Lucent Technologies Inc. seems to face adversity on all fronts. On the technical front, its competitors have roared past with optical equipment innovations. On the business front, it keeps issuing heartbreaking profit warnings. On the accounting front, it overstated its fourth-quarter results.Last week, the...
MELBOURNE, Australia-Australian telecommunications giant Telstra has significantly boosted the capacity of its mobile telephone networks to cater to the large influx of visitors to Sydney, Australia, for the Olympic Games. Telstra has the exclusive task of handling all communications for the Sydney 2000 Games.According...
We have e-mail, e-commerce and e-tailers, among other "electronic" conveniences. The "e" phenomenon has spread quickly across all aspects of business and industry, and now wireless customers with questions or problems can access "e-customer service" to find help.Of course, customers still have the option...
WASHINGTON-The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health said injuries and fatalities from workers falling from wireless towers are occurring at a substantially greater rate than in other U.S. industries."The cost of a phone call should not be a worker's life," said NIOSH Director...
FREMONT, Calif.-ePhones.com launched SmartPhones.com, a Web site designed to provide customers with an objective resource for Wireless Application Protocol-enabled phones, the company said.SmartPhones.com features sections with links to wireless Internet-ready sites on subject areas such as entertainment, finance, sports, traffic, travel and news.Customers who...
WASHINGTON-House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), responding to Federal Communications Commission delays in processing 50,000 fixed wireless applications that were dismissed last year, has introduced legislation to compensate 900 MHz multiple address system applicants for filing fee interest that has accrued since early...
One of the special sections in this issue includes a large carrier chart listing the cellular and PCS operators of the world. Take a look, and you'll see the phenomenal inroads wireless has made into every region of the world.The growth has been phenomenal....
When Congress passed Section 309(j) of the Communications Act and the government developed rules to implement this law, the goal was to increase diversity in telecommunications by providing opportunities for small businesses, women and minorities.Diversity in telecommunications is beneficial because it provides opportunities for...
WASHINGTON-The future of the American Mobile Telecommunications Association has become clouded by the anticipated departure of Nextel Communications Inc., the nation's top dispatch radio operator and a major underwriter of the trade association."We're reshaping things," said AMTA President Alan Shark.Shark last week confirmed speculation...
NEW YORK-The law firm of Abbey, Gardy & Squitieri L.L.P. announced a class-action lawsuit has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on behalf of all purchasers of the common stock of Let's Talk Cellular & Wireless Inc. between...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Uganda has one of the lowest penetration rates of telephone services in the world. As of July 1995, the Uganda Posts & Telecommunication Corp. (UPTC) had an installed capacity of just under 70,000 lines and approximately 42,000 subscribers. The result is a...
Motorola Inc.'s North American Paging Subscriber Division plans to announce several new paging devices at the Personal Communications Showcase in Orlando this week, including a new voice pager.The next-generation portable answering machine, or LS950V, is 40 percent smaller than the original Tenor model. It...
WASHINGTON-A proposal from Western Wireless Corp. to receive universal-service support payments for providing telephone service to rural areas seems to have gotten a lukewarm response from the Federal Communications Commission.A basic piece of the Western Wireless proposal-to have the FCC re-evaluate support for rural...
WASHINGTON-BellSouth Corp. told the Federal Communications Commission last week that since a majority of personal communications services customers in Louisiana said they use their PCS phone to make or receive calls at home, the company should be allowed to offer long distance in Louisiana.The...
NEW YORK-At least four class-action shareholder lawsuits were filed between June 25 and July 1 against Premiere Technologies Inc., an Atlanta-based company that provides enhanced services to paging and other telecommunications carriers.In January 1997, Paging Network Inc. began offering Premiere Technologies' WorldLink platform of...
SEOUL, South Korea-SK Telecom said it plans to install its InfoVision system in South Korean mass transit, which will give passengers news, weather, traffic, sports and business information from an on-board interactive screen.An agreement signed with the Korea National Railroad will allow SK Telecom...
NEW YORK-In a notable exception to anti-cloning laws, a Georgia statute enacted last year permits authorized owners of analog cellular phones to have extensions made, said John Doumont, president of Cellular Additions. On the basis of that law, the Riverdale, Ga., company has built...
WASHINGTON-In an effort to control paperwork and legal fees connected with compliance to certain Federal Communications Commission guidelines mandated by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the Personal Communications Industry Association submitted a petition for forbearance that deals with six sections of FCC strictures.Citing Section...
WASHINGTON-This may be the last year San Francisco will serve as the venue for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's still-growing annual convention and exposition. Every square foot of the huge Moscone Center has been booked for weeks; the waiting list is long. Show-goers this...
The idea of using laminated wood poles instead of steel for antenna towers made salesman Don Simon say, "Why didn't I think of that?""When the zoning people reject the steel, you bring out the wood," said Simon of Mountain States Marketing in Loveland, Colo.AT&T...
WASHINGTON-Tempering her replies with the caveat that she was speaking only for the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and not for the full Federal Communications Commission, bureau chief Michele Farquhar in a Jan. 13 reply provided some positive responses to state and local concerns voiced Jan....
Sabre Communications Corp. introduced a new line of monopoles designed to support antenna loadings for cellular, personal communications services, enhanced specialized mobile radio and microwave applications. The monopoles extend 200 feet and are constructed of tapered sections for easy assembly and low visual impact,...
... "I hope that Chairman Hundt will read Shakespeare and understand that `discretion is the better part of valor.' And if he doesn't read Shakespeare, I hope that he reads Sections 251 and 252 of the Act. Not only has he been told that...
WASHINGTON-In an amici curiae brief submitted by four members of Congress, the Federal Communications Commission is taken to task for taking telecommunications law into its own hands in the currently stayed interconnection and local competition order.And speaking at a gathering of regulatory utilities commissioners...
