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 marketplace to new and different market segments such as seniors, teens and those individuals who...
GLOBECOM SYSTEMSGlobecomm 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 in the United States and weighs 32 pounds. The system can be configured from the...
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 as it has with PCs," Matthew Checkley, associate consultant with the firm, said in a...
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 Communications Corp. This 2008 subscription forecast represents 12.7 percent of the world population, up...
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 to the cell phone he loved to cradle: the stone, in fact, is a replica...
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., before tackling head-on the thorny issue of possible health risks associated with prolonged cell...
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 airships floating in the stratosphere as base stations for cellular networks.While the Iridium mobile...
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 and disagreements over the running of the 15-month-old firm.Chief Operating Officer Raphael Goh, together...
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 current subscriber growth.Some carriers now are getting more than half of new subscribers through...
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 aggressive moves to match offers coming primarily from their PCS counterpart, AT&T Wireless Services...
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 pager designed by Research In Motion. RIM's wearable, two-way pager features a variety of improvements...
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 Association. TIA's figures were based on statistics compiled by the Electronic Industries Alliance Market...
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 United States.Suwanee, Ga.-based Oki was a pioneer in the cellular handset industry. Involved with...
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 motion, even if you do have Internet access via your mobile handset."To see how...
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 network. Nokia said it will supply base stations, base station controllers and high-capacity mobile...
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 top of an insulator such as silicon-oxide or glass in chips. Transistors then are built...
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 In Motion's Inter@ctive Pager and BellSouth's Wireless Data Network, which provides near-ubiquitous coverage in the...
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 Sullivan, chairman and CEO of Applied Cellular, will work with an independent top-tier executive...
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 criticized soundly by privacy advocates. Additionally, it appears that the FBI was unable to...
L.M. Ericsson signed a software licensing agreement with Lernot & Hauspie Speech Products for the latter's speech recognition, text-to-speech and speech compression technology.L&H in the past has signed licensing agreements with Motorola Inc., Deutsche Telekom AG, Northern Telecom Inc. and Intellivoice Communications Inc.Speech user...
At a somewhat lavish press event at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Motorola Inc. announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Starfish Software Inc., a leading supplier of customized solutions for the Connected Information Device market.Terms of the transaction were not...
NEW YORK-Proceeding toward its vision of the network as the computer, Sun Microsystems Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., is expected to introduce formally this week the successor to its Java programming language.Spelled J-i-n-i, and pronounced "genie," the new software allows Java to enable devices like...
Italian telecommunications operator Telecom Italia has abandoned its plans to buy minority interests in certain global holdings of Cable & Wireless plc, the companies confirmed last week.The two have been working for three months to create a global alliance to exploit what they called...
With only a month before oral arguments, challengers to the FCC's new RF exposure standard managed to avoid imploding last week. Just barely.It all started a couple weeks ago when Cellular Phone Taskforce President Arthur Firstenberg accused James Hobson, a D.C. lawyer for the...
