Hardly a week goes by without someone claiming some security threat, whether it be satellite technology transfers, lost-and-found hard drives at Los Alamos National Laboratory, nuclear spying, or open house at the State Department.A far less sensational risk is identified in a new National...
WASHINGTON-The shift of satellite export jurisdiction from the Commerce Department to the State Department, and the resulting loss of U.S. business, has triggered a legislative backlash that could return oversight to Commerce.The fallout from GOP-led legislation in 1998 to transfer satellite export jurisdiction from...
If you like to talk on a cell phone will driving, you may want to steer clear of Marlboro Township, N.J., on your next trip. The township's council is preparing for a final vote on a law that would ban drivers from using cell...
Arch Communications Group Inc. launched its two-way messaging service this week, positioning the new service as far away from the old paging paradigm as possible by using the brand Webster Internet Messaging."Fundamentally, at its core, it's a wireless e-mail service offering," said Ed Baker,...
Qualcomm Inc. introduced its Eudora Internet Suite version 1.1 for the Palm operating system, allowing any Palm-based device with a wireless or wired Internet connection to browse the Internet without going through a proxy server, the company said. It also supports e-mail management and...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Brazilian wireless carrier Telesp Celular said it began offering Internet access services based on the Wireless Application Protocol. The WAAAP-The Pocket Internet service allows users to send and receive e-mail; access bank accounts; and receive online news, traffic conditions, restaurant and movie...
The untethered working environment holds the promise of freeing employees from their desktop computers and allowing them to work where they can be most efficient while still maintaining a connection to a company's network.The walls blocking that potential today include lack of capacity compared...
SANDTON, South Africa-The wave of liberalization and privatization that has been sweeping the African economic markets has spread to communications, revealing rich untapped potential for future investment.Cellular markets have been the area's most dynamic telecoms sectors, with extraordinarily high growth rates and numerous new...
DUBLIN, Ireland-The massive sums being invested in third-generation (3G) licenses, network development and acquisitions have placed the major European operators firmly under the financial spotlight. While observers agree there is no significant cause for concern yet, it is also clear operators are being forced...
SEOUL, South Korea-South Korea said it would limit the number of licenses for operating much-coveted third-generation (3G) mobile services networks to three, adopt a modified "beauty contest" that will bring in auction-like revenues and allow a double technology standard that could introduce both European-favored...
GENEVA-The sky-high third-generation (3G) license fees generated by the United Kingdom's May auction are having serious repercussions for European operators seeking a pan-regional presence. Governments on the mainland are rejigging their own forthcoming Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) license allocations to take advantage of...
BEIJING-China is still set to enter the World Trade Organization (WTO) by the end of the year. Upon accession, foreign operators will be permitted a 25-percent share of Chinese mobile phone operators, increasing to 49 percent three years after accession. The long wait will...
PARIS-Nortel Networks introduced a wireless data initiative and noted its commitment to the European market here last week. Included in the announcements was a partnership with Hewlett-Packard Co. to integrate Nortel's wireless data technology into HP's wireless hardware.Nortel is looking to capitalize on the...
Europe is embarking on a third-generation license auction frenzy the rest of this year, and operators are not happy about it.Since the United Kingdom raked in a whopping $35 billion earlier this year, other countries are moving away from the traditional method of granting...
One thing Cricket Communications Inc. did not plan on when it decided to offer a wireless service that competes with landline telephony was the fact that handsets break faster.In the two markets where Cricket has launched service, customers are using an average of 1,000...
WASHINGTON-A group of wireless and telecommunications executives are planning to roll out a new service they hope will lead to residential wireless broadband service with what could be megabit data rates.The market for Burst Wireless Inc. are those customers that cannot get access to...
The GSM community, which has struggled to make inroads in Latin America, was ensured access to an important market as the Brazilian government granted personal communications services licenses in the 1800 MHz band.Last week's decision caught many mobile-phone carriers and infrastructure providers off guard....
NEW YORK-The conventional wisdom that communications software and enhanced services were "a one-night stand as an investment opportunity," has faded away amid a proliferation of new carrier requirements, said Susan Passoni, vice president of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp.Excluding electronic commerce, DLJ projects...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on June 8 adopted rules and policies aimed at increasing teledensity on tribal lands but did not address requests from the wireless industry to obtain universal-service funds to serve these areas."The FCC needs to take more concrete actions regarding the...
NEW YORK-Despite the well-deserved drubbing of many dot-coms, communications companies, particularly equipment and component suppliers, are well worth investing in, securities analysts said June 14 at The Bear Stearns Companies Inc. Technology Conference.The year 2000 has the look and feel of 1994, when the...
PARIS-The French government has decided not to auction third-generation licenses later this year and will instead award the licenses through a "beauty contest." The government still will raise nearly $19 billion through the process, with each license costing about $4.7 billion.That amount is much...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-3Com Corp. unveiled its next-generation Total Control 2000 multiservice access platform, a carrier-class, high-density multiservice solution supporting a variety of access media, including narrowband data services, Internet Protocol telephony, wireless data and broadband services."Customers can use the same packet-based network for voice...
WASHINGTON-The wireless and wireline industries are battling it out at the Federal Communications Commission over how much they should pay to connect the other's calls.Sprint PCS asked the FCC in February to change the way reciprocal compensation is calculated when traffic goes from a...
