Motorola Inc. announced Office Depot will begin carrying the PageWriter 2000 two-way pager in more than 600 retail locations nationwide.TSR Wireless L.L.C. said it has built a ReFLEX 25 two-way messaging network on the West Coast, adding coverage in southern California and into Nevada....
BANGALORE, India-Although cellular operators in India fear revenue losses of as much as 25 percent due to a sharp increase in the monthly rental, or service charge, from US$3.90 to US$15, many in the industry hope the new tariff structure will expand cellular usage...
As I write this, the community here is still in shock over events in April at a local suburban Denver high school where two students stormed the building with guns, spraying bullets into crowds of kids and lobbing home-made pipe bombs. The two teenagers...
TOKYO-As part of its effort to become a comprehensive multimedia service provider rather than just a cellular telephone operator, NTT Mobile Communications Network (NTT DoCoMo) has joined up with the world's leading software companies to use their leading-edge enabling technologies.Japan's cellular telephone market, which...
BANGALORE, India-Although the growth of South Asia's relatively new markets has temporarily slowed due to political and financial problems, increased competition and investment have made them extremely promising. With managed competition in India, minimal competition in Pakistan and a highly deregulated market in Sri...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The potential bidders for the third cellular license in South Africa are determined to break the existing Vodacom-MTN duopoly. "We will be competing head-on with MTN and Vodacom for a slice of the lucrative market, believed to be worth R10 billion (US$2...
HONG KONG-Mobile number portability (MNP) has been in effect in Hong Kong since 1 March, but there is no sign yet of a switching spree among cellular customers in the territory.Offers of free handsets, free airtime, cash rewards and free services for a couple...
NEW YORK-Microcell Tele-communications Inc. is hoping Canadian regulators will follow the lead of the United Kingdom and Hong Kong in granting customers mobile number portability (MNP) as they change carriers.The Montreal, Canada-based company is the parent of a personal communications services provider with a...
Nortele-mobility servicesNortel Networks introduced a portfolio of subscriber services, called e-mobility services, that provide rapid, flexible deployment of leading-edge voice and data capabilities optimized for the Internet Protocol environment. The services include Wireless Prepaid, Group Conferencing, Smart Mobile Access, Wireless Voice-Activated Dialing, Mobile Messaging...
DENVER, United States-Students at a high school used wireless technology as a lifeline to the world from within the confines of their suburban school while two gunmen terrorized students and faculty in a rampage that left 15 dead and 23 injured.Stories of Columbine High...
DENVER-Columbine High School students last week used wireless technology as a lifeline to the world from within the confines of their Littleton, Colo., school while two gunmen terrorized students and faculty in a rampage that left 15 dead and 23 injured.Stories of students managing...
I have really tried to keep myself and my thoughts above the fray when it comes to the whole Y2K issue. It is difficult.At the beginning of the year, as the hype was making an early peak, I shook my head at some friends...
NEW YORK-The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission expects to hold a full public hearing at its next meeting, tentatively scheduled for May 20, on a proposed regulation to restrict the use of cellular phones by cab drivers."There has been a flurry of...
NEW YORK-A panel of three federal judges heard arguments April 5 in an appeal of Federal Communications Commission siting and safety requirements for the placement of microwave cell sites for wireless telecommunications.The judges questioned attorneys for both sides critically and closely, allowing the clock...
ROME-The takeover battle engaged by Olivetti spa for Telecom Italia spa was scheduled to come to a head Saturday, when Telecom Italia shareholders were scheduled to vote on the takeover defense plan formed by Chief Executive Officer Franco Bernabe.At least 30 percent of all...
WASHINGTON-As the Federal Communications Commission moves closer to setting guidelines to make telecom equipment and services accessible to disabled individuals, the wireless industry is pressing regulators to back off proposed rules that it claims are too restrictive and burdensome and that run counter to...
The Cleveland, Ohio, suburb of Brooklyn, believed to be the first city in the nation to pass a mandatory seat belt law back in 1966, is making fresh legal tracks again with the approval of an ordinance making it punishable by fine to talk...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Puma Technology said it teamed with DoCoMo/NTT Mobile Communications Network to provide cellular phone users in Japan wireless Internet access to corporate groupware application information through Puma's Intellisync Anywhere software and DoCoMo's i-mode cellular phone service.The i-mode service provides users a mobile...
Dynamic Mobile Data SystemsDynamic Mobile Data Systems Inc. announced its Mobile Server product is commercially available. Mobile Server is a set of wireless drivers and controls for Microsoft NT servers and wireless devices that the company said extends beyond-firewall corporate data and applications to...
As the wireless data industry finds more room to grow in the mobile enterprise market, more application developers are searching for ways to meet this new space.In the last week, several companies announced mobile data solutions and products designed for the horizontal and enterprise...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J.-International Wireless Technologies L.L.C. has developed a single-chip solution that permits wireless device manufacturers to use one platform for multiple mobile and fixed voice and data standards.By mid-year, IWT said it expects to beta test with two equipment manufacturers its patent pending...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Hewlett-Packard Co. introduced the HP TS-5530 mobile phone test platform, a tester that meets the demands of Code Division Multiple Access and Global System for Mobile communications cellular phone testing.The tester is a pre-integrated platform and as such, according to HP, provides...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. signed an $85 million contract to supply Code Division Multiple Access digital cellular phone equipment to Baja Celular Mexicana S.A. de C.V., Movitel del Noroeste S.A. de C.V., Telefonia Celular del Norte S.A. de C.V. and Celular de Telefonia S.A....
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry scored big legal victories on the health front last week as the Supreme Court put strict limits on the admissibility of expert testimony in product liability cases and declined to review a lower court's dismissal of a class-action lawsuit against Motorola...
