fixed wireless

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry last week received the strongest indication to date that securing third-generation mobile-phone spectrum will be difficult if not impossible, as an eclectic mix of military, educational, religious …

NEW YORK-With its announcement March 5 of commercial product availability, RadioFrame Networks Inc. officially threw its hat into the ring of players competing to improve indoor coverage, an important step …

SAN FRANCISCO-A decidedly different feeling surrounded the Broadband Wireless World Forum in San Francisco last week compared with last year, when the industry’s exuberance could hardly be contained by its …

CANNES-Wireless Facilities Inc. and Bechtel Corp. announced they formed an alliance that will provide turnkey network implementation services for GSM and 3G networks in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. …

With President Bush banking on churches, synagogues and mosques to do what government policies and free-market forces cannot, it is only fitting that a faith-based approach be adopted by the …

ADC introduced the Axity Base Transceiver Station, designed for multicell deployments. The product will allow carriers to address capacity issues of super-cell network architectures and fill out coverage areas. It …

Robert Gemmell is thinking about a group of people, scattered throughout the world, who each live in a nice house or apartment in a semi-rural area. These people want fast …

WASHINGTON-Despite uneven progress of fixed wireless broadband carriers in recent years, the ability of newcomers to the local market-small and large alike-to offer voice, data, video and Internet services competitively …

WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court last week agreed to decide whether wireless carriers have the right to attach antennas to utility poles under government-regulated rates, a case with major business implications for …

If the Internet and mobile networks tend sometimes to be a choir of discord, the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum wants to be the voice of symphony. Founded in January 2000, …

CHINA China Unicom reported it had more than 12.7 million wireless customers at the end of last year, an increase of more than 300 percent from 1999. China’s second largest …

DENVER, United States-XO Communications revealed plans to launch a data-centric broadband network in Western Europe as early as mid-2001. Western Europe’s early adoption of mobile technology, combined with its tight …

BUCHAREST, Romania-Eastern and Central European countries began to improve and modernize their telecommunications networks more than a decade ago, after the fall of communism. A great deal of work needed …

Bulgaria Ote Telecom won Bulgaria’s third mobile-phone license for US$135 million, beating out Telecom Italia Mobile through an auction. Ote plans to partner with Bulgarian Telecommunications Co. (BTC), the country’s …

LONDON-State regulators in Europe are gearing up to promote the 40 GHz-43.5 GHz band for fixed-wireless telecom services, which will enable new entrants to compete against dominant operators such as …

The sagging stock market is partly to blame for another telecommunications snafu as Western Multiplex Corp. and wireless broadband equipment manufacturer Adaptive Broadband Corp. announced last week that Western Multiplex’s …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week proposed earmarking a slew of spectrum bands for third-generation mobile-phone systems, while rejecting a petition to set aside some 3G-designated frequencies for mobile satellite …

PDA technology Blue Impact Blue Impact, a partner of CellPoint, introduced a combined GSM/global positioning system (GPS) module for the Handspring Visor called Tellmen. The Tellmen module is compatible with …

LONDON-State regulators in Europe are gearing up to promote the 40 GHz-43.5 GHz band for fixed-wireless telecom services, which will enable new entrants to compete against dominant operators such as …

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados-Five countries in the Eastern Caribbean have passed legislation on telecommunications liberalization and set up a regulatory body to oversee competition in the new year. But while this is …

The Ice Man has cometh. Witness the high- tech meltdown on Wall Street, the bankruptcies, the layoffs, lower corporate earnings, reduced capital spending and overall loss in consumer confidence. The …

XO Communications Inc. revealed plans last week to launch a data-centric broadband network in Western Europe as early as mid-2001. Western Europe’s early adoption of mobile technology, combined with its …

Under a new licensing agreement, Nortel Networks will be able to license Certicom’s Elliptic Curve Cryptography technology to create a virtual private network for handheld devices. Nortel said this will …

In stark contrast to the wildly successful Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service auction held in the United Kingdom this spring, the U.K.’s broadband fixed wireless access spectrum auction barely made a …

NEW YORK-Despite the hope and hype around consumer and corporate use, vertical applications remain today’s stronghold for wireless data, said Jeffrey Schlesinger, wireless technology analyst for UBS Warburg. Recognizing this …