Internet-related services in Hong Kong, launched mobile Internet services using the Phone.com Wireless Application Protocol UP.Link Server 4.0. The service, branded "SO WAP," positions Sunday as the first carrier to deliver...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration is expected to announce as early as next month a dramatic improvement to global positioning system accuracy, a move with enormous public safety and commercial implications for the wireless telecom industry.The administration on Friday declined to confirm that such a policy...
ASCOT, England-Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group and Nokia Networks are conducting General Packet Radio Services interoperability tests between handsets using Lucent's Sceptre chipset and Optimay protocol stack software solution and Nokia's GPRS infrastructure equipment. Lucent said the tests have been running successfully since December...
The Personal Communications Industry Association said it will make some key announcements next week regarding association membership and its trade show, which it renamed last month PCIA GlobalXChange.PCIA President Jay Kitchen has promised a number of announcements in the coming months concerning membership and...
WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry, despite having shed many state and federal telecom regulations in recent years, is about to be swept into a bold new regulatory regime as wireless and Internet technologies converge.In this new digital landscape, the Federal Trade Commission will reign supreme.The FTC,...
NEW YORK-Because of their relative scarcity, augmented by their growth history and potential, wireless carriers seeking financing enjoy elevated status in the eyes of investors, even in volatile capital markets.Good timing still matters, particularly since the trickle of initial public offerings in this sector...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission announced $2.25 billion will be available this year for discounted Internet connections at schools and libraries (known as the E-rate) across the country. About $186 million in funding commitment letters were sent out last week. It is the third year...
NEW YORK-Suppose you are on the go, on the phone and the rechargeable battery needs a boost.Electric Fuel Corp., headquartered in New York and Bet Shemesh, Israel, believes it has an answer to this problem, Yehuda Harats, president and chief executive officer, said April...
The FBI, Bell Atlantic Network Services and Lucent Technologies Inc. signed a set of agreements to help facilitate the deployment of the digital wiretap act. The FBI signed a similar agreement with Nortel Networks last year. "This latest agreement exemplifies the type of cooperative,...
NEW YORK-The crowded vendor marketplace obscures the fact that customer relationship management, though expensive, easily pays for itself in business expansion and market differentiation."Companies looking for flat head decisions, where you smack your forehead and say `that's for us!', are confused because it's acronym...
WASHINGTON-Accenting its message with pastel-colored beanbag mobile phones, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association told Capitol Hill last week that competition is king.The trade association again delivered a set of nine stuffed phones-representing the number of potential wireless licensees in a market-to members of Congress,...
The chart on the front page of last week's RCR showing the top wireless carriers in the United States should have indicated that Sprint PCS has about 6 million customers, putting it in fourth place behind AT&T Wireless Services Inc.In the chart on page...
HONG KONG-China Unicom Ltd., China's No. 2 telecommunications operator, will make an initial public offering and listing of 25 percent of the company's enlarged capital on the Hong Kong and New York stock exchanges in June, according to Reuters.The company plans to raise approximately...
Code Division Multiple Access technology is gaining some momentum in Europe.Lucent Technologies Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. announced they will cooperate with Hungarian Nordic Mobile Telephone operator Westel Radiotelephone Ltd. to trial CDMA 450 technology this fall in Budapest, Hungary. Lucent also announced a cooperation...
WASHINGTON-The FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau appears willing to remove some, if not all, of the small business restrictions on the licenses it reclaimed from NextWave Telecom Inc.This during the same week a House subcommittee signaled it would pass legislation returning the licenses to NextWave...
ArrayComm Inc. secured $15 million in funding last week to help accelerate the deployment of its i-Burst broadband technology, led by an investment of $8 million from Sony Corporation of America.This marks the first major round of financing the company has announced since unveiling...
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced its pending merger with Paging Network Inc. has received clearance from the Department of Justice's antitrust division.It remains subject to clearance yet by the Federal Communications Commission.
WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced it will begin offering Internet content channels to subscribers via GoAmerica Inc.'s wireless e-mail service.The deal extends the Go.Web service to Arch customers, allowing them to access Internet-based data and e-mail from their pagers. The two companies also...
French vendor Alcatel SA said it is contemplating an entrance into the U.S. mobile-phone market.The company admitted as much during a press event in Paris during which it announced plans to double its worldwide GSM handset sales this year. The vendor earlier this year...
WASHINGTON-With prospects uncertain for securing third-generation mobile-phone spectrum at the World Radiocommunication Conference next month in Turkey and apparent concerns about the Clinton administration's commitment on that score, U.S. wireless firms have turned to Congress for support.A group calling itself the Wireless Spectrum Coalition...
LOS ANGELES-The Digital Imaging Group, an open industry consortium created to expand the use of digital images across markets and applications, launched the Wireless Image Transmission Initiative to accelerate the adoption of wireless technology in digital imaging devices and simplify connectivity issues for end...
The Federal Communications Commission has approved 35 bidders to participate in this Wednesday's auction of licenses for the 39 GHz band. The 39 GHz band is located at 38.6-40 GHz. Some of the prominent bidders and their up front payments include WinStar Wireless Fiber...
WASHINGTON-With a U.S.-Cuban custody battle and U.S.-China trade dominating business in the nation's capital these days, the question arises: What are the prospects for future U.S.-Cuban telecom trade?The answer is not easy to come by, given the lack of full diplomatic ties between the U.S....
