interoperability

The need to add a wireless play in global telecommunications alliances became clearer last week as AT&T Corp. and British Telecommunications plc announced a strategic alliance designed to create seamless …

WASHINGTON-A standards subcommittee of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions plans to create a new working group to develop standards for fixed-access solutions. The Standards Committee T1’s Technical Subcommittee for …

ARLINGTON, Va.-The Tele-communications Industry Association said it published a new standard, “Mobile Center-Base Station Interface for Public Wireless Communications Systems.” The standard is organized into a base part and five …

WASHINGTON-“All problems that occur on Jan. 1 will be assumed to be Y2K problems,” said John Koskinen, chair of the President’s Council on Y2K Conversion. Koskinen spoke Thursday to the …

BOSTON-Smart cards are poised to move beyond their role in identifying Global System for Mobile communications subscribers, due to momentum outside wireless and beyond U.S. borders. The challenge both for …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-The five founding companies of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group-Ericsson Inc., IBM Corp., Intel Corp., Nokia Corp. and Toshiba Corp.-announced the release of the Bluetooth 1.0 specification. The …

NEW YORK-A corporate culture of hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil spells problems ahead, even for companies that think they have gotten the millennium bug out of …

WASHINGTON-FCC Commissioner Michael Powell warned members of the Network Reliability and Interoperability Council last week the millennium bug was a special problem that requires everyone to work together. For that …

SAN FRANCISCO-The Wireless Application Protocol Forum has released the latest version of its mobile Internet standard-WAP version 1.1-at its members meeting. Enhancements to the new version include: local and international …

Nine global wireless companies formed a focus group, called 3G.IP, to promote an Internet Protocol-based wireless system for third-generation technology. The group comprises AT&T, British Telecom, Rogers Cantel, Ericsson, Lucent, …

NEW YORK-Ericsson Mobile Phones, Research Triangle Park, N.C., introduced a suite of new handsets June 21 at MobileFocus ’99 that the company plans to offer for sale later this year …

Industry executives in February hailed the TransAtlantic Business Dialogue agreement as a major breakthrough in the 3G debate, but today it appears standards bodies have made little progress to pursue …

MONTEREY, Calif.-Ending months of speculation and veiled tension, Microsoft Corp. last week officially announced it joined the Wireless Application Protocol Forum, a move many see as effectively ending a microbrowser …

WASHINGTON-A Federal Communications Commission advisory committee last week launched the biggest effort yet improve a public-safety communications regime plagued by severe spectrum shortages and the lack of technical interoperability among …

Nortel e-mobility services Nortel Networks introduced a portfolio of subscriber services, called e-mobility services, that provide rapid, flexible deployment of leading-edge voice and data capabilities optimized for the Internet Protocol …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The trunked radio industry in South Africa is about to experience a revolutionary change with the introduction of new technologies and standards. An entirely new market is being …

BAL HARBOUR, Fla.-Let the lobbying wars begin. The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium is stepping up efforts to promote Time Division Multiple Access technology around the world following the CDMA Development …

WASHINGTON-The Alliance for Telecommunications Solutions submitted a report last week to the Federal Communications Commission indicating no Year 2000-related problems were discovered in recent testing of the public switched telephone …

In the first major initiative since the group formed in December, the WirelessReady Alliance held its first member meeting last week in Vancouver, where members discussed the state of the …

WASHINGTON-Wireless telephones will work when the new millennium arrives-right? Well, maybe. The Federal Communications Commission last week refused to give a clean bill of health to the wireless industry regarding …

BOCA RATON, Fla.-Siemens Information and Communication Networks Inc. joined the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium in support of the Time Division Multiple Access-Global System for Mobile communications interoperability agreement made between …

WASHINGTON-Telecommunications networks are expected to pass the coming of the new millennium without catching the dreaded millennium bug, said a group representing local exchange carriers and a congressional report last …

CANNES, France-InterWave Communications International Ltd. introduced its new packet-switched networking capability that provides interoperability between Global System for Mobile communications wireless and Internet protocol networks at the GSM World Congress …

The Wireless Application Protocol effort gained momentum last week at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, with several Global System for Mobile communications carriers and handset manufacturers announcing WAP-compatible …

U.S. Global System for Mobile communications carriers took a financial beating in 1998, but analysts expect 1999 to look brighter for these carriers as they look to butter up their …