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 valuable broadcast frequencies for new technologies and that complicates an auction report due to...
As open standards and alliance building become the Holy Grail of the wireless industry, some industry watchers see them as oxymoron and schemes to capture market share."Standard groups are paper tigers," remarked Isaac Ro, senior analyst, mobile and wireless technologies with the Aberdeen group...
WASHINGTON-The National Institute of Standards and Technology said engineers have developed a new "ad hoc wireless network" for emergency communications, a breakthrough in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that addresses interoperability problems for first responders.NIST said the architecture consists of...
WASHINGTON-Defense contracting giant Northrop Grumman has asked the Federal Communications Commission for an additional 10 megahertz of public-safety spectrum for advanced broadband wireless use by first responders.The frequencies being sought on an expedited basis by Northrop Grumman are in the 700 MHz band, which...
In an apparent counter-punch to a recent Nokia Corp.-backed initiative with Texas Instruments Inc. and STMicroelectronics, Qualcomm Inc. has seized the spotlight with a series of chip announcements, drawing attention to itself as a premier player in the space. The announcements include a W-CDMA...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. continued to trumpet is BREW application download service, announcing BellSouth International will offer BREW services in nine areas in Latin America and that South Korean carrier KTF renewed its support for the platform.BellSouth will offer BREW services to a total of...
Two small vendors have made some progress in the multimedia messaging service center arena this week with global wins announced by LogicaCMG and Comverse.LogicalCMG announced an agreement to supply Ireland's smallest mobile operator with its MMSC. The product includes transcoding and number portability capabilities....
Wi-Fi roaming is garnering more attention this week as more companies announce 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...
RESTON, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. announced a mobile Virtual Private Network solution that uses IBM Corp. software to provide mobile workers a higher level of security, faster response times and more efficient access than currently available to enterprise data anywhere on Nextel's all-digital packet data...
SAN RAMON, Calif.-The PAM Forum plus Parlay Group now equals the Parlay Group. Both standards groups are merging into the Parlay Group in a process that will be completed by mid-June, according to the organizations.The PAM Forum, a consortium that establishes the presence and...
SAN RAMON, Calif.-The PAM Forum plus Parlay Group now equals the Parlay Group. Both standards groups are merging into the Parlay Group in a process that will be completed by mid-June, according to the organizations.The PAM Forum, a consortium that establishes the presence and...
Software-defined radios may be the answer to today's interoperability issues, but carriers and handset makers do not seem overly enthused about adopting the technology because the technological advances gained from SDR may hurt their business models.Why? Because SDR gives "too much flexibility to the...
FAIRFAX, Va.-The nation's public-safety interoperability score has improved 41 percent since 2001, according to the Public Safety Wireless Network (PSWN) Program's National Interoperability Scorecard, which measures public safety wireless communications interoperability. The score was 57.65 on a scale of 100 for 2003, up from...
WASHINGTON-The House telecommunications subcommittee today approved legislation to create a trust fund to pay to relocate military radio systems in order to make room for third-generation wireless systems in the 1700 MHz band using money raised from 3G auctions. The bill now goes to...
DALLAS-MetroPCS Inc., which provides flat-rate unlimited local calling service in Atlanta, Miami, San Francisco and Sacramento, Calif., expanded its text messaging service offering to provide nationwide interoperability and introduced changes to its long-distance service plans.The carrier's text messaging service now allows customers to send...
IRVINE, Calif.-The Bluetooth Special Interest Group named Toshiba Corp.'s Portege 4010 Series notebook computer a Designated Profile Interoperability Tester platform for testing and verifying interoperability between Bluetooth-enabled devices.Toshiba said the notebook will be available to Bluetooth product developers and accredited Bluetooth Qualification Test Facilities...
NEW ORLEANS-Advantest America Measuing Solutions introduced the R4870, a single-instrument solution that can perform both radio-frequency and interoperability tests in accordance with the Bluetooth Special Interest Group specifications.The solution uses Advantest's WMT architecture and can be used during research and developmet and manufacturing to...
NEW ORLEANS-Dilithium Networks, which provides multimedia solutions, announced network monitoring support in a new release of the company's Dilithium Networks Analyzer, a protocol analysis and test tool for 3G-324M markets. Dilithium Networks' DNA is a test tool for H.324M/3G-324M as defined by 3GPP and...
SINGAPORE-The telecom regulator in Singapore announced a collaboration with chip maker Intel Corp. on a Wi-Fi initiative that the Infocomm Development Authority said would help achieve "seamless connectivity in the wireless world for Singapore and Asia."The total investment by the two groups is $2.25...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Wireless giant Ericsson said it created an interoperability test program for instant messaging and presence services and will work with IM companies Ecrio, magic4, MessageVine, Motorola Inc., Ruksun Software Technologies and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications."Ericsson is the market leader in Wireless Village-based instant...
CANNES, France-Operators and vendors alike expressed a quiet optimism for the upcoming year as the GSM community gathered for its annual global meeting last week in the south of France. The event focused less on when wideband CDMA launches would occur in Europe and...
CANNES, France-The Open Mobile Alliance standards body said it completed two interoperability tests in conjunction with the 3GSM World Congress, and that it approved two new sets of specifications.The group, whose membership now exceeds 300 companies, said it approved its Client Provisioning version 1.1...
CHANTILLY, Va.-Wireless interoperability company InphoMatch said T-Mobile customers in the United Kingdom will now be able to send text messages to non-GSM wireless subscribers in the United States.InphoMatch manages the text messaging interoperability agreements for T-Mobile USA Inc., as well as a variety of...
CANNES, France-The GSM Association's new board declared its two key strategic goals for this year are shortening time-to-market and ensuring the global availability of new and developing wireless services.The GSMA is especially focused on accelerating MMS interoperability and in ensuring the vitality and commercial...
