WASHINGTON—COFETEL, Mexico's federal telecommunications committee, announced its chairman, Jorge Arredondo Martinez, will headline WCA's Latin American Broadband Wireless Forum on June 24 in Boston.Martinez is scheduled to follow a session that will include officials from Mexico's MVS Comunicaciones and representatives from Diveo Broadband Networks,...
GREEN BAY, Wis.—Andrews Corp. says it has selected Schneider Logistics to provide supply chain execution services across its North American network of manufacturing and distribution facilities."Schneider Logistics will utilize its Sumit supply chain management technology to manage more than 200,000 inbound and outbound shipments...
CHICAGO—Cambia Networks, which provided high-end data networking infrastructure products for wireless carriers, shut down late last month.Cambia officials could not immediately be reached for comment.The company launched in August 2000 with $11 million in venture funding from Benchmark Capital, Skymoon Ventures and Eagle Technology...
OVERLAND PARK, Ill.—Buffeted by the reduced equipment spending of telecommunications carriers, Andrew Corp., Overland Park, Ill., reported second-quarter net income of $3.3 million on sales of $199.7 million, declines of 60 percent and 16 percent, respectively, from the same period a year ago. Net...
HELSINKI, Finland—Cable & Wireless GRX and Sonera GRX have joined to enable worldwide GPRS roaming through GRX (GPRS Roaming Exchange) interconnect for their mobile customers.The combination will enable roaming between 27 operators in Europe, Asia and North America, the companies said."Offering a truly global...
SAN FRANCISCO—CMP Media's Game Developer's Conference announced it will offer an expanded wireless and mobile games curriculum, including a Wireless Game Summit hosted by wireless industry veteran Andrew Seybold.The announcement comes as wireless gaming continues to grow in importance in the wireless industry, and...
WASHINGTON-2002 offers the wayward wireless industry a chance to begin to redeem and redefine itself. But it won't be easy, and survival skills will be essential. Indeed, with economic sluggishness persisting here and abroad, the industry is not totally in control of its future....
WLIA adopts privacy policyWASHINGTON, D.C.—The Wireless Location Industry Association (WLIA) has adopted a new privacy policy based on the Federal Trade Commission's Fair Information Practices policy."No public policy issue has been more prominent than the potential infringement of individual privacy when applications of location...
SAN DIEGO—Leap Wireless International Inc. won the "Most Innovative Wireless Service" award from Andrew Seybold's Outlook 4Mobility during the organization's 11th Annual Wireless Dinner in Las Vegas.
Bucharest, ROMANIA—HE Shaikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, Ministry of Transport under-secretary and Batelco board director, signed a nearly 9.8 million dinar (US$26 million) contract with Ericsson to undertake the further expansion of Batelco's GSM network capacity. The mobile telephone market in Bahrain, in...
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 data, more and more trucking managers jumped on board to wirelessly track their vehicles,...
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 scalable, high quality and cost competitive global supply chain strategy is a key element of...
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 small and mid-size businesses in Altoona, Pa.Hybrid's system will support enhanced data services such...
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 up Orange SA.BT Wireless added 301,000 customers in the United Kingdom during the quarter,...
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 to take advantage of this spectrum.This reluctance to discuss what innovative applications are being...
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 wireless device. But if we look into the future, some unknown years ahead, we...
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, confirming hints made last month by Stephen Carter, Cingular's chief executive officer.Cingular chose the...
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 more efficient while costing less.E-tenna introduced its Radio Frequency 2 Intermediate Frequency antenna technology...
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 Tom Wheeler dubbed the "wireless survivor conference" during his opening remarks. While attendance levels...
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 many to believe wireless location-commerce and telematics may be the next best thing for the...
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 and consent to credit agreement, providing an extension until May 15. But Alex Mandl,...
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...
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 weaknesses, especially in the two main places where they hope to flex muscles for market...
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 issue, Senate Armed Services Committee member James Inhofe (R-Okla.) quietly directed the General Accounting...
