2001

Executives for personal digital assistant giant Palm Inc. last week discussed the possibility of splitting the company’s operating system business and its device manufacturing segment into two separate companies, an …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium announced they disagree with several conclusion in the CDMA Development Group’s sponsored June 2001 study “GSM or CDMA: The Commercial and Technology Challenges for …

WASHINGTON-The House telecom subcommittee heard testimony last Thursday on what Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) called “the most compelling issue to come before it this year: ” enhanced 911 deployment. But …

WASHINGTON-The cellular industry, putting the brakes for now on major legislation to avoid unnecessarily provoking the Pentagon, is floating a stop-gap plan on Capitol Hill that urges federal regulators to …

As the Virgin Mobile rumor factory continues to pump out news stories, Sprint PCS finally brought some substance to the situation. The wireless carrier issued a brief, two-sentence release confirming …

After months of struggling to beef up its customer base and emerge, even slightly, from debt, Adaptive Broadband Corp. said it’s officially open to the possibility of a sale, merger …

The economy cast a pall over the vendor space last week with major equipment makers wallowing in job cuts, negative credit ratings, earnings forecast reviews and downgrades. The companies involved …

144 kilobits/second or higher in high mobility (vehicular) traffic; 384 kilobits/second for pedestrian traffic; 2 Megabits/second or higher for indoor traffic.

DENVER – A survey commissioned by wireless device management provider Reason Inc. and conducted by nVision Research of corporations that use wireless devices revealed that half of them have no …

SINGAPORE SAMSys Technologies Inc., a company that provides radio frequency identification (RFID) reader hardware, and Tunity Pte. Ltd. of Singapore, an Asia-Pacific RFID channel development firm, said they plan to …

BT Wireless and Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile International said their operating companies in the United Kingdom and Germany plan to cooperate on the rollout of third-generation networks. The agreement includes coordinated …

Tower companies tend to fall into a safe and cozy place in the hard driving, fast moving wireless machine, seemingly immune to the pitfalls that plague carriers and network equipment …

Their words were cautious yet wise, and at times peppered with remorse, but as Cingular Wireless Chief Executive Officer Stephen Carter and Verizon Wireless President and CEO Dennis Strigl addressed …

Major hardware and software vendors are teaming up to reinforce their strengths and shore up their weaknesses as the wireless industry marches to the third-generation of Internet services. Involved in …

“Come on in, there’s room for everybody!” That’s apparently the call a variety of companies hear when it comes to the personal digital assistant market. And even though PDA giants …

WASHINGTON-An upcoming House bill could diminish the Pentagon’s role in deciding the terms and conditions governing the transfer of Department of Defense spectrum to the mobile-phone industry for third-generation wireless …

FRANKFURT, Germany-In a win for new entrants in Germany’s mobile market, RegTP, the German telecom regulator, said it would allow the country’s six Universal Mobile Telecommunications System license holders to …

The commercial wireless division of the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau allowed the Friends of the Earth and the Forest Conservation Council to withdraw a petition that claimed a tower being …

While many Bluetooth companies have made small-stake announcements at the Bluetooth Congress in Monte Carlo, computing heavyweight Palm Inc. stepped up to the high-rollers tables to introduce its Palm Bluetooth …

The use of affiliates to manage and operate local markets is common in the wireless industry. While the larger carriers use affiliates to help build out their national footprints, affiliates …

Dr. George Carlo has missed his true calling. Carlo, who led the six-year, $28 million effort to study any potential links between wireless phone use and cancer, should write self-help …

As predictable as ants at a picnic, the summer of 2001 finds the mainstream press proclaiming the death of the paging industry. This time around, they are wrapping it inside …

LEESBURG, Va.-Iridium Satellite L.L.C. began shipping last week an order of 1,000 phones pursuant to a contract signed with the Defense Information Systems Agency last December. The 1,000 phones also …

GOTHENBURG, Sweden-Telematics service provider WirelessCar has established WirelessCar Consulting, a global telematics consulting service designed to provide knowledge, advice and specialized training in all aspects of telematics, the company said. …

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday denied Small Business in Telecommunications’ often-quixotic attempt to turn back the clock and overturn the specialized mobile …