CHICAGO-SBC Communications Inc. introduced its Cellular One Digital Edge Right Rate minute packs that eliminate long-distance charges for calls placed from Cellular One's home coverage area in Chicago, north central Illinois and northwest Indiana.The company said customers can choose from plans starting at 30...
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 Group's success in working to open up the Chinese market to Code Division Multiple...
WASHINGTON-Two high-ranking House Science Committee Democrats have asked Energy Secretary Bill Richardson to investigate allegations of misconduct by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in connection with the licensing of a potentially revolutionary wireless technology called micropower impulse radar.A House Science Committee staff report questions...
WASHINGTON-Policy makers this week will receive the last of nine bean-bag wireless phone toys designed to remind them "Competition, innovation and safety symbolizes the wireless industry," according to a letter accompanying the toys.The bean-bag phones were one ingredient of a recipe of repetition the...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission was expected late Friday or today to announce eligible bidders for the April 27 local multi-distribution point service re-auction.After initially receiving 99 applications for 168 LMDS licenses, the FCC temporarily rejected 36 filings for procedural defects. Firms had until last...
NASHUA, N.H.-TeleCorp PCS Inc. launched its SunCom digital wireless services in Concord, Manchester and Nashua, N.H., and Worcester and Auburn, Mass. Launches in Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Mass., soon will follow, said TeleCorp.A member of the AT&T Wireless Network, the SunCom service...
NEW YORK-No proven link yet exists for any human health effect resulting from wireless phone use, according to a review of available scientific data published late last month by Ian R. Smith, a health care researcher for Lehman Brothers Inc., London.Smith's analysis, titled "Mobile...
TAMPA, Fla.-A group of Code Division Multiple Access carriers, handset vendors and technology providers completed a trial of SnapTrack's handset-based location system on two wireless networks in Tampa, Fla.The companies tested prototype handsets from Motorola Inc. and Samsung that used SnapTrack's enhanced global positioning...
WASHINGTON-The FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau temporarily has suspended the construction timetable for incumbent wide-area 800 MHz specialized mobile radio licensees.The decision was in reaction to a recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that told the Federal Communications...
WASHINGTON-House Commerce appropriations subcommittee Chairman Harold Rogers (R-Ky.) last week sternly questioned the Federal Communications Commission's consideration of cost as a factor in arbitrating a long-running dispute between the Justice Department and telecom industry over setting technical standards associated with the digital wiretap law.Earlier...
STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson said it paid less than $120.8 million net for Qualcomm Inc.'s Code Division Multiple Access wireless infrastructure operations in a deal settled last month.Ericsson spokeswoman Pia Gideon said the net amount also included compensation for cross licensing of patents the two companies...
SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Qualcomm Inc. declared a two-for-one stock split of the company's common stock in the form of a 100-percent stock dividend. The stock dividend will be distributed on May 10 to stockholders of record on April 21.
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 network.The interoperability testing included wireless to wireline call completion. These wireless/wireline tests were conducted...
WASHINGTON-With the Clinton administration's failure to close a deal on Chinese World Trade Organization membership, U.S. firms and congressional moderates have become angry and concerned about China backing off commitments to open wireless equipment and services markets.In coming months, business executives plan to lobby...
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 wireless data industry and plotted future strategy.Sierra Wireless Inc.-which formed the group-brought together 23...
European telecom operators made headlines last week with involvement in several potential mergers and buyouts. The United Kingdom's largest cellular operator, Vodafone Group plc, said it agreed to buy the mobile phone unit of Cable & Wireless Communications plc, M.C. Mobile Services. The $35.5...
SAN FRANCISCO-Vodafone Group plc and AirTouch Communications Inc. said they received a private letter ruling from the Internal Revenue Service concerning their proposed merger.The ruling says the transaction will satisfy a key requirement for a tax-free merger between a foreign and U.S. company, and...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Unwired Planet Inc. announced it changed its name to Phone.com Inc. and elected former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt to the company's board of directors."The reason for the name change is because we wanted a name that more clearly reflects our...
NEW YORK-Ericsson Inc. acquired Maryland-based Torrent Networking Technologies Corp. for $450 million and Silicon Valley-based TouchWave Inc. for $46 million, in an effort to move into next-generation Internet-protocol carrier networking, said the company.Torrent offers Ericsson routing equipment, which will serve as a label-edge router...
WASHINGTON-Five senators last week introduced legislation to change the law governing the export of encryption technology.Encryption technology is used to scramble computer data. The computer industry has been trying for years to get export controls on encryption technology relaxed, but has met resistance from...
CUPERTINO, Calif.-DSP Communications Inc. reported revenues for the first quarter ended March 31 of $35.9 million, an increase of 56 percent over revenues reported for the same period the previous year.The company's net earnings were $7.9 million, or 19 cents per share, compared with...
PITTSBURGH, Pa.-Crown Communications said it won a contract to provide build-to-suit services in Texas for Western Wireless Corp., increasing Crown's domestic tower portfolio by about 50 towers.Crown Communications is the domestic operating subsidiary of Crown Castle International Corp.
The Personal Communications Industry Association supported Cook Telecom Inc. in its continuing battle for interconnection rights and termination compensation from Pacific Bell Inc.Cook Telecom is a one-way paging carrier in California that has been in a legal duel with Pacific Bell ever since the...
