OXFORD, United Kingdom—European competition commissioner Mario Monti has indicated that his commission is not planning to prohibit third-generation (3G) network sharing through new legislation and would assess proposals on a case-by-case basis. Monti said that his team would examine each of the proposed schemes...
NEW YORK-"The business of resurrections is a very holy thing, taking companies that are dead, dead, dead and making them rise, rise, rise," said Art Beroff, an angel investor and merchant banker, at the recent Internet Breakfast Club seminar, "Saved by the Shell: Reverse...
WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc., a one-time poster child for everything that went wrong with the government's C-block auction for PCS licenses, said it stands ready to continue to build its network, following an appeals court ruling last Friday that said the government could not cancel...
For faltering fixed wireless carriers, April proved every bit as cruel as T.S. Eliot decried in The Waste Land. Eliot, it turns out, was as much a prophet as he was a poet. Local telecom competition is quickly becoming a vast dumping ground.Teligent Inc.,...
NEW YORK-Paris-based Telemedia.fr has positioned itself to help telecommunications and Internet content providers capitalize on the convenience sought by French consumers, who prefer dialing to surfing for information on their landline and wireless phones."We offer a response to the problem all these companies are...
One local multipoint distribution service wireless broadband carrier folded under the financial burden of the stock market last week, and now the futures of several others hang in the balance, potentially impacting the stability of an entire industry that just a year ago was...
GroupServeGroupServe 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 GroupPort. Stroup will also oversee the company's business development, strategic alliance and product development efforts....
ADC introduced the Axity Base Transceiver Station, designed for multicell deployments. The product will allow carriers to address capacity issues of super-cell network architectures and fill out coverage areas. It accommodates early deployments of single carriers and can expand to multiple carriers as capacity...
WASHINGTON-2001: A Space Odyssey? Perhaps if you're working on the international space station or developing a Star Wars defense. But for wireless, it will be a year the industry comes back to earth and gets back to basics as carriers, manufacturers, dot-coms, government policy-makers and...
Wireless broadband started out as a unique and rapidly growing concept, poised on the edge of a data revolution that promised to produce millions of dollars and bring the Internet to those left out in the cold by wireline technologies.For months, momentum has been...
WASHINGTON-Neoworld Inc., a newcomer with a back-to-the-future wireless strategy, represents a new breed of dispatch operator forced by massive consolidation and other industry trends to exploit market niches with economic viability.Neoworld is looking to bridge the gap between traditional analog specialized mobile radio systems...
An emerging collection of technical standards promises to change forever the way marketers do their jobs by automating how businesses interact.The question is: Will this automation cut marketers out of the mix?One of the most recent and important proposed standards is called universal description, discovery...
FieldCentrix Inc., a provider of wireless Internet-based software solutions for the field service industry, raised $23 million in venture capital to support its expansion into new markets, including electrical, utilities, property management and heavy equipment and materials handling. FieldCentrix said Grainger Technology Partners and...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Pinnacle Towers Inc. signed an agreement with Advanced Radio Telecom Corp., giving ART access to approximately 480 buildings in Dallas, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.Pinnacle also said it signed a master lease agreement with Times Three, a subsidiary of...
While there are several instant messaging solutions in the marketplace today, Invertix Corp. is using its IM Anywhere software product in ways that it says go beyond simple messaging.The company is looking to act as the go-between for the many content providers hoping to...
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...
NEW YORK-Where wireless data is concerned, Dennis F. Strigl, president and chief executive officer of Verizon Wireless, has assumed the enthusiasm of a recent convert."I was not bullish on data five years ago ... but we are finally seeing some real numbers in data,"...
ALTANTA-Convergence was the word at SuperComm 2000 this year, with computing firms like Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. both naming wireless Internet a priority for their business strategies going forward.The endorsement by these computing industry leaders is yet another indication the wireless Internet...
Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) is an American beauty.Gephardt, captivated with the rise of Clinton-Gore and hungry to become the next House speaker, apparently has decided that nice, button-down politicians come in last. As such, Gephardt has embraced the Third Way. He has shed his...
Broadband. It is a familiar term being tossed around the wireless industry like a hot potato, but its relatively new status is making its definition, applications and implications elusive to many.At the most basic level, wireless broadband-also known as fixed wireless, Broadband Wireless Local...
As pocket telephone companies cater to the mobile society and make tiny inroads into the monopolized residential sector, a new breed of wireless carriers are emerging to challenge Baby Bells for the highly lucrative high-speed business communications market.2000 could be their year. If not...
NEW YORK-Because of the burgeoning demand for data communications in the United States, wireless local access is emerging from the shadows of its mobile brethren and coming into its own as a bona fide business opportunity."There is tremendous enthusiasm for data, and the enthusiasm...
In two different venues, two totally different approaches to antenna siting were on display in the nation's capital last week. In the power corridors of Congress, the House and Senate-hounded by warring lobbyists-deliberated over a controversial appropriations provision to foster antenna siting in Rock...
One of the most influential trends during the initial years of the new millennium will be our increasing involvement and contact with people of other cultures, countries and regions. This will happen on individual, business and political levels as geographic and political boundaries are...
