OTTAWA, Canada-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has developed a way to predict wireless signal strengths inside buildings and in downtown areas that the company says is faster and more accurate …
This one’s for the birds, but I hope you will take it seriously and do the right thing. The solutions seem so simple as to make this act of corporate …
WASHINGTON-As the battle over digital wiretap rages on, the FBI is engaged in another battle to gain access to data files that have been scrambled. The battle over immediate access …
BETHESDA, Md.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. has launched data/fax service on its personal communications services network in its Washington, D.C./Baltimore market. Sprint PCS customers now can send faxes and send and retrieve …
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association filed comments at the Federal Communications Commission requesting a national calling party pays plan be implemented. Some sort of national framework must exist before wireless …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week said wireless carriers could indeed use customer information to market mobile handsets and so-called information services to customers who originally purchased these items from …
SAN DIEGO-ComStream opened an office in Singapore to serve as the regional sales headquarters for its Satellite Products Division. Singapore’s central Asia-Pacific location, a strong technology base and well-developed infrastructure …
ENCINITAS, Calif.-CommQuest Technologies Inc. won a multimillion-dollar contract to design and supply chipsets for SOS Wireless Communications Inc.’s emergency 3-button phone, after it completed the design of the printed circuit …
WASHINGTON-Comments filed last week at the Federal Communications Commission prove no one in the debate over digital wiretap has changed their tune as to how they believe the FCC should …
Mobile communications is a key factor shaping the growth of the global communications industry, according to a report from BT World Communications. Nearly 150 million people subscribed to a wireless …
Personal communications services provider PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. signed a roaming agreement with GTE Wireless that will expand its PrimeTravel coverage area to 45 of the country’s top 50 markets, …
Building on its Element Activation suite of software products introduced last month, Bellcore has created new software product families to provide network monitoring and management solutions to the telecommunications industry. …
WASHINGTON-The Automobile Association of America said last week it should be given “quasi public-safety” status by the Federal Communications Commission. This status would allow it the right of first refusal …
WASHINGTON-Top government officials, setting the stage for a showdown with Europe, said the United States likely will support multiple third-generation wireless proposals to the International Telecommunications Union in June unless …
SEATTLE-Xypoint Corp. said it signed a three-year contract to provide wireless enhanced 911 services to PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. Xypoint’s services will allow public safety answering points to receive the …
Many wireless carriers last week participated in Wireless Safety Week by encouraging subscribers to help out in emergency situations and use their wireless phones responsibly while driving. Carriers used everything …
NEW YORK-First-quarter venture capital investments in wireless and other telecommunications totaled $396 million, nearly double that of the same period in 1997 and triple that of the first quarter of …
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced that it entered into a royalty-bearing license agreement with Uniden Multimedia Corp. that allows Uniden to manufacture and sell subscriber products based on Code Division Multiple …
They say a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, a lesson paging carriers learned in a painful way last Tuesday evening when an estimated 90 percent of …
SAN JOSE, Calif.-LG Information and Communications Ltd. will develop prototype handsets for widespread testing of SnapTrack’s enhanced 911 solution, which is designed to meet the Federal Communications Commission mandate for …
