WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration and the wireless telecommunications industry are in a standoff over the implementation of the 1994 digital wiretap law, also known as the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act.In a reported 17-0 vote, members of a Telecommunications Industry Association ad hoc engineering...
PARIS-France Telecom, with its Mobil Rom consortium, announced it will participate in a bid for a license to install and operate a new Global System for Mobile communications digital cellular phone network in Romania. The Mobil Rom consortium includes Computer Land, Media Pro, Tomen...
Have a good day, honey ... and don't forget your transponder!Ahh, those loving words our children will someday bark at their spouses as they head out the door for work.My mother would remind my father to grab his lunch and I remind my husband...
Exports of telecommunications equipment increased 5 percent during the first six months of this year compared to the same period in 1995, according to the Telecommunications Industry Association.However, the trade surplus of telecom equipment sales was $2 billion for the first half of the...
WASHINGTON-The House last week zeroed out a little known government agency that in recent years has played a key role supporting wireless ventures by American firms in countries experimenting with capitalism and democracy for the first time .By a vote of 260-157, the House...
Few ever venture into the southern Negev and virtually no one does in the inferno of August.Barren rubble extends for ridge after ridge of scorched emptiness. T.E. Lawrence-"Lawrence of Arabia"-had described it as "the most inhospitable desert" in the Middle-East. The Bedouin had abandoned...
A cellular company in San Francisco is working to provide equal access to all people by providing special discounted prices on wireless phones and service to people with visual or mobility impairments.Since 1992, Cellular One, in conjunction with handset provider Motorola Inc. and the...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Uniden America Corp. said that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal filed by Peter Tsakanikas and his company, Tsakanikas Global Technologies Inc., which accused Uniden of patent infringement.The U.S. District Court in Maryland in May issued a...
PHILADELPHIA-Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. representatives will be educating young drivers about the safe use of cellular phones through a program called "Road Smarts."Students will learn about safety features on cellular phones such as hands-free dialing, speed dialing and voice-activated dialing. Participants will also learn...
TAMPA, Fla.-Nokia Inc., which originated color cellular phones, now offers the Nokia 239, an Advanced Mobile Phone Service cellular phone with a keypad cover.The 239 has several features including a 16-character display with permanent signal and battery strength indicators, four "one-touch" dialing keys for...
CERRITOS, Calif.-Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Co. said it eliminated charges for incomplete cellular phone calls in its Southern California market, and said it is the first carrier to do so.Incomplete calls-which result in busy signals or ring with no answer-also will not be counted...
SALINA, Kan.-Kansas Cellular, a provider of rural cellular phone service, announced the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp. has ranked it the state's second fastest-growing technology firm.KTEC tracked technology-oriented companies from 1991 to 1995 and based its rankings on revenue growth."It's gratifying that a company based...
BOSTON-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile announced it has signed a deal to provide its Cellscape service to Walsh Messenger Service Inc., a delivery company serving the New York City metropolitan area.Beginning in October, Walsh Messenger will replace the pagers it currently uses with the Cellscape...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola's Cellular Infrastructure Group plans to begin implementing an emergency call location identification system called "Wireless E911," during the second quarter of 1997.With Wireless E911, the public safety answering point will receive the location of cell sector from which the call was...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-Safety tops the list of why customers use cellular phones, according to the Personal Wireless Communications Survey conducted by IDC/LINK, a division of International Data Corp. More than half of the respondents in a national survey of cellular users said security and safety...
PHOENIX-Bobby G. Thompson & Associates, a land mobile radio management consulting services provider, and Internet Direct Inc. are teaming up to create specialized Internet World Wide Web site production services for land mobile radio dealers and servicers.Internet Direct Inc., an international graphic design and...
Telephone Warehouse, a wireless retailer with stores in Texas, Kansas and Missouri, said it is helping first-time cellular and pager buyers make informed decisions about products with its new mall-based superstore. The store, located in North Dallas' Valley View Mall, features hands-on product displays...
I had the chance to use my cellular phone to dial 911 recently.It didn't work.On our way home from a recent visit with relatives in North Dakota, my husband was driving on the interstate between Cheyenne, Wyo., and Denver, when the Ford Bronco immediately...
Cellular phones seem to have pervaded the lives of Americans just like baseball, hot dogs and apple pie.The Cellular One Group said it set out several months ago to find intriguing and funny stories involving cellular phones by sponsoring a contest called "Cellular One's...
ANI Site Development announced its new web site available to antenna site location professionals. Users can get a visual representation of ANI's sites by clicking on any part of the Southeastern United States. Users also can access licensing information, maps and site pictures by...
REDMOND, Wash.-InfoSpace Inc. announced it will make its directory services available via Unwired Planet Inc.'s wireless Internet access software platform.InfoSpace said it developed a patent-pending technology to fully integrate white pages, yellow pages, maps and e-mail directories into one comprehensive solution.Unwired Planet's software enables...
GTE Mobilnet Inc. is signing up customers in a new way, by mail order. Hello Direct Inc., which produces a catalog full of a various telecommunications and business products, will begin featuring GTE's cellular service in its Fall '96 catalog, along with several cellular...
NEW YORK-A recent concerted industrywide effort among cellular carriers has reduced churn to an estimated 2 percent to 2.5 percent per month on average. But the battle is far from over, as personal communications services and number portability could cause cellular churn to increase.Approaching...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Cellular Corp. and Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corp. have launched a nickel-cadmium battery collection and recycling effort called Charge Up To Recycle.BSCC said all its retail stores will have collection boxes for cellular phone batteries as well as batteries for video cameras and cordless...
