Wireless Technology

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry last week was rocked by two confounding controversies involving a California bill to promote hands-free devices as a precautionary measure against mobile phone radiation and a British consumer magazine’s claim that such gadgets cause a three-fold increase …

ATIS The members of Standards Committee T1, a telecommunications network standards development organization sponsored by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions, chose leaders for its full committee and six technical subcommittees at the group’s national meeting. E. Raymond Hapeman, of …

SAN FRANCISCO-A citizens group plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a recent federal appeals court decision upholding the Federal Communications Commission’s mobile-phone radiation safety standard. The Ad Hoc Association of Parties Concerned about FCC Radio-frequency Radiation and …

A bill to prohibit the interception and dissemination of conversations over wireless technology has been introduced in the United States Senate. “In the Information Era, keeping our personal information private has become very difficult,” said Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), chairman …

European regulators this year will auction, grant or selectively tender 70 to 80 licenses. It’s a double-edged sword for the incumbent operators, which in many places have to compete for a license. If they don’t win a license, their value …

One press article after another has asserted that the European Union’s single standards regime for wireless services has given Europe an enormous “lead” over the United States. These stories, however, do not present a complete picture regarding the global leadership …

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla.-e-MedSoft.com completed development of wireless technology for its suite of health care products. The improved suite includes technology compatible with all the industry’s handheld and wireless devices. It can be embedded in the company’s core server and extends …

WASHINGTON-While the Senate appears ready to pass China trade legislation sent to Congress by President Clinton last week, the administration lacks the votes in the House to pass a measure that would dramatically open China’s vast wireless telecom market to …

Broadband. It is a familiar term being tossed around the wireless industry like a hot potato, but its relatively new status is making its definition, applications and implications elusive to many. At the most basic level, wireless broadband-also known as …

WASHINGTON-In new research not yet published, a prominent Motorola Inc.-sponsored scientist has found genetic damage from mobile-phone frequency radiation that may support similar findings by Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. After making the discovery last year, Dr. Joseph Roti Roti, a …

WASHINGTON-A new study failed to find an increase in cancer and other diseases among nearly 200,000 employees who worked at Motorola Inc. from 1976 to 1996. The study, published in the March issue of Epidemiology and underwritten by Motorola, was …

NEW YORK-If the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 were a building under construction, inspectors evaluating this work in progress should be concerned about its structural integrity. The law “is supported by two pillars: universal service and competition,” said Gregory L. …

HANNOVER, Germany-After a year of industry enthusiasm and the wild market forecasts that have surrounded the short-range wireless technology Bluetooth, the silicon-chip developers used the giant CeBIT 2000 exhibition to unveil products that appear to provide the first step on …

Alcatel China. For GSM network extensions in Jilin, Zhejiang, Ningxia and Shaanxi provinces. Value: US$80 million Germany. With T-Mobil for a network extension. Value: US$71.2 million Kosovo. With the Kosovo Post Office and Telecommunications for a GSM Network with a …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-With four operators competing nationwide, Chile boasts a wireless client base that grew 175 percent during 1999, thanks to the implementation of calling party pays. CPP also has facilitated a wireless-penetration rate that is now almost 15 percent. …

CANNES, France and HANNOVER, Germany-Visitors at the ever-expanding GSM World Congress, held in February in Cannes, France, could have mistaken the huge exhibition as focusing exclusively on Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). For the second year running, it appeared almost every …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association launched the Wireless 2000 Mobile Portal just in time for its Wireless 2000 convention this week in New Orleans. The new portal, powered by i3 Mobile, will enable attendees to look up exhibitor booth numbers, …

CHELMSFORD, Mass.-Axis Communications announced a new direction in its corporate strategy, forming a mobile Internet business segment dedicated to developing proximity-based wireless technologies and services. In support of the move, the company named Magnus Karsund its chief executive officer and …

WASHINGTON-Prospects for the widespread development of ultra-wideband technologies were dealt a blow last week when the aviation community-associations representing both airlines and air travelers-expressed concern that UWB technologies will interfere with the global positioning system. “We are extremely concerned about …

Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced a number of new test-solution products and made improvements to others. The Agilent 84000 RFIC series model A20E is a low-cost test solution developed specifically for high-volume semiconductor manufacturers that make radio-frequency power-amplifier integrated …

WASHINGTON-A major controversy with national implications has erupted in Massachusetts over draft legislation that would promote antenna siting collocation and streamline siting approval for carriers throughout the state, despite protests from citizens who say the measure effectively guts local zoning …

WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Industry Association is joining other business sectors in backing President Clinton’s call for congressional passage this year of permanent Normal Trade Relations for China. With China’s application for membership in the World Trade Organization looking increasingly favorable, U.S. …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and L.M. Ericsson said they have agreed to jointly develop and market a wireless technology solution supporting both Code Division Multiple Access and Bluetooth standards. According to the agreement, Ericsson’s Microelectronics group will develop a Bluetooth-compatible radio …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it shipped on time chip samples and system software for the MSM5000 Mobile Station Modem. The company said this product is the world’s first third-generation 1x MultiCarrier solution for Code Division Multiple Access handsets that is …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration’s campaign to narrow the digital divide has come under attack by the American Electronics Association, the National Telephone Cooperative Association and some Republican presidential candidates. The digital divide is a term coined by the administration to describe …