1999

WASHINGTON-Rep. George Gekas (R-Pa.), chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on commercial and administrative law, last week said the schools and libraries Internet program is possibly wasting taxpayer dollars on …

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 threaten passage of the legislation in …

AirTouch Cellular plans to unveil a new version of its calling party pays service later this month. AirTouch will launch the new service first in Colorado, followed by rollouts in …

Swedish sub-system and component supplier Arkivator agreed to acquire 64 percent of the shares of LGP Telecom Inc., a subsidiary of Stockholm-based LGP Telecom AB, and offered to acquire the …

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 phones. Philips said it expects to …

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 would comment on the reports. …

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 American Numbering Plan Administrator. Resellers that …

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 and services that GPS and …

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 for Mobile communications market, estimated at …

A photo accompanying a story about tower siting in Rock Creek Park in the Sept. 27 issue of RCR (Page 25) was an illustration and not the actual proposed tower …

HIGHLANDS, N.J.-The Wireless Information Networks Laboratory at Rutgers University commemorated Sept. 30 its 10th birthday and the centennial anniversary of Guglielmo Marconi’s historic first, the transmission of wireless telegraphy messages …

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 district court judge ruled last week. …

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 follows NEC’s Feb. 19 announcement of …

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 450-470 MHz band and reserve only …

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 capital, and threatened to veto a …

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 to another Sprint PCS phone. The …

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 and financial industries also have opened …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Six cellular phone companies, including a consortium led by South Africa’s MTN, have been prequalified by Kenya’s Communications Commission to bid for a second mobile phone license in …

Alcatel’s recollection of 1995, the year of the last Telecom show, was of GSM coverage being patchy in most European countries, with network designers basing their plans on handsets with …

TOKYO-While operators and venders successfully found a way to interconnect two different systems for third-generation services, NTT DoCoMo and its vendors are now gearing up to develop equipment for wideband-CDMA …

Alcatel Argentina. With Telecom Argentina for a fixed wireless access network. Value: US$99.6 million Ericsson Argentina. With Unif

TOKYO-Softbank, Microsoft and Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) announced they will establish a joint company to provide wireless access line services. According to the announcement, the new joint company will …

The biggest challenge for wireless operators during the next four years most likely will be obtaining additional spectrum, according to Keith Radousky, director of engineering, BellSouth Cellular Corp. “(Wireless) data …

Japan Telecom (JT) plans to launch its 3G services based on wideband-CDMA in the third quarter of 2001. Koichi Sakata said JT will put an emphasis on its 3G business …

On 30 March 1999, the Indian government declared its New Telecom Policy (NTP), recognizing that building a world-class integrated telecom infrastructure is a major key to its future. The government …