interoperability

MMTA Anne-Rivers Forcke was appointed chairman of the MultiMedia Telecommunications Association’s Media Relations Committee. Forcke is a relationship marketing strategist for the Global Small Business group at IBM Corp., where …

ANNAPOLIS, Md.-TeleCommunications Systems said it joined the Location Interoperability Forum. Through its Xypoint unit, TCS will work with the LIF to develop global interoperability standards among mobile positioning systems, and …

More than 50 percent of the 39.8 million business travelers in 1999 brought cellular phones with them on their trips, according to the Travel Industry Association of America. Such numbers …

LONDON-The GSM Association announced it reached an agreement with the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium to include TDMA interoperability with GSM as a core component of the GSM Global Roaming Forum. …

WASHINGTON-Public-safety officials eagerly applauded action last week to designate Project 25 Phase I as the interoperability standard for use in the 700 MHz band. “The result of the FCC’s action …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. and Sprint PCS have agreed to a commercial network infrastructure agreement, providing CDMA equipment via Interoperability Specifications and third-generation cdma2000 1x high-speed packet data to certain …

Secure with 50 converts and confident of its quality, the torch bearers of the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technology believe that telecom companies are heeding their call to make …

Extolling them as “wings of light,” Nortel Networks hopes to illumine the wireless Internet space with four new initiatives. Basking in a 55-percent third-quarter growth, the Internet and communications company …

Motorola Inc. and Oracle Corp. teamed last week to create a UNIX-based e-business platform designed for carriers, Internet service providers, enterprise customers and application vendors. The deal is the second …

AUSTIN, Texas-Infrastructure software company Simplified released its new Open Services Platform, which the company said will allow service providers to deliver and manage any communication service over any network. The …

Every day another vendor announces it has won a contract to provide third-generation services. And with each 3G announcement is the implication that 3G services will soon be here. And …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-As we approach what was supposed to be the Bluetooth Christmas, all Santa Claus has to offer those wishing for a Bluetooth-enabled gift is a headset, some PC …

PARIS-Matsushita Communications Industrial Co., Ltd. and Nortel Networks moved to push the standards set by 3G Partnership Projects and their own products and services. Under a new agreement, the two …

European operators are expected to spend more than $125 billion by the beginning of 2007 on next- generation wireless Internet services and infrastructure, according to a report by The Strategis …

NEW YORK-For Samsung Telecommunications America, South Korea’s mandatory elimination of wireless handset subsidies created a ripple effect across the ocean that translates into more aggressive marketing in the United States. …

Dear Editor: While Communications Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth sings a soliloquy of regulatory and technical evolution, the state of future technological applications lies in disarray (“Opinion”, RCR Wireless News, Oct. 30, …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. and Vast Solutions Inc., the soon-to-be-spun-off unit of Paging Network Inc., have signed a strategic agreement to support interoperability between Glenayre’s @ctiveLink two-way wireless messaging module …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Sprint PCS awarded a contract to Motorola Inc.’s Global Telecom Solutions Sector to provide the company with CDMA equipment through interoperability specifications and third-generation cdma2000 1x packet data. …

Dear Chairman Kennard: I want to commend your recent statement urging that Congress provide incentives for broadcasters to meet the 2006 “deadline” for conversion to Digital Television (DTV). Any delay …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-Unlike the hype that surrounded the launch of Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) services, European mobile operators are taking a conservative approach to how General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) …

CHICAGO, United States-One of the first commercial deployments of Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) technology could be in Mexico next year based on presentations and interviews at the …

SAN DIEGO-Kyocera Wireless Corp. and Lucent Technologies Inc. reported an agreement to work together to accelerate global deployment of third-generation CDMA wireless services by aligning development of Kyocera’s wireless handsets …

NASHUA, N.J.-Spike Broadband Systems Inc., a provider of fixed wireless access solutions, announced it became a member of the Broadband Wireless Internet Forum. The BWIF promotes the development of cost-effective …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies entered a strategic relationship with PhoneOnline.com, a wireless development and professional services firm, to support interoperability between PhoneOnline.com’s BlueMoon mobile software technology application framework and Glenayre’s @activeLink …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Certicom announced WTLS Plus 1.1, the latest version of the toolkit that enables developers to integrate WAP-compliant security functionality into wireless client and server products. WTLS Plus 1.1 …