WASHINGTON-The chairman of the largest Internet service provider in the world last week called on Congress to give China permanent normal trade relations in an effort to reform China."Here in the United States, Congress is considering whether to extend permanent normal trade relations to...
MADRID, Spain-A Vivendi-led consortium and Spain's three incumbent mobile phone operators won Universal Mobile Telecommunications System licenses in Spain. The third-generation licenses were awarded through a selective tender process.The Xfera consortium plans to invest about $4.8 billion in its 3G network during the next...
Since its exit from the highly competitive U.S. mobile handset market in late 1998, Siemens AG has vowed to return.The German manufacturer will make its comeback this summer, but to a mobile-phone market that is even more crowded and competitive than ever before. Rapidly...
U.S. WirelessThe board of directors of U.S. Wireless Corp. announced the appointment of Dale Stone as president, chief operating officer and member of the board of directors. Stone is the former president of Qualcomm Inc.'s infrastructure division.TellabsRichard Notebaert, retired chairman and chief executive officer...
SYDNEY, Australia-Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) Ltd. joined three Australian mobile phone incumbents in securing spectrum in the 1800 MHz band. Proceeds of the spectrum auction totaled more than $809.5 million for the Australian government, with One.Tel Ltd., Telstra Corp. and Vodafone AirTouch plc also receiving...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry has won several key court cases involving antenna siting, liability and health protection, but litigation is expected to continue well into the future as pagers and mobile phones further penetrate the consumer market.That some federal courts have sided with carriers recently...
The Feb. 28 article, "Angelos, Carlo join to head research program," should have stated that AT&T Corp. holds a 19.9 percent stake in Metrocall Inc.In addition, due to incorrect information provided by the Food and Drug Administration, RCR reported that FDA recommendations for additional...
After spending 10 years and $5.8 billion building and launching a constellation of 66 low-earth-orbit satellites to provide mobile voice and paging services worldwide, Iridium L.L.C. is facing a new countdown-toward extinction.If the company doesn't find someone to replace Craig McCaw as its financial...
British Telecom plc unveiled its mobile Internet strategy last week, setting up a new unit to offer global mobile Internet services by extending its existing Genie Internet services to Wireless Application Protocol-enabled phones.BT said it will invest $250 million in WAP technology and form...
WASHINGTON-In new research not yet published, a prominent Motorola Inc.-sponsored scientist has found genetic damage from mobile-phone frequency radiation that may support similar findings by Wireless Technology Research L.L.C.After making the discovery last year, Dr. Joseph Roti Roti, a radiation biologist at Washington University...
WASHINGTON-Two key Senate lawmakers, backed by industry, state and local leaders, said they see no obstacles to passing legislation that would simplify the way mobile phone calls are taxed."It is so imminently sensible," said Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), a Senate Commerce Committee member at last...
SigmaOneSigmaOne Communications Corp., a provider of location systems and services for wireless carriers and the wireless Internet, reported the development of the company's wireless location system for Global System for Mobile communications carriers in the United States and Europe. Designed to operate as either...
After one week and 16 rounds of bidding, incumbent operator Orange plc led all third-generation license bids in the United Kingdom with a $632.9 million bid for License B. The auction for five licenses, which is expected to last another one to five weeks,...
MANILA, the Philippines-Globe Telecom, the second-largest cellular phone operator in the Philippines, announced a $2.3 billion merger with another Philippine wireless service provider, Isla Communications. The agreement allows Ayala Corp., Singapore Telecom and Deutsche Telekom to partner in the country.Globe Telecom is a joint...
The Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling that Baby Bell telephone companies cannot resell long-distance service to local subscribers.Last June, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed a Federal Communications Commission decision to block partnerships between long-distance...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp.'s mobile phones division introduced four new phones covering a broad range of services and uses at CeBIT 2000 in Germany.The 9110i Communicator, an upgraded version of the 9110, is a Wireless Application Protocol-enabled phone that continues to support Internet browsing and...
WASHINGTON-A new study failed to find an increase in cancer and other diseases among nearly 200,000 employees who worked at Motorola Inc. from 1976 to 1996.The study, published in the March issue of Epidemiology and underwritten by Motorola, was conducted by Robert Morgan, Michael...
CanadaGranite Systems Inc.'s Xpercom solution has been selected by Bell Mobility Inc. of Canada to provide network configuration management to all of the company's sites. According to Granite, the Xpercom solutions automate network engineering and administration, including facilities assignment, provisioning, network planning, network design,...
NEW ORLEANS-The outlook for adoption of rules for calling party pays is now seen as murky by many of those who attended last week's CTIA Wireless 2000 conference.Calling party pays is similar to long-distance toll calling where the person placing the call to a...
I missed out on the conga line of carriers, vendors and Digerati who stole the show last week in New Orleans. It's a wireless data world after all. The Net is revolutionizing the wireless industry. It's revolutionizing everything, everywhere.Just last week, a Hong Kong...
There's an ancient Japanese custom in which a man wooing a woman leaves romantic haiku poems tied to flowers or branches on her front lawn every day for as long as it takes until the woman agrees to accept his advances. According to one...
WASHINGTON-The sponsor of a controversial antenna-siting bill in the Virginia General Assembly pulled the measure last week apparently at the urging of top officials.The bill, recently passed by the Senate, would have repealed last year's Virginia Supreme Court decision that affirmed the authority of...
MELBOURNE, Australia-Telstra's new CDMA mobile phone network has come under fire from rural Australians following the closure of about 80 percent of the carrier's analog AMPS network on 31 December.Most of the criticisms of the new CDMA service surround difficulties with reception. The network,...
BEIJING-China Unicom and Qualcomm signed a landmark agreement in February, paving the way for Chinese manufacturers to get CDMA production licenses. Unicom wants to build a 10 million-line CDMA network this year and is evaluating 12 bidders to supply the equipment.But barely a week...
