NEW YORK-Fraud is following the course of least resistance, trending largely but not exclusively toward subscriber identity theft and away from the use of wireless networks as a means to steal service from carriers.On a worldwide basis, fraud costs wireline and wireless carriers as...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Coinciding with its Telecom Africa 2001 event this week in Johannesburg, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) released a report detailing the state of telecommunications in Africa. The report claims that "within a few years, the majority of Africa citizens will be within...
MOSCOW—The CDMA technology, which must abandon the 470 MHz to 872 MHz band in Russia by 2010, began to move down to the 450 MHz band, and a second carrier was licensed to build a CDMA 400 MHz network in the country.The St. Petersburg-based...
BEIJING—New York's CI Wave and Beijing's Taiji Computer are jointly planning, developing and building a nationwide 3.5 GHz broadband fixed wireless access (BFWA) data network. CI Wave is also offering billing, maintenance and customer acquisition services.Using high-capacity two to four base stations in each...
REDMOND, Washington, United States—AT&T Wireless Services said in its third-quarter earnings report that it has decided to exit the fixed wireless business during the next several months. AT&T Wireless said when it became an independent company earlier this year, its fixed wireless business had...
TOKYO—Matsushita Communications Industrial tied up with UTStarcom for third-generation (3G) technology. Based on the bilateral agreement, both firms will jointly develop and provide total network systems based on wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) targeting the world market, including China.Matsushita will provide base transceiver stations (BTSs) and handsets,...
LONDON—Banda 26, a subsidiary of broadband provider Jazztel Group, said it is evaluating technology from Radiant Networks for broadband fixed wireless access.
TORONTO—Non-line-of-sight fixed wireless equipment provider WaveRider Communications Inc. announced a restructuring plan under which the company arranged for new short-term financing, initiated a shareholders rights offering for longer term financing and implemented immediate staff reductions.WaveRider said it has commitments for the purchase in excess...
Vyyo Inc. reduced its work force by approximately 75 percent to less than 50 employees due to "uncertainty in the fixed wireless market and deteriorating economic conditions," according to John O'Connell, Vyyo's chief executive officer, although the company said it is not considering bankruptcy."The...
A U.S. federal appeals court rejected a Federal Communications Commission filing asking that it not be required to return personal communications services licenses to bankrupt carrier NextWave Telecom Inc. NextWave, however, will probably not gain control of the licenses for some time and the...
SARASOTA, Fla.—Speedcom Wireless Corp. closed an $8.4 million private placement that leaves the fixed wireless broadband products provider in the enviable position of having a "virtually debt-free" balance sheet, the Sarasota, Fla.–based company said Aug. 28.As the result of this new financing, the company...
NEW DELHI, India—The continuing consolidation trend in India's cellular industry is now spilling over to basic service providers as well. Tata Teleservices—provider of CDMA-based limited mobility services under the "Tata mobitel" brand in Andhra Pradesh state circle—and Hughes Tele.com, a basic service provider in...
LONDON-The U.K. government has announced a plan to auction 26 fixed wireless licenses that went unsold in its original auction last November. The licenses will be placed on the auction block for up to a year, although the government plans to keep its original...
MONTREAL, Canada—SR Telecom said it signed an agreement to acquire the French assets of Lucent's fixed wireless division, SWING. Financial terms of the agreement were not released.The combined companies will have an installed base of equipment in more than 110 countries. Operating from two...
It is the best of times. It is the worst of times.Sprint PCS reported second-quarter financials so great, they even surprised analysts covering the industry. Last week, three of the six largest wireless operators- Cingular Wireless, AT&T Wireless and Nextel Communications Inc.-reported both customer...
CALGARY, Alberta-Wi-Lan Inc. said it will cut about 30 percent of its staff, in line with the slump in the fixed wireless market. The company had a work force of 280.
HONG KONG-Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority announced the status of compliance of the first batch of milestones of five local fixed wireless network operators and the decisions taken by the authority based on the performances.OFTA issued five fixed wireless licenses in February...
BOSTON-It may be a little battered and bruised, and missing a few former compatriots, but the wireless broadband industry made a strong showing in Boston last week at the Wireless Communications Association International 2001 convention. Conference participants used humor and humility to tackle issues...
In technology as in life, the last protocol on stage is the hero. While time will serve as jury in due course, for now the CDMA operators and manufacturers seem to be gloating, sometimes quietly and sometimes on rooftops, that they are a few...
WASHINGTON-European countries are having difficulties with spectrum policy-not to mention a continental spectrum policy-for much the same reason the United States is having difficulties with spectrum policy issues."Currently, different departments are responsible for different parts of the spectrum, e.g., the Ministry of Defense takes...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Mobile communications are vital to Israel. The permanent tension, caused by terrorist attacks, compels everyone to be in constant communication. Despite its conflicts and small population, Israel has been able to excel in wireless communications.Similar to several other countries around the world,...
