SAN DIEGO - Meltronix Inc., a semiconductor interconnect company serving wireless Internet, broadband communications and Internet equipment markets, launched a Bluetooth wireless technology business development program to target relationships with Bluetooth industry consortium companies."With our success in expanding our business with Internet equipment and...
The realm of wireless data is uncharted territory for most consumers, but carriers also are feeling their way through the darkness, searching for the best way to market data and Internet services to an audience with little or no knowledge of wireless outside voice.Everyone-from...
The mainstream media's honeymoon with WAP technology ended long ago, but the relationship has deteriorated so much lately that the entire affair seems ready for marriage counseling. One reason for the discord is media has a new mistress-iMode.While the press and analysts have largely...
NEW YORK-Concourse Communications Group L.L.C., Mineola, N.Y., is on a mission to turn the problem of poor reception inside public facilities into a business opportunity that will benefit wireless carriers and their customers.Last week, Concourse announced a two-year strategic alliance with LGC Wireless of...
Only here, in the democratic power center of the world, could leaking and stonewalling simultaneously be art forms worthy of the Smithsonian Institution.But it's true. In fact, this is the Golden Age of leaking and stonewalling. We are blessed with a plethora of new...
Not many 44-year-olds can put on their resum, that they built a nationwide wireless business from the ground up with a capital infrastructure budget larger than the Boston freeway project. Nor can many people boast that they successfully brought their company to the public...
Columbus, Ohio-based Divine Tower International Corp. bills itself the one-stop shop for small wireless carriers looking to build out their networks, providing everything from the initial financing to equipment procurement."Towers are only a component of our infrastructure. The only thing we don't have is...
NokiaNokia Corp. unveiled its new 8260 wireless phone that the company says blends colorful and stylish options into a small digital handset. The 8260 is Time Division Multiple Access 800 compatible, weighs 3.4 ounces, is approximately four inches tall and will include mobile originated...
LONDON-The wireless sector in the Middle East is still widely accepted as a vibrant and growing market, with the wireless Internet and several wireless trade shows coming on the scene.Nearly everyone who attended the GSM Gulf and Middle East Conference, a two-day event held...
WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association is joining with MCI Worldcom Inc. to urge the Federal Communications Commission to establish by declaratory ruling nationwide standards of review of adopted interconnection agreements."This filing fits squarely in PCIA's overall interconnection strategy that wireless carriers must have the...
WASHINGTON-The Wireless Communications Association announced its membership of local multipoint distribution services and other millimeter wave licensees has reached 71.The WCA reported that millimeter wave licensee members include the top six operators/licensees in the United States as suggested by such factors as amount of...
HandsetsPhilipsPhilips introduced several new handsets. The Ozeo GSM dual-band mobile phone offers a new user interface and a large LCD display with five text lines. The carousel icon screen feature simultaneously displays up to five visual icons representing the phone's functions and features. The...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The wireless market in Tanzania is gaining momentum with Vodacom's pending rollout of a new GSM network. The new entrant is no small force to contend with and is likely to cause a few ripples.Vodacom South Africa, with 2.7 million subscribers at...
DENVER, United States-Globalstar USA became the latest Globalstar L.P. partner to launch full commercial service, completing the company's North American coverage for its mobile satellite phone service, perhaps Globalstar's most important service region.Globalstar USA launched at the same time as Globalstar Canada, while Globalstar...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced that Dr. Andrew Viterbi, co-founder and vice chairman of the company, will retire next month.Dr. Viterbi, who will remain as a member of Qualcomm's board of directors, intends to broaden his scope of interests, devoting more time as an adviser...
WASHINGTON-The `consensus' reached by a government-industry panel on a third-generation mobile phone position that the Clinton administration can take to the World Radiocommunication Conference this spring underscores the complexities faced by the United States in trying to craft a strategy that advances international business...
VERNON HILLS, Ill.-Telular Corp. announced it has entered into a non-exclusive worldwide patent license agreement with Andrew Corp. to manufacture and sell a docking station for digital cellular handsets using Telular's patented interface technology.Telular noted it has received an initial license fee of $1...
DENVER-RCR announced seven inductees into its first annual Wireless Hall of Fame, created to recognize the contributions of those people who have made significant contributions to the advancement of the wireless telecommunications industry. The inductees will be honored in May at a ceremony in...
HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Communications Corp. this week filed for an initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and appointed wireless data industry analyst Andrew Seybold to its board of directors.Seybold is senior partner of the Andrew Seybold Group L.L.C. and editor of its...
As the United States gears up for the commercial launch of Wireless Application Protocol services, the question of interoperability between WAP vendors has become an increasing concern to carriers looking to offer Internet-based services on a variety of handsets.WAP exists as a standard that...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-While most people bundle together in Canada to stay warm, two companies in Vancouver are bundling to make their services warmer for consumers.Sierra Wireless and Infowave Software Inc. announced they have signed a strategic marketing agreement to offer a bundled enterprise wireless...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Sierra Wireless Inc. announced it has signed a multi-year $30 million contract with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to supply Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution high speed data products. The agreement will supply AT&T with wireless modems over a 12-month period beginning...
WASHINGTON-For the wireless industry in 2000, the outlook is LOOK OUT! Wireless and the Internet have found each other. The high-tech Big Bang is not over. Creative forces are still reshaping the digital universe, but patterns are emerging.At the dawn of the new century,...
WASHINGTON-The Food and Drug Administration-which recently agreed with the cellular industry to replicate two studies by Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. that showed positive findings-may have rejected cooperating with industry on research when mobile-phone cancer allegations first surfaced in 1993 because of a potential conflict...
