Battle won, even before the first shot is fired.Early in the life of the technology, industry analysts and players already regard Cisco Systems Inc. as the big tree in the wireless local area network jungle.Leveraging its channels and products in the wired market, Cisco...
NEW DELHI, India-The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)'s latest directive that tariffs of service providers should be "non-discriminatory" could force leading CDMA operator Reliance, as well as state-owned BSNL, to change their tariff plans.Reliance announced a differential tariff for domestic long distance calls...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-Users of the United Kingdom's largest TETRA network are reported to be suffering from health problems. The TETRA-based Airwave system, designed to provide a common communications platform for U.K. emergency services, is in the early stages of deployment, and 200 police officers...
WASHINGTON—Sprint PCS and XtremeSpectrum Inc. are in a letter-writing fight regarding whether ultra-wideband technologies will interfere with PCS.Sprint claims that interference will occur while XtremeSpectrum disputes this.The PCS carrier started the latest round by writing a letter to the Departments of Commerce, Transportation, Defense...
WASHINGTON-XtremeSpectrum Inc., a hopeful entrant into the ultra-wideband market, has made a proposal that it believes will answer critics' claims that ultra-wideband technologies will cause harmful interference to the global positioning system.Ultra-wideband, or pulse technology, uses short, low-powered and fast (up to one-trillionth of...
SMYRNA, Ga.-Murata Electronics North America introduced Blue Module, a Bluetooth module the company claims to be the smallest in the world.Developed using Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics technology, Murata said its has integrated both active devices and passive components onto a single surface mount ceramic...
WASHINGTON-Government testing of potential interference between the global positioning system and ultra-wideband devices seems to be politically inconclusive, while an UWB-industry funded study shows that UWB devices do not interfere any more than other unlicensed RF-using products."The report documents the results of the measurement...
WASHINGTON-The National Telecommunications and Information Administration said last week testing showed that ultra-wideband systems "have the potential" to operate in the 3 to 6 GHz bands even though the power may exceed the interference protection criteria for unlicensed devices."We are hopeful this will provide...
REDMOND, Wash.-Lifeclinic.com Corp. announced wireless access to the company's consumer Web site, enabling customers to access information from wireless handheld devices including Web-enabled cell phones and personal digital assistants.The service will allow members to access their blood pressure, weight and pulse records, as well...
PARIS-Alcatel announced it formed Alcatel Ventures Fund I L.P., an information technology venture capital partnership. The new fund is planned to have an eventual target fund of $150 million with Alcatel, the largest and majority limited partner, as the lead investor.The new fund's general...
TadiranTadiran Inc. introduced the Pulses Plus battery, a high-energy lithium thionyl chloride battery designed specifically for global positioning system tracking, radio-frequency interference detection and other high pulse applications. The Pulses Plus battery offers 3.6 volts of power, 19Ah of capacity, low self discharge and...
NEW YORK-Taking the pulse of the domestic cellular and personal communications services sectors as 1998 drew to a close, securities analysts from three major investment banks offered a positive prognosis for 1999 and beyond.When the full-year count is completed, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Corp....
Wireless local loop (WLL), originally defined as providing a local loop facility without wires, over the past few years has become synonymous with the term "fixed cellular," technology used to provide telephone service to end users in urban and semi-urban areas with enough potential...
SONYSony Electronics' Personal Mobile Communications-America announced the availability of a dual-mode 800 MHz analog/Code Division Multiple Access version of its D-Wave Zuma wireless handset. The lithium ion battery provides up to 2.3 hours of talk time or up to 45 hours standby time in...
RogersRogers Corp. introduced thin versions of its Poron urethane foam designed for making thin gaskets and pads used in pagers, personal organizers, cellular phones and global positioning systems. The Poron 4701-50 materials are cast in thicknesses down to 0.017 inch (0.43 mm), which produces...
Site AdvantageSite Advantage Inc. introduced a snap-in cable hanger for coax cables. Features include a nose that provides holding strength while remaining easy to insert and a large gripping area to prevent unexpected pull outs. Indented fingers support corrugated coax cables. The ergonomically-designed hanger...
Dear Editor: As detailed in "Leahy bill could gut antenna pre-emption" (Nov. 3), Jeffrey Silva reports on groundbreaking legislation introduced Oct. 30th by Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and James Jeffords (R-Vt.) that would repeal the authority of the Federal Communications Commission to pre-empt state and...
BOSTON-The New England Journal of Medicine published an article last week that says wireless phones can disrupt heart pacemakers but do not pose health risks-findings that are not new.Detecting interference between wireless phones and pacemakers has been established in a few different studies. Last...
SAN FRANCISCO-Multiplier Industries Corp. and Hutton Communications completed agreements to distribute the Multiplier Plus line of cellular and personal communications services accessories through Hutton's distribution centers in Denver, Seattle, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta and Harrisburg, Pa.Hutton will ship products including batteries, power cords, eliminators, negative...
The futuresque communications previously only envisioned by StarTrek's writers are reality in the here and now as demonstrated at PCS '96 by students of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, in conjunction with Motorola Inc.The communications technology projects exhibited by MIT use Motorola's FLEX...
Operates between 1895 MHz and 1918.1 MHz frequenciesUses Time Division Multiple Access-Time Division Duplex technologyChannel bandwidth supports high-quality voice and data traffic32 kbps adaptive differential pulse code modulation used for wireline voice qualityInterface based on Integrated Services Digital Network linkLow-mobility, optimized for use at...
ArrayComm Inc. announced it received a U.S. patent for its Spatial Division Multiple Access intelligent antenna technology-the brains behind the company's IntelliCell products. The company also announced its IntelliCell Wireless Local Loop system is commercially available.IntelliCell uses spatial and temporal parameters to decipher antenna...
Datum Inc.'s Timing Division announced the release of a small high-performance Global Positioning Satellite system receiver. Datum said the StarTime GPS Clock is designed for applications that require not only high performance but small physical size and low price. The clock consists of an...
With the dramatic changes that are occurring in every sector of the telecommunications industry, analysts and investors on Wall Street and elsewhere are re-evaluating the industry, its sectors and its participants. Their conclusions will determine the capital available to your company. Exactly how will...
