Monthly Archives: September, 2003

Details emerge on Sprint’s PTT

As Sprint PCS continues to trial its push-to-talk solution ahead of a planned pre-year-end launch date, details emerged last week about the offering that...

LNP to put pressure on call centers

Wireless call centers should be gearing up for this fall's implementation of wireless number portability when they are likely to be inundated with calls...

Nextel adds some pizzazz to new handset lineup

Nextel Communications Inc.'s dated handset selection is set to receive a jolt next month as the carrier is expected to begin launching new handsets...

Competing bills address export issues

WASHINGTON-With the United States facing $4 billion in retaliatory tariffs from the European Union by month's end, telecom and high-tech firms find themselves split...

Hong Kong’s CSL launches world’s second EDGE network

HONG KONG-Hong Kong mobile operator CSL said it launched Asia's first commercial EDGE network using infrastructure equipment and handsets from Nokia Corp.The operator plans...

UIQ satisfied with OS niche

KARLSKRONA, Sweden-Johan Sandberg freely admits that UIQ Technology AB, based in Ronneby, Sweden, is not exactly a major force in the hotly contested mobile-phone...

With reorg almost finished, Ericsson looks to future

GOTEBORG, Sweden-Speaking from one of L.M. Ericsson's major design headquarters in the company's home base of Sweden, Hakan Eriksson pronounced Ericsson's massive cost-cutting and...

Digital content debate creeps into Congress

WASHINGTON-Congress last week dipped its toe into the dirty waters of digital pornography, an emerging issue with financial and intellectual property implications for mobile-phone...

Chipmakers show diverse solutions

On balance, wireless chips have carried a small swagger as the industry's only oasis of good news. But Texas Instruments Inc. caused the sector...

Nextel ready to ‘do’ ad campaign

During the past 11 years, Nextel Communications Inc. has carved out a healthy niche for itself in the wireless market while using a proprietary...

Tropos connects Baton Rouge with Wi-Fi network

Tropos Networks Inc. will supply equipment to enable Verge Wireless Networks Inc.'s metro-scale Wi-Fi network in downtown Baton Rouge, La. The Tropos system works...

Cingular talks data

Often seen as lacking a strong next-generation wireless data roadmap, Cingular Wireless L.L.C. has began to nudge its way up the wireless data ranks...

AT&TW to sell Motorola-made phone using Microsoft platform

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. plans to sell a Motorola Inc.-manufactured smart phone that incorporates Microsoft Corp. technology.Motorola said it will launch a Microsoft Smartphone-powered...

Tragedy ushered in network improvements

The difference between cellular networks before and after the Sept. 11, 2001, tragedy came in bold relief during the recent power outage in New...

Greece picks Telcordia for nationwide LNP

PISCATAWAY, N.J.-Greece's National Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT) has awarded a five-year exclusive contract to Telcordia Technologies Inc. for number portability. Telcordia will support...

724 touts successful tests of alert platform

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-724 Solutions announced that a recent series of integration tests of its X-treme Alerts Platform, released in March, showed a "significant level"...

House keeps punishment for raiding E911 funds in bill

WASHINGTON-States shouldn't raid funds collected from wireless subscribers for enhanced 911services, and carriers shouldn't collect additional money to use to deploy E911 service if...

Between Gulliver and Gilligan

It is a curious contrast, not without painful irony, this reconstruction business in Iraq and democratic experiment in the Middle East. The United States,...

Cometa to target Seattle with Wi-Fi

SEATTLE-Cometa Networks said it will launch more than 100 new hot spot sites in the Seattle area Sept. 25, and it expects to activate...

Ntelos exits bankruptcy as private company

WAYNESBORO, Va.-Rural telecommunications provider Ntelos Inc. said it had completed its financial restructuring and emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings following the confirmation of...

Converged devices to buoy PDA space

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-The emergence of converged wireless handheld devices capable of multiple communications tasks may provide relief for the seemingly slowing PDA industry, according...

Lauer adds new titles at Sprint

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS President Len Lauer added the title of president and chief operating officer of Sprint Corp., where he will lead the...

FCC to check up on wireless LNP readiness

WASHINGTON-The chiefs of the FCC's Enforcement and Wireless Telecommunications Bureaus want to go on field trips to see how well carriers are implementing wireless...

With much fanfare, CTIA unveils consumer code amid criticism

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association fell short in proving to critics that its voluntary code of conduct, which it officially unveiled Sept. 9,...

FCC defers to IEEE on UWB ruling

True to its cautious style, The Federal Communications Commission has shied from committing to a definite ruling on the ultra-wideband technology, which has divided...
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