KANSAS CITY, United States-Sprint Spectrum L.P., Lucent Technologies Inc., Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group, Northern Telecom Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. announced plans to jointly develop third-generation wireless systems based on …
ATLANTA, United States-The CDMA Development Group (CDG) said it formed cdmaConnect, a program providing an end-to-end Interim Standard-41 roaming solution to CDG-member operators outside North America and new personal communications …
The following Web sites provide information related to cancer research: International EMF Project, www.who.ch/emf International Agency for Research on Cancer, www.iarc.fr Wireless Technology Research L.L.C., www.wtrllc.com EMF-Link (A Biomedical Science …
BALTIMORE, United States-The World Health Organization (WHO) is assessing the feasibility of conducting a multi-nation study to determine the connection, if any, between mobile-phone use and cancers in the brain, …
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Cambridge Positioning Systems introduced its Cursor Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) location system in February at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France. The company said Cursor …
Telexpo ’98 31 March – 3 April Sao Paulo, Brazil H&T Congressos e Feiras Tel: (+55) 21-541-2393 Fax: +(55) 21-542-5095 GSM Latin America 31 March – 1 April Buenos Aires, …
BEIJING-“Please come in, sir, and have a look. The cheapest prices and the best choice.” No, we have not discovered Beijing’s red-light district, and the time is not midnight. We …
JOHANNESBURG-The international telecommunications exhibition and forum-Africa Telecom 98-promises to be an important milestone for the African continent. The event is scheduled for 4 May to 9 May at the Expo …
JOHANNESBURG-The International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU’s) formal approval of Motorola Inc.’s FLEX paging protocol as an international standard will give the green light to expand FLEX operations in Africa. This will …
JOHANNESBURG-South African companies are poised to play a major role in telecommunications as the privatization and deregulation process, which began in the early 1990s in Africa, moves rapidly ahead. But …
JOHANNESBURG-Telkom SA, the national telecommunications provider in South Africa, formally has launched the nation’s first commercial digital enhanced cordless telecommunications (DECT) system at Sandfontein, a village near Rustenburg in the …
DUBLIN, Ireland-The challenges faced by radio-access network providers have been underlined by the experiences of Ionica, a company established in June 1996 to provide a new wireless telephone service to …
NEW YORK-James Bond and his high-tech Nokia mobile phone may be Hollywood’s idea of the real McCoy. But truth, as journalists well know, often is stranger and scarier than fiction. …
RICHARDSON, Texas- Ericsson Inc. has created the Network Solutions division to develop products, solutions and services for the Internet, and has named Jan-Anders Dalenstam its executive vice president and general …
GOLDEN, Colo.-Superconducting Core Technologies Inc., in partnership with Ball Wireless Communications, announced plans to debut an integrated antenna and tower-top amplifier at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association’s Wireless ’98 convention …
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. said it closed the acquisition of the wireless phone distribution business and certain net assets of Matel-Tecnologia de Teleinformatica S.A.-Matec. Matec is located in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced a $100 million agreement with Optimus to supply switching and radio equipment for its Global System for Mobile communications dual-band wireless telephony network in Portugal. Optimus …
MELBOURNE, Fla.-Harris Semiconductor announced earlier this month its new 800 MHz Interim Standard-95A chips for cellular handsets. With these new products, the company now has two chips for Qualcomm Inc.-based …
JACKSON, Miss.-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. announced improvements in its financial status following preliminary fourth-quarter results. Consolidated operating cash flow reached $20 million in the quarter ended Dec. 31, almost 40-percent …
To the editor: I appreciated your recent article on customer care-you made several relevant points and I look forward to the day when carriers begin to heed your well-worded advice. …
