NEW ORLEANS-Nokia Corp. last week announced an infrastructure package that should reduce costs and increase efficiency for Global System for Mobile communications carriers, now will be available in the United States. The package components already are in use in Europe, said company officials.The services,...
At CTIA's Wireless '99: The Jambala Wireless Application Protocol Gateway, which will allow operators to improve and expand wireless data services to their customers, said the company.An open-application platform, the Jambala WAP Gateway is a network node that serves as a bridge between the...
Never has an industry been so vastly underestimated as the cellular industry in its formative years.When the industry celebrated its 10th birthday in late 1993, industry watchers joked about how wrong the early subscriber forecasts were, while putting out new subscriber forecasts that underestimated...
A Finnish Internet service provider will test the European Commission's claim it has not shut competing mobile phone technologies out of Europe.Clari Net Oy, wholly owned by Finnish ISP Saunalahden Serveri Oy, has applied for a license to operate a third-generation mobile phone network...
WASHINGTON-The President's Export Council, confronting the Clinton administration on third-generation wireless policy, urged the White House against endorsing convergence of wideband mobile phone technologies being evaluated by the International Telecommunication Union.The export body, headed by AT&T Corp. Chairman Michael Armstrong and comprising other U.S....
If only the wireless industry could have the Internet's deal. Oh, what a wonderful world it would be!The Internet, this brave new interior world of pixeled 1's and 0's that lives in virtual defiance of time, distance, space and national sovereignty, is being coddled...
Britain's Department of Trade and Industry cleared British Telecommunications plc to raise its stake in Cellnet above 60 percent and said the company can bid in auctions for third-generation mobile spectrum.According to Cellnet's Telecommunications Act License, which allows the company to operate a public...
Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. plans to introduce a new series of Code Division Multiple Access phones this week at Wireless '99 in New Orleans, including the company's first CDMA tri-mode handset.According to Peter Skarzynski, vice president of wireless sales and marketing at STA, the...
As if the wireless industry didn't have enough to worry about with local zoning boards, citizen activists, organized labor, environmentalists, Civil War buffs and the National Park Service, now it has to deal with Tom & Ray.An industry public-relations problem worsened after Tom &...
WASHINGTON-Support continued to mount last week for flexible rules that would give wireless carriers options for contributing to the federal Universal Service Fund and a fair chance at replacing monopoly landline telephone as subsidized providers of basic telephone service to low-income and rural subscribers.Universal-service...
SAN FRANCISCO-Telstra MobileNet in Australia said strong December growth and increased migration of subscribers from analog to digital service increased its customer base to approximately 2.2 million Global System for Mobile communications customers and about 1 million analog customers.Telstra estimates MobileNet controls approximately 49...
As the end of the millennium approaches, it is worth pondering whether the recent bout of mergers and acquisitions are precedents to some colossal event of biblical proportions or merely defensive strategies of companies safeguarding themselves against falling commodity prices, uncertain technological change, increased...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson introduced its new T 28 dual-band mobile phone based on Global System for Mobile communications technology.The phone's functions include voice control, automatic world clock and new batteries that use lithium polymer technology. The phone also includes a feature called Profiles that...
WASHINGTON-The Commerce Department, amid administration warnings that a return to U.S. protectionism would hurt U.S. firms and exacerbate global financial troubles, last week said commercial wireless carriers "constitute a thriving industry sector in the United States that has enormous growth potential well into the...
Finland-based Nokia Corp. continued to put pressure on its competitors with mobile phone sales that more than doubled for the fourth quarter, while its Swedish counterpart L.M. Ericsson saw its mobile phone sales fall 3 percent for the fourth quarter.At the end of 1997,...
ZetronZetron Inc. launched the Model Z907 PCS Fault Finder, which provides fast notification of power amplifier and antenna problems at personal communications services sites. The PCS Fault Finder monitors forward radio-frequency power and antenna return loss in the 1.8 GHz to 2.0 GHz frequency...
NEW YORK-L.M. Ericsson announced several endeavors that will provide handsets with increasing degrees of global utility.The Swedish-based manufacturer said it is forming a "groundbreaking initiative" with four companies to create the "geostationary mobile satellite standard," or GMSS.Participating with Ericsson in developing GMSS are United...
NEW YORK-Home Wireless Networks, a Norcross, Ga., company in which Lucent Technologies Inc. has invested, Friday announced the commercial availability of a wireless home/office data and voice communications distribution system.Its function is to provide small-business customers with secure voice and data communications they can...
After years of slowly gathering the needed partnerships with cellular operators across the country, Cellemetry L.L.C. today can offer its cellular control channel transmission technology across more than 90 percent of the country.In mid-December, the company signed with Houston Cellular, adding much of Texas...
TanzaniaInmarsat announced Tanzania became its 85th member country. Adolar B. Mapunda, managing director of the Tanzanian Telecommunications Co. Ltd., signed the Inmarsat Operating Agreement at the International Maritime Organization's office in London at the end of 1998. Tanzania is the 14th African country to...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. wireless industry, responding to the global proliferation of media coverage of mobile phone health concerns and to Internet-savvy activists, is leading an effort to create a worldwide information-sharing network to counter negative publicity.The Wireless Industry Global Information Network, or WIN, held its...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration, invoking powerful references to the World Trade Organization, competition and convergence, last week said the European Commission's response to U.S. concerns about potential trade barriers to third-generation mobile phone standards fell short, and urged Europe not to implement 3G before the...
The Australian Communications Authority has decided to require pre-selection for calls originating on a fixed network and terminating on a mobile network.The ACA, which is responsible for regulating telecommunications and radio communications in Australia, said fixed-to-mobile services should be included by June 30 in...
Ameritech Corp. said it plans to invest $3 billion in capital in its communications networks in 1999. Approximately $2 billion will be targeted at enhancing the company's core communications networks, with half of the total supporting data networks. An additional $1 billion will be...
