Dear Chairman Kennard: I want to commend your recent statement urging that Congress provide incentives for broadcasters to meet the 2006 “deadline” for conversion to Digital Television (DTV). Any delay …
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-3Com Corp. released two new carrier-class solutions for delivering virtual private network services. The solutions, from the company’s Carrier Networks Business, are media independent and can be delivered …
MUNICH, Germany-Webraska and Blue Impact announced today they will team up to develop personal navigation services on wireless personal digital assistants. Their objective is to offer Internet-based distributed navigation on …
WASHINGTON-While most believe the specialized mobile radio industry seems to be disappearing along with its companion regulatory issues, one SMR operator believes that if this is true, it is the …
NEW YORK-It is all too easy to get “starry eyed” about the prospects for new generations of wireless services. As a counterpoint, a reality check is required about deployment and …
Deutsche Telekom expects to obtain approval of its proposed purchase of VoiceStream Wireless Corp. by the first quarter of next year, according to a report in German daily newspaper Frankfurter …
The specialized mobile radio industry is quickly becoming a fractured market divided between the traditional small SMR carriers, which are focused on providing dispatch services to customers at reasonable prices, …
LAKE CHARLES, La.-Under a plan that would more fully integrate the two companies, Sprint PCS network partner US Unwired Inc. announced it would outsource most of its customer care and …
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WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday began a process that it hopes will lead to a secondary market for spectrum, and it put the private-wireless industry on notice that it …
MUNICH, Germany-Blue Impact AG, a partner of CellPoint, introduced a combined GSM/global positioning system module for the Handspring Visor called Tellmen. The Tellmen module is compatible with CellPoint’s location platform …
BERNE, Switzerland-Only five bidders will compete for four Universal Mobile Telecommunications System licenses in Switzerland, as three contenders dropped out late last week, down from an original 10 interested companies. …
Computer and telephony infrastructure provider Cisco Systems Inc. posted fiscal first-quarter profits just above analyst expectations, but the company also revealed its inventory levels increased 59 percent during the quarter, …
TURIN, Italy-Vehicles across China may soon be wirelessly tracked, eliminating the need to manually collect information on vehicle registration, examination, emissions, taxation or traffic records. Systems integrator Sichuan NeoSource Intel-Tech …
Arch Wireless Inc. reported a third-quarter net loss of $66.2 million, or $1 per share, compared with $68.2 million, or $1.42 per share, reported for the last third-quarter period. Arch …
OXFORD, United Kingdom-As Europe’s mobile operators rush to pay for licenses and third-generation (3G) equipment, concerns are surfacing the equipment developers may not be able to deliver the volume of …
SAN DIEGO-Compaq Computer Corp. will incorporate Widcomm Inc.’s Bluetooth Protocol Software for Windows into its next-generation commercial notebook computers. Widcomm said it would provide Compaq with the Bluetooth protocol software, …
VIENNA, Austria-Europe’s fifth auction of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System licenses ended after less than two days of bidding. All six participants gained licenses to operate UMTS systems in Austria, drawing …
Democracy is so refreshing when it defies precision political choreography. So it was last Tuesday when the 2000 presidential election turned into Twin Peaks, Duck Soup, Seinfeld, HeeHaw and Dallas …
HOUSTON-Crown Castle International Corp. announced its subsidiary Crown Castle UK Ltd. will open its TETRA mobile communications network in the United Kingdom. The plan calls for Crown Castle to identify …
