WASHINGTON-Motorola Inc., the top American wireless manufacturer, is internally debating whether it can support what appears will be a weak U.S. position on third-generation mobile phone spectrum at the World …
FORT WORTH, Texas-Uniden Multimedia Corp. began shipping for commercial and retail sale a new portable wireless communications Cellular Digital Packet Data modem, the Uniden Data 2000. The Data 2000 is …
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash.-Integrated Data Communications, a company that has developed a handset-based wireless location technology, said a recent six-month trial found its system located half of wireless callers to within …
Two of the largest challenges facing today’s telecom carriers are their existing IT systems and their employees. And both need to become more flexible if companies plan to prosper in …
LAS VEGAS-Rural Cellular Association leadership is preparing legislation, tentatively called the Rural Cellular Telecom Bill, to be introduced this summer in Congress that it says could relieve its members from …
LAS VEGAS-Tessco Technologies Inc. announced it was selected by IFR Americas Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. to be an equipment supplier. In addition, Ericsson Inc. selected Tessco to provide telesales and …
The U.S. Commerce Department says it provided support to CDMA vendors wanting to sell their products in China, but did not discriminate against Time Division Multiple Access technology when it …
The market for broadband wireless access services is expected to grow dramatically in the next several years, and vendors are scrambling to get systems ready for the emerging market. Fixed …
WASHINGTON-The previously announced Wireless Day at the Federal Communications Commission will occur June 10, said Thomas Sugrue, chief of the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. “I am hopeful that (the agenda) …
WASHINGTON-Americans who use wireless phones can vote for them to be on a stamp. The Postal Service was set to begin accepting votes for its “Celebrate the Century” stamp collection …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission could make a decision on the strongest-signal debate as early as this month at the public meeting, said senior FCC officials last week. While the details …
HOUSTON-Seven Seas Communications announced it will unveil a new line of satellite communications products at the Offshore Technology Conference this week, which will include products from Iridium L.L.C., Inmarsat and …
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said support center practices certification was given to its Wireless Technical Support Center in Naperville, Ill., which provides round-the-clock support to network operators in North …
BOSTON-Strategy Analytics Inc. said it predicts there will be more than 28 million mobile data users by 2003, more than two-thirds of which will be consumer users. The findings are …
MIAMI-The market opportunity for international roaming is clear, present and growing, but domestic carriers so far have been focused on tapping the large and more immediate potential posed by burgeoning …
LAS VEGAS-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it will provide Oklahoma-based Pioneer Telephone Cooperative with an intelligent network platform, enabling Pioneer to build out its network in phases and offer advanced services …
ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc. announced it reached a definitive agreement with an affiliate of Saratoga Partners, a New York-based merchant bank, to sell substantially all of the assets of its subsidiary, …
DALLAS-Nortel Networks introduced an end-to-end General Packet Radio Service solution based on its Passport ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) and Contivity Extranet switches. The Nortel Networks GPRS solution provides Global System …
TOKYO-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it was selected by NTT DoCoMo to supply wideband Code Division Multiple Access equipment, including base transceiver stations and radio network controller/multimedia processing equipment, for NTT …
U.S. government officials pressed L.M. Ericsson Chief Executive Sven-Christer Nilsson last week to lobby the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to adopt the tri-mode CDMA third-generation standard framework agreed to at …
