interoperability

OTTAWA-Canada’s nationwide operators plans to unite to agree on common standards for roaming and interoperability among Wi-Fi hot spots they operate with their next-generation mobile networks. The operators, Bell Mobility …

OTTAWA-Canada’s nationwide operators plans to unite to agree on common standards for roaming and interoperability among Wi-Fi hot spots they operate with their next-generation mobile networks. The operators, Bell Mobility …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission stepped up its consumer-education campaign regarding wireless enhanced 911 Thursday when FCC Chairman Michael Powell appeared on the “CBS Early Show” to announce the release of …

The camera-phone craze appears to have officially hit the United States, with Sprint PCS and Verizon Wireless both boasting of millions of picture messages passing over their networks every month. …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola made a handful of public-safety related wireless announcements in conjunction with this week’s Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) conference in Indianapolis. The supplier released a full …

WASHINGTON-FCC Chairman Michael Powell invited all state officials responsible for deploying wireless enhanced 911 to the Federal Communications Commission in late October for the second part of the E911 Initiative, …

Two-way messaging devices may have a niche in emergency services communications. U.S. emergency service organizations need an effective way to guarantee that their wireless devices and their users receive the …

It has been just a few years since wireless broadband was all but declared dead. But the industry instead has made a small recovery. Wireless broadband service attracted a lot …

WASHINGTON-The government should play the role of facilitator rather than regulator as it tries to ensure that network and communications infrastructure are secure, said a panel of witnesses at a …

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-The number of worldwide hot spots will grow from 28,000 in 2003 to 160,000 in 2007, according to analyst firm ABI, in spite of challenges in the market …

The GSM Association issued a call to the industry to speed the interoperability of multimedia messaging services across the world. The group said it is working with the Open Mobile …

The Wi-Fi Alliance said eight 802.11g products from six companies have received certification from the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The companies include Atheros Inc., Broadcom Corp., Intersil Corp., …

LONDON-IPWireless has completed interoperability and co-existence testing between UMTS TDD (TD-CDMA) and UMTS FDD (W-CDMA) networks at Nortel Networks’ wireless headquarters in Chateaufort, France. IPWireless said the test demonstrated that …

The quest for wireless open standards will advance to the home networking arena as 17 major companies, both wired and wireless, have formed an alliance to simplify sharing of digital …

The quest for wireless open standards will advance to the home networking arena as 17 major companies, both wired and wireless, have formed an alliance to simplify sharing of digital …

LONDON-IPWireless has completed interoperability and co-existence testing between UMTS TDD (TD-CDMA) and UMTS FDD (W-CDMA) networks at Nortel Networks’ wireless headquarters in Chateaufort, France. IPWireless said the test demonstrated that …

Barely nine months after Nokia Corp. led a base-station interoperability initiative, L.M. Ericsson and other major infrastructure vendors have countered with a new one, indicating a tension in that sector. …

AMSTERDAM-Sony Corp. demonstrated its new Feel technology, which allows Bluetooth devices to instantaneously connect to each other at this week’s Bluetooth World Congress in Amsterdam. Feel, unveiled in Sony President …

The Bluetooth industry is set to welcome the latest standard for the short-range wireless networking technology as the Bluetooth Special Interest Group is expected to introduce the 1.2 specification this …

It’s official. The 802.11g protocol, which has been touted as God’s gift to 802.11b, received the final nod from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The wireless local area …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-The WiMAX Forum, an organization dedicated to the IEEE 802.16 and ETSI HiperMAN wireless MAN specifications, announced it has 18 new member companies and has completed initial system …

RICHARDSON, Texas-Tecnomen Inc. said its prepaid solution has achieved interoperability approval from Nortel Networks based on GSM infrastructure equipment tests. Tecnomen’s intelligent network supports CAMEL Phase 2 prepaid mobile termination …

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Agilent Technologies and Anite Telecoms announced they will team up to develop and market RF protocol and network emulation test solutions for wireless device manufacturers and network operators. …

LONDON-Wi-Fi roaming is garnering more attention as more companies announced settlement solutions in the space and a new report points to the importance of hot-spot roaming. Interoute said it launched …

WASHINGTON-Northrop Grumman Corp. and the Federal Communications Commission are at loggerheads over the global defense giant’s push for a public-safety spectrum carve-out that could undermine agency efforts to free up …