Devices

WASHINGTON-Bell Atlantic Mobile refuses to throw in the towel on antenna siting and continues to fight for sites the company claims are necessary for coverage. In two cases, opponents see …

The ability to access information anytime, anywhere quickly is becoming the most-touted benefit of wireless communications devices, a characteristic that could continue into the next century as long as application …

NEW YORK-JVC Company of America, Wayne, N.J., and PocketScience Inc., Santa Clara, Calif., have teamed up to provide a portable e-mail system that is both complementary to and competitive with …

Investors are nervous when it comes to pricing competition in the mobile industry. Just look at the effects of a Wall Street Journal article in April that described the competitive …

UltraTek, a Torrance, Calif.-based telecommunications equipment research company, has filed patent applications for a global wireless telecommunications system that would turn commercial airplanes into flying cell sites. The company has …

Today’s volatile wireless telecommunications market compares to a Roman sports arena with every service provider in hand-to-hand combat-fate hanging in the balance. It doesn’t take a despotic emperor to know …

TORONTO-Rogers Cantel Inc. said it has extended its Pay As You Go paging and cellular service to customers in Saskatoon and Regina, Saskatchewan. “This product has opened up the wireless …

GLOBECOM SYSTEMS Globecomm Systems Inc. announced commercial availability of its Systems Explorer II Portable Satphone, a satellite phone system that uses Integrated Services Digital Network technology. Explorer II is made …

Sorry Microsoft Corp., but analyst firm Strategy Analytics predicts the handheld device market in the future will not be dominated by any single standard. “Microsoft will not dominate this category …

SHERMAN OAKS, Calif.-During the next decade, worldwide cellular phone users are expected to more than double to 715 million from this year’s subscription numbers of 268 million, according to Baskerville …

JERUSALEM, Israel-In the southern town of Ashkelon stands a larger-than-life black marble grave stone that is as much a monument to the teenager buried in the plot as it is …

JERUSALEM, Israel-Afraid of scaring Israeli consumers, wireless carriers operating in this nation of 2 million cellular phone users are awaiting the arrival of a third player, Partner Communications Co. Ltd., …

TOKYO-The Japanese government is funding research for a 1 trillion yen (US$6.85 billion) Skynet project, scheduled to be ready for commercial launch in 2002, that would use up to 200 …

SINGAPORE-One of the strongest indications Singapore’s paging market may have reached saturation was given in July when three of Hutchison Paging’s top executives quit en masse, reportedly over poor sales …

Across most of the world’s regions, carriers and analysts are claiming prepaid cellular a resounding success. Along with calling party pays, it is considered one of the leading contributors to …

In Chicago, where the mobile phone penetration rate is one of the highest among the nation’s most populous markets, cellular carriers Ameritech Cellular Services Inc. and SBC Wireless have made …

BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. marks its re-entry into the paging market this week with the commercial debut of its two-way Interactive Paging Service. The service uses the new Inter@ctive 950 …

U.S. factory sales of telecommunications equipment during the first half of the year rose by 13.1 percent compared with last year, to more than $36.6 billion, said the Telecommunications Industry …

The industry’s first cellular phone manufacturer has become another casualty of the highly competitive handset business. Oki Telecom Inc. has ceased manufacturing, sales and marketing all mobile phones in the …

NEW YORK-To get a better idea of the impact of cellular phone use while driving, tap the World Wide Web, but please don’t do it while your vehicle is in …

EuroTel Praha awarded Nokia Corp. a three-year frame agreement valued at almost $200 million to continue as the sole supplier to expand its 900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications …

IBM Corp. last week introduced a new process for building high-speed transistors that could translate into smaller wireless phones. The process, called silicon-on-insulator, places a thin layer of silicon on …

Wynd Communications Corp. recently introduced a wireless communications service designed to put deaf and hard of hearing people on equal footing with the hearing community. The WyndTell service uses Research …

Applied Cellular Technology Inc. formed an executive search committee to fill the position of president and chief executive officer. The committee, made up of several outside board members and Richard …

WASHINGTON-A proposed amendment to rewrite the digital wiretap act that amounted to a wish list for law enforcement has been withdrawn by the Department of Justice after certain aspects were …