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 (in collaboration with Aliant Mobility), Microcell Solutions, Rogers AT&T Wireless and Telus Mobility said the...
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 (in collaboration with Aliant Mobility), Microcell Solutions, Rogers AT&T Wireless and Telus Mobility said the...
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 a consumer advisory on wireless E911 service."Consumers need to know that some wireless carriers...
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. Indeed, new research released today by advisory firm Zelos Group shows the market for...
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 suite of Project 25 integrated mobile, portable, voice and data communications solutions, including trunking solutions,...
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, which was launched in the spring."The FCC cannot make E911 happen-we need carriers, public...
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 emergency messages that are intended for them, according to research from Westlake Software Inc. Although...
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 of attention from its dawn in the late 1990s until about 2000, as carriers were...
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 cybersecurity hearing Tuesday. The House cybersecurity subcommittee held a hearing to find out what...
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 like achieving interoperability between hot spots and attracting users.ABI suggests selling Wi-Fi services as...
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 Alliance, the 3G Partnership Project and the vendor community to promote operator consensus and commitment...
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., Melco Inc., Proxim Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc. Both Intersil and Atheros said they have...
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 third-generation UMTS standards can co-exist in the same cell site and interface together as...
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 content among cell phones, personal digital assistants, consumer electronics and other devices. The group...
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 content among cell phones, personal digital assistants, consumer electronics and other devices. The group...
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 third-generation UMTS standards can co-exist in the same cell site and interface together as...
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.The new initiative, known as the Common Public Radio Interface, also includes Siemens AG, Huawei...
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 Masanobu Yoshida's keynote speech, is a proprietary technology that will provide connectivity between Sony's Bluetooth...
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 week at the third annual Bluetooth World Congress in the Netherlands. Unlike the...
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 network technology, which enjoyed approval in April, is based on the OFDM protocol and enhances...
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 profiles for the interoperability of products operating in the 2 GHz to 11 GHz...
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 and origination."Camel Phase 2 access mechanism is a natural add-on to Tecnomen Prepaid's multiprotocol environment,...
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.The initial joint solutions will combine Agilent's 8960 hardware with Anite's conformance and interoperability test...
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 a European roaming exchange service for 802.11 wireless and mobile service providers. The Interoute roaming...
