WASHINGTON-The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, challenged with increased use of mobile phones, navigation systems, the Internet and other technologies in vehicles, will hold meetings the next two months on digital distractions and how to curb dangers they pose to drivers.The first forum on...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry will not suffer if customers are assigned telephone numbers with specific area codes, a state regulator told the Federal Communications Commission last month."Certainly, one of the most powerful industries in the country today-experiencing near 40-percent growth rates-cannot be stopped or even...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, clearing the way for research to begin on whether radio-frequency emissions from wireless phones pose any health risk.Under the agreement, the FDA will review research,...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson's mobile phones division launched a new advertising campaign in the United States and Latin America, with its return to television advertising on May 31 during the premiere of the CBS television program "Survivor."The ad campaign is scheduled to air through the...
WASHINGTON-Carriers and tower owners wishing to build out their networks by siting more antennas are running into regulatory roadblocks that often delay buildout."The pressure is building on carriers and tower owners because there are just too many conflicting regulations coming from agencies and these...
According to popular belief, the future of the paging industry is text messaging, particularly two-way services. So what does that mean for the vast numbers of smaller, regional paging providers that cannot upgrade to two-way networks? What is the outlook for the regional mom-and-pop...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector was awarded a $5.8 million contract by China Telecom to provide seven Global System for Mobile communications dual-band Rapid Deployment Vehicle units.The units consists of an independent, truck-mounted, wireless telephone system that is capable of replacing out-of-service...
Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. said its money will run out in five months unless it gets help. In the meantime, ongoing efforts to establish a worldwide network and begin widespread commercial service contributed to the mobile satellite service operator's increased first-quarter losses.United Kingdom-based Inmarsat added...
SANDTON, South Africa-Nigeria's promising telecommunications environment has been clouded by the government's failure to accelerate the licensing of GSM operators. Nigeria, with one of the lowest teledensities in the world, is one of a few countries without a digital cellular network.Ross MacDonald, MTN's group...
IsraelRiots and injuries occurred during protests against the installation of cellular masts in a Druze Arab village in March, according to international press reports. Reports said seven police officers and members of the public were injured in the riots, which are thought to be...
WASHINGTON-The White House is expected shortly to release a belated report advocating the integration of wireless technologies into the nation's Emergency Alert System, a policy that industry, federal regulators and Congress have not aggressively pushed despite the fact that millions of mobile phones today...
WASHINGTON-The White House confirmed on Thursday it has not taken an official position on the move to repeal the tax on talking, notwithstanding a separate statement submitted in a report on electronic commerce.The repeal of the 3-percent excise tax on telecommunications was a central...
Add another wireless application service provider to the mix, as Everypath Inc. commercially launched a service designed to extend Web content wirelessly, at Internet World 2000 last week.The company's technology allows enterprise customers and dot-com companies to make their content available on wireless devices...
WASHINGTON-What to do with the often confusing tax structures of both mobile phones and the Internet collided in back-to-back hearings by the House telecom subcommittee on Thursday.The collision occurred because Internet taxation has been met with a divided commission report and mobile-phone taxation has...
NEW YORK-VoiceStream Wireless Corp. is prepared to wage war on two fronts in the battle of the titans for transnational control of wireless telecommunications, John Stanton, VoiceStream's chairman and chief executive officer said.Although focused on expanding its domestic footprint through acquisitions of carriers and...
The flurry of consolidation in the wireless industry leads the industry observer to believe a nationwide presence is a necessity to compete in this market going forward.AT&T Wireless Services Inc. raised the bar in 1998 offering its nationwide plan, the Digital One Rate plan....
Qualcomm Inc. and Motorola Inc. ended their longstanding patent disputes last week, agreeing to extend their Code Division Multiple Access cross licenses.The new settlement calls for Motorola and Qualcomm to leave unmodified the financial terms of their original 1990 royalty-bearing license agreement for CDMA...
WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers were largely exempted, for now, from rules adopted last Friday by the Federal Communications Commission to establish thousand-number block pooling in an effort to reduce the ever-increasing need for new area codes.Thousand-number block pooling would change the way numbers are allocated and...
U.S. WirelessThe board of directors of U.S. Wireless Corp. announced the appointment of Dale Stone as president, chief operating officer and member of the board of directors. Stone is the former president of Qualcomm Inc.'s infrastructure division.TellabsRichard Notebaert, retired chairman and chief executive officer...
Did the fast-paced '90s trickle over into the new millennium leaving you a little low on personal bandwidth space?Combining technology with a human touch, quixi Inc. claims to have the answer to those time-management problems.Subscribers to quixi's service will have access to a live...
NEW YORK-The Federal Communications Commission 700 MHz auctions in May will be "a significant industry-transforming event and near-term catalyst ... in the race toward wireless data," John Bensche, senior analyst for Lehman Brothers Inc., said.Bidding teams could well include Internet service and content providers,...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard, a vigilant proponent of equal employment opportunity rules and a champion of disabled rights, has been hit with seven job discrimination lawsuits against his agency during the past 17 months.The suits, filed in U.S. District Court here, allege...
PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Metrocall Inc. and Aquis Communications Group Inc. announced results of their respective 900 MHz spectrum auction bids.Aquis said it won licenses in five of the top seven markets in the Northeast and Midwest, including Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Washington.Meanwhile, Metrocall said...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-The Latin American data-transmission industry has been surprised at the unusual technological and financial display of Diginet Americas, which plans to offer fixed-wireless broadband communications in some of Latin America's largest cities by year-end.Only a year after its first commercial launch, a...
