EndwaveEndwave Corp. said its ultra-high performance WavShapr base station antenna is now available for local multipoint distribution services bands. The antenna incorporates characteristics from earlier versions form the 24 GHz and 38 GHz bands. The antennas include flat horizontal radiation pattern, rapid azimuth pattern...
LucentLucent Technologies Inc. announced that John Young, former president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Co. and a current member of the Lucent board of directors, will become chairman of the company's Microelectronics business, which will be spun off into a separate company next...
WASHINGTON-While President Clinton and FCC Chairman William Kennard called on federal agencies, broadcasters and others to take steps to free up spectrum for third-generation wireless services, allegations surfaced last week that the administration lobbied against legislation that could have accomplished the same thing and...
Congress approved legislation that will increase to 600,000 the number of visas issued to skilled foreign workers during the next three years. The measure also includes provisions funding scholarships for American students and training for U.S. workers."The overwhelming bipartisan support for the H-1B visa...
The outgoing (and next) Congress and administration should be worried about losing the third-generation mobile phone market to Europe and Asia. Why? Because, in a very real sense, losing 3G is tantamount to losing U.S. high-tech leadership.American high-tech superiority in today's Internet economy is...
VERNON HILLS, Ill.-Telular Corp. introduced its digital Phonecell SX4e TDMA Dual-Band/Dual-Mode Fixed Wireless Terminal for applications that require both 800 MHz and 1900 MHz digital TDMA frequencies, as well as the 800 MHz analog AMPS frequency.In addition to its multifrequency capability, Telular said the...
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. said ACOM Comunicacoes, a Brazilian fixed wireless operator, purchased ADC's multichannel multipoint distribution system solution.ADC will deliver and install the MMDS transmission systems in up to 10 Brazilian service areas.
NEW YORK-Metricom Inc. is on track to launch its new Ricochet service with data speeds up to 128 kilobits per second in New York and several other cities markets by the end of September, Timothy A. Dreisbach, chairman and chief executive officer, said.Positioning itself...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Two issues characterized the Brazilian cellular market during the first half of the year-an increase in subscriber numbers and the rollout of more advanced services.Latin America in general saw an explosion of prepaid services, but in Brazil, prepaid subscriptions overcame all operator...
Czech RepublicThe Czech Telecommunications Office (CTU) has preliminarily decided to issue fixed wireless access mobile telephone network licenses to three companies selected from 13 applicants, CTU Vice President Vladimir Kukra said Sept. 14. CTU is giving final consideration to the three applicants; it will...
WASHINGTON-The House telecom subcommittee last week voted to include wireless carriers in a new scheme for carriers to compensate each other for carrying each other's traffic.The bill, which now goes to the full committee for consideration, would end the process known as reciprocal compensation...
Amrel SystemsAmrel Systems Inc. released a more powerful version of its Rocky II+ ruggedized mobile notebook computer, certified under MIL-STD 810E, MIL-STD 461C and IP54, offering an Intel Pentium III processor at speeds up to 650 MHz. Amrel said the faster processor provides better...
Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) postponed introduction of legislation to prohibit unsolicited advertising on mobile phones. Holt was to go forward with the mobile-phone spam measure Thursday, but pressing business delayed the introduction, said his office.A House transportation subcommittee scratched a hearing on digital driver...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Adaptive Broadband Corp. deployed a multipoint fixed wireless network for Cybertech Wireless Inc. that delivers multiline local and long-distance telephone service, streaming video and high-speed data, Adaptive Broadband said.The network uses Adaptive Broadband's AB-Access platform to provide data at speeds up to 25...
Asia PacificJapanJapan Telecom said it plans to launch third-generation mobile service by October 2001 instead of its originally scheduled December 2001 date. J-Phone, the company's wireless operator, hopes to better compete with NTT DoCoMo, Japan's dominant wireless carrier by moving forward the launch date."We...
VERNON HILLS, Ill.-Telular Corp. will provide its digital Phonecell Fixed Wireless Terminals to NBC Olympics Inc. for the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, allowing NBC to provide voice communication to venue production personnel.Mobile applications and services provider Aspiro AB will deliver and...
Czech RepublicAirspan Networks said it signed a contract with TES Media, a Czech telecommunications operator, to deploy a new fixed wireless network across the Czech Republic. TES Media's network, set to deliver high-speed data services to business customers, will launch this month. A series...
IRVINE, Calif.-Intersil Corp., a semiconductor supplier, said it signed a letter of intent to acquire SiCom Inc. for 3.7 million shares of class A common stock.SiCom manufactures broadband modem silicon application specific standard parts and board level products for the fixed wireless infrastructure and...
WASHINGTON-Fixed broadband wireless carriers, seeking to underscore the need for nondiscriminatory building access, say they have identified a `smoking gun' in the form of a legal memo on a license agreement between BroadBand Office and a national real estate company that imposes a 12-month...
While the United States claimed victory in securing global frequency bands for 3G mobile-phone service during the World Radiocomm-unication Conference earlier this year, the process of allocating that spectrum could become a nightmare for the U.S. wireless industry.The U.S. delegation during May's WRC-2000 accomplished...
LONDON-The U.K. government said 12 companies applied to bid in the October auction for 28 GHz broadband fixed wireless access licenses. The auction is expected to raise about $1.45 billion.Three licenses will be auctioned in each of 11 English regions, along with Scotland, Wales...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Two issues characterized the Brazilian cellular market during the first half of the year-an increase in subscriber numbers and the rollout of more advanced services.Latin America in general saw an explosion of prepaid services, but in Brazil, prepaid subscriptions overcame all operator...
DENVER, United States-With services already up and running in the Arizona cities of Phoenix and Tucson, Sprint said it filed a series of applications with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the U.S. telecom regulator, to extend its fixed wireless broadband services to 45 additional...
Brazil's national telecom agency Anatel said it received 35 proposed from companies, entities and individuals on the proposal of guidelines for implementation of the personal communications services (PCS), submitted to the public for consultation. All the comments are available on the agency's Internet Web...
