WASHINGTON—The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association on Wednesday hailed the wireless priority access agreement signed by VoiceStream Wireless Corp. by calling on the federal government "to free up the additional wireless spectrum it has long bottled up."Wireless priority access will allow national security and...
ORLANDO, Florida, United States—The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) wrapped up U.S. mobile industry event CTIA Wireless 2002 on Wednesday with a final keynote address by Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union.Gorbachev encouraged companies to work with Russian companies, scientists and...
ORLANDO—VeriSign was busy at CTIA Wireless 2002, making five announcements plugging new partnerships and services.First, VeriSign outlined its telecommunications strategy, since its acquisition of Illuminet Holdings Inc. and H.O. Systems Inc., for delivering services that carriers can use to expand their data and voice...
ORLANDO—The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association wrapped up CTIA Wireless 2002 today with a final keynote address by Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union.Gorbachev encouraged companies to work with Russian companies, scientists and engineers, describing the Russian wireless market as small but...
ORLANDO—Amdocs unveiled ClarifyCRM, its new end-to-end solution that offers integrated customer relationship management and billing applications to service providers, this week at CTIA Wireless 2002.Amdocs said the new CRM solution will lead to: reduced implementation costs for customers; increased customer satisfaction and loyalty; reduced...
ORLANDO—SkyGo Inc. and VeriSign Inc. announced today at CTIA Wireless 2002 the integration of SkyGo's new SkyCode service with VeriSign's wireless resolution platform.With VeriSign's resolution technology, SkyCode allows marketers to equip traditional cross-media campaigns with an instant response mechanism so consumers can interact with...
ORLANDO—Sierra Wireless announced at this week's CTIA Wireless 2002 show that it will provide Rogers AT&T Wireless with the AirCard 750 GSM/GPRS PC Card.Now with the AirCard 750, wireless device users in Canada can wirelessly access the Internet, intranets, corporate applications and e-mail at...
ORLANDO—The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association honored three recipients of its 2002 President's Awards last night. The annual awards go to individuals and companies who have made an outstanding contribution to the industry throughout the last year.Smith Bagley, founder and chief executive officer of...
ORLANDO—EMS Wireless unveiled a voice and data wireless solution at this week's CTIA Wireless 2002 tradeshow. The solution offers immediate implementation, integrated carrier in-building repeaters and 802.11 high-speed data coverage."Our customers are asking for highly reliable voice and data connectivity in the wireless environment,"...
ORLANDO, Fla.—Metallic Power, which develops zero-emission, regenerative zinc/air fuel cells, announced at this week's CTIA Wireless 2002 that Nextel Communications Inc. will conduct testing and evaluation of Metallic Power fuel cells as a backup power source for it's cellular base stations."Metallic Power proposes a...
ORLANDO, Fla.—Air2Web announced its Mobile Internet Platform now supports the BREW application platform and that the company will demonstrate wireless e-mail, as well as several other applications, developed on the BREW platform CTIA Wireless 2002 this week. The Air2Web Airmail application allows BREW-enabled handset...
ORLANDO, Fla.—The Yankee Group and Sentori Inc. announced an emerging niche within the MVNO wireless market space during a press conference at CTIA Wireless 2002 earlier this week.The new niche players, mainly affinity and specialty channel MVNOs, offer billing and customer care options to...
ORLANDO—AT&T Wireless made several announcements to bolster its presence at CTIA Wireless 2002.The carrier announced it will install Adaptive Multirate Vocorder (AMR) technology that could more than double the voice capacity on its GSM network. In addition, AT&T Wireless said it will begin selling...
ORLANDO—Motorola Inc. announced Cingular Wireless will be the first North American carrier for the Motorola V70 handset at this week's CTIA Wireless 2002 tradeshow. The V70 has a rotating cover and circular display, blue electro-luminescent MotoGlo lighting, translucent housing and a black screen display...
NEW YORK—The Mobile Marketing Association issued a series of guidelines to raise awareness of and spur debate about privacy issues involved in location-based targeting at this week's CTIA Wireless 2002 tradeshow.Focused on satisfying subscribers, operators and mobile marketers, the MMA recommends:Its members not merge...
ORLANDO—Radio Frequency Systems (RFS) said it will exhibit a set of end-to-end RF solutions at this year's CTIA Wireless show.RFS will show:The Optimizer Plus antenna family, which offers continuously adjustable electrical downtilt, allowing for optimization of 2.5G and 3G networks.The new PCS repeater, the...
CARLSBAD, Calif.—Airbility will showcase its AirForceOne cellular modem module at CTIA Wireless 2002. AirForceOne incorporates all required radio transceiver functions into one module that can easily be interfaced to a modem or other baseband or audio interface, the company said, adding that the solution...
ORLANDO—ViaFone will team with EDS and Hewlett-Packard at CTIA Wireless 2002 in Orlando.ViaFone will join HP to show off the Quickstart Mobile Sales Solutions from HP and ViaFone. The solution allows sales representatives to manage orders, contacts and opportunities from the field across popular...
IRVINE, Calif.—Telmar Network Technology, supplier of new and reuse telecommunications infrastructure and services, said it will exhibit at CTIA Wireless 2002."We offer exceptional value and an enormous selection of next-generation and legacy wireless technology, we have expertise in sourcing products from a worldwide network...
ORLANDO—Boingo announced it will enable the Orange County Convention Center with 802.11b broadband Internet access for CTIA Wireless 2002.In addition, CTIA has partnered with Boingo and Avaya to offer show attendees the following deal: attendees who sign up for Boingo Pro, which is $24.95...
SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. announced it will join 13 BREW application developers and publishers to demonstrate BREW applications at CTIA Wireless 2002 in Orlando."The companies joining us at CTIA have done amazing work and are taking this opportunity to highlight the expanding possibilities of wireless,"...
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—The Tennessee Emergency Communications Board said it will conduct a Phase II wireless E911 location services trial across multiple public safety answering points (PSAPs) throughout Tennessee.Several companies have partnered for the trial. Advantage Cellular Systems will deploy E911 service to its entire subscriber...
MANCHESTER, N.H.—OEM solution provider FCI is presenting its new BATOOL 14.4 V line for the utility and telecommunications markets at CTIA Wireless 2002. The enhanced version of BATOOL is designed to eliminate battery memory problems and includes a "No-Memory" Nickel Metal-Hydride (Ni-MII) battery that...
SAN DIEGO—One Voice Technologies Inc. will demonstrate its MobileVoice Messaging solutions in the Sony-Ericsson Mobile Communications booth at CTIA Wireless 2002 in Orlando. One Voice will be showing its MobileVoice Messaging, which allows users to send e-mails, SMS, instant and paging messages through voice-to-text...
