Opinion

Twenty years ago, in a dangerous neighborhood in the slums of Denver, a monthly newspaper called Radio Communications Report was first published. Its mission: to cover the emerging land mobile …

SINGAPORE-Four years after it was first introduced in Japan, PHS technology finally has made some headway in the international telecommunications arena. Taiwanese paging operator First International Telecom (Fitel) recently was …

As industry spends billions of dollars on spectrum and banks on a future driven by third-generation wireless phones and mobile commerce, there is every reason to believe the serious business …

As likely winners begin to emerge in the re-auction of NextWave Telecom Inc.’s PCS licenses, it looks like these permits will be used in large part by major wireless players …

No doubt, the wireless industry is wringing its hands over concern about a high-tech downturn on Wall Street that’s dragging down values of wireless carriers and manufacturers into unfathomable depths. …

Alan Greenspan’s move to cut interest rates is cause for concern. The economy has slowed. Telecom stocks generally are still in the dumper and third-generation technology is going to be …

NEW DELHI, India-Several leading GSM operators in the Asian region have announced plans for migration to 2.5-generation (2.5G) services during 2001. Many of them hope to roll out commercial General …

Only a year ago, prospects for the GSM standard in Latin America seemed dim. At that time, Chile’s Entel PCS and Venezuela’s rural operator Infonet were the only operators offering …

PRAGUE, Czech Republic-During the 11 years since the fall of communism in Central Europe, the region’s countries have rapidly embraced mobile telephony, including the ubiquitous GSM networks now blanketing the …

DENVER, United States-Like the harmony of opposites, caution and adventure characterize the journey to the wide-scale rollout of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS). Vendors are playing starry-eyed idealists, while operators …

It’s been an interesting year. To fully understand my meaning here, you must understand what I mean by interesting. To some, it means merely of interest. But once in awhile, …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Telia, the Swedish dominant mobile-phone carrier that was passed over for a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System license in Sweden earlier last month, said a technical analysis shows that it …

The Ice Man has cometh. Witness the high- tech meltdown on Wall Street, the bankruptcies, the layoffs, lower corporate earnings, reduced capital spending and overall loss in consumer confidence. The …

BEIJING-China’s mobile communications market made big strides forward during 2000. The number of GSM subscribers leapt to more than 70 million, with a penetration rate of 5.5 percent. China Unicom …

As the industry whets its appetite on the prospect of third-generation services and all the revenue-generating opportunities wireless Internet access can bring, telecom vendors are watching their stock prices fall …

About this time last year, “The King of Queens,” the CBS sit-com, aired an episode about a bungled stock market foray by the two lead characters, a parcel service delivery …

Time to sit up and pay attention. Last week, a Navy midshipman was cleared of vehicular manslaughter charges after he was involved in an auto accident while talking on his …

Every day another vendor announces it has won a contract to provide third-generation services. And with each 3G announcement is the implication that 3G services will soon be here. And …

Isn’t it ironic that German and Japanese interests are planning to take significant stakes in U.S. wireless telephony-countries that were sworn enemies of the United States nearly 60 years ago …

AT&T Wireless Inc. last week outlined a new migration path to third-generation services rife with ramifications affecting the wireless industry worldwide. The company said it will overlay a GSM/general packet …

Imagine for a moment the 3G spectrum bands-698-960 MHz, 1710-1885 MHz and 2500-2690 MHz-are the three Florida counties of Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Nassau. If you think South Florida is …

WASHINGTON-A French court’s decision to regulate the Internet could have repercussions for the wireless Web in the United States at a time when carriers are excited mobile commerce will help …

Heading into the all-important holiday marketing frenzy, I am looking forward to some new creative advertising campaigns from wireless companies. (Is anyone else growing tired of Jamie Lee Curtis acting …

I’m beginning to think those mobile-phone studies on memory loss are for real. How else to explain the superb op-ed penned by Ron Nessen in the Nov. 19 Washington Post? …

Cell phones have never been just phones. They’ve always been communicators, but they’ve also had the ability to be deal-makers, marriage-savers, calculators, address books, weapons (Someone somewhere had to use …