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 share parts of their new 3G networks. The ruling will certainly ease the cost...
WASHINGTON-A new Swedish study links analog cell-phone use to brain tumors, a major scientific development that comes as lawmakers prepare to introduce legislation that would earmark federal funds for wireless bioeffects research and repeal a 1996 telecom act provision that bans zoning boards from...
WASHINGTON-An environmental group told the Federal Communications Commission it must conduct a nationwide environmental impact statement before approving any more towers or risk being in violation of various environmental laws."The FCC must complete an environmental impact statement addressing the direct, indirect and cumulative effects...
WASHINGTON-While the wireless industry steadfastly maintains the safety of cell phones, top mobile-phone manufacturers during the past decade have quietly sought-and received-patents to reduce the kind of radiation absorbed by the human head that some research suggests could be linked to brain cancer and...
Heinz Corp.Heinz Corp., which provides services to wireless carriers, has promoted Rick Vogt to senior project manager. In his new position he will be responsible for Heinz's projects for Cingular Wireless. Vogt has been with Heinz for about a year, and most recently supervised...
WASHINGTON-The new Democratic-controlled Senate is expected to change the tone of telecom policy debate in Congress, but is unlikely to immediately have a major legislative impact. That may well change in time, however.With Democrats assuming control of the Senate for the first time since...
It's going to be a hot summer. First off, there is "this summer's hotly anticipated film release, Tomb Raider," featuring Angelina Jolie and L.M. Ericsson. Jolie plays cyber heroine Lara Croft. "The perfect modern heroine, Lara has brains, beauty, stamina and courage. Living in...
SnapTrack Inc. will provide its SnapTrack SnapSmart Hybrid Wireless Assisted GPS location server software to Seoul-based wireless infrastructure developer, Neolink Technologies Inc. Neolink will incorporate SnapTrack's software into its Position Location Service System carrier-class mobile positioning server, thus adding location-based services to wireless handsets.Meridian...
WASHINGTON-President Bush is expected to appoint wireless lawyer Nancy Victory to head the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, according to administration and industry sources.Victory is a law partner at Wiley, Rein & Fielding in Washington, D.C., where she specializes in the firm's communications and...
The growth potential of the wireless high-speed data market is inspiring companies to modify technology and previously unused spectrum to enable delivery of these data services. But the journey into this new territory does not come without problems, specifically in the United States where...
Crown Castle International Corp. reported revenues for the first quarter ended March 31 of $212.9 million, a significant increase from the $124.2 million reported for first-quarter 2000.The company recorded a net loss of $68.1 million, or 41 cents per share, compared with a loss...
Vision. Brains. Stubbornness. Courage. Discouragement, Spunk. Talent. Persistence.The four people inducted into RCR Wireless News' Wireless Hall of Fame this year display most, if not all of these attributes (and let's be honest, stubbornness is not always looked upon as an asset.) Yet it...
Throughout her 18-year career, Doreen Trant has been at the heart of numerous companies and projects that have ultimately helped to mold the industry into what it is today, all while battling stereotypes that in the early years kept many women from pursuing a...
A number of players must work together to deploy a nationwide wireless network, including carriers, tower companies and equipment manufacturers, but there is a new kind of company on the rise that looks after that network and keeps it running efficiently after the main...
108,159.It's quite a large number.It's also the sum of a brief scan through RCR Wireless News headlines from the past few months, headlines detailing job cuts carried out by some of the world's largest telecommunications companies. It is by no means a total and...
Clearwire Technologies Inc. and the Instructional Television Fixed Service Spectrum Development Alliance are teaming to deliver wireless broadband services to educational, nonprofit and commercial customers, with a $97 million commitment from Goldman Sachs & Co. and Liberty Associated Partners L.P.The partnership will give Clearwire...
American Tower Corp. and SpectraSite Holdings Inc. reported positive operational results last week for the first quarter ended March 31.American Tower said it constructed 375 new towers, acquired 238 wireless towers and one broadcast tower, and removed 175 sites from its active marketing list,...
Sprint PCS added 826,000 net customer additions for the first quarter ended March 31, topping analysts estimates of 800,000 net additions. The carrier said its business customer base jumped 73 percent fueled by its Sprint PCS Wireless Web for Business offering.Net operating revenue for...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-SBA Communications Corp. reported it increased its tower portfolio for the first quarter ended March 31 by 449 towers, 182 of which were newly built, and 267 of which were existing towers acquired by SBA.The 267 towers were acquired in 21 separate...
NEW YORK-Lenders anted up significant capital during the first quarter for the five publicly traded wireless tower companies, even as their share prices declined amid the stock market's general concerns about telecommunications."At a time when companies like PSINet made announcements that their stock is...
GroupServeGroupServe announced Tom Stroup, president, will also take on the role of chief executive officer. Stroup's first task as CEO will be to oversee the commercial product launch of GroupPort. Stroup will also oversee the company's business development, strategic alliance and product development efforts....
A far-reaching bill introduced Feb. 7 in the Texas state House of Representatives received a major makeover after the amateur radio community and wireless industry lawyers inadvertently joined forces to strongly oppose the legislation during last week's public hearing in Austin, Texas.The bill has...
WASHINGTON-The General Accounting Office this week is expected to send drafts of a mobile-phone health report to key government agencies, suggesting congressional investigators are on track to complete by early May an investigation whose results could greatly impact wireless health policy and research funding...
Lucent TechnologiesLucent Technologies introduced Flexent Wireless IP Core Network Architecture, which it said will help wireless carriers deliver a range of voice and data services to customers. According to Lucent, the first phase of the architecture, the Lucent Softswitch Toll/Tandem Solution, lets carriers connect...
