When questioned about the narrowband wireless local loop market, people in the telecommunications industry offer such differing opinions you expect a hidden camera to be planted somewhere in an attempt to catch your bewildered expression.According to Arnon Kohavi, vice president of strategic business development...
L.M. Ericsson led the stampede of companies that introduced Bluetooth products in the past few weeks, but some industry experts believe it will be several years away before consumers embrace Bluetooth products."All the talk is based on technology, not on the use of the...
WASHINGTON-The importance public image holds for competitive wireless carriers was highlighted last week when a major daily newspaper here-pointing to the lack of mobile-phone service in underground subways that run through some poor black and Latino neighborhoods-questioned whether Verizon Wireless was engaged in redlining...
Littlefeet Inc., a one-year-old company based in San Diego, announced its wireless infrastructure product line and said it secured $25 million in second-round financing.Because coverage and capacity demands will increase as data use increases, Littlefeet President and Chief Executive Officer Malcolm Wood said operators...
WASHINGTON-The House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a bill to phase out the 3 percent telecommunications excise tax."American consumers should no longer be paying for Teddy Roosevelt's ride up San Juan Hill. Now is the right time to eliminate the 102-year old luxury...
WASHINGTON-Just as the wireless industry is changing, the regulatory process is changing from a rule-making process to one dominated by lobbying, a regulatory staffer said last week."I think we have been seeing a very fundamental change in that process ... It is really not...
A running joke dogging the Wireless Application Protocol industry is that its initials, WAP, stand for "Where are the phones?"Applying that to the messaging industry, desperate to be included in the wireless Internet game, the question may be asked, "Where are the pagers?"All discussions...
LONDON-France Telecom is expected to make a $45 billion cash and stock bid for Orange plc early next week, according to international press reports. The French telecom company is reported to have secured a $29.7 billion bank loan to acquire the United Kingdom's third-largest...
Article intended to highlight many contributionsTo the editor: I am concerned that there may be a misperception resulting from my article published by RCR on March 27, 2000, that the U.S. government in some way "favors" CDMA over other wireless technologies. This has been inferred...
This is a copy of a letter sent to President Clinton in response to his recent American tour exposing the lack of wireless telephony and Internet access to rural and underserved America. I noticed an article on the subject in your May 8 edition.Dear...
The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association likes to talk about safety. And why not? Thousands of 911 calls from mobile phones are made every day, millions each year. No doubt countless lives have been saved and serious injury averted by a device CTIA President Thomas...
NEW YORK-Excluding the third-generation wireless impact, the number of cell sites for mobile communications in the United States likely will reach 140,000 in the next two years, said Ric Prentiss, senior vice president of equity research for Raymond James & Associates.Citing Cellular Telecommunications Industry...
Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. said its money will run out in five months unless it gets help. In the meantime, ongoing efforts to establish a worldwide network and begin widespread commercial service contributed to the mobile satellite service operator's increased first-quarter losses.United Kingdom-based Inmarsat added...
Front Porch Communications L.L.C., a hardware and software solutions developer for Internet service providers since 1998, expanded its offerings last week to include wireless Internet solutions.Qualcomm Inc. also said it invested $5 million in Front Porch to support continued development, production and market expansion...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. formed a new venture to develop integrated systems in silicon chips to improve the performance and reduce the cost and size of next-generation Internet appliances, including personal digital assistants and cell phones.The new venture, SyChip Inc., will offer chip-scale...
To the Editor: We would like to respond to the letter from Mr. Jules Neuringer, president of Portronix Communications, printed in your April 24 issue.In recent years, Motorola and its dealer channel recognized a need for an integrated marketing database. This tool would provide access...
FREMONT, Calif.-Consumers are accustomed to the sleek and small handsets available in the market today. But as the data revolution unfolds, the components needed to facilitate new functions threaten to increase the size of handsets.Intarsia Corp., a radio-frequency technology integrator, believes it has come...
NEW YORK-In a perfect world, top executives would not implement a new promotion plan until they received assurances from the engineering department that the system could handle increased use.Instead, demands for quick fixes after the fact are typical in an environment where increasing numbers...
VoiceStream Wireless Corp. pronounced itself the fastest growing wireless company in the nation last week as it detailed its strategy for tying together former Omnipoint Corp. and Aerial Communications Inc. properties and its plans for wireless data service to analysts during its quarterly conference...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission this week is expected to seek public input on the proposed transfer of 900 MHz dispatch radio licenses in 14 major markets from Geotek Communications Inc.'s creditors to Neoworld Inc., a start-up firm headed by the former president of Nextel...
In spring, a young geek's fancy turns to cyberterrorism. This is, after all, the Digital Age.Ah yes, a love bug is the air. Online to be precise. You know, it's funny how something so seemingly simple as an expression of love on the Net...
WASHINGTON-The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health said injuries and fatalities from workers falling from wireless towers are occurring at a substantially greater rate than in other U.S. industries."The cost of a phone call should not be a worker's life," said NIOSH Director...
BERWYN, Pa.-Triton PCS Holdings Inc., an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate, reported higher net losses for the first quarter, despite more revenues.Triton said it saw an increase in revenue from the first quarter last year, from $11.5 million to $62.8 million for the period...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. released first-quarter earnings, elected a new chairman and completed both the acquisition of NationPage and initial construction of a nationwide Asynchronous Transfer Mode network.Metrocall's first quarter net loss was $47.7 million, compared with a net loss of $42 million last year....
