Monthly Archives: June, 2000

Nextel looks to Supreme Court for relief

WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc. on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn two decisions from a federal appeals court that said bankruptcy court did...

Nokia enters broadband market

ATLANTA-Nokia Corp. introduced its RoofTop Wireless Routers and Bridges for the residential and small-business market, and CityHopper Broadband Wireless Access products for mid-size and...

M2card forms strategic alliance with wireless ASP Inciscent

FALLS CHURCH, Va.-M2card Inc., a payment solution provider, and Inciscent, a wired-to-wireless application service provider, announced they have formed a strategic alliance to develop...

Standards issues stand in way of WLL growth

When questioned about the narrowband wireless local loop market, people in the telecommunications industry offer such differing opinions you expect a hidden camera to...

AT&T Wireless to conduct GPRS trials with Nortel

DALLAS-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it will conduct noncommercial trials with Nortel Networks Corp. of its General Packet Radio Services technology in several major...

Motorola to use PacketVideo solution for iDEN phones

SAN FRANCISCO-Motorola Inc. said it intends to use PacketVideo Corp.'s MPEG-4 wireless multimedia solution on a future generation of multiple communication phones for integrated...

Computing firms court wireless Internet

ALTANTA-Convergence was the word at SuperComm 2000 this year, with computing firms like Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. both naming wireless Internet a...

Bluetooth hype, products heat up

L.M. Ericsson led the stampede of companies that introduced Bluetooth products in the past few weeks, but some industry experts believe it will be...

FCC will guide courts on claims against carriers

WASHINGTON-A Federal Communications Commission ruling on liability could be issued within weeks, with the completion of a staff proposal that is expected to steer...

FEMA head pushes carriers on warnings

WASHINGTON-James Lee Witt, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said last week Congress should intervene if mobile-phone carriers continue to refuse to offer...

Nokia tests WAP on W-CDMA network

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. reported it carried out the first Wireless Application Protocol service over a trial wideband Code Division Multiple Access system.The tests, completed...

Crown to roll out 3G network

WARWICK, England-Crown Castle UK Ltd. announced it won a contract to roll out a third-generation network on the Isle of Man, to be built...

CTIA, FDA create CRADA

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, clearing the way for research...

Minn. carrier tries to treat prepaid users same as postpaid

NEW YORK-After a year-long collaborative trial with a cellular carrier in its hometown of Mankato, Minn., PrePaid Systems Inc. has begun marketing its handset-based...

Qualcomm gets voucher credit from FCC

The eight-year dispute between Qualcomm Inc. and the Federal Communications Commission over a pioneer's preference license ended last week. The FCC granted Qualcomm a...

Europeans lean toward wireline replacement

LONDON-Almost half of cellular phone users in Western Europe expect to use their mobile phones for all voice traffic in the future, with only...

D.C. Notes

There's a virtual reality about government spending these days. Just ask Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.), ranking minority member of the House Appropriations Committee.Faced with...

Vendors focus on wireless Internet

ATLANTA-Wireless infrastructure vendors made their wireless Internet plans a major priority at SuperComm here last week, introducing network solutions portfolios that, while different in...

Supreme Court declines to review privacy rules

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Supreme Court declined last week to hear a case involving how telecommunications carriers use customer information, thereby allowing carriers to use the...

ThinAirApps offers new device server

NEW YORK-ThinAirApps L.L.C. released its ThinAirServer 1.1, which permits two-way, real-time information access to a range of out-of-the-box applications from a variety of wireless...

States revive need for wireless-only area code

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry will not suffer if customers are assigned telephone numbers with specific area codes, a state regulator told the Federal Communications Commission...

Nextel announces Gulf Coast coverage

PENSACOLA, Fla.-Nextel Partners Inc. launched its digital wireless network in the Mississippi Gulf Coast; Mobile, Ala.; and the Florida Gulf Coast regions.The coverage area...

Hutchison forms consortium for Swedish 3G license bid

HONG KONG-Hutchison Whampoa and Sweden's Investor AB formed a consortium that plans to apply for a third-generation license in Sweden. The proposed ownership structure...

Qualcomm dogged in pursuit of Chinese market

ing negative news about Code Division Multiple Access technology prospects for China Unicom, Qualcomm Inc. quickly hammered out eight intellectual property research and development...

SBC joins flat-rate fray

DALLAS-SBC Wireless, a division of SBC Communications Inc., introduced Digital Edge USA, its nationwide, flat-rate wireless calling plan.The new offering includes six nationwide plans...
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