CAMPBELL, Calif.-P-Com Inc. said it was provisioned by Beijing P-Com, its Chinese joint venture partnership, to supply a combination of P-Com and Ceragon Networks Ltd. fixed wireless access systems to a GSM operator in Tianjing, China's fifth largest city.P-Com will supply its PDH radios...
BlackstoneBlackstone announced Elaine Moncayo has joined its marketing department as marketing coordinator. In her new position, she will be responsible for internal marketing, including newsletter, brochures, Web site updates and presentations. She will work with both Blackstone employees and distributors in Miami and across...
WASHINGTON-An upcoming House bill could diminish the Pentagon's role in deciding the terms and conditions governing the transfer of Department of Defense spectrum to the mobile-phone industry for third-generation wireless systems, a move designed to put Commerce Secretary Donald Evans in charge of the...
If the debate over third-generation mobile-phone spectrum depended solely on financial lobbying clout, the well-heeled cellular industry would be awash in radio frequencies by now. Case closed. Complete, total victory. But the mobile-phone industry is up against interest groups with the kind of politically...
In the United States, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 freed telephone companies to deliver video programming and cable companies to provide phone service. But even though the 1996 telecom act opened up competition, the United States' $100 billion telephone industry still had some big...
Highlighting the complex fashion in arriving at standards for the wireless industry, Paul Mankiewich, the chief technology officer of Lucent Technologies Inc., joked that the various standards organizations also have had difficulty figuring out a standard on where to meet. Until recently, that is,...
CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp., a provider of integrated billing and customer care services, signed a two-year contract with AT&T Wireless to provide integrated contact center services in support of AT&T Wireless' fixed wireless digital broadband technology, marketed as AT&T Digital Broadband.Convergys said its integrated contact centers...
WASHINGTON-In an unexpected twist pitting billionaire Craig McCaw against a mobile-phone industry he once towered over, sources say the Federal Communications Commission may propose making some mobile satellite service spectrum-including that held by McCaw's New ICO and other struggling satellite firms-available for third-generation wireless...
WASHINGTON-Congress last week was set to pass a new budget that embraces President Bush's plan to delay two auctions of valuable radio spectrum but rejects an administration proposal to impose fees on TV broadcasters in order to encourage the clearing of frequencies sought by...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-With a growth rate above 50 percent during 2001 and a 20-percent penetration, cellular telephony has proven itself as the main communications vehicle in Paraguay.Four operators compete nationwide. Telecel and Personal together control 95 percent of the market share, offering traditional cellular...
NEW DELHI, India-The Indian wireless market, so far a preserve of GSM, has been opened to the competing CDMA technology in a big way. CDMA growth is expected to pick up in all segments of the telecom market-rural telephony, urban fixed wireless services and...
MOSCOW-CDMA carriers continue to operate in Russia, working to recoup costs and hoping for a possible replacement of Communications Minister Leonid Reiman, who warned last year that the U.S.-developed IS-95 standard is doomed in the country."I continue to believe that the standard has absolutely...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Vesper, Brazil's largest wireless local loop (WLL) operator, has changed its business strategy with an objective to reduce costs and to win profitability.Vesper is a "mirror" fixed wireless operator in Sao Paulo state, region three, and the 16 states of Brazil's region...
WASHINGTON-Commerce Secretary Donald Evans told industry executives last week he will continue to engage other administration officials in hopes of resolving a spectrum fight between the Pentagon and mobile-phone firms that threatens to delay a decision by the Federal Communications Commission in July on...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Wireless Communications Association has elected seven new members to its board of directors.They are: Jai P. Bhagat, chairman and chief executive officer of Air2Lan Inc; David B. Gibbons, vice president and chief architect of fixed wireless at AT&T Fixed Wireless Services Inc.; Jacques...
For faltering fixed wireless carriers, April proved every bit as cruel as T.S. Eliot decried in The Waste Land. Eliot, it turns out, was as much a prophet as he was a poet. Local telecom competition is quickly becoming a vast dumping ground.Teligent Inc.,...
WASHINGTON-Jeb Bush, the Florida governor who figured big in the controversial electoral victory that proved decisive in getting his brother elected president, has entered the political fray over third-generation mobile-phone spectrum by urging the Federal Communications Commission to let schools keep frequencies sought by...
WASHINGTON-House and Senate budget leaders are at odds over President Bush's plan to delay auctions of valuable broadcast spectrum, a dispute that arises at a time when the mobile-phone industry desperately wants to secure additional frequencies for third-generation wireless systems.The Senate budget resolution embraces...
The federal government recently has been looking at freeing up spectrum in the 1710-1850 MHz band, currently being used by the Department of Defense, and the 2500-2690 MHz band, which is occupied by a variety of tenants including religious, educational and fixed wireless Internet...
With a three-pronged onslaught at the wireless market, AeroComm Inc. is trying to move its image up a notch.The company, which is a wireless systems division of International FiberCom Inc., launched a wireless services group, introduced an in-building wireless solution and is delivering an...
WASHINGTON-Last December, two months after President Clinton ordered government studies on spectrum availability for third-generation wireless systems and at a time when mobile-phone and Pentagon officials were intensely studying the issue, Senate Armed Services Committee member James Inhofe (R-Okla.) quietly directed the General Accounting...
One local multipoint distribution service wireless broadband carrier folded under the financial burden of the stock market last week, and now the futures of several others hang in the balance, potentially impacting the stability of an entire industry that just a year ago was...
WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry, stung by two government reports last week that largely rule out use of the 1700 MHz and 2500 MHz bands for third-generation wireless systems, managed to win a commitment from Commerce Secretary Donald Evans to work with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...
NEW YORK-Lenders anted up significant capital during the first quarter for the five publicly traded wireless tower companies, even as their share prices declined amid the stock market's general concerns about telecommunications."At a time when companies like PSINet made announcements that their stock is...
