October 1998

WASHINGTON-International Mobile Telecommunications Association President Alan Shark urged Malaysian telecommunications officials to adopt a flexible approach in wireless equipment standard requirements instead of restricting the types of technologies that can …

Amidst growing pressure from the Clinton administration, Japan’s Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications is set to begin studying other third-generation radio transmission technology proposals-namely cdma2000 technology-besides the W-CDMA proposal it …

WASHINGTON-In a flurry of legislative horse-trading capping the close of the 105th Congress, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) got a provision tucked into the fiscal 1999 omnibus budget …

LEESBURG, Fla.-Wireless Data Solutions Inc. announced it has reached a formal agreement with Angell Communications Inc. involving a 220 MHz frequency project in Mexico. Under the terms of the agreement, …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced its first two products supporting the Wireless Application Protocol at the GSM Asia-Pacific Congress in Singapore. The products are the WAP Gateway and a WAP Service …

Ask any wireless carrier to name its goals, and most would mention they want to build brand loyalty with their existing customers. Yet research from Technology Trends Inc. indicates carriers …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Schlumberger Smart Cards & Terminals said Microcell Connexions Inc. has purchased several hundred thousand of its SIMflex dual-mode subscriber identity module cards. The thumbnail-sized SIM cards that hold …

Philips Electronics NV could announce this week plans to scrap its consumer communications joint venture with Lucent Technologies Inc. A decision about the fate of Philips Consumer Communications is expected …

SAN DIEGO-Willtech Inc. has licensed Qualcomm Inc.’s cdmaOne technology in a royalty-bearing agreement allowing the South Korea-based company to design and develop Code Division Multiple Access test equipment, said Qualcomm. …

WASHINGTON-Whether spectrum used by the private wireless industry will be included in future auction plans remains a murky matter as the Federal Communications Commission gets ready to debate a proposed …

DENVER-Under the direction of its new chief executive-Osmo Hautanen, formerly of Philips Consumer Communications and Nokia Corp.-start-up firm Formus Communications Inc. has made steady progress in its mission in the …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week said personal communications services is a facilities-based competitor to wireline services. However, in an order rejecting BellSouth Corp.’s application to offer long-distance service in …

ORLANDO, Fla.-To paraphrase a Bell Atlantic commercial, “wild things are happening” in dispatch radio, according to speakers at the recent PCS ’98 show. Just outside the spotlight, which is focused …

Austria Kyro Corp.’s Tecnomen Group announced Mobilkom Austria selected it to supply a new messaging system for Mobilkom’s Global System for Mobile communications network expansion. The new system will add …

While many personal communications services licensees have become disillusioned with the PCS market in the United States and have opted to bow out of the game, Leap Wireless International Inc. …

Fledgling software company 3D Cellular offers products designed to provide a more efficient method for wireless carriers with Autoplex wireless systems from Lucent Technologies Inc. to manage database information and …

While the debate around third-generation wireless technology to date has focused on which air interface to incorporate into the standard, leading wireless vendors brought up a few other crucial points …

NEW YORK-Sierra Wireless Inc., a Canada-based maker of wireless data modems, will have commercially available in December its new AirCard CE Cellular Digital Packet Data modem for Windows CE 2.0 …

WASHINGTON-An amendment that had the potential to change the outcome of the C-block auction has been killed. The C-block personal communications services amendment was attached to a slamming bill forwarded …

ZHEJIANG, China-Northern Telecom Ltd. was contracted to provide another expansion digital wireless network of the Zhejiang branch of China United Telecommunications Corp. The contract, valued at more than $20 million, …

Gerard J. Waldron, a communications attorney and former Democratic counsel to the House telecommunications subcommittee, is being prominently mentioned as the leading candidate to succeed John Nakahata as chief of …

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. announced that Iridium L.L.C. selected it to provide sales and fulfillment services for Iridium World Roaming Services. Under the agreement, Brightpoint services will include sourcing, packaging and programming …

AT&T Corp. last week announced plans to buy Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc., ending months of speculation about who might acquire the independent cellular operator. Vanguard has been rumored widely to …

NEW YORK-Analog Devices Inc., Norwood, Mass., plans Oct. 12 to make available to all wireless handset and aftermarket device manufacturers its full-duplex, voice-activated system for hands-free wireless phone kits. “The …

In comments that may reflect competitive positions in today’s mobile phone market, mobile phone and mobile satellite service industries told the Federal Communications Commission more spectrum will be needed for …