Two environmental health advocates in Boston and New York have initiated petitions to stop area launches of personal communications services networks and shut down existing networks pending a public hearing and epidemiologic studies on potential health effects.The Boston petition, introduced by Susan Clarke, has...
WASHINGTON-The wireless telecom industry apparently has failed to secure support from federal regulators and the Clinton administration for broad pre-emption of antenna moratoria, though efforts are in play to provide limited relief to carriers.The Federal Communications Commission, according to sources, is expected shortly to...
MINNEAPOLIS-AirTouch Cellular launched its prepaid cellular service in Minnesota, which is targeted at customers who have been denied service for credit reasons and those customers wanting to control costs."As the largest wireless company in Minnesota, AirTouch Cellular enjoyed a 40 percent growth rate last...
New lawsuit filed on Motorola patentsMotorola Inc. last week filed a new patent infringement lawsuit against Qualcomm Inc. in San Diego federal court, claiming all of Qualcomm's wireless phones violate Motorola patents.The infringement claims are against Qualcomm's Code Division Multiple Access Q phone, five...
Noise/Com Inc. introduced its BS-800 Dual Interference Signal Generators to aid in interference testing of Code Division Multiple Access and Time Division Multiple Access base stations. The products include two synthesized CW signal generators and all necessary radio-frequency components including attenuators and switches, to...
WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. signed an agreement to provide short-term cellular phone rental services to American Airline's domestic and international passengers.Rental phones will be available in the United States and Europe.Previously, "virtually all of our short-term rental customers came to us through the...
NEW YORK-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile is currently working with AirMedia to develop and market software and messaging service packages.The products, Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile Text Messaging Software and Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile Professional Text Messaging Software, were developed by AirMedia to assist the company...
Globalstar L.P. announced at a signing ceremony it has placed purchase orders by the partners that comprise Globalstar's limited partnership for 35 Globalstar gateways to be installed around the world. The contracts, totaling approximately $275 million, represent a further commitment by the Globalstar partners...
WASHINGTON-The head of the wireless industry's cancer research project last week cautioned against reading too much into preliminary findings from a new Finnish study that mobile phones are free of health risks.Dr. George L. Carlo, chairman of Wireless Technology Research L.L.C., said that while...
NEW YORK-Following a six-month jail sentence imposed May 23 on a cellular phone caller who killed another motorist, the British government said it will consider whether to outlaw outright mobile phone use by drivers while their vehicles are in motion.Baroness Hayman, Roads Minister, said...
Affordable Message Center is introducing Simplicity One today, a prepaid one-number service that offers users protection from over-calls on their cellular phone bill."You are protecting your cellular number," explained Alexander Ott, president of Next Century Communications Inc., AMC's parent. "No other (one-number) service does...
VALLEY FORGE, Pa.-Nearly half of Americans surveyed indicated they would support legislation banning cellular phone use while driving, according to a nationwide survey sponsored by the Colonial Penn Safe Driver Center.Of those in favor of a ban, 82 percent do not own a cellular...
Dear Editor: In the May 12 issue of RCR, you published an article titled, "Phone shield pamphlet pulled from U.S. shelves," with a picture of our product, the PhoneShield, underneath the headline. We understand the article was referring to another manufacturer, however, your use of...
WASHINGTON-In a January 1993 article, a year-and-a-half before joining the Federal Communications Commission, then-attorney Rachelle Chong laid out what has turned out to be a model defense of cellular phone-cancer lawsuits.Chong, in a paper titled "Zap, Crackle, Pop" delivered at a conference in Asia,...
WASHINGTON-Ed Jose, winner of this year's VITA*award for Crimestopper from the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, couldn't be on hand to accept his award last week in Washington. He was testifying in the kidnapping case he helped solve, the case for which he won the...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Nokia Telecommunications selected Cisco Systems Inc.'s Cisco AS5200 universal access server, which routes digital cellular phone calls directly to data networks and the Internet.Nokia's decision was based in part on Cisco's addition of support of the V.110 rate adaption protocol, which enables...
The only way wireless carriers are going to be successful in today's cut-throat environment is to differentiate their service from everybody else's offering. Market segmentation is the mantra.But conventional wisdom says there is no killer app. So how can a carrier differentiate its products...
LOS ANGELES, Calif.-Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Co. and AirMedia, formerly Ex Machina Inc. are jointly developing and marketing wireless messaging software and services.AirMedia customized its Notify! 3.0 for Windows and Notify! Classic for Macintosh products for L.A. Cellular customers. The products allow users to...
MIAMI-TracFone, a prepaid cellular phone and airtime service marketed by Topp Telecom Inc., will be available in the New York metropolitan area and throughout Southern California at area Radio Shack outlets.Cellular service for the pay-as-you-go phone is provided by Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile for...
DALLAS-While admitting the growth of wireless communications is unbridled, challenges still lie ahead for the industry, particularly when it comes to marketing.Speaking at the recent Wireless Marketing Summit, co-sponsored by RCR Publications Inc., Lynn Upshaw, principal of Upshaw & Associates, listed some of the...
Not so fast.Senate communications subcommittee Chairman Conrad Burns (R-Mont.). has asked Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) to put Clinton's nomination of Joel Klein to head the Justice Department's antitrust division on hold.Seems that Burns, who's become more active on telecom matters in recent...
Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile expanded its Code Division Multiple Access digital wireless phone service to include incoming text messages in New York and New Jersey. The new text messaging service is available to customers for $13 per month for personal computer-based messaging and $25...
NEW YORK-Bills that would have required hands-free cellular telephone use by drivers were postponed indefinitely last month in the California and Illinois legislatures.The California Senate Transportation Committee shelved, with a two-year extension for consideration, a bill introduced by Sen. John Burton of San Francisco....
SOUTHFIELD, Mich.-AirTouch Cellular is providing free cellular telephone programming to cellular phone users affected by an area code split in Michigan's Oakland County.The company began reprogramming phones May 10 at AirTouch Cellular Sales & Service Centers and selected AirTouch Cellular authorized agent locations.AirTouch said...
