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If there is any hope second-generation CDMA technology will penetrate Europe, it may be through some struggling NMT 450 operators. The NMT MoU group, consisting of NMT 450 operators from …

BANGALORE, India-Although the growth of South Asia’s relatively new markets has temporarily slowed due to political and financial problems, increased competition and investment have made them extremely promising. With managed …

Recently I have read a few opinions casting doubt on the value of the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) in today’s converging wireless and Internet industries. I consider these opinions to …

Nortel e-mobility services Nortel Networks introduced a portfolio of subscriber services, called e-mobility services, that provide rapid, flexible deployment of leading-edge voice and data capabilities optimized for the Internet Protocol …

TOKYO-Yoshiaki Shioda, senior manager for NEC, recently visited Kirgiz, a republic south of the Commonwealth of Independent States, to help local people get connected with each other. In Kirgiz, only …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The trunked radio industry in South Africa is about to experience a revolutionary change with the introduction of new technologies and standards. An entirely new market is being …

MELBOURNE, Australia-A steady growth in demand for trunked land mobile services (TLMS) has forced the Australian Communications Authority to auction the last two blocks of five channels in Melbourne. “We’ve …

CHESTERFIELD, Mo.-A new study conducted by Datacomm Research Co. and Techvest International found Internet-based e-commerce will skyrocket, but only companies that develop and implement entirely new business models will succeed. …

Wireless broadband service has finally received attention from the likes of big telecom players Sprint Corp. and MCI WorldCom Inc. The race is on to access the local market and …

WASHINGTON-Two high-ranking House Science Committee Democrats have asked Energy Secretary Bill Richardson to investigate allegations of misconduct by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in connection with the licensing of a …

WASHINGTON-House Commerce appropriations subcommittee Chairman Harold Rogers (R-Ky.) last week sternly questioned the Federal Communications Commission’s consideration of cost as a factor in arbitrating a long-running dispute between the Justice …

Call Oliver Stone. The military-industrial complex is alive and well! Seems telecom execs want to be right in the thick of things at the 50th anniversary celebration of NATO, April …

Don Buzzelli, president and chief executive officer of MessageLink Inc., Duluth, Ga., is looking to make a play in the paging industry’s current consolidation stage. His plan is fairly simple-buy …

Motorola Inc.’s Worldwide Information Network Services group confirmed the Defense Information Systems Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense awarded it a three-year contract valued at up to $219 million …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry gained almost 14 million new subscribers by the end of 1998-a growth rate of nearly 25 percent in one year, said the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last …

PageMart Wireless Inc. expanded its resale and network integration effort last week, announcing a two-stage strategic relationship with AirTouch Communications Inc.’s paging division, similar to an agreement announced with Metrocall …

San Diego-based Ensemble Communications Inc. is approaching worldwide broadband wireless access markets with a point-to-multipoint wireless system that has three key technology layers with one thing in common-they can be …

Widespread consolidation among telecommunications carriers has concentrated buying power into fewer and fewer hands, with vendors experiencing many of the side effects. In the last year alone, at least half …

The announcement last week that Comcast Corp. and MediaOne Group signed an agreement to merge in a $60 billion deal driven by broadband cable networks could affect the wireless industry …

SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J.-International Wireless Technologies L.L.C. has developed a single-chip solution that permits wireless device manufacturers to use one platform for multiple mobile and fixed voice and data standards. By …

Early cellular carriers did it. Early paging carriers did it. Mobile data carriers are doing it now, and according to analyst Tim O’Neil of SoundView Technology Group Inc., Iridium L.L.C. …

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Iridium Brasil reports it has 1,000 subscribers and that next month it will reduce the cost of its Motorola satellite handset to make the service more attractive to …

CAMARILLO, Calif.-Following a recently announced strategic shift in senior management with the appointment of Kirk A. Waldron to president and chief executive officer, AML Communications Inc. downsized its 92-person staff …

WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court has rejected an assertion by the wireless industry it should not have to pay into individual state universal service funds. “Today’s [March 16] decision is a …

The Federal Communications Commission could rule today on whether Leap Wireless International Inc. is qualified to own C-and F-block personal communications services licenses and bid in tomorrow’s reauction of C-block …