Australia The Australian Communications Authority said it prepared a recommendation to the Minister for Communications, the Information Economy and the Arts, for a nationwide reallocation of spectrum in the 3.410 …
SPOKANE, Wash.-Itron Inc. was selected by the city of Houston to provide an automatic meter-reading system for the city. Itron said it is the second-largest AMR installation in the United …
As the digital revolution begins to move at a substantial pace, mobile phone manufacturers have some tough decisions to make. The demand for digital handsets is growing, especially in the …
Though most are based on some form of wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology, the proposals submitted to the International Telecommunication Union last month suggest a tough road toward achieving …
MALAYSIA-Tecnomen Malaysia announced it signed a contract to deliver a multimessaging system for an 1800 MHz Global System for Mobile communications network owned by its subsidiary Telekom Cellular. Under the …
PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it began shipping the Synapse Pager Card, which allows wireless messaging on 3com Corp.’s PalmPilot Organizer. The card-developed by PageMart, 3Com and Motorola Inc.-upgrades all Pilot, …
NEW YORK-Teleglobe Inc., Montreal, has been on the move in a big way lately. The company announced July 6 it has so far provided 100 Global System for Mobile communications …
Second-tier wireless companies are hot properties, helping to push wireless stock prices past the Standard &Poor’s index. Centennial Cellular Corp. earlier this month became the third second-tier cellular carrier to …
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS said it introduced a service that allows customers to connect their non-Sprint-branded pagers with their Sprint PCS handsets. The new service, Sprint PCS Page Connect, is …
OLYMPIA, Wash.-Roger Moore, president and chief executive officer of Illuminet Inc., will resign effective Sept. 1, to become president and CEO of VINA Technologies, a voice, data and Internet integration …
With the lifespan of paging devices getting ever shorter, and with new advanced paging devices flooding the marketplace, paging carriers must be extra careful in their purchasing patterns. Kevin Reynolds, …
WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court last week said mandatory resale of commercial mobile radio services can sunset in 2002, dealing a blow to wireless resellers who argued the government could not …
A dispute between Omnipoint Communications Enterprises L.P. and one of its site-acquisition consultants highlights the potential problems that can occur when wireless carriers loosen their control on tower siting. Omnipoint …
MEXICO CITY-Northern Telecom Inc. has been chosen to supply the equipment and services for a Code Division Multiple Access fixed wireless access network in Mexico for freshman telecom provider Unefon. …
NEW YORK-Comunicacion Nextel de Mexico SA executives were scheduled to meet late last week with officials of the Mexico Federal Telecommunications Commission, or Cofetel, to resolve an apparent disagreement about …
Motorola Inc. last week announced its long-awaited plan for realigning the company along with another quarter of depressing financial results. Ending its “warring tribes” way of doing business, Motorola announced …
MELBOURNE, Fla.-Harris Corp. said it formed a partnership with ADC Metrica to offer ADC’s performance management tools as part of Harris’ network management service platform. The Harris platform offers unified …
NEW YORK-Managistics Group Inc., Rockville, Md., announced Nokia Corp. selected it to optimize Nokia’s global supply chain operations. Nokia’s goal is to increase customer service while gaining significant efficiencies along …
NEW YORK-Loral Space & Communications Ltd., New York, announced July 6 it had closed on its purchase of 4.2 million partnership interests in Globalstar L.P. from founding service provider partners …
WASHINGTON-It is Congress, not the Federal Communications Commission, that makes telecom policy, according to one of the new FCC commissioners, Harold Furchtgott-Roth. The FCC “must simply follow the law as …
