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NATE to increase focus on tower safety

The National Association of Tower Erectors said it would redouble efforts to improve job safety in a sector that caught the attention of government labor officials in 2000 because of injuries and fatalities. "The time is now for everyone in the industry, from CEOs...

WiMAX Forum adds 700 MHz to roadmap

Device manufacturers and network vendors have submitted 28 mobile WiMAX products in the 2.3 GHz and 2.5 GHz bands since the WiMAX Forum opened its certification lab for testing late last year.The first mobile WiMAX products are expected to be certified by the WiMAX...

Mobile entertainment industry stunted by poor sales reporting

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Mobile ads center stage at MWC: Nokia’s plans highlight increased push into space

The opening day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, was all about mobile advertising.Nokia Corp. made the biggest splash with its Media Network, an alliance of more than 70 publishers and operators including Sprint Nextel Corp., Discovery, Hearst and Reuters. The company...

LG unveils trio of handsets: Devices short on details, long on new technology

BARCELONA, Spain - In a room too crowded to let in all the press, LG Electronics Co. displayed three new handsets with nice form factors, but little pricing or operator information.The KF700 is a multimedia handset with three input methods: a 3-inch touchscreen, a...

Ericsson, Nokia-Siemens push productivity enhancements of technology

BARCELONA, Spain - Mobility's impact on the world was the theme for both L.M. Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks at press conferences here today before tomorrow's official opening of the Mobile World Congress.One estimate has more than 66,000 people attending the show, formerly called...

Pained about the roaming in Spain?: Domestic carriers offer options, but heavy usage can be costly

Anyone who has traveled abroad and decided to use their cellphone to call home or check e-mail knows how shocking the total on your subsequent wireless bill can be. Short of owning an unlocked GSM device and carrying multiple SIM cards - each serving...

MEF sets guidelines for ‘participation-television’

The Mobile Entertainment Forum launched a participation-television (P-TV) code of practice that the organization hopes will enable the market to sustain its growth in the United States and avoid the issues that have hampered the industry abroad."If you can't have self regulation then you've...

Worst of the Week: The clock is ticking

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Frontline’s demise leaves D Block, public safety plans in limbo: Google, AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel seen as beneficiaries

Frontline Wireless L.L.C.'s freakish free-fall has begun to raise questions about whether the upcoming 700 MHz auction will produce a bidder willing to spend billions of dollars on spectrum and construction of a national public safety-commercial broadband network.Click here for complete 700 MHz auction...

CES: Gates introduces the ‘next digital decade’

LAS VEGAS -- Bill Gates may not be slowing down on the professional and charitable projects that he holds near and dear, but it's clear he's having fun in his final months as chairman of Microsoft Corp. Gates took plenty of light-hearted jabs at...

Worst of the Week: Flying unicorns

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WiMAX certification lab opens

The WiMAX Forum has opened its first, and lead, lab to formally test and evaluate mobile WiMAX products for certification. With the lab now open for submissions, certified mobile WiMAX products are projected to hit the commercial market in the coming months."This is a...

Worst of the Week: The junk I’m going to run on Verizon Wireless’ network

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CDG hails ITU band ruling

Earlier this month at the World Radiocommunication Conference, the International Telecommunication Union approved various frequency bands for mobile communications. More than 2,800 delegates representing 164 member states negotiated the future of wireless communications as the group aimed to achieve global connectivity goals for decades...

NYC schools to test free cellphone program for students: Ad-supported phones would offer educational apps

Most people would assume cellphones get in the way of learning. David Droga is betting they can help.The creative big and founder of the start-up Droga5, who previously launched the highly successful Tap Project for UNICEF, is working with the New York City Department...

LTE gains steam: Nokia, LG, Alcatel-Lucent tests set stage for commercial deployments

Over the past week, a wide breadth of telecom companies have completed Long Term Evolution tests.Nokia Corp. announced results last week from the first phase of a trial that the company claimed achieved 100 megabit-per-second data transfer speeds. The trial was conducted by the...

Mobile ads attract new guidelines: dotMobi group adds its rules to effort

Yet another set of mobile advertising guidelines will be released this week as the dotMobi Advisory Group (MAG) unveils a 44-page document for companies looking to target wireless users.The group, a nonprofit offshoot of mTLD Top Level Domain Ltd., hopes to foster growth of...

Kneuer to leave NTIA

The Bush administration's top telecom advisor John Kneuer is stepping down later this month, ending a rocky tenure characterized by the Democratic-led Congress' intense oversight of major public-safety, spectrum-reform and digital TV programs.Kneuer has headed the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, a unit of...

CTIA’s WIC to target barcode scanning, mobile commerce

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Google leads OS alliance, demurs on device

Google Inc. is the new E.F. Hutton-when the Internet search giant talks, everybody listens. Many observers today expected to hear about a long-rumored Google phone-it didn't happen. Nor were any specific handset models announced. But listeners probably included likely competitors to the new Open...

Bringing combatants together: Industry associations provide united front

With the wireless sector the most competitive in the telecom industry, it is hard to imagine that company executives can simultaneously beat each other's brains out in the marketplace and work in harmony on issues of common interest. But they do for the most...

Worst of the Week: Show? What show?

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Mobile TV prospects remain clouded

A party of five representing TV and cable networks and a diverse sampling of distribution providers failed to collectively define mobile television as it exists today or where it is going. All agreed that more needs to be done to inform large swaths of...