While most in the wireless industry seem fairly positive that wireless Internet services are going to be the next big growth cycle of the future, few have solid ideas on exactly how that's supposed to happen.The pace of today's technology makes it possible for...
DENVER-The communications industry lost a leader and a pioneer with the death of Bill Daniels on March 7.Daniels, known as the father of cable television, began his storied life in Greeley, Colo., in 1920.After attending various schools, Daniels graduated from the New Mexico Military...
WASHINGTON-Wireless telephone use has moved from a niche market into the mainstream, according to a new report released by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association.The study, conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates Inc. for CTIA, noted that the lower costs of both wireless products...
CHICAGO-The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission has designated U.S. Cellular as an Eligible Telecommunications Carrier for rural areas, making the company eligible for the same federal universal service funds landline companies receive in the rural service areas of Washington.In its order granting U.S. Cellular...
WASHINGTON-Both state and federal regulators received lots of advice last week on whether wireless carriers should be granted eligible telecommunications carrier status, a necessity if they want to receive universal-service support.Small rural telcos fear that subsidies they have come to rely on will go...
JACKSON, Miss.-Cellular South entered an agreement to acquire wireless assets from Alltel, including personal communications services licenses in Mobile, Ala., and Pensacola, Fla., and expects to receive Federal Communications Commission approval for the acquisition later this year.Cellular South also reported it will acquire Alltel's...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-According to the Semiconductor Industry Association, worldwide sales of semiconductors reached $14.8 billion in January, an increase from $11.1 billion reported in January of 1999.The report noted that telecommunications-based semiconductor products, flash memory and digital signal processors continue to exhibit strong growth...
SAN DIEGO-Ryder System Inc., a provider of logistics and transportation solutions, selected Qualcomm Inc. as its primary and preferred wireless mobile communications and on-board computer provider and has agreed to purchase Qualcomm's OmniTRACS fleet tracking system for its clients' and its own vehicles.Ryder and...
NEW YORK-Rural carriers, many of which began as landline providers, already have experienced a long learning curve in service bundling-a current hot topic in the telecommunications industry.No doubt they face challenges posed by downward pressures on roaming revenues and increased competition in their territories....
WASHINGTON-In new research not yet published, a prominent Motorola Inc.-sponsored scientist has found genetic damage from mobile-phone frequency radiation that may support similar findings by Wireless Technology Research L.L.C.After making the discovery last year, Dr. Joseph Roti Roti, a radiation biologist at Washington University...
BLUE BELL, Pa.-PhoneFish.com introduced a wireless Internet e-mail service designed to give Web-enabled phones access to existing POP3 Internet e-mail accounts without the need to create a new e-mail address.The application also includes the ability to dial any phone number in an e-mail message...
PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Metrocall Inc. and Aquis Communications Group Inc. announced results of their respective 900 MHz spectrum auction bids.Aquis said it won licenses in five of the top seven markets in the Northeast and Midwest, including Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Washington.Meanwhile, Metrocall said...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. has settled a lingering shareholder class-action lawsuit for $29 million, according to lawyers for the shareholders.The settlement, which RCR first learned of last week, was reached on Feb. 17.Nextel did not return calls for comment.The lawsuit, filed in March 1995, accused...
PARIS-Nortel Networks announced that U.K. operator One 2 One recently signed a series of orders valued at $100 million for expansion of the carrier's national Global System for Mobile communications network. The orders include General Packet Radio Service equipment for commercial launch later this...
ATLANTA-The Weather Channel said its weather.com Web site will provide content and services to the oramobile.com wireless portal from OracleMobile.com, a subsidiary of Oracle Corp.
WASHINGTON-The questions of whether eligible telecommunications carrier status should be awarded to wireless carriers and whether wireless carriers will deploy their broadband solutions without it was a hot topic as state regulators held their annual winter meetings here last week.The National Association of Regulatory...
WASHINGTON-The United States Telecom Association, which represents landline incumbent telcos, has asked a federal appeals court to deny a motion by the Federal Communications Commission to hold in abeyance its appeals pending the outcome of some FCC proceedings regarding unbundled network elements and line-sharing."As...
LightbridgeJoseph Tibbetts Jr. resigned from Lightbridge Inc. as the company's chief financial officer in order to pursue an opportunity in venture capital.U.S. Wireless DataCharles Leone accepted the posts of chief financial officer and chief operating officer for U.S. Wireless Data Inc. Leone will be...
MCLEAN, Va.-LCC International Inc. has completed the first closing of a previously announced tower sale with Pinnacle Holdings Inc.The close included 134 of the 197 towers sold by LCC to Pinnacle under an agreement announced Feb. 25, with an initial closing valued at $56...
HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp.'s subsidiary, Crown Castle Australia Ltd., signed a definitive agreement to purchase about 700 wireless communications towers from Cable & Wireless Optus for $135 million, including an exclusive right to develop all future tower sites for Optus during the next six...
CLIFTON, N.J.-Vertex Interactive Inc. announced an initiative with IBM to develop wireless services and real-time communication solutions for the next generation of interactive wireless devices.Vertex Interactive will use IBM's MQSeries Everywhere technology to provide a messaging infrastructure for its future wireless applications enabling mobile...
LOS ANGELES-Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories Inc., a provider of infrastructure-independent contact center solutions, plans to extend its customer interaction capabilities to mobile users and is currently conducting pilot projects with three European customers to offer online support using Internet-enabled wireless devices.Scandinavia-based Leonia Bank, MeritaNordbanken and...
BASINGSTOKE, United Kingdom-Dolphin Telecom plc, a subsidiary of Telesystem International Wireless Inc., reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31, 1999.Company revenue increased for the fourth quarter from $21.3 million in 1998 to $26 million in 1999. Dolphin attributed...
U S West Inc. has become the latest domestic carrier to join the wireless Internet revolution with the launch of BrowseNow, a Web-enabled phone service it said integrates the company's wireline and wireless Internet services into one package.BrowseNow is an HDML-based solution using network...
