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The wireless data industry started as a dream and a nationwide network almost 30 years ago. As the years slowly passed and people began to recognize the value of mobile …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Electronics manufacturing service provider Solectron Corp. has set plans to offer Sierra Wireless design support, prototype, pilot and volume manufacturing services for wireless data product development. “Establishing a …

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Hybrid Networks Inc. announced that Andrew Corp. will provide Winbeam Inc., a Pittsburgh-based Internet service provider, with Hybrid’s head-end system and routers to deliver wireless broadband service to …

British Telecommunications’ wireless unit, BT Wireless, slipped from the No. 2 wireless operator in the United Kingdom during the second quarter, falling behind perennial leader Vodafone Group and new runner …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-After all the publicity, time and money spent obtaining third-generation (3G) licenses, European mobile operators are keeping plans strictly to themselves about what mobile applications they might launch …

As it stands today, developers of wireless applications have to write those applications in a unique code-whether that be cHTML, VoXML, WML or XML-to make those applications recognizable to the …

WASHINGTON-Cingular Wireless Inc. plans to file a waiver from the enhanced 911 Phase II rules, probably within the next two weeks, said Brian Fontes, Cingular vice president for federal relations, …

Drawing on the money, people and time that is available to the military, e-tenna Corp. in Laurel, Md., developed antenna technology that it says will make commercial wireless handset antennas …

DALLAS-Among the ever-present winds of Eastern Texas, The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association last week hosted a somewhat intimate Wireless Agenda 2001 conference that CTIA President and Chief Executive Officer …

As technologies continue to advance and third-generation becomes more imminent, the mobile phone may be moving back into the place it began-the car. An increasingly mobile work force has led …

Teligent Inc. got the reprieve it was hoping for last week when several of its creditors agreed to grant the local multipoint distribution service carrier a waiver to an amendment …

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 …

Wideband CDMA and cdma2000 are not only migrating to the future, but also to the battleground. Both technologies will hoist their banners as they deploy their strengths and shield their …

WASHINGTON-Last December, two months after President Clinton ordered government studies on spectrum availability for third-generation wireless systems and at a time when mobile-phone and Pentagon officials were intensely studying the …

WASHINGTON-Fears about the timely deployment of enhanced 911 Phase II service appear to be coming true even as the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission expressed optimism that the Oct.1 …

Editor’s Note: As part of its celebration of 20 years covering the wireless communications industry, RCR Wireless News each month will take a look back at crucial points in the …

EDGE is dead. Long live EDGE. Depending on where they stand on the EDGE debate, some operators want EDGE born alive. Others think it should be left as merely an …

WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry, stung by two government reports last week that largely rule out use of the 1700 MHz and 2500 MHz bands for third-generation wireless systems, managed to win …

The board of directors of Sprint Corp. formally amended a stock-option plan allowing accelerated vesting of stock options upon shareholder approval of a merger, according to a recent Securities and …

GroupServe GroupServe 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 …

Companies change names for a variety of reasons. For JP Systems, which has seen its name change a few times in its five-year history, its name change to JP Mobile …

The new CEO at Andrew Corp. is promising that the manufacturer of wireless communications equipment will double the company’s revenues in four years. Guy M. Campbell, who succeeded Floyd English …

WASHINGTON-A new day appears to be dawning for FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell. This new day will have Powell greeting four new colleagues by the end of the year, reforming …

The path to third-generation services for many wireless operators appears to be anything but smooth. While Asian carriers seem to be taking the high-speed approach, European carriers recently have seen …

LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz.-Amid the scorched desert ground abutting the lush greens of golf courses, the future of the wireless Internet was the topic of discussion in the small community of …