BALTIMORE-Pacific Eagle Investments Ltd., Masa Telecom Inc., Ericsson Inc. and Siemens Telecom Networks-collective creditors to bankrupt C-block personal communications services licensee Pocket Communications Inc.-have withdrawn a lawsuit filed in U.S. Bankruptcy court here Feb. 18 that was crafted to block any government efforts to...
WASHINGTON-The pack leaders haven't changed much during the last week of bidding in the Federal Communications Commission's local multipoint distribution services auction. The top 10 companies remain the same, although the order shifts for one or two companies every few rounds. This behavior, coupled...
Most analysts and industry insiders agree the future of the paging industry lies in providing value-added services to the current paging subscriber base.For some that means upgrading from numeric to alphanumeric. For others, that means adding information services to alphanumeric. For San Diego, Calif.-based...
B-band cellular licenses don't appear to be a wireless Mardi Gras for the Brazilian government any longer.Though raking in billions so far from four of the 10 licenses it already has awarded, the Brazilian Ministry of Communications most likely won't see bids rivaling the...
LONDON (AP)-Three British telephone companies charge customers too much to place calls to mobile phones, a regulator said Thursday as he ordered a monopoly investigation of their pricing."Mobile phones are an increasingly important part of everyday life," said Don Cruickshank, Britain's director general of...
WASHINGTON-Four Senate telecom lawmakers plan to introduce universal service legislation this week aimed at preventing mandated Internet links for schools, libraries and rural health-care facilities from draining telephone service subsidies for poor and high-cost rural subscribers.The bipartisan draft, authored by Sens. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska),...
WASHINGTON-Attorney General Janet Reno said Friday she will postpone seeking Federal Communications Commission intervention in the digital wiretap controversy if the telecom industry can show progress in the coming months toward resolving implementation disputes with the FBI that have continued three-and-a-half years after the...
Ericsson forms office mobility unitATLANTA-Ericsson Inc. announced the formation of the Wireless Services unit in response to the increasing need for wireless communications in the workplace.Ericsson said the new unit will provide a wireless office solution based on the Interim Standard-136 Time Division Multiple...
WASHINGTON-Attorney General Janet Reno, amid indications of coming legislation, told Congress last week she will order the Federal Communications Commission to intervene in mid-March if the deadlock between the FBI and the telecom industry over digital wiretap implementation is not resolved by then."We may...
NEW YORK-Rumors of analog's death are premature, according to a group of former IBM Corp. executives who have joined with other industry veterans to form a new company to exploit high-speed analog transmission, first over plain old copper wire and later over the airwaves.Innovative...
Consumers are aware of increased competition within the wireless industry, according to a report conducted by Peter D. Hart Research Associates Inc., released at Wireless '98 last week in Atlanta.Seventy-one percent of the survey's respondents said they perceived more competition among wireless companies today...
The Telecommunications Resellers Association has filed comments urging the Federal Communications Commission to reject a petition filed by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association requesting a five-year delay in the wireless number portability implementation deadline.CTIA's petition, filed in December following its previous request for a...
In a jointly published report, the Telecommunications Industry Association and the MultiMedia Telecommunications Association estimate the mobile and wireless communications market reached $41.6 billion in 1997, and predicted the market will continue to grow to $70.1 billion by 2001.The "1998 MultiMedia Market Review and...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-When you look at a postcard of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with its magnificent beaches flanked by a line of mountains, the landscape seems timeless and still. But looks can be deceiving. As with any big city in the last part of the...
DALLAS, United States-U.S.-based DSC Communications Corp.'s cellular infrastructure division, Celcore, has begun work with TELE Greenland A/S to test and evaluate a DSC Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) system in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.Greenland, located far northwest of the European continent, is...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Cambridge Positioning Systems introduced its Cursor Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) location system in February at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France.The company said Cursor is the first demonstrable system of its kind.Cambridge is demonstrating the system to potential business...
JOHANNESBURG-The international telecommunications exhibition and forum-Africa Telecom 98-promises to be an important milestone for the African continent.The event is scheduled for 4 May to 9 May at the Expo Centre (Nasrec), Johannesburg, and aims to attract 300 exhibitors and 15,000 visitors. It is organized...
JOHANNESBURG-The International Telecommunication Union's (ITU's) formal approval of Motorola Inc.'s FLEX paging protocol as an international standard will give the green light to expand FLEX operations in Africa. This will be particularly so in South Africa, the hub of the paging industry.One operator in...
In the early 1990s, many industry observers enthusiastically predicted that wireless local loop (WLL) deployments would spread fast and furiously throughout the international telecommunications arena. Given emerging economies' pent-up demand for basic phone service, the introduction of local-exchange competition within industrialized nations and major...
oseph B. Cahill Crain's Chicago Business CHICAGO-As economies from South Korea to Indonesia convulse, China has become the last line of defense in Asia for Motorola Inc. The importance of China to the Schaumburg, Ill.-based manufacturer of semiconductors and wireless communications gear became...
Tom Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, will have spent two weeks on the road before he returns home to Washington, D.C. Wheeler was scheduled to spend the first week in Cannes, France, at the GSM MOU conference and this week hosting...
Cambridge Positioning Systems, a Cambridge, United Kingdom-based company, last week introduced its Cursor Global System for Mobile communications location system at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France.The company said Cursor is the first demonstrable system of its kind. Cambridge is demonstrating the system...
WASHINGTON-The war of words between the wireless industry and law enforcement over the time frame and requirements of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act is becoming more strident as letters between those two entities, Congress and the Justice Department, continue to circulate in...
In 1983, there were about 40 cellular cell sites in the Los Angeles area, with just a few hundred countrywide. Early subscribers lined up to pay whatever the price was for a cellular phone-$2,000 to $3,500 was typical-and the question was not, "How much...
