The Open Mobile Alliance wireless standards group announced the release of several new specifications covering Web services, location-based services and other hot-button technologies. Founded two years ago, OMA works to set global specifications for various wireless data services and functions.In conjunction with the CommunicAsia...
The GSM Association and China's TD-SCDMA Forum today announced in Beijing an agreement to coordinate the development of two third-generation mobile-phone standards. The accord is designed to foster interoperability and international roaming between GSM, the world's most prevalent mobile-phone technology, and TD-SCDMA, a technology...
A regional wireless industry association could be coming to a neighborhood near you. A movement is afoot in the wireless industry, and the tower sector, hungry to learn the intricacies of the industry from the experts, is leading the charge. Atlanta, home to the...
GENEVA-For the first time in its 30-year history, the International Telecommunications Union's Telecom World event will not be held in Geneva. ITU Telecom World 2006 will take place in Hong Kong.Following a call for bids, the ITU said the offer from Hong Kong topped...
AUSTIN, Texas-The Wi-Fi Alliance announced Bill Carney, senior director of strategic marketing and business development for Texas Instruments' Wireless Networking Business Unit, has been elected as its new chairman. Carney, who has served as vice chair of the group since 2003, succeeds Dennis Eaton...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-The WiMAX Forum has established a Regulatory Working Group "in an effort to create a regulatory environment favorable to the widespread global deployment of WiMAX Forum Certified systems." The primary goal of the group is to ensure the availability of spectrum through...
PARIS-Building on its cooperation with Intel Corp. for broadband solutions, Alcatel said it has joined the WiMax Forum as a principal member."Alcatel sees WiMax as an intrinsic component of this user-centric broadband strategy, which combines a broad portfolio of fixed and mobile access technologies,...
WASHINGTON-Public-safety advocates of the Consensus Plan to solve interference in the 800 MHz band spoke by telephone with FCC Chairman Michael Powell May 27, expressing concern Nextel Communications Inc. will walk away from any plan that includes 2.1 GHz as replacement spectrum."The public-safety associations...
AUSTIN-The Wi-Fi Alliance announced it has adopted a color-coded Wi-Fi Certified logo and a product Interoperability Certificate for its Wi-Fi Certified branding program, designed to help consumers in wireless local area network purchasing decisions."Technology consumers at home and in the enterprise need to know...
GENEVA-The International Telecommunication Union has set up a new focus group to outline the requirements for open platforms for next-generation networks.The body, known as the Open Communications Architecture Forum Focus group, came into being in response to industry players that want the products of...
WASHINGTON-FCC Chairman Michael Powell hinted Thursday that Nextel Communications Inc. may yet be willing to accept spectrum in the 2.1 GHz band instead of the 1.9 GHz band requested as part of a plan to solve public-safety interference in the 800 MHz band. But...
WASHINGTON-The Wireless Communications Association announced industry pioneer Craig McCaw will deliver the keynote address at its annual show taking place in Washington, D.C., June 2.Other speakers will include FCC Chairman Michael Powell, Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce and NTIA Administrator Michael Gallagher, and FCC...
SAN RAMON, Calif.-The ZigBee Alliance, dedicated to developing the ZigBee specification and ZigBee products, announced 27 new member companies, bringing total membership to more than 70 companies.Among the new inductees are Airbee Wireless, LG Electronics Inc., Siemens Building Automation, Silicon Wave Inc., STMicroelectronics and...
COSTA MESA, Calif.-The CDMA Development Group said 13 million users subscribed to CDMA2000 services, including 6.6 million 1x EV-DO users, during the first quarter, for a total of 86.2 million third-generation CDMA users.Demand for CDMA2000 1x EV-DO services is especially strong in Asia, where...
WASHINGTON-The Ultra-Wideband Forum said it has signed 30 members and is undergoing talks with several major corporate supporters to join.The forum, which has been caught in a standards battle between the MultiBand-OFDM, direct sequence and other proprietary systems, said members are working on the...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Trade groups 3G Americas and the CDMA Development Group released technical specifications to allow GSM subscribers to send picture messages to CDMA users. The groups' new "Americas MMS Inter-carrier Implementation Guidelines" include technical and service-level requirement guidelines for multimedia routing, MMS relay/server connectivity...
GENEVA-The International Telecommunication Union said its standardization arm plans to create a focus group that will produce global standards for next-generation networks. The focus group will address what industry experts call "nomadicity," which allows seamless roaming between fixed and mobile networks in an all-Internet...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell will deliver the keynote address at the Wireless Communications Association's 2004 conference taking place June 3 in Washington, D.C. "Our industry and its consumers deeply appreciate Chairman Powell's leadership of the Federal Communications Commission's efforts to enable broadband,"...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-The CellularRAM specification co-development team has welcomed Renesas technology to its fold of chipmakers in the Asian market. Other members include Cypress Semiconductor Corp., Infineon and Micron Technology Inc.The team works in markets such as China, Japan, India, Singapore and the Philippines....
WASHINGTON-The Rural Telecommunications Group announced it has made Jessica Bridges its new chief executive officer.Bridges previously served as director of government affairs for Bennet & Bennet P.L.L.C., responsible for legislative lobbying before the Federal Communications Commission and Congress on behalf of rural telecommunications firms....
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association is working with four agencies on a new ad campaign and will make presentations next month to a special committee overseeing the effort. Last month, the CTIA board of directions voted to move forward by creating a committee...
RED BANK, N.J.-The Radio Club of America announced Steve Largent, president and chief executive officer of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, will address the group at its 95th Anniversary Awards Banquet being held Nov. 19 in New York City."We are excited to have...
Neither edgy nor solitary, Nokia Corp. has all the hallmarks of a conservative company. As a leading player in both the handset and infrastructure businesses, the Finnish vendor always has worked with industry associations and marquee players to push products and enhance its markets...
SAN FRANCISCO-The Liberty Alliance, a consortium working on an open federated identity standard, said it formed new relationships with six global alliances including the Network Applications Consortium, Open Mobile Alliance, Open Security Exchange, PayCircle, SIMalliance and WLAN Smart Card Consortium.PayCircle is working with Liberty...
