NEW ORLEANS-Bidders in the upcoming 700 MHz auction should be able to negotiate with incumbent broadcasters to facilitate a quicker transition to digital TV and the faster rollout of wireless broadband, said William Kennard, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, in his CTIA 2000...
CanadaGranite Systems Inc.'s Xpercom solution has been selected by Bell Mobility Inc. of Canada to provide network configuration management to all of the company's sites. According to Granite, the Xpercom solutions automate network engineering and administration, including facilities assignment, provisioning, network planning, network design,...
NEW ORLEANS-Infowave Software Inc. signed a value-added services cooperation agreement with Nokia Networks to develop Wireless Application Protocol applications.The agreement calls for the two to work together to develop and market wireless applications for Nokia's WAP-enabled mobile terminals and server platforms. Specifically, Nokia will...
REDMOND, Wash.-Bucking the recent trend, InfoSpace.com Inc. announced it will remove the dot-com from its name in an effort to position itself as a provider of e-commerce infrastructure to both the online and offline, wireline and wireless worlds."When the company was founded in 1996,...
NEW ORLEANS-The outlook for adoption of rules for calling party pays is now seen as murky by many of those who attended last week's CTIA Wireless 2000 conference.Calling party pays is similar to long-distance toll calling where the person placing the call to a...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Cell C, the consortium backed by Middle Eastern conglomerate Saudi Oger with CellSaf as a local partner, has been officially named the preferred consortium for the third cellular license in South Africa. Cell C linked up with GTE Corp. shortly before the...
NEW YORK-If the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 were a building under construction, inspectors evaluating this work in progress should be concerned about its structural integrity.The law "is supported by two pillars: universal service and competition," said Gregory L. Rohde, who was appointed U.S. assistant...
NEW ORLEANS-RangeStar Wireless introduced what it says is the industry's smallest Bluetooth embedded antenna for use by Bluetooth adopters in notebook computers.The new 2.4 GHz antenna allows original equipment manufacturers to mount Bluetooth embedded antennas onto boards as if they were components, and they...
WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc., a wireless personal communications services provider in the southeastern United States, will employ the branding slogan "We're On That" to describe an overall service ethic the company says transcends offers, individual products and promotions.Powertel intends to use commercials, print ads...
AGOURA HILLS, Calif.-According to J.D. Power and Associates' "PCS Report," penetration rates for wireless telephone service rose to 43 percent of households nationwide last year, up from 35 percent the previous year.Pittsburgh saw the largest increase in subscribers, rising 20 percent from the previous...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. wireless portal users are expected to reach 25 million in the next five years, according to a recent report released by the Strategis Group, "U.S. Wireless Portals: Strategies and Forecasts."The initial target audience for wireless portals is wireless users with higher-than-average monthly bills...
Telephia Inc. released last week the results of its Wireless E-trac survey of the New York metro area, and despite past reports of capacity problems, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. emerged as the carrier both wireless users and non-users would choose first when selecting or...
Phone.com Inc. unveiled a new Wireless Application Protocol-based system that can change software settings and roaming configurations on handsets after they have been purchased using over-the-air provisioning technology.The system, Mobile Management Server 1.0, was designed to provision WAP gateways, applications and handsets across multiple...
MONTREAL-PCS Innovations Inc. reported it has obtained investments of $2 million from Innovatech du Grand Montreal and $200,000 from Le Fonds Regional de Solidarite-Ile de Montreal.PCS said the investments will provide funds for the marketing and continued development of the company's mobile Internet platform,...
NEW ORLEANS-Prairie Comm Inc., Rolling Meadows, Ill., announced the development of a next-generation digital baseband integrated circuit supporting the Code Division Multiple Access standard. The new processor, to be available in engineering samples in the second quarter, is set to provide cell phones with...
NEW ORLEANS-Palm Inc., a 3Com company, said it plans to develop a solution with iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, part of the Sun-Netscape Alliance, to provide wireless access to enterprise applications using Palm operating system handsets.The agreement calls for iPlanet to add support for Palm's Web...
SAN DIEGO, Calif.-PacketVideo said Finland's Sonera Corp. will conduct field trials of its wireless multimedia services this summer.PacketVideo's MPEG-4 compliant software-based encoding, decoding and transmission-management products enable wireless carriers to deliver a variety of content and media applications-not just data-to mobile devices, according to...
NEW ORLEANS-The federal spectrum czar believes that federal government spectrum users need to do a better job of encouraging innovation by private industry.Such communication could also lead to the federal government using its spectrum more efficiently, said Greg Rohde, assistant commerce secretary for telecommunications...
I missed out on the conga line of carriers, vendors and Digerati who stole the show last week in New Orleans. It's a wireless data world after all. The Net is revolutionizing the wireless industry. It's revolutionizing everything, everywhere.Just last week, a Hong Kong...
NEW ORLEANS-Nokia Corp. announced its Wireless Application Protocol 1.1 compliant Artuse Messaging Platform will be able to support Code Division Multiple Access technology.The expansion means CDMA operators can incorporate the platform in their networks, as can operators using Time Division Multiple Access or Global...
America Online Inc. took its AOL Anywhere strategy further into the wireless space last week with the introduction of its AOL Mobile Messenger service, created through several strategic deals with several wireless carriers and device manufacturers.AOL's Mobile Messenger service is designed to extend access...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission gave Motorola Inc. more time to comply with new 911 call-processing rules that took effect Feb. 13. New regulations set minimum requirements for expediting the processing of 911 calls on phones that can operate in an analog mode.Motorola, citing a...
NEW ORLEANS-WebLink Wireless Inc. said it will offer Xerox Corp.'s MobileDoc remote document access solution, available on PageWriter 2000X two-way devices from Motorola Inc.
GOTHENBURG, Sweden-Telia, the Swedish telecom company, said it formed a joint company with L.M. Ericsson and Volvo to deliver mobile e-services to the automotive industry. WirelessCar Corp. will develop and market complete solutions for mobile e-services to vehicle manufacturers and fleet operators, said Telia."For...
