SAN JOSE, Calif.-ArrayComm Inc. and CommWorks announced an agreement to provide standards-based Internet connectivity and seamless mobility in ArrayComm's i-Burst Personal Broadband System.ArrayComm said it has demonstrated seamless compatibility with CommWorks' Total Control 1000 Packet Data Serving Node. The i-Burst system is a wide...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Arraycomm Inc. announced that its Australian subsidiary has formed a consortium that includes Vodafone Australia to launch its I-Burst mobile broadband Internet access system in Australia. The commercial rollout of the service is scheduled to start in mid-2003.The $14.3 million consortium includes...
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission said on Dec. 28 that it was re-allocating 27 megahertz of spectrum for new flexible services.The spectrum is being made available as part of the 1993 congressionally mandated transfer of 200 megahertz of government spectrum to non-governmental uses.None of the...
Editor's note: In 2000, RCR Wireless News founded the Wireless Hall of Fame to honor those individuals who have made significant contributions to the wireless industry. Following is a look at each of the inductees:
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 history of mobile telecommunications. This month, RCR Wireless News revisits the evolution of the phone...
Shunichiro Mishima, vice president of business development for NTT DoCoMo USA Inc., said the Japanese parent company would convert its 16-percent ownership of AT&T Wireless Group into tracking stock of the AT&T unit once those securities are sold publicly. In coverage of his presentation...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-ArrayComm Inc. said it joined with 11 other companies to create the TDD Coalition, which will advocate specific U.S. spectrum allocations for wireless broadband data systems using Time Division Duplex technology."In Europe and Japan, TDD spectrum has already been allocated for the...
Two U.S. companies are taking their respective technologies to the Australian market, following third-generation spectrum purchases in the country last month.Qualcomm Inc. paid $79 million for 10 megahertz of paired spectrum in all capital cities through a company called 3G Investments (Australia) Pty. Ltd....
Marconi Corp. plc and ArrayComm Inc. announced a deal under which Marconi will embed ArrayComm's Intellicell smart antenna technology in its third-generation wideband-CDMA base stations.The open-ended deal is expected to generate more than $300 million in revenues during the next five years, ArrayComm said."The...
The frenzy to find more spectrum for encroaching third-generation services is mostly unwarranted if wireless technology keeps progressing as it has, according to Marty Cooper, chief technology officer of ArrayComm Inc.Spurred by an Oct. 13 directive from President Clinton, wireless industry officials and players...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp. announced it signed an agreement with ArrayComm Inc. to support the launch of AirNet's new base station, the AdaptaCell.Scheduled to be available in mid-2001, the AdaptaCell high-capacity base station will be built on AirNet's broadband base station platform using ArrayComm's...
LucentLucent Technologies Inc. announced that John Young, former president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Co. and a current member of the Lucent board of directors, will become chairman of the company's Microelectronics business, which will be spun off into a separate company next...
NEW YORK-Some 27 years after he placed the first "public portable cellular call," from Midtown Manhattan to Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, Martin Cooper said he is unsure "if we, as an industry, have grown up yet."Introduced at "Wireless World 2000" as the inventor...
An 18-month old company out of Silicon Valley is promising its technology will expand wireless carriers' coverage by up to 300 percent by addressing what it sees as the "weak link" in cellular infrastructure-the radio.MDiversity Inc., which is led by Bill Howe, former president...
The Federal Communications Commission awarded a spectrum license to ArrayComm Inc. to trial its i-Burst wireless Internet system in San Diego, signaling the launch of the San Jose, Calif.-based company's broadband technology."Clearly we have to acquire more spectrum, but we have a plan to...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-ArrayComm Inc. and Redback Networks announced they are merging Redback's Subscriber Management System with ArrayComm's i-Burst technology to produce wireless systems for integration with wired networks.The system will allow content and service providers to deliver high-speed wireless services that are consistent with...
Crown Castle InternationalCrown Castle International Corp. announced Michael G. Ramke has been named vice president of business development for the United States and Philip M. Kelley has been named vice president of business development internationally. Ramke served as vice president since April 1998 and...
At the heart of all the hoopla and back patting over the success of wireless communications lies a critical problem that could bring the industry to a standstill-spectrum.With the advent of wireless Internet applications, the rush by carriers to snatch up as much spectrum...
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...
As the arms of wireless communications continue to stretch across the country, wireless local loop services are becoming increasingly popular, especially in rural areas where landline phones don't reach many homes and businesses.In the past year, companies such as Western Wireless Corp. and Frontier...
TOKYO-Yoshiaki Shioda, senior manager for NEC, recently visited Kirgiz, a republic south of the Commonwealth of Independent States, to help local people get connected with each other.In Kirgiz, only one out of every 100 people have access to a telephone, and locals occasionally have...
NEW ORLEANS-ArrayComm Inc., San Jose, Calif., announced a contract with the Emirates Telecommunications Corp. (Etisalat), the official telecommunications provider for the United Arab Emirates, for its IntelliWave wireless local loop system. The value of the contract was not disclosed.ArrayComm's deployment in the UAE, begun...
MarketwaveRichard Bryan is the new senior vice president of sales and marketing at Marketwave Corp. Bryan previously worked for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. as its vice president of sales and marketing, in charge of staff, national accounts and retail sales.Kansas CellularKansas Cellular announced several...
Earlier in this decade, the wireless industry began heating up over the immense promise of wireless local loop applications. Predictions of an explosion of worldwide WLL system installations through the end of the century were everywhere. Yet the number of lines actually deployed today...
