Wireless Technology

As the arms of wireless communications continue to stretch across the country, wireless local loop services are becoming increasingly popular, especially in rural areas where landline phones don’t reach many homes and businesses. In the past year, companies such as …

The subject of organ donation is rarely a casual conversation. It’s a frightening subject because it forces you not only to confront your own mortality, but the mortality of your loved ones. And yet, educating the public about organ transplants …

WASHINGTON-An International Telecommunication Union task group in Beijing last week approved a carrier-crafted plan to harmonize competing U.S. and European Code Division Multiple Access technologies for Internet-friendly third-generation mobile phones, paving the way for the compromise to be translated into …

WASHINGTON-The close of the six-year, $27 million Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. program has re-energized a public debate about whether mobile telephones cause cancer or pose other health problems to the nation’s 70 million wireless subscribers. Indeed, WTR Chairman George Carlo …

NEW YORK-By July, Atlantic Tele-Network Inc. plans to launch service under the Cellular One brand in Bermuda, a tax-haven country with the third-highest per-capita income in the world and average monthly cellular phone bills of $89. The holding company, based …

ARLINGTON, Va.-Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard last week launched a new effort to export the telecommunications revolution to African nations and other developing countries. “Fair, open and transparent regulatory processes are essential to U.S. companies doing business abroad. This …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission should encourage the deployment of wireless technology in rural America, including Indian reservations, said 11 Senate Democrats last week. “As you know, there are some rural areas that currently lack basic phone service or have very …

WASHINGTON-The fallout of last week’s Federal Communications Commission decision on solving the dead-zone problem saw the chairman’s office denouncing the industry’s response and consumers advocates split. As expected, the FCC did not mandate technical requirements for how wireless carriers address …

In the wake of the deadly tornadoes earlier this month that ripped through Oklahoma and Kansas, the idea of using wireless technology as a warning system for natural disasters is receiving renewed attention. Douglas “Bud” Weiser, who heads a volunteer …

Mobile phones have become commonplace in our society, but they aren’t welcome every place. People increasingly have become annoyed listening to others’ ringing phones and loud conversations in restaurants, on trains and even in movie theaters. And many business owners …

As you may recall, Vice President Gore’s name was floated here recently for wireless industry poster child in recognition of his staff’s cache of mobile phones. Remember, Al, fund raising is your first call. Well, Gore has competition. And not …

WASHINGTON-Motorola Inc., the top American wireless manufacturer, is internally debating whether it can support what appears will be a weak U.S. position on third-generation mobile phone spectrum at the World Radiocommunication Conference next year. Motorola, according to sources, is distressed …

The market for broadband wireless access services is expected to grow dramatically in the next several years, and vendors are scrambling to get systems ready for the emerging market. Fixed terrestrial wireless systems are expected to generate global service revenues …

MIAMI-The market opportunity for international roaming is clear, present and growing, but domestic carriers so far have been focused on tapping the large and more immediate potential posed by burgeoning data traffic at home. “Many of the U.S. carriers I …

No matter that future wireless technology will do everything from make your coffee in the morning to balance your checkbook at night, the enduring value-revolutionary hallmark-of mobile phones remains their ability to facilitate real-time human communication, heretofore artificially restricted by …

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 competition in India, minimal competition in Pakistan and a highly …

DENVER, United States-Students at a high school used wireless technology as a lifeline to the world from within the confines of their suburban school while two gunmen terrorized students and faculty in a rampage that left 15 dead and 23 …

DENVER-Columbine High School students last week used wireless technology as a lifeline to the world from within the confines of their Littleton, Colo., school while two gunmen terrorized students and faculty in a rampage that left 15 dead and 23 …

After coming off one of its worst years in history, the semiconductor industry continues to show signs of recovery. The industry finished last year with total sales of $125.6 billion, a decrease of 8.4 percent from year-end 1997 sales, according …

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. “Portals to Profit: E-Commerce Business Models and Enabling Technologies,” also …

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 potentially revolutionary wireless technology called micropower impulse radar. A House …

WASHINGTON-Despite the much-ballyhooed settlement of the patent dispute between Qualcomm Inc. and L.M. Ericsson and the global embrace of multiple third-generation mobile phone standards, it remains unclear whether American wireless technology can break into a European market that has shunned …

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 mid-year, IWT said it expects to beta test with two …

ARLINGTON, Va.-The Electronic Messaging Association announced the formation of the Wireless Messaging Group, designed to help bring wireless messaging mainstream. According to EMA, the WMG’s specific charter is “to promote wireless technologies and solutions and educate corporate end users, (Information …

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry scored big legal victories on the health front last week as the Supreme Court put strict limits on the admissibility of expert testimony in product liability cases and declined to review a lower court’s dismissal of a …