2001

WASHINGTON-While policy-makers struggle to balance commercial spectrum needs and national security, the outcome of industry efforts to secure the military’s 1700 MHz band for third-generation wireless systems could be influenced …

By outsourcing their handset and network equipment production, major vendors may be unwittingly yielding enormous influence to contract electronics manufacturers that could acquire enough expertise and experience to develop their …

NEW YORK-A noteworthy dynamic has developed in which major players like AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Cingular Wireless and Sprint PCS are actively promoting prepaid services, while smaller providers like Dobson …

WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc., a one-time poster child for everything that went wrong with the government’s C-block auction for PCS licenses, said it stands ready to continue to build its network, …

WASHINGTON-Lawmakers and disability groups are turning up the volume of criticism of mobile-phone firms and federal regulators over the lack of progress in making digital wireless communications accessible to hearing-impaired …

WASHINGTON-Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) officially asked the General Accounting Office to probe growing mobile-phone service problems in the United States, a move likely to produce additional data that could bolster …

WASHINGTON-The Wireless Foundation, the charitable arm of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, has expanded its successful Donate-A-Phone program so that carriers and other wireless retailers may donate $2 to …

Timing is everything. As European wireless markets face saturation, the rollout of next-generation services becomes even more essential to the continued growth of the industry. “Ultimately, the potential is there, …

WASHINGTON-A spokesman for a lawmaker at the center of the Internet tax debate said a front-page USA Today story last week that reported a compromise had been reached was incorrect, …

Mobile location services provider U.S. Wireless Corp. is under threat of being delisted from the Nasdaq National Market following a series of findings that call into question the integrity of …

The GSM Association-the body behind GSM and GPRS networks, as well as the popular short message service-announced last week another standards effort, one that some industry observers believe will be …

WASHINGTON-The White House, in the first official expression of wireless trade policy, said it supports technology neutrality but did not signal it planned to take as aggressive a stance as …

NTT DoCoMo applies for stock listings, calls back handsets NTT DoCoMo Inc. has applied for listings this fall on the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange, according …

Verizon Wireless is considering either using wideband-CDMA technology as its third-generation network standard or adding the technology to its CDMA-based network. Company spokespeople assert the move is not new-or news-but …

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 …