fixed wireless

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

Two U.S. companies are taking their respective technologies to the Australian market, following third-generation spectrum purchases in the country last month. Qualcomm Inc. paid $79 million for 10 megahertz of …

Which way does new FCC Chairman Michael Powell jump as he ponders wireless deregulation and technology disruption? Should the FCC, for example, eliminate the spectrum cap as requested by top …

NEW YORK-SkyBridge L.P., a Bethesda, Md., company that plans to offer fixed wireless broadband access in 2003 via its own low-earth-orbit satellite constellation, will add leased geostationary satellite capacity to …

Adicom Wireless Adicom Wireless announced Asymmetric Wireless Data Link, a new broadband wireless access product. AWDL, targeted at both U.S. and European markets, is designed to resolve major challenges wireless …

PHOENIX-High speed, fixed wireless company Aerial Telecom said it selected Internet service solution provider Aperian Inc. to host and provide bandwidth for Aerial’s wireless antennas across the nation.

SUNRISE, Florida, United States-AS Eesti Telefon in Estonia selected fixed wireless equipment from Airspan Networks to deploy high-speed Internet access and voice services throughout residential areas. Eesti will initially roll …

PETAH TIKVA, Israel-InnoWave ECI Wireless Systems Ltd., a provider of fixed wireless access solutions, has signed an $11 million contract with Telmex Mexico to deliver wireless local loop solutions. According …

TOKYO-NEC do Brasil won a contract with Telesp to supply a CDMA-based fixed wireless access system for Sao Paulo, Brazil. The deal is valued at $260 million. The system will …

NEW YORK-The Wireless Multimedia Forum, which recently celebrated its first birthday, is on schedule in building a framework for content that must be written just once for delivery to any …

NEW YORK-The story of NTELOS Inc. and Citizens Communications Inc., as told at Legg Mason Wood Walker’s recent “Future of Rural Telecommunications” conference, demonstrates the wireless opportunity’s expansion well beyond …