LAS VEGAS-Audiovox Corp. will demonstrate its new CDM-8900 camera phone at the Wireless I.T. show in Las Vegas. The CDMA2000 1x-capable handset features a 310-pixel digital camera and color screen.The tri-mode phone provides global positioning system technology (system dependent), Web browsing, BREW or Java...
LAS VEGAS-Aiirnet Wireless L.L.C., which provides and deploys high-speed Wi-Fi Internet service, made several announcements at this week's CTIA Wireless I.T. show in Las Vegas. The company announced the availability of the AiirLink Hot-Spot-In-A-Box, which allows any retail establishment to offer high-speed wireless broadband...
LAS VEGAS-Digit Wireless said its Fastap technology was used by the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association at its keynote session at the I.T. show in Las Vegas.The company said CTIA Chief Executive Officer Tom Wheeler used a Panasonic GD87 demonstration model with the Fastap...
ATLANTA-Top wireless players have come together to form what they call the Wireless Technology Forum, a non-profit to communicate, educate and promote the changes that take place in the industry.The members include Cisco Systems Inc., Nokia Corp., Intel Corp., Proxim, Motorola Inc. and Sellera."The...
LAS VEGAS-Audiovox Communications Corp. is introducing its CDM-9900 series of wireless handsets featuring video capabilities at the CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment show in Las Vegas. "The CDM-9900 and 9950 are the first handsets to offer both video and still photography in the same...
WASHINGTON-The Wireless Communications Association announced the development of the Personal Broadband Alliance. PBA will include wireless broadband carriers, software and hardware vendors, and infrastructure providers. With a mission to advance mobile broadband consumer services, PBA will focus on strategic, technical and regulatory breakthroughs to...
COSTA MESA, Calif.-The CDMA Development Group said that as of the end of August, CDMA2000-touted as the third generation of CDMA-reached 60 million subscribers worldwide and is growing at an average of 3.5 million users per month."CDMA2000 is by far the most successful commercial...
WASHINGTON D.C.-Growth continues in the wireless industry, according to the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's newly released mid-year 2003 data survey results.The survey showed data service revenues jumped 70 percent from the year-ago period to reach $700 million for the first half of this...
WASHINGTON-PCIA, which re-invented itself from a carrier organization to a tower organization and held its first tower-specific trade show earlier this month, said Oct. 13 it had hired a new lobbyist and it tried to quell rumors-started at the show-that its chief executive officer...
SOPHIA-ANTIPOLIS, France-The European Telecommunications Standards Institute is using World Standards Day Oct. 14 to tout GSM technology, which is expected to reach its 1 billionth customer early in 2004, 10 years after the technology saw its first commercial launch. ETSI said without several standards...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry, pointing to legal, legislative and regulatory precedent, told a federal appeals court that U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake was correct to dismiss on federal pre-emption grounds five class-action lawsuits seeking damages on behalf of consumers who plaintiffs allege should have been...
Partnership announcements were plentiful at the ninth annual SpeechTEK International Educational Conference and Exposition, which took place last week in New York City. The unions demonstrate a trend among vendors in the speech recognition technology field to offer end-to-end, quick-to-deploy, voice-application solutions to customers.Following...
HOLLYWOOD, Fla.-Wireless carriers are going to have to fortify their networks to become increasingly reliable as more people cut the cord. Does that sound like good news for tower companies, which have been victims of carriers' tightly closed purse strings during the past year?Not...
HOLLYWOOD, Fla.-Wireless carriers are going to have to fortify their networks to become increasingly reliable as more people cut the cord. Does that sound like good news for tower companies, which have been victims of carriers' tightly closed purse strings during the past year?Not...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Wireless trade group 3G Americas released a new reference document that offers recommendations for multimedia messaging service interoperability. The group said network operators and infrastructure vendors jointly composed the document for GSM carriers in the Americas."The 3G Americas' MMS recommendations offer clear requirements...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-The Wi-Fi Alliance said it has certified more than 900 products from 116 companies for each or a combination of the four protocols, including 802.11a, b, g and Wi-Fi Protected Access."The increased demand for certification is a reflection of market growth and...
SAN FRANCISCO-Cellular-phone users are uniting via the Cellular Telecom Users Alliance Inc., a newly formed organization that plans to negotiate cell-phone rates on behalf of its members.The group hopes to bargain low rates from carriers in exchange for bringing carriers large amounts of customers...
YONKERS, New York-The Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports magazine and which has been a staunch critic of the wireless industry, has launched a Web site, EscapeCellHell.org, to increase consumer power and improve wireless services, the group said."By fighting for basic standards like simplified...
WASHINGTON-The merger of the Competitive Telecommunications Association (CompTel) and the Association for Communications Enterprises (Ascent) was approved Sept. 22 by the membership of both organizations."In addition to having many members in common, CompTel and Ascent have long shared similar perspectives on the policy issues...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-Statewide organizations are furthering the wireless industry's knowledge of local and state issues affecting it. Most recently, the State of Alabama formed the Alabama Wireless Association to address some of these obstacles, including increasingly stringent tower-zoning laws and ordinances. The Birmingham-based group was...
SEATTLE-Short messaging services can be considered the "fifth channel" for media advertising in North America, according to the SMS Forum.The group believes the functionality of common short codes across North American carriers will bolster the mobile marketing industry and support new branded applications. The...
HELSINKI, Finland-The Open Base Station Architecture Initiative has released its first specification for base stations, which is aimed at reducing development effort and costs.OBSAI is at odds with another initiative known as the Common Public Radio Interface led by L.M. Ericsson. Nokia leads OBSAI....
PISCATAWAY, N.J.-The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers has established a standard, 802.15.14, to allow the 802.15 technology to extend wireless communications to low-power, low-speed and low-cost devices."This is an enabling standard," said Pat Kinney, chair of IEEE 802.15 Task Group 4. "It builds...
WASHINGTON-The Competitive Telecommunications Association (CompTel) and the Association for Communications Enterprises (ASCENT) announced they will merge, pending a vote of approval by their respective memberships in the coming weeks. The combined organization will continue under the CompTel/ASCENT Alliance label."The pending merger of CompTel and...
