"And so this is Christmas, and what have you done? Another year over, and a new one just begun." This old John Lennon song looped through my head as I reviewed stories RCR printed during the past 12 months. During 51 publishing cycles, I...
JANUARY7-8 Telecommunications Business Environment Conference, by the International Telecommunications Group. Denver. (303) 779-4141.9-12 Consumer Electronics Show '97, Sands Expo and Convention Center, Las Vegas. (703) 907-7674.19-22 19th Annual Pacific Telecommunications Conference, by the Pacific Telecommunications Council. Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii. (808) 941-3789.22-23 Local...
DECEMBER9-10 Wireless in the Local Loop, by IBC USA Conferences Inc. The Grand Hyatt, San Francisco. (508) 481-6400.9-10 Universal Service, by IBC USA Conferences Inc. Hyatt Regency, Bethesda, Md. (508) 481-6400.10 Wireless Messaging Integration, by Motorola Inc.'s Integrated Software Products. Dallas Medallion, Dallas. (800)...
NOVEMBER25-26 Personal Communications Services, by Bellcore. Richardson, Texas. (800) 521-CORE.26 European Churn Management Seminar, by DataMind, Lucent Technologies Inc., META Group, Red Brick and Silicon Graphics Inc. Bonn, Germany. 44-1734/25.DECEMBER2-3 The Wireless Buildout: Western Regional, co-sponsored by the Personal Communications Industry Association, APA and RCR...
WASHINGTON-President Clinton has threatened to repeal a key provision of the administration's new encryption policy if it determines that legislation undercuts security safeguards, a move one prominent Republican telecom lawmaker believes is intended to derail his bill to liberalize scrambling technology exports.In a memorandum...
After DSP Communications Inc. announced plans to merge with Proxim Inc. last Tuesday, DSPC's stock dropped 49 percent to close at $35.25 on the Nasdaq exchange. But Merrill Lynch calls the merger a "smart, strategic move" for DSPC toward diversifying its product base and...
The full-size SIM card may lend itself more easily to future services, said Powertel Inc., a U.S. wireless operator that has contracted to buy handsets from one of two manufacturers offering the feature.Two sizes of Subscriber Identity Modules are being deployed by U.S. operators...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration's new encryption policy could force wireless firms over time to use scrambling products that are potentially more expensive and less secure, shortcomings that don't sit well with key lawmakers and privacy advocates.The president, acting on recommendations from an inter-agency task force...
TRENTON, N.J.-To paraphrase an old Barbra Streisand song, "On a rainy day, you can hear forever," even when making a call to Colorado from a car parked beneath a water tower in the state capital of New Jersey.That's the sound quality of a brief...
NEW YORK-Motorola Inc.'s unusual advance warning last week of poor third-quarter expectations raised eyebrows and at least two questions.Is Motorola still the bellwether company, giving early notice of stormy weather ahead for the entire industry? Or are its problems largely attributed to external factors...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J.-The Microelectronics Group of Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it is shipping to wireless equipment manufacturers what it claims is the world's fastest digital signal processor.The DSP 1620 operates at 120 million instructions per second with a 3 volt power supply, nearly twice...
NEW YORK-A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni has determined that wireless handsets need a certain aura about them in order to be conveniently hands-free when used.Two years in development, their proprietary chip technology employing a weak magnetic induction field, is the reason...
Licensees of narrowband personal communications services report their development, testing and introduction plans for two-way messaging services are right on schedule. But Ian Gillott, manager of wireless research for IDC/Link Resources, suggests carriers have shifted to more conservative time schedules.Many service providers say they...
I'm a 5-foot-3-inch person, but I'm beginning to feel like Gulliver in Lilliput electronics land.Anyone who watched the Summer Olympics probably saw the commercial in which a bunch of Australians on a front porch in the outback talk about the sissy-sized laptop computer one...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration is on a collision course with Congress over encryption policy, as policymakers try to balance law enforcement and national security needs with privacy and commercial interests.The latest White House proposal, outlined by Vice President Al Gore in a briefing with reporters...
TEMPE, Ariz.-The new subscriber growth of the North American cellular phone market will decline for the remainder of the decade, according to a report by Forward Concepts.With 13 percent of the U.S. population served by cellular in 1995, the report predicts that almost 24...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-AKM Semiconductor Inc. said it has introduced a third-generation chipset for wireless telephones and other communications devices that is less than half the size of current chipsets.The new chipset delivers up to 100 hours of call-waiting time and adheres to the PCS-1900...
CHICAGO-Paging Network Inc. and software developer Ex Machina Inc. announced the rollout of a wireless, Internet-based news, entertainment and messaging network called AirMedia Live!PageNet said it will carry AirMedia Live! network broadcasts and individual alerts over its nationwide FLEX-enabled frequency this summer. The service...
Launching new technology into a market involves more than just technological know-how. The expectations of all parties must be managed in order to control the risks, analysts say.System operators must be responsible for the expectations they create in the minds of customers. Equipment manufacturers...
While Republicans and Democrats argue about encryption policy, the Pentagon is getting hacked up.The General Accounting Office says up to one-quarter of a million attempts possibly were made last year to infiltrate Defense Department computer networks and, of that total, 65 percent (162,500) succeeded.Sam...
Samsung said it created many of its own parts for its CDMA equipment. The company has invested $390 million into telecom research and development this year. A total of 34 percent of workers in the company's Telecommunications Systems division are in research and development.Samsung...
Samsung said it created many of its own parts for its CDMA equipment. The company has invested $390 million into telecom research and development this year. A total of 34 percent of workers in the company's Telecommunications Systems division are in research and development.Samsung...
NEW YORK-DSP Communications Inc. priced Thursday for sale Friday a common stock offering of 3.5 million shares at $26 each. The new add-on issuance is the company's first since its initial public offering in March 1995.Some 901,368 of the shares were to be sold...
NEW YORK-When it comes to siting wireless communications towers, passing "Go" means collecting a lot more than $200.Tower placement ease got a boost from Section 704 of the new federal telecommunications law which, "sets explicit national (tower) siting standards resulting from a negotiated rulemaking...
