WASHINGTON-In two unrelated developments that could reignite the debate over whether wireless technology poses health risks, a new Swedish survey has found possible links between mobile phones and illness symptoms, while a female executive with a brain tumor has retained the largest personal-injury law...
NEW YORK-Instead of viewing paging as a dying industry, wireless telephony providers should recognize it as a service enhancement and growth catalyst, said Andrew Weisheit, vice president of the carrier service division of PageMart Wireless Inc., Dallas."Many folks we talk to on the facilities-based...
Corsair Communications Inc. said it completed installing its PhonePrint system for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. in its Pittsburgh market. AT&T Wireless already had the fraud-prevention system installed in its New York-New Jersey; Las Vegas; and Santa Barbara, and Oxnard-Ventura, Calif., markets. "Our PhonePrint Roaming...
Several leading telecommunications and computer industry companies last week announced a technology platform that would allow all types of mobile devices to communicate with each other without cable connections.Companies including Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Toshiba Corp., Nokia Corp. and L.M. Ericsson are participating in...
A manufacturer of mobile phone shield devices said business has been booming following the release of a Swedish study that linked mobile phone use with headaches, fatigue and tingling and heat sensations on the ear and skin."We've been inundated with calls. Our switchboard has...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is evaluating a proposal that would require cellular carriers to program cell phones to send 911 calls to the A or B side system that offers the best signal. The so-called strongest signal proposal has placed the FCC in the...
WASHINGTON-Brad Clark, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, resident used his cellular phone three times to help people in emergency situations. His actions won him the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's 1997 VITA Wireless Samaritan Award for the state of Iowa.Driving to work last December in icy...
WASHINGTON-Major wireless E911 and digital wiretap initiatives on Capitol Hill have taken unexpected turns that may not necessarily doom legislation, but could reshape bills against industry interests.Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) is negotiating with House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.) on E911 legislation to...
LAS VEGAS-General Magic Inc. said it plans to begin commercially offering July 30 its integrated voice and data virtual assistant network service via local, regional and national value-added resellers.The service, previously code-named Serengeti, is officially renamed Portico. The Portico brand name now will appear...
Vivox USA Inc.Vivox USA Inc. plans to begin shipping its patented hands-free car kit, the VL-1E7 for GE/Ericsson 6xx/7xx series cellular phones this month. The system uses a vehicle's cassette player to amplify the sound from the cellular phone through the existing speakers. The...
NEW YORK-The California State Board of Equalization decided April 30 to postpone voting until at least late June on a permanent extension of the state sales taxes to wireless devices sold in a bundle with services.The proposal would require retailers to pay sales, or...
OTTAWA-The Canadian wireless telecommunications industry is doing some important looking ahead, even though it still is preoccupied with rolling out the four competing national PCS services.Appearing on the horizon for wireless-industry leaders in Canada are advanced wireless communications technologies-third-generation (3G) systems. Canada has left...
Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group acquired Optimay GmbH, a privately held software-development company based in Munich, Germany.Optimay, which will become a subsidiary of Lucent Technologies International, develops software products and services for Global System for Mobile communications wireless handsets. The arrangement is valued at...
WASHINGTON-A group that claims mobile phone transmitters pose a public health risk last week asked a federal appeals court in New York to stay the Federal Communications Commission's implementation of a telecom act provision that pre-empts local regulation of antenna siting on the basis...
WASHINGTON-For the second time in as many weeks, the National Park Service has returned an antenna-siting application to a wireless carrier as incomplete and in doing so may have unwittingly bolstered chances for E911 federal property antenna-siting legislation that House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy...
IRVING, Texas-NEC America Inc.'s Communications Terminals Division and United States Cellular Corp. announced they will work together in an advertising program to promote a prepaid wireless service called TalkTracker.U S Cellular's TalkTracker program offers an NEC cellular phone and prepaid wireless service without a...
As the popularity and penetration of wireless communications spreads throughout North America, wireless carriers increasingly will use mass-market retail outlets and their own direct channels to distribute handsets and services. Wireless consumers might put a cellular phone on their shopping list along with a...
To the Editor: I am a cellular phone user and I am also an average consumer of cellular accessories. My main concern is the way the retail side of the cellular stores are being handled. I have 30 years of retail experience and have worked...
Site AdvantageSite Advantage Inc. introduced a snap-in cable hanger for coax cables. Features include a nose that provides holding strength while remaining easy to insert and a large gripping area to prevent unexpected pull outs. Indented fingers support corrugated coax cables. The ergonomically-designed hanger...
To the editor: In response to Kristen Beckman's story "Pilots break no cell phone use" in RCR, March 16, 1998: I wonder if the fears of reduced revenue for cellular providers who have air phones installed in commercial airlines is perhaps another reason the FCC prohibits...
HACKENSACK, N.J.-GoAmerica Communications Corp. introduced a new pricing plan that offers unlimited wireless data access for PalmPilot users with Novatel Wireless Inc.'s new Minstrel wireless IP (Internet Protocol) modem and GoAmerica's Go.Mail and Go.Web service features.The plan is priced at $50 per month to...
Further extending its reach into the wireless industry, Sun Microsystems Inc. announced it has signed an agreement giving L.M. Ericsson license to use and distribute its PersonalJava platform and Java Application Environment.The Ericsson announcement comes less than two months after Motorola Inc. announced it...
SwedenOrtel Corp. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Avitec AB, announced its MirrorCell family of products are being used in the Arlanda AB International Airport to provide wireless service in the underground rapid transit system that connects Stockholm, Sweden to the airport. "Arlanda Airport required...
WASHINGTON-Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), one of several House Republican leaders caught on a radio scanner in 1996 plotting to limit damage of an ethics investigation of Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), has sued Rep. James McDermott (D-Wash.) for allegedly leaking a transcript of the conversation...
