VIENNA, Va.-Broadband wireless operator Teligent Inc. and Mannesmann Arcor AG & Co., the telecommunications subsidiary of Mannesmann AG, have formed a joint venture called ArcTel that will provide high-speed voice, data and Internet services to businesses throughout Germany.ArcTel intends to have broadband, fixed wireless...
NEW YORK-Teligent Inc., Vienna, Va., has found a way to bend radio signals around buildings, dramatically enlarging its actual footprint without much additional network infrastructure.The fixed wireless carrier has nine months left on an exclusive one-year contract with Remec, a San Diego company that...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel will test a new wireless voice and data technology that is expected to improve how the company deploys competitive local telephone service by bypassing the normal wired telecommunications access to homes.During the test phase, expected to last several months, Alltel said...
Hong KongTranscrypt International Inc. signed an agreement with Union Communications of Hong Kong for the exclusive distribution of all of Transcrypt's voice security and signaling products in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Macau and China. Union will also have a warranty repair capability that will...
ATLANTA-Digital Microwave Corp.'s Altium broadband fixed wireless access products passed the European Telecommunications Standards Institute qualification tests and now conform to European telecommunications standards for 155-Megabit per second wireless solutions in the 38 GHz frequency band, the company announced.DMC also announced it is working...
TektronixTektronix Inc. launched a new Global System for Mobile communications cell analysis product, the Cell Analyzer, which combines the key functions of the Actix Abis Analyzer with Tektronix's K1205 Signaling Protocol Analyzer. Available as an add-on software package for the K1205, the new analyzer...
ATLANTA-LHS Group Inc. and Adaptive Broadband Corp. agreed to integrate LHS' billing and customer-care software with Adaptive Broadband's AB-Access fixed wireless broadband products to offer various levels of customer billing, the companies said.The levels of billing supported will include flat, tiered and variable rates,...
When questioned about the narrowband wireless local loop market, people in the telecommunications industry offer such differing opinions you expect a hidden camera to be planted somewhere in an attempt to catch your bewildered expression.According to Arnon Kohavi, vice president of strategic business development...
NEW YORK-Venture capital investments in American telecom/wireless companies during the first quarter reached $4.3 billion, an amount equal to the total raised in all industries during the same period a year ago, according to the latest PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree Survey.Across the board, venture-backed investments hit...
WASHINGTON-When fanfare over the American delegation's victory in securing global frequency bands for third-generation mobile-phone service subsides, the United States and the wireless industry will face implementation challenges at home even greater than the fierce spectrum battles at the now-completed World Radiocommunication Conference.If U.S....
When most people in the United States hear the name "Hyundai," they think of a car. But the reach of the Hyundai organization is extensive, and for the past six months, its electronics subsidiary has been readying itself to become an influential-and recognized-player in...
CALGARY, Alberta-Harris Corp. signed a $3.7 million contract to supply a cellular and fixed wireless system to Superior Wireless, a private telecommunications company in Thunder Bay, Ontario.Superior plans to provide mobile and fixed wireless service to customers in northwestern Ontario, including federal, provincial, municipal...
PETAH TIKVA, Israel-InnoWave ECI Wireless Systems Ltd. said it will supply fixed wireless access systems to Global Village Telecom in Brazil through a supply agreement valued at up to $165 million. In addition, ECI Telecom Ltd., InnoWave's parent company, is investing $35 million in...
WASHINGTON-The United States appears poised to win support for a multiband global spectrum allocation for third-generation mobile phone systems heading into the final week of the World Radiocommunication Conference in Turkey.However, according to U.S. officials last week, there remains much debate about the precise...
VIENNA, Va.-Teligent Inc. and Telcom Ventures L.L.C. began deploying fixed wireless communications networks in Argentina, launching the partnership's first point-to-multipoint link in Buenos Aires.The venture integrates Teligent's SmartWave communications technology with radio spectrum in the 24 GHz to 25 GHz band that was licensed...
IPmobileWireless communications infrastructure company IPmobile Inc. hired Louis Wooldridge as its vice president of sales in Asia, and Chuck Derrick as its vice president of product development. Wooldridge will spearhead the company's initiative to secure and capitalize on the growing wireless data market opportunity...
WASHINGTON-Maritime Telecommunications Network Inc. last week blasted a public safety-private wireless coalition for making theoretical arguments about potential interference in urging federal regulators not to renew its experimental license.MTN, whose experimental license renewal application has been pending at the Federal Communications Commission for more...
WASHINGTON-A high-powered coalition of public-safety and private wireless users, citing serious potential disruption to critical infrastructure in coastal cities, has urged the Federal Communications Commission not to renew an experimental license of a firm that provides satellite-based broadband communications to ships."If the experience gained...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Digital Microwave Corp., which supplies wireless access solutions for broadband fixed wireless and mobile cellular networks, is changing its name to DMC Stratex Networks Inc."We are very proud of our heritage and early successes in introducing one of the first cost-effective, highly...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week raised nearly $411 million as it sold 2,173 licenses for fixed wireless service in the 39 GHz band."Winning bidders have the potential to create robust competition to the local telephone companies and other local service providers. This should...
WASHINGTON-A comprehensive proposal by European and Arab states covering third-generation mobile phone spectrum and other issues appeared to be disintegrating late last week at the World Radiocommunication Conference in Turkey, a development that is forcing the U.S. delegation to redouble efforts to keep its...
NEW YORK-With existing wireless carriers seeking to expand coverage and capacity and new spectrum poised for commercial use, building owners and managers must develop enhanced expertise in telecommunications before negotiating cell site leasing deals.Landlords must deal with issues including: health hazards to equipment installers from...
NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular S.A. said its Argentine subsidiary launched the first phase of its service rollout in the Buenos Aires area. Millicom Argentina also will provide wireless Internet services to the country's most populated cities-Cordoba, Vendozo, Rosario and Tucuman-during 2000.The fixed wireless network...
SINGAPORE-Falling margins, cheaper alternatives and technological obsolescence have combined to deal a major blow to Singapore's four paging operators.From an all-time high of 1.36 million subscribers in June 1998-representing a penetration of more than 40 percent, the world's highest-the paging market in the small...
