WASHINGTON-The Bush administration hit the trifecta on wireless trade last week, winning concessions from China and South Korea on Wi-Fi, third-generation wireless and mobile Internet services that advance U.S. business opportunities in the booming Asian region. The wireless trade disputes with China and South...
LEDBURY, United Kingdom-A new study by BWCS and Senza-Fili Consulting predicts the U.S. market for broadband wireless access services based on technologies such as WiMAX will be worth $3.7 billion by 2009, with momentum picking up in the market around 2007.The study, "Wi-Fi, WiMAX...
SEOUL, South Korea-Although the Korean government has yet to make a decision regarding whether to mandate a wireless Internet platform for the country's three wireless carriers, the operators plan to implement the locally developed Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability standard, regardless of the government's...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-VoIP Inc. announced it will acquire Wi-Fi technology company Apex Sight L.L.C. Following the acquisition, Apex will become a wholly owned subsidiary of VoIP Inc., which will offer converged voice-over-Internet Protocol and Wi-Fi solutions.The value of the deal was not disclosed."The true...
WASHINGTON-It has been 10 years since the Federal Communications Commission took its first steps toward a nationwide wireless enhanced 911 system, and after a long struggle, important progress is being made."It is an incredibly successful and positive story particularly in contrast to the wireline...
With what it describes as the first clearinghouse of its kind, LightSurf Technologies Inc. hopes to raise the bar on how wireless operators will do business by democratizing the ebb and flow of multimedia traffic.Its platform, known as GX-MMS, will serve not only as...
It's been nearly three years since attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, yet the city still does not have interoperable public-safety systems. It's unthinkable. And yet, it is reality. The news is somewhat better in Jefferson County., Colo., where the fifth...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration last week identified exclusionary wireless standards and high mobile-phone interconnection fees as barriers to telecom trade in a new report, and did not rule out bringing complaints against China and South Korea at the World Trade Organization if disputes over standards...
WASHINGTON-It will cost billions of dollars to solve the public-safety interference problem in the 800 MHz band, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission told Congress last week.Powell appeared before the House Appropriations commerce, state, justice and the judiciary subcommittee to defend the FCC's...
WASHINGTON-It will cost billions of dollars to solve the public-safety interference problem in the 800 MHz band, the FCC Chairman told Congress Wednesday Powell appeared before the House Appropriations commerce, state, justice and the judiciary subcommittee to defend the Federal Communications Commission's $293...
WASHINGTON-The seventh iteration of the FCC's Network Reliability & Interoperability Council convened Tuesday with a wireless chief executive, Timothy Donahue of Nextel Communications Inc., as chair for the first time.This is "the first time a wireless company has assumed the leadership role. It...
AMSTERDAM-Aptilo Network and Gemtek Systems said they have entered into a partnership to provide wireless local area networks solutions for carriers.Gemtek will offer its access gateways, hotspot-in-a-box solution and service management platform for Aptilo's public WLAN networks, according to the companies."The interoperability between Aptilo's...
Neither edgy nor solitary, Nokia Corp. has all the hallmarks of a conservative company. As a leading player in both the handset and infrastructure businesses, the Finnish vendor always has worked with industry associations and marquee players to push products and enhance its markets...
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-From the show floor of CTIA Wireless 2004, TTPCom Ltd. this week announced it has commenced interoperability testing with its single processor-based EDGE modem design. "The commencement of EDGE interoperability testing is a significant step forward for our single processor architecture," said Julian...
NEEDHAM, Mass.-M/A-Com Inc. has sub-contracted General Dynamics Network Systems' wireless services to deploy a land mobile radio system that will link 10 U.S. Army installations in the National Capitol Region.Under a $5 million contract, General Dynamics will provide site preparation work, site management, equipment...
Push-to-Talk over Cellular technology is wobbling on three legs: one belonging to Nokia Corp.; the second to four other heavyweights; and the third to the Open Mobile Alliance- and all three legs are hopping in different directions."This means there will be a long time...
MUNICH-The Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group and Ubiquity Software Corp. announced they will integrate Ubiquity's Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Application Server into Siemens' IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS@vantage.With Ubiquity's server, Siemens can now offer operators and open application manufacturers (OAMs) a software environment for...
LA JOLLA, Calif. -The Open Mobile Alliance has described as proprietary the Push-to-Talk standard announced by two competing vendor interests yesterday."They are not 3G products," remarked Gaby Lenhart, chairman of the OMA PTT working group. Nokia had said its products differ from those announced...
MUNICH, Germany-Trouble seems to be simmering in the push-to-talk house as Nokia Corp. has taken a different path from other major vendors and members of the Open Mobile Alliance on how to implement the pre-standard protocol.Meanwhile, the other PTT vendors, Siemens AG, Motorola...
Text messaging interoperability company InphoMatch announced plans to expand into the wireless content market with its new InphoMatch Interactive (Imi) platform, which the company said takes the headache out of distributing wireless applications."We're not trying to sell a platform, we're trying to sell a...
Are state legislatures beginning to over-legislate? It seems when states are not busy addressing hands-free legislation, they are trying their collective hands at laws that restrict the types of pictures people can take with camera phones. I'm not necessarily against this type of legislation,...
WASHINGTON-The stakes have been raised in the U.S.-China wireless trade dispute, with the Bush administration last week issuing a veiled threat about seeking redress at the World Trade Organization, and Intel Corp.-the world's top chip-maker-declaring it will not back the Asian giant's Wi-Fi standard."While...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-The Bluetooth Special Interest Group appointed Dr. Michael Foley to the newly created position of technical director, where he will direct the development of future versions of the short-range wireless technology, lead interoperability and usability initiatives and oversee the various working groups...
LONDON-A group of the wireless industry's largest players announced a plan to form a domain name registry company for the mobile Internet-an agency similar to the Internet's ICANN registry company-in order to simplify Internet access from mobile phones.Microsoft Corp., Nokia Corp., Vodafone, 3, GSM...
