HANNOVER, Germany-InterDigital Communications Corp. and Siemens AG said they are first to market with a broadband Code Division Multiple Access-based wireless local loop solution that delivers advanced broadband services.Both companies are displaying their version of the system at CeBIT '98 in Hannover, Germany, where...
Much hype has surrounded information services and what they mean to the future of the paging industry.By providing customers with information-such as news, sports scores and stock quotes-carriers hope to both change the perception of paging as a simple communications tool to that of...
WASHINGTON-In the private sector, he has represented Pacific Telesis, Bell Atlantic Corp., Lockheed Martin and other high-tech corporate giants. In the world of politics, his No. 1 client is Albert Gore Jr.The inside-outside game of Peter Knight has paid off handsomely in recent years....
WASHINGTON-The Justice Department last week extended for 60 days its probe into whether Labor Secretary Alexis Herman financially benefited from helping Mobile Communications Holdings Inc. obtain a global satellite phone license from the Federal Communications Commission last year.The extension follows a three-month investigation that...
SAN DIEGO-The Satellite Global Access division of ComStream has signed several new contracts to provide its VSATPlus II satellite networking product to companies in Latin America, the United States and Eastern Europe.Three new contracts valued at more that $3 million were signed with Comsat...
WASHINGTON-Attorney General Janet Reno will decide by this Friday whether to pull the Federal Communications Commission into a digital wiretap controversy that kept the telecom industry and FBI officials busy last week in negotiations over a technical standard.The telecom industry, represented by wireless and...
Brightpoint Inc. and CellStar Corp. said they discontinued negotiations to form a joint venture in India. The proposal for the venture was announced in mid-January. The companies were unable to negotiate a definitive agreement within the time frame set forth in the companies' letter...
NEW YORK-British Telecommunications plc announced its mobile satellite communications customers will enjoy price reductions up to 15 percent, when the company introduces a new U.S. dollar billing rate.BT will reduce the cost of calling from mobile terminals via the Inmarsat system. Customers on BT's...
WASHINGTON-Portland, Ore.-based Mountain SMR Group L.L.C., which is in default on the 800 MHz specialized mobile radio service license it purchased last winter during a Federal Communications Commission auction, is liable for $86,628 in back payments plus any money that could be due following...
WASHINGTON-The House Commerce Committee said an investigation confirmed that BellSouth Corp. offered to drop a regulatory challenge to Teligent Corp.'s wireless licenses if Teligent would actively support the Baby Bell's entry into long distance.The congressional probe also found that BellSouth threatened to attack Teligent's...
While it may be clear that the use of wireless phones is prohibited aboard commercial aircraft, many private pilots in a recent survey indicated they have made calls from their cellular phone while airborne, and some believe it is OK to do it.Billig &...
WASHINGTON-The auction of Phase II 220 MHz licenses is scheduled to begin May 19, but that date could be pushed back at least 30 days because no bidder's package has been released and the Federal Communications Commission still has not resolved past issues regarding...
Superconducting Core Technologies Inc. has ended commercial distribution of its cryoelectronic receiver front-end products for the mobile wireless base station market, igniting questions of whether superconductor companies targeting the wireless industry can raise enough capital to operate.Robert Paige, chief operating officer of Golden, Colo.-based...
Qualcomm Inc. and Ortel Corp. said they demonstrated measurable performance improvements in receive diversity in Code Division Multiple Access personal communications services repeaters.Ortel, a repeater manufacturer, and Qualcomm have been testing the process for providing receive diversity and are working together to develop and...
BALTIMORE-Pacific Eagle Investments Ltd., Masa Telecom Inc., Ericsson Inc. and Siemens Telecom Networks-collective creditors to bankrupt C-block personal communications services licensee Pocket Communications Inc.-have withdrawn a lawsuit filed in U.S. Bankruptcy court here Feb. 18 that was crafted to block any government efforts to...
Globecomm Systems Inc. and Tecore Inc. formed an alliance to offer design, integration, installation, training and maintenance services for satellite communications and wireless networks. A key feature of the new service is its distributed switching architecture-a routing system that provides local links for a...
VIENNA, Va.-Ventera Corp. announced it will build an Internet-based software application to track and report key engineering data for Metrocall Inc.'s nationwide paging network. Ventera said the software will capture, track and report engineering specifications, lease and license information on all Metrocall sites and...
The good news: Competition is rampant in at least 50 of the top markets. The bad news: Churn is on the rise. This time around, however, applications developers say they have perfected customer-service and tracking software that can help a carrier keep good customers before they...
NEW YORK-McLeodUSA Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, announced March 10 it plans to place privately a $200 million senior discount note issue due 2008.Proceeds will help finance construction and operation of a personal communications services system and expand McLeodUSA's intra-city fiber-optic networks, among other things,...
WASHINGTON-The pack leaders haven't changed much during the last week of bidding in the Federal Communications Commission's local multipoint distribution services auction. The top 10 companies remain the same, although the order shifts for one or two companies every few rounds. This behavior, coupled...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association announced it published a series of documents on system specifications for Cellular Digital Packet Data in the first step toward establishing the documents for standardization.The Wireless Data Forum, previously the CDPD Forum, presented the documentation for consideration by TIA...
A new group consisting of personal computer, telecommunications and consumer electronics companies is developing a protocol for wirelessly connecting home appliances to PCs.The Home Radio Frequency Working Group's mission is "to enable the existence of a broad range of interoperable consumer devices by establishing...
Not so long ago, I broached the subject of "goodwill capital" with a wireless industry leader at lunch. A number of things prompted me to do this.First, I've come to realize how much a pillar of the community one local TV broadcaster has become...
