The Telecommunications Industry Association’s TR-45 Mobile and Personal Communications Systems engineering committee created a new work group that will address fixed wireless access and wireless local loop applications, said the …
WASHINGTON-While congressional and Justice Department investigators concentrate on whether satellite technology transfers helped Communist China improve its nuclear missile capability, the United States quietly is leading an effort to decontrol …
This week the wireless industry at last understood the pace of summer. Only 10 or so breaking news events designed to change the face of the industry as we see …
On the subject of funding fiascoes-E911, cancer research, CALEA, school and library Net links, etc.-someone tell President Clinton that it’s not just drug czar Barry McCaffrey who needs money for …
Satellite-based communications is all the buzz in the telecom industry today, with hopeful mobile satellite services providers and terrestrial-based telcos alike shooting satellites into orbit with unprecedented regularity. Yet the …
WASHINGTON-The users of private wireless communications recently stressed their support for more spectrum. The reply comments were in response to a petition filed by the Land Mobile Communications Council on …
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc., admonished by the Federal Communications Commission for alleged marketing misrepresentations that could-if continued-lead to hefty fines or revocation of licenses, has ordered its sales force not to …
The Federal Communications Commission affirmed a 1997 decision to move Teligent Inc. wireless local loop licenses from the 18 GHz band to the 24 GHz band. Laurence Harris, senior vice …
Though the wireless industry remains an employee-driven market, signs indicate the intense demand for employees domestically may be slowing as companies are becoming cost sensitive under intense competition and merger-and-acquisition …
WOODBRIDGE, N.J.-ETE Inc., a San Diego-based developer of fleet management solutions, said its MobileTrak solution now is available. MobileTrak is a wireless-enabled, PC-based product that allows fleets to wirelessly communicate …
LONDON-The ERMES MoU Association, formerly called ERMES MoU, celebrated its new status as a legal entity with the launch of an ERMES paging system in Sweden, by telecom provider Telia, …
L.M. Ericsson signed a software licensing agreement with Lernot & Hauspie Speech Products for the latter’s speech recognition, text-to-speech and speech compression technology. L&H in the past has signed licensing …
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Wireless transmission solutions providers Digital Microwave Corp. and Innova Corp. announced plans to merge in a tax-free pooling-of-interests transaction that will give Innova shareholders a 27-percent interest in …
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association is taking the lead on implementing wireless number portability at the same time it waits for the Federal Communications Commission to rule on its request …
The CDMA Development Group announced it plans to conduct trials of location technologies as part of an initiative to meet Federal Communications Commission wireless enhanced 911 requirements. Phase II of …
NEW YORK-Except for Geotek Communications Inc., wireless telephony companies here and abroad were conspicuous by their absence from the growing number of bond defaults that Moody’s Investors Service, New York, …
Metrocall Inc. announced a two-year interactive marketing agreement with America Online, by far the country’s largest Internet online service with more than 12 million members. Under the terms of the …
CAMARILLO, Calif.-AML Communications Inc. received a $600,000 order for satellite gateway amplifiers, with the possibility of the customer ordering up to an additional $1.2 million within 30 days. “This order …
CHICAGO-Motorola Inc. announced a fairly expansive technology transfer agreement with Advanced Micro Devices Inc., allowing the two to collaborate on making embedded and desktop microprocessors and embedded flash memory. AMD, …
The paging industry experienced some greater-than-usual excitement in the second quarter that securities analysts at Toronto Dominion Securities Inc. believe will set the tone for the next stage of the …
