HONG KONG-China United Telecommunications Corp.'s plan to deploy Code Division Multiple Access technology ensures its survival into the next generation and creates momentum for cdmaOne technology throughout the Asia-Pacific region, cdmaOne proponents indicated at the CDMA Development Group's fourth annual CDMA World Congress in...
WASHINGTON-A technical committee for Code Division Multiple Access technology development is working on an adjunct standard of the technology that could be used for Phase II enhanced 911.The specification would "put part of the global positioning system receiver in the phone and part on...
WASHINGTON-Outspoken Federal Communications Commission member Harold Furchtgott-Roth joined the wireless industry on June 4 in blasting the agency's latest plan to fund discounted Internet connections for schools and libraries and in criticizing the overall administration of the universal service program."There will be no offsetting...
As the arms of wireless communications continue to stretch across the country, wireless local loop services are becoming increasingly popular, especially in rural areas where landline phones don't reach many homes and businesses.In the past year, companies such as Western Wireless Corp. and Frontier...
NCRNCR Corp. introduced a software product that allows carriers to perform event-driven marketing by analyzing customer behavior and predicting a customer's readiness to respond to particular marketing efforts. Called MarketingAgent, the software is part of NCR's Customer Relationship Management Solutions 4.0 portfolio. "Businesses that...
NEW YORK-With the creation of San Francisco-based OffRoad Capital Corp., the realm of angels, those wealthy people who invest patient capital in promising start-ups, has moved into cyberspace.OffRoad describes itself as a "new kind of financial services company using the Internet to create the...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration last week warned that failure by Congress to support renewal of normal trade relations with China could kill negotiations on China's entry into the World Trade Organization, a prospect that likely would doom landmark wireless trade concessions made by Chinese Premier...
It has been more than 15 months since the first local multipoint distribution service auctions ended and brought broadband wireless access networks to reality. By all accounts, the prospect for broadband wireless access in the United States remains positive.As evidence is the amount of...
SourceOne Wireless Inc.'s bankruptcy status may herald the end of the market for calling party pays paging, coming as no surprise to industry analysts, who believe the idea was doomed from the start.Founded in 1994 with the purchase of American Beeper Company, SourceOne pioneered...
WASHINGTON-An International Telecommunication Union task group in Beijing last week approved a carrier-crafted plan to harmonize competing U.S. and European Code Division Multiple Access technologies for Internet-friendly third-generation mobile phones, paving the way for the compromise to be translated into a new, global-roaming standard...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, in agreeing with the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, denied Omnipoint Corp.'s petition for a lower interest rate for the installment payment system for C-block personal communications services licenses. A similar petition by Savannah Independent PCS Corp. also was denied.Omnipoint and Savannah...
NEW YORK-By July, Atlantic Tele-Network Inc. plans to launch service under the Cellular One brand in Bermuda, a tax-haven country with the third-highest per-capita income in the world and average monthly cellular phone bills of $89.The holding company, based in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin...
A Fort Collins, Colo.-based company is collecting information from the wireless industry to determine the usefulness of radar satellites in mapping applications.I-cubed, which stands for Information Integration and Imaging L.L.C., is conducting the surveys as part of a study funded by the National Aeronautics...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Microsoft Exchange users soon will have wireless access to their desktop data via paging devices, according to a strategic agreement Glenayre Technologies Inc. signed with Infowave Software Inc.According to the agreement, Infowave is developing desktop software, code named Kodiak, designed to give people...
LONDON-Following an offer made by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone for Japanese carrier International Digital Communications, Cable & Wireless plc announced it is raising its previous offer for IDC and extending the term of the offer to June 15 from June 5, to comply with...
Sprint PCS announced it will stop operating its Global System for Mobile communications network in Washington, D.C., by the end of the year, ending months of speculation and denials from the nationwide Code Division Multiple Access operator.Sprint PCS, which once held a 58.5-percent interest...
After MCI WorldCom Inc. made news with its plans to acquire paging carrier SkyTel Communications Inc., the first question on everyone's mind was, "Why?"In a recently released update, Strategy Analytics said it believes "the acquisition ... represents an attempt by MCI WorldCom to appease...
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.-To move device interconnectivity from enticing theory to practical reality, the new Wireless Research Center of the University of California at Berkeley has formed a bi-coastal collaboration with the Wireless Information Network Laboratory at Rutgers University in New Jersey."We started the Wireless...
The new market for voice paging services has a rather dubious history of failed service rollouts, but companies like ReadyCom Inc.-which last week announced its first market launch-are not ready to give up on it quite yet.The company is not a carrier, but rather...
Nearly one year after General Magic Inc. introduced its Portico virtual assistant service, the company has plans to add several enhancements to the service, free to customers.Buck Krawczyk, vice president of communications at General Magic, said the company gathered information from customers through focus...
More than a year after Arch Communications Group Inc. first offered to buy MobileMedia Communications Inc., the merger between the two companies has been completed.The result is the second-largest paging carrier in the country, with 7.1 million subscribers and pro forma revenues and cash...
A dispute between the Greater Harris County (Texas) 9-1-1 Network and Houston Cellular concerning a Phase II enhanced 911 deployment in Houston could be headed to court.GHC 9-1-1 last week filed a lawsuit claiming one of Houston Cellular's owners, BellSouth Cellular Corp., interfered with...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-The Telecommunications and Electronics Consortium for Latin America and the U.S. Government both have filed comments with Anatel in Brazil regarding Anatel's proposed rules on equipment purchases by telecom operators.In a letter to Anatel, the U.S Government said, "These proposed requirements that...
WASHINGTON-Two powerful telecommunications lawmakers have brought the wireless industry into the debate about the amount of funding for Internet connections for schools and libraries, known as the e-rate.Reps. Thomas Bliley (R-Va.), chairman of the House Commerce Committee, and Billy Tauzin (R-La.), chairman of the...
