DALLAS, United States-U.S.-based DSC Communications Corp.'s cellular infrastructure division, Celcore, has begun work with TELE Greenland A/S to test and evaluate a DSC Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) system in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.Greenland, located far northwest of the European continent, is...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Cambridge Positioning Systems introduced its Cursor Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) location system in February at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France.The company said Cursor is the first demonstrable system of its kind.Cambridge is demonstrating the system to potential business...
BEIJING-"Please come in, sir, and have a look. The cheapest prices and the best choice."No, we have not discovered Beijing's red-light district, and the time is not midnight. We have come to Xizhimen, an area where narrow streets are lined by small "mom-and-pop" stores,...
Moffet, Larson & JohnsonMoffet, Larson & Johnson Inc. announced the integration of Comarco Wireless Technologies' Network Evaluation System tool NES-250 with the PathPro drive-test post-processing module, PathView. The integration provides the capability to transmit data from the GEN II series to the PathPro, the...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Election Commission earlier this month gave Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) the go-ahead to use campaign funds to sue Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) for allegedly leaking politically sensitive contents of an intercepted cell phone call to the news media.The House Ethics Committee previously...
Cambridge Positioning Systems, a Cambridge, United Kingdom-based company, last week introduced its Cursor Global System for Mobile communications location system at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France.The company said Cursor is the first demonstrable system of its kind. Cambridge is demonstrating the system...
Bulgaria's Post and Telecommunications Committee announced that the buyer of state-owned Bulgarian Telecommunications Co. will receive a Global System for Mobile communications license.The agency said it hopes to begin negotiations with potential buyers for BTC by the third quarter. Named as interested bidders to...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission member Susan Ness said last week's ruling on the marketing of customer information by paging, cellular and telephone companies will benefit Baby Bells and their subsidiaries more than others.The agency's ruling restricts carriers from using customer data from one telecom service...
COLUMBIA, Md.-Tecore Inc. announced plans to introduce its multiprotocol platform designed for smaller and rural networks at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association Wireless '98 convention in Atlanta this week.The AirCore switching platform has the capability to simultaneously interface between Global System for Mobile communications,...
Metawave Communications Corp. has introduced SpotLight 2000, a dual-mode spectrum management system for Code Division Multiple Access, Advanced Mobile Phone service, and Narrowband AMPS networks. The SpotLight 2000 system uses smart antenna technology to improve network capacity, providing cellular operators an economical solution for...
To the Editor: You'll probably get a lot of response on this one.Methanol is derived from wood and is highly toxic. It is not present in hard liquor. Ethanol is the alcohol that is consumed by humans. Both are good fuels for combustion and ethanol...
NEW YORK-James Bond and his high-tech Nokia mobile phone may be Hollywood's idea of the real McCoy. But truth, as journalists well know, often is stranger and scarier than fiction.For a gripping, spine-tingling experience, read this newly published book: "War by Other Means-Economic Espionage in...
The Strategis Group predicts despite the industry's hardships to date, the commercial mobile data business can expect a rash of subscribers and revenues in the immediate years to come.In a report titled, "U.S. Mobile Data Marketplace: 1997," the Washington-based consulting company predicts there will be...
SigmaOne Communications Corp. is one of many companies hoping to capitalize on the Federal Communications Commission's Phase II E911 mandate requiring wireless carriers by 2001 to be able to provide emergency dispatchers with the location of 911 callers accurately within 410 feet.Using Correlative Angle...
ALLEN TELECOM INC.Allen Telecom Inc.'s Antenna Specialists Division introduced a springless option to its line of Mosaic LMR vehicular antennas. Allen said the springless option is designed for applications in less rugged operating environments, and is available in both conversion and component forms for...
BRUSSELS, Belgium-Amidst complaints from European Union member states about high interconnection tariffs applied between fixed and mobile phone operators, the European Commission announced it has opened an inquiry into the cost of phone calls in Europe."We see a range of hugely different tariffs involving...
NEW YORK-Bolstered by strong results in its wireless handset and telecommunications infrastructure businesses, Nokia Corp., Helsinki, reported the highest net sales, profits and earnings per share in its 132-year history.Nokia closed the fiscal year 1997 with net sales of $9.57 billion, up 34 percent...
WASHINGTON-With technologies converging, telecom giants merging and entrenched networks discouraging new competition, there is growing debate over the role of antitrust law in the Digital Age.In one camp are the Clintonites, lawyers and economists who emphasize the inherent power of embedded networks to keep...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson built the first phase of Cable & Wireless Panama's digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service network infrastructure as part of a projected five-year investment in that company, said Ericsson. To support the expanding business in Panama, Ericsson has established Ericsson de Panama...
ITALYBusiness customers of Omnitel Pronto Italia now can call from Italy to Europe, the United States and Canada for the same price as local calls, announced Omnitel. "Italian telecommunications is evolving into a hyper-market, with multiple global players and a strong `customer pull' for...
NEW YORK-The dominant impression today of Centennial Cellular Corp., New Canaan, Conn., is connected more to its late 1996 wireless debut in Puerto Rico than to its longstanding analog role on the U.S. mainland.Centennial Puerto Rico Wireless Corp. is a Code Division Multiple Access...
Canada's mobile phone market rebounded somewhat at the end of 1997 from lagging subscriber additions that plagued carriers throughout the year, but the results showed a slow expansion of the wireless market even with personal communications services entrants."I think the increase in subscriber additions...
The Australian Communications Authority will auction 10 personal communications services licenses totaling 230 megahertz sometime in April, and the Australian Communications Authority is encouraging U.S. companies that currently use digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service and Code Division Multiple Access technologies to apply. Those companies...
Look out, Craig McCaw! A low-earth-orbiting pie in the eye-Bill Gates a la mode-could be in your future once the world finds out you've joined forces with McCaw expatriates and Nextel mobile moguls to pummel bidders in the LMDS auction a la 800 MHz...
