NEW YORK-Bills that would have required hands-free cellular telephone use by drivers were postponed indefinitely last month in the California and Illinois legislatures.The California Senate Transportation Committee shelved, with a two-year extension for consideration, a bill introduced by Sen. John Burton of San Francisco....
GRAND FORKS, N.D.-Several companies are pitching in products and services to help the city of Grand Forks, N.D., recover from record flooding last month.Employees of U S West Communications went door-to-door to determine the extent of damage to the local landline network. When the...
WASHINGTON-An Illinois judge last week ruled that personal injury claims in product liability lawsuits against cellular telephone manufacturers can proceed, but dismissed conspiracy charges against the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, former CTIA spokesman Ron Nessen and Wireless Technology Research L.L.C.The ruling involves four cases...
A producer of phone shield devices has agreed not to distribute its promotional brochure in the United States after Motorola Inc. warned the company not to make unsubstantiated claims about the safety of cellular phones.Motorola Inc. demanded an end to distribution of the pamphlet...
DENVER-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. donated five Digital PCS cellular phones with free airtime and long distance to the Colorado Oklahoma Resource Council to be used by survivors and families of victims during the Oklahoma City bombing trial in Denver."The support of family and friends...
WASHINGTON-Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) was informed by the Food and Drug Administration last week that neither federal government nor cellular industry-funded scientists have conducted large-scale radio frequency radiation bioeffects research in the four-and-a-half years since a lawsuit first linked cellular phones to cancer. Markey...
GREENBELT, Md.-Cellular One of Washington, D.C./Baltimore introduced its RSVP Piper Traveler, a product that combines a pager and an analog cellular phone.RSVP Piper Traveler features a nationwide numeric display pager enclosed in a battery pack that attaches directly to Motorola Inc.'s Piper cellular phones....
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Bloomberg Financial Markets announced they will begin offering financial news and market updates to users of AT&T's PocketNet phone this summer.Information available from Bloomberg will include daily financial, general and company news and market index performance including percentage change,...
During the past several months, a series of articles has appeared in RCR addressing the important question of potential health effects from the use of wireless phones. Included have been discussions of the type of research being conducted, particularly the efforts being undertaken by...
Cellular carriers in the city of Grand Forks, N.D., said their systems are faring well despite massive flooding that has forced most of the city's 50,000 residents to leave their homes for higher and dryer ground.Western Wireless Corp., operating a network under the Cellular...
Anadigics Inc. said it began volume production and shipments of its AWT919D dual-band/dual-mode power amplifier. The product is designed for use in dual-band cellular and personal communications services transmitter applications, the company said. It consists of two amplifier chains, one to operate in the...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. announced that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California dismissed a lawsuit filed against it by Qualcomm Inc. in December. However, Qualcomm said the dismissal was issued in an effort to consolidate the companies' claims against each other...
WASHINGTON-Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) last week launched a congressional investigation into the Food and Drug Administration's oversight of the struggling cancer research program funded by the cellular telephone industry, a move that signals renewed congressional interest in the controversial issue.The probe by Markey, top...
Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group announced it is supplying its Sceptre chipsets for Blaupunkt's new Radiophone device, a car stereo and cellular phone in one that will be available in Europe during the third quarter, said Lucent.The initial release of Radiophone will operate using...
If one were to ask Congress for a written transcript of the Feb. 2, 1993, Capitol Hill briefing on alleged health risks from portable wireless phones, the reply would be that it doesn't exist.The omission speaks volumes-figuratively and literally-about the state of government oversight...
WASHINGTON-In a March 12 letter to Federal Communications Commission chairman Reed Hundt, Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) asked that an "immediate ruling requiring newly manufactured cellular phones to select the strongest compatible signal whenever a 911 call is placed" be issued by the commission. The...
HARRISBURG, Pa.-A new Pennsylvania training program designed to help police officers crack down on illegal duplication and use of cellular phones drew praise from state Sen. Christine Tartaglione last week.Tartaglione has first-hand knowledge of cellular fraud. She twice has been the victim of cellular...
NEW YORK-Dialing and talking while driving are getting a closer look in state capitols lately, as legislatures in at least three states-California, Illinois and New York-consider bills that would impose various restrictions on the practice.The Illinois and California legislatures are considering versions of mandatory...
SAN FRANCISCO- In two weeks, Japanese cellular customers will gain the ability to roam internationally for the first time, using their own phone.GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. of Tampa, Fla., and Tokyo-based NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc., known as NTT DoCoMo, last week signed formal...
WASHINGTON-Motorola Inc. planned two years ago to collaborate with the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. to downplay potentially damaging scientific findings on possible health risks from portable telephones, according to a December 1994 internal Motorola memo.The memo, first reported by...
Geoworks' operating system is the foundation for Toshiba Corp.'s Genio PCV100 Pocket Communicator. The companies said it is the first product to have wireless Web browsing capability.Initially targeted for the Japanese Personal Handyphone System market, the Genio PCV100 integrates voice capability with data communications...
WASHINGTON-This may be the last year San Francisco will serve as the venue for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's still-growing annual convention and exposition. Every square foot of the huge Moscone Center has been booked for weeks; the waiting list is long. Show-goers this...
PT Mobile Selular Indonesia signed a credit note facility for $31 million with 12 national banks for a term loan.Lead arrangers are PT Makindo Securities and Bank Umum Servitia; co-arranger is Pan Indonesia Bank.PT Mobile Selular, or Mobisel, launched a Nordic Mobile Telephone-450 network...
A new study from the University of Toronto released last week concludes drivers face a four-fold increase in risk of having an injury-producing accident when using a cellular telephone.Researchers Dr. Donald Redelmeier and Dr. Robert Tibshirani studied 699 drivers who had cellular phones and...
