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Austria Nokia Corp. will supply its MetroHopper Radio, a wireless access link antenna using the 58 GHz frequency band for transmission, for base station access to Austrian mobile operator Max.mobile. …

YINCHUAN, China-Less than an hour’s drive outside Yinchuan, capital city of the Ningxia Hui autonomous region in China’s West, a newly constructed village houses some of the poorest people in …

Wall Street insiders may lose some of their edge after a ruling last week by the Securities and Exchange Commission preventing officials of public companies from providing information to select …

NEW YORK-Amid the clutter of conflicting and shifting capital market indicators, the outlook for companies in any sector related to wireless telecommunications nevertheless appears positive. The daily whipsawing of the …

NEW YORK-In order to handle the converged communications revolution, the vision of L.M. Ericsson is the evolution of network reliability to a degree that today is only a dream on …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it will offer two-way short messaging service later this year, giving the carrier a more seamless data offering with its affiliates. AT&T Wireless offers SMS …

NEW YORK-Manufacturers increasingly are planning to outsource production as more companies transition to the virtual manufacturing model, according to a recent Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. study. A substantial number …

Metrocall Inc. finally made its long-awaited acquisition play by submitting a competing proposal to buy Paging Network Inc., hoping to edge out current PageNet suitor Arch Communications Group Inc. in …

The Third Generation Partnership Project, a standards body initially established by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to work on W-CDMA technology, last week agreed to include standards work on GSM …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. agreed to jointly develop and test enhancements to Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution technology (EDGE) enabling simultaneous delivery of voice and …

NEW YORK-SBC Wireless hopes to take a bite out of the Big Apple as one part of a territorial and services expansion plan accompanying combining its wireless operations with those …

TORONTO-The major Canadian carriers are cautiously laying the groundwork for third-generation (3G) wireless networks. But true, full-blown 3G in Canada is at least three to four years away. “Canadian mobile …

WASHINGTON-The Communications Workers of America will make unionization of wireless workers a priority when negotiations begin in two weeks on a new collective bargaining agreement with Bell Atlantic Corp., a …

DALLAS-SBC Wireless, a division of SBC Communications Inc., introduced Digital Edge USA, its nationwide, flat-rate wireless calling plan. The new offering includes six nationwide plans ranging from $25 for 75 …

Article intended to highlight many contributions To the editor: I am concerned that there may be a misperception resulting from my article published by RCR on March 27, 2000, that …

MELBOURNE, Fla.-Harris Corp. said Tekelec, a supplier of signaling and control systems, selected Harris to provide its network management platform, called HNM, as part of a total Internet Protocol SS7 …

NEW YORK-Compaq Computer Corp. received 237 orders for its new AlphaServer GS Series by mid morning the first day the company began selling the servers, said Michael Capellas, president and …

NEW YORK-Excluding the third-generation wireless impact, the number of cell sites for mobile communications in the United States likely will reach 140,000 in the next two years, said Ric Prentiss, …

They may be working closer these days, but make no mistake about it, the GSM Association, the CDMA Development Group and the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium remain strong competitors. All …

CANCUN, Mexico-The big push to interoperate GSM and TDMA standards is well under way, allowing customers using either standard to roam around the world and giving U.S. TDMA operators a …

WASHINGTON-Accenting its message with pastel-colored beanbag mobile phones, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association told Capitol Hill last week that competition is king. The trade association again delivered a set of …

DALLAS-JP Systems Inc. reported it has designed technology for the wireless exchange of vital medical data for STATmail, a provider of home health care communications. The new system, InfoBeam Healthcare …

American wireless firms and the U.S. government are cautiously optimistic about a move the European Commission plans to make to open Europe to competing third-generation wireless standards. The EC early …

A growing number of operators, vendors and analysts are not convinced EDGE technology will make significant inroads in Europe. “In Europe, I’m not expecting a major deployment of EDGE,” said …

WASHINGTON-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan last week said that despite benefits of increased productivity, stepped-up capital spending and unprecedented wealth creation, the high tech-driven New Economy may be growing too …