WASHINGTON-The House Judiciary Committee, amid legislation to shift satellite export licensing from the Commerce Department to the State Department and new signs that China plans to curtail wireless telecom trade, last week downplayed the prospect of including alleged technology transfers in any impeachment inquiry...
Wireless intelligent network deployments remain slow in the United States as mobile phone carriers have focused on building out digital networks and spending money on switching and radio-frequency infrastructure.That is about to change, indicate WIN vendors, as more competitors enter the mobile phone market,...
WASHINGTON-Manufacturers and fixed wireless users are poised to launch a campaign on Capitol Hill and at the Federal Communications Commission to advocate "spectrum-impact studies" as a prerequisite to frequency reallocations and other actions that impact the wireless landscape of today and tomorrow.Spectrum-impact studies, a...
Colorado MicroDisplay Inc., a Boulder, Colo.-based supplier of microdisplays, announced it is taking orders for its CMD View Cube Optics Developer's Kit.The kit provides a visual interface development platform for optimizing microdisplays in display headsets, third-generation smart phones, global positioning system map readers, pagers...
Alcatel Alsthom's announcement of lower-than-expected earnings hit telecom stocks in Europe and the United States late last week.The French telecom equipment vendor said its telecom segment's income will be "adversely impacted by sharp investment cuts recently decided by some traditional operators and the deepening...
Extending desktop personal computer information to mobile phones has become a point of differentiation for several wireless companies of late, and Paragon Software plans to introduce a new application to do just that this week at PCS '98 in Orlando, Fla.In conjunction with Nokia...
IRVING, Texas-Nokia Mobile Phones announced the Telecoil-a hearing-aid compatible accessory designed to provide improved communications for the hearing impaired.The new product works with Nokia 5100 or 6100 digital wireless phones and offers digital communications solutions to more than 2 million T-coil hearing-aid users in...
Determined not to miss out on market opportunities provided by third-generation technology, NEC Corp. has taken early steps into the 3G arena.The Japanese manufacturer has begun operation of a new subsidiary in Singapore that will design and develop hardware and software for wideband Code...
Nearly a year into office, Bill Kennard has defied all attempts to be pigeonholed as the newest chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He was general counsel and an understudy to former FCC chief Reed Hundt. Yet Kennard is not Hundt like. He's not...
In about the same time-a nano-second or so-it took Mark McGwire's record-breaking 62nd to leave the ball park and bring America together, Ken Starr was able to enter the nation's cyberpysche with a historic first of his own that has the potential to tear...
Recent developments in Japan suggest standards leaders there realize they must deal with the cdma2000 third-generation proposal.
Japan's standards body, the Association of Radio Businesses (ARIB), recently concluded that both W-CDMA, based on the GSM platform, and cdma2000 third-generation proposals are valid proposals and meet...
Investors are nervous when it comes to pricing competition in the mobile industry.
Just look at the effects of a Wall Street Journal article in April that described the competitive Jacksonville, Fla., mobile phone market. That article, in addition to AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s introduction...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc., in a move possibly signaling capacity problems that may be forcing the already highly leveraged wireless giant back into acquisition mode, is negotiating with the Justice Department to lift a 1994 antitrust consent decree."We have had discussions on this and, no,...
Corsair Communications Inc. joined the ranks of companies hoping to capitalize on the Federal Communications Commission's mandate on wireless 911.The company, whose product history is in the fraud-prevention arena, is developing a network-based system for wireless location. Phase II of the FCC's mandate requires...
GLOBECOM SYSTEMSGlobecomm Systems Inc. announced commercial availability of its Systems Explorer II Portable Satphone, a satellite phone system that uses Integrated Services Digital Network technology. Explorer II is made in the United States and weighs 32 pounds. The system can be configured from the...
The massive popularity of 3Com Corp.'s PalmPilot personal digital assistant has spurred several mobile communications companies to develop wireless solutions for the product. The most recent application is from Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc., whose Personal Mobile Communications Division recently announced the availability of its...
WASHINGTON-Under even the most abnormal of normal circumstances, it usually is possible to handicap odds for passage of wireless legislation before Congress adjourns.But these are not normal times.An American president is under siege, and the global stage is imploding with financial meltdowns, political unrest,...
BUENOS AIRES-Lucent Technologies Inc. signed a $52.5 million contract with CTI Movil of Argentina to provide equipment, services and software for another expansion of CTI Movil's Advanced Mobile Phone Services network.Under CTI Movil's "Millennium Project," as the expansion has been dubbed, Lucent will install...
Political turmoil and economic problems around the world have delayed tenders and auctions of mobile phone spectrum in some countries.At least three Latin American countries-Argentina, Colombia and Venezuela-have put on hold plans to grant wireless concessions."In all three markets, the concessions are up in...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson signed a $300 million frame agreement with Telcel to expand the wireless operator's 800 MHz network and create a dual-band/dual-mode system by building the country's first 1900 MHz network, said Ericsson.Telcel recently won a 1900 MHz licenses in each of Mexico's...
While the short-term forecast for wireless operators in financially troubled parts of the world could be turbulent, carriers remain optimistic the wireless industry will weather the current financial crisis without many lasting repercussions.Stock markets around the globe-in Europe, Japan, Latin America and the United...
WASHINGTON-A powerful Senate resolution that was to promote third-generation wireless harmonization was thoroughly diluted by U.S. backers of European-based mobile phone technology last week, a bizarre turnabout that drew a mix of new faces into the escalating controversy and further muddied the waters for...
With American carriers and manufacturers gallantly fighting here and abroad for global wireless supremacy and the U.S. government pocketing billions from the sale of airwaves that fuel pagers and mobile phones, some might say that saving Pvt. Wireless isn't worth it.Who is Pvt. Wireless?Pvt....
NEW YORK-Australia's Optus Communications, a multiservice carrier, announced fiscal year-end results Aug. 31 that showed significant declines in operating losses compared with the prior year.Optus closed out Fiscal 1998, ended June 30, with 1.7 million wireless telephony customers, of which 158,000 were net new...
