More than 83,000 calls were made to 911 from wireless telephones every day last year, according to figures released by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. During 1996, wireless phone calls …
ALEXANDRIA, Minn.-Rural Cellular Corp. announced it entered a definitive agreement to purchase the outstanding stock of Western Maine Cellular Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Utilities Inc., for $7.5 million. …
TORONTO-Rogers Cantel Inc. has extended its Mobitex network into Calgary, Alberta, Canada, representing the first advancement of the packet-switched data network in to Western Canada, said the company. Mobitex provides …
WASHINGTON-Senate communications subcommittee Chairman Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) and Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) have asked Federal Communications Commission Chairman Bill Kennard to reconsider rules they believe hurt emergency road service communications, …
The Telecommunications Resellers Association has filed comments urging the Federal Communications Commission to reject a petition filed by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association requesting a five-year delay in the wireless …
OTTAWA, Canada-Mobile satellite services provider TMI Communications Co. L.P. announced its first major U.S. customers-Skysite Communications Corp. and Cue Network Corp. TMI’s MSAT geostationary satellite provides wireless digital data, voice, …
In a jointly published report, the Telecommunications Industry Association and the MultiMedia Telecommunications Association estimate the mobile and wireless communications market reached $41.6 billion in 1997, and predicted the market …
NEW YORK-Texas Instruments Inc. has put its money where its mouth is to support Internet content providers, whose creativity and innovation it sees as critical for sustaining and expanding the …
The wireless industry, backed by powerful members of Congress, fired the opening salvo last week in what will evolve this year as an all-out assault against wireless taxes. At the …
ATLANTA-A new technological concept, branding campaign and line of products kicked off Sony Electronics Wireless Telecommunications Co.’s vision called D-WAVE for Digital Wireless Audio Visual Entertainment, at the Wireless ’98 …
WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) and House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.) are expected shortly to introduce legislation to use federal antenna siting fees to upgrade local …
WASHINGTON-The General Accounting Office told Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) last week the Federal Communications Commission’s move to the Portals “is in the best financial interest of the …
Latest statistics put the national capital area as the second worst gridlocked place in the country, second presumably to Los Angeles. As a native Washingtonian, I’ve sensed for some years …
In the early 1990s, many industry observers enthusiastically predicted that wireless local loop (WLL) deployments would spread fast and furiously throughout the international telecommunications arena. Given emerging economies’ pent-up demand …
DUBLIN, Ireland-Esat Digifone has built a substantial market share since it launched Ireland’s second Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) phone service last March. Global Wireless spoke to Marketing Director …
OXFORD, England-The European Commission has threatened five European countries with legal action over their failure to award DCS 1800 licenses. Belgium, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands and Spain all missed the …
WASHINGTON-Spain’s Telefonica has announced it will partner with United States-based WorldCom and MCI in a partnership for future business ventures in Europe and the Americas. This follows the collapse of …
Worldwide mobile telephony subscriber numbers will climb at triple the compound annual growth rate expected from the wireline side between 1996 and 2002, according to the Yankee Group’s “Global Trends …
WASHINGTON, D.C.-When you look at a postcard of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with its magnificent beaches flanked by a line of mountains, the landscape seems timeless and still. But looks …
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced at the Wireless ’98 show in the United States in February it is developing a Secure Algorithm for Remote Activation (SARA) solution that will give …
