BALTIMORE-GoAmerica Communications Corp. announced a program it said will allow wireline Internet service providers to offer their customers wireless data access.The company said the ISP2000 program will allow users to access their wireline ISP's home page and e-mail from devices such as the Inter@ctive...
Motorola Inc. announced Office Depot will begin carrying the PageWriter 2000 two-way pager in more than 600 retail locations nationwide.TSR Wireless L.L.C. said it has built a ReFLEX 25 two-way messaging network on the West Coast, adding coverage in southern California and into Nevada....
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 fire, police and emergency medical agencies."Public is playing urgent catch-up," said Kathleen Wallman, chairwoman...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-Ericsson Inc.'s Digital Wireless Office Services unit said it will name its new wireless office system Mobile Advantage.The system is designed to provide the mobile work force with one-phone, one-number accessibility anywhere, anytime, said the company.Ericsson is launching a national print...
NASHVILLE, Tenn.-Page Update Inc. announced it has formed a partnership with Metrocall Inc. to extend its weather, traffic, breaking news, sports and country music information service to Metrocall's customer base in Tennessee.
MURRAY HILL, N.J./NEW YORK-Lucent Technologies Inc. and WinStar Communications Inc. announced an agreement under which WinStar's Broadband Services unit will resell Lucent's entire portfolio of enterprise data networking products, including the PacketStar Access Concentrators, the PortMaster remote access products and network management products.The agreement...
LOVELAND, Colo.-Larimer County, Colo., will be the first in the country to use Motorola Inc.'s Astro SmartZone digital radio communications system, said Motorola.Motorola will install, manage and operate the Astro SmartZone system, and each participating organization will pay a fee based on the number...
Iridium L.L.C.'s first full quarter of operation was marked with handset production delays, distribution problems, low subscriber numbers and a deepening net loss, the aftermath of which has led the company to re-evaluate its strategic focus and upper management team.Since launching in November, Iridium...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. reported revenues for the first quarter ended March 31 of $35.1 million, a significant increase from the $10.1 million in revenues reported for first-quarter 1998.Net income for the quarter was $21.2 million, or 43 cents per share, compared...
GERMANTOWN, Md.-Hughes Network Systems announced it has prepared a mobile satellite radio interface standard for mobile satellite services using geosynchronous-earth-orbit satellites.The company said the European Telecommunications Standards Institute and the Telecommunications Institute of America are carrying out the standardization work together. The ETSI standard...
HELSINKI-Nokia Corp. and Hongkong Telecom Mobile Services announced they signed a memorandum of understanding to devleop General Packet Radio Services in Hong Kong SAR."Our partnership with Hongkong Telecom will mean the provision of both the hardware and software required to eventually enable true personal...
MCLEAN, Va.-SpectraSite Communications Inc. and Nextel Communications Inc. announced an agreement under which SpectraSite will purchase 2,000 Nextel towers and build 1,700 more for $560 million in cash. Nextel, for its part, negotiated an 18-percent ownership interest in SpectraSite.SpectraSite said it intends to build...
DENVER-Columbine High School students last week used wireless technology as a lifeline to the world from within the confines of their Littleton, Colo., school while two gunmen terrorized students and faculty in a rampage that left 15 dead and 23 injured.Stories of students managing...
WASHINGTON-China reportedly is backpedaling on market-opening telecom trade commitments that the Clinton administration believed were agreed to during Premier Zhu Rongji's visit here recently.Robert Cassidy, assistant U.S. trade representative, was scheduled to leave Beijing Sunday after trade talks last week with his Chinese counterpart,...
BAL HARBOUR, Fla.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. says it is on track to fix network capacity problems associated with high demand for the digital one-rate service by June."We have a well-defined plan to get ahead on capacity," said Rod Nelson, vice president and chief technology...
The recent battles at the Federal Communications Commission between AirCell Inc. and the cellular carriers that oppose its air-to-ground communications system may be starting to affect AirCell's business.In a letter sent to Steve Weingarten of the Commercial Wireless Division of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau,...
WASHINGTON-Congress last week continued taking steps to strengthen a weak and noncompetitive U.S. commercial space launch industry that has forced mobile satellite firms to contract overseas, a trend contributing to the export of American jobs and to alleged technology transfers to China and Russia.On...
APEX, N.C.-SmartLink Development Network Inc. said it signed a deal with ComSpace under which SmartLink will be allowed to incorporate ComSpace's digital channel multicarrier architecture technology into its SMRLink multiprotocol trunking and networking system control equipment.DC/MA is a digital protocol that allows conversion of...
WASHINGTON-Motorola Inc. announced an agreement with car manufacturer Jaguar to develop a telematics system called Jaguar Assist as an option on all 2000 model-year Jaguar S-Type sedans in North America.The system is proposed to use the wireless communications and global positioning system technology of...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will decide next month whether mid-sized incumbent local exchange carriers must continue to have a separate subsidiary to offer wireless services. An association representing mid-sized companies wants the FCC to stop enforcing the rule.The request by the Independent Telephone and...
Capping a string of negative developments leading up to its first-quarter earnings report this week, Iridium L.L.C. announced Edward Staiano-the company's vice chairman, chief executive officer and most voracious supporter and motivator-resigned last week.Reports are that Staiano and Iridium's board of directors had disagreements...
WASHINGTON-The General Accounting Office, the investigative unit of Congress, is looking into the internal controls of how the Federal Communications Commission collects regulatory fees, the GAO confirmed last week.Regulatory fees are a separate assessment from filing fees. Regulatory fees go to offset congressional appropriations,...
PASADENA, Calif.-Emultek Ltd. announced Kyocera Corp. of Japan has developed a fully functional prototype cdmaOne phone using Emultek's RapidPLUS software, which graphically models, simulates and tests virtual product interfaces and automatically generates C code and the documentation needed to begin manufacturing."The performance of the...
CHESTERFIELD, Mo.-A new study conducted by Datacomm Research Co. and Techvest International found Internet-based e-commerce will skyrocket, but only companies that develop and implement entirely new business models will succeed."Portals to Profit: E-Commerce Business Models and Enabling Technologies," also said, among other things, wireless technology...
