Monthly Archives: October, 1999

APION, SYMMETRY DEMO WAP OVER GPRS EQUIPMENT

SAN JOSE, Calif.-APiON Ltd., a Wireless Application Protocol infrastructure provider, and Symmetry Communications Inc., which provides General Packet Radio System equipment, announced that have...

COURT GIVES PRIVACY PRIORITY OVER FIRST AMENDMENT

WASHINGTON-In a victory for the wireless industry and a blow to free-speech advocates, a federal court here has revived a high-profile cell-phone eavesdropping lawsuit...

HOUSE MEMBERS URGE SENATE ACTION ON CALEA GRANDFATHER DATE

WASHINGTON-Six House members last week sent a letter to Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, urging consideration of a...

KENNARD: FCC NOT BOUND TO NEXTEL IN PACT FOR PCS

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard last week told the House of Representatives' top telecommunications lawmaker, Rep. Thomas Bliley (R-Va.), that a letter signed...

TIA URGES NO INTERNET REGULATION

WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Industry Association is urging lawmakers and regulators to maintain the "hands off the 'Net" approach."The communications industry continues to boom ... Deployment...

TELEDESIC CONTEMPLATES EARLY MARKET ENTRY TO SCOOP STRUGGLING LEOS

While the bankruptcies of Iridium L.L.C. and ICO Global Communications have cast doubt on the mobile satellite services market, fixed satellite services provider Teledesic...

NEC RESTRUCTURING ADDS WIRELESS FOCUS

TOKYO-NEC Corp. announced a corporate restructuring to speed up growth and said it will refocus its business on value-added solutions for the Internet. This...

NOKIA SHIPS WAP HANDSETS

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it began its first shipments of the 7110 Wireless Application Protocol handsets. The GSM 900 and 1800 handsets are WAP...

ASSOCIATIONS DECRY AMTA AUCTION PLAN

WASHINGTON-Twenty-three organizations representing a broad cross section of American industry blasted an American Mobile Telecommunications Association proposal to auction a big chunk of the...

LUCENT TO DROP PCS 2000 SHOW

Lucent Technologies Inc. will be noticeably absent when the Personal Communications Industry Association kicks off its 2000 showcase next September in Chicago.The infrastructure vendor...

SPRINT PCS OFFERS NEW TEAM OPTION FOR BUSINESSES

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS announced its business customers now can select a new Nationwide Team Option for team-based calling from any Sprint PCS phone...

PHILIPS LICENSES UP.BROWSER

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Phone.com Inc. said Philips Consumer Communications has licensed the UP.Browser microbrowser software for its line of Global System for Mobile communications wireless...

SPRINT PCS SELECTS QUALCOMM FOR 3G NETWORK

SAN DIEGO-Sprint PCS said it selected Qualcomm CDMA Technologies to provide infrastructure for trials of third-generation wireless technology based on the 3G Code Division...

CLINTON VETOES ANTENNA-SITING MEASURE

WASHINGTON-President Clinton last week vetoed an appropriations bill that fosters antenna siting in Rock Creek Park and on other federal property in the nation's...

NANC: BIG RESELLERS SHOULD REPORT NUMBER USAGE

WASHINGTON-The North American Numbering Council said resellers that receive more than 1,000 numbers from an original assignee must report their usage to the North...

TELEFONICA MOVILES BEGINS SNAPTRACK TECHNOLOGY TESTING

MADRID, Spain-Telefonica Moviles began technical testing of SnapTrack Inc.'s enhanced global positioning system location technology.The goal of the trial is to consider future applications...

KUWAIT FIRM TO USE MOTOROLA SYSTEM

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Kuwait Mobile Telecommunication Co. awarded a $30 million contract to Motorola Inc. to expand its Global System for Mobile communications cellular network.Motorola's...

VIEWPOINT: TALKIN’ BOUT AN EVOLUTION

The wireless industry has yet another trade show under its belt. It's time to sit back and take a deep breath before all hell...

WIRELESS 911 BILL HITS LIABILITY, PRIVACY OBSTACLES

WASHINGTON-The wireless 911 bill, once assumed a sure bet for congressional approval this year, has hit snags over liability, privacy and other issues that...

CLARIFICATION

A photo accompanying a story about tower siting in Rock Creek Park in the Sept. 27 issue of RCR (Page 25) was an illustration...

OMNIPOINT-QUALCOMM PIONEER’S PREFERENCE BATTLE BUILDS

The Federal Communications Commission once again must address rules surrounding the now-defunct pioneer's preference process, a program riddled with controversy throughout this decade.Omnipoint Corp....

D.C. NOTES: HMO-BILE PHONE LIABILITY RX

The wireless guys aren't the only ones nagging the GOP-led Congress for liability protection against trial lawyers. The insurance, automobile, pharmaceutical, retail, chemical, tobacco...

SPRINT BUY WOULD GIVE MCI WORLDCOM NEEDED WIRELESS PRESENCE

Speculation circulated last week that MCI WorldCom Inc. and Sprint Corp. were in merger talks, following published reports that linked the two companies.Neither company...

JUDGE STOPS FCC PLANS ON METRO PCS

Bankrupt C-block licensee General Wireless Inc. has satisfied too much of its reorganization plan for the Federal Communications Commission to appeal it, a Texas...

LUCENT, MOBICOM TO BUILD HANDSETS

ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group and Mobicom Corp. said they are working together to build and deliver wireless handsets to China's Global System...
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