SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. granted a worldwide, royalty-bearing license to Sharp Corp. to manufacture and sell Code Division Multiple Access subscriber products.Sharp is the 16th Japanese manufacturer to receive an Interim Standard 95 CDMA license from Qualcomm. Sharp develops core technology products such as liquid...
WASHINGTON-Personal Communications Industry Association President Jay Kitchen blasted the Federal Communications Commission last week for ignoring congressional requests to reduce paging carrier contributions to the $2 billion annual universal service fund."The commission's actions ... are clearly inequitable and discriminatory for PCS (personal communications services)...
When confronted with the question of why there is no radio frequency radiation bioeffects research after four years and $15 million, embattled Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. head Dr. George Carlo passionately replies that his critics-those in the wireless industry and in the scientific community-just...
Laws won't stop traffic accidentsDear Editor: I am sure that law enforcement will want to lead the way to safer driving by laying down their mobile radio microphones while operating their cruisers, and motorbikes.Sure they will.The police drive their cars at extreme speeds in all...
LONDON-Orange plc signed a contract with Inference Corp. for its customer service software.Inference's case-based reasoning (CBR) products will assist staff in responding to customers' inquiries on the phone, said Inference. CBR gives staff of all levels access to specialist knowledge and guides them to...
NEW YORK-Corporate bond default rates likely will rise moderately in 1997 after falling in 1996 to their lowest level in 15 years, according to Moody's Investor's Service Inc.Last year, 1.6 percent of speculative grade debt issuers defaulted, less than half the 3.3 percent amount...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association agreed last week to insure Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. scientists against lawsuit damages, while dashing speculation that it wants to dissolve WTR over the indemnification issue.The stalemate over legal coverage threatened to shut down the already struggling research program,...
NEW YORK-Qualcomm Inc. announced Nov. 18 a drop in net income for the fourth quarter and the fiscal year, accompanied by a sharp increase in revenues for the same period.Net income for the last quarter of fiscal 1996 was $8 million, compared with $11...
BOISE, Idaho-Several of Extended Systems Inc.'s JetEye wireless infrared products will be used in products set to debut next year. The infrared technology allows information to be transported over a beam of light to local area networks, printers and personal computers.Extended Systems said infrared...
The broadband personal communications services auctions held during the past two years have spawned a plethora of novel policy and fiscal issues for policymakers.The reason: $20 billion. Money changes everything, even in ways not altogether obvious. Federal regulators will insist licensing is still bound by...
WASHINGTON-Democrats will meet this week in Chicago to launch President Clinton's re-election campaign and try to take away the bounce that the Republican national conventional gave to the Dole-Kemp ticket earlier this month. Both major political parties are playing to middle-class voters with proposals...
Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Group said Shanghai Guomai, the largest paging carrier in China, is operating using Motorola's FLEX protocol-based paging system in Shanghai. Guomai has close to 1 million subscribers in service in the city and outskirts of Shanghai. The new FLEX protocol-based...
WASHINGTON-Starting the week united but ending it divided, President Clinton and a bipartisan congressional group struggled to agree on an anti-terrorism bill to give law enforcement expanded wiretap authority and other tools to fight domestic and international crime.While there was an outside possibility for...
Starting a wireless communications company was probably the most ambitious undertaking I have ever initiated in my life. Many people question whether or not a small business can survive in today's ever changing wireless marketplace filled with major retailers and carriers. I suggest that...
WASHINGTON-The wireless telecommunications industry is at a crossroads.Either the ever-popular mobile phone used by more than 35 million people today will remain forever a nice little extra for business people and safety-conscious citizens or it will evolve into something much bigger and revolutionary: the telephone...
After Bill Clinton ended one of his rare news conferences before leaving to visit the U.S. troops in Bosnia a couple weeks ago, CBS White House correspondent Bill Platte observed with a smile, "He looked presidential."The answers Clint on gave to re porters on...
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. said it will provide and market wireless messaging services for the Sharp Zaurus keyboard-enhanced personal digital assistant.PageNet said it will offer the Zaurus and the messaging solution-including paging receiver, software and service-on a nationwide basis. The company reported the offering will...
LUXEMBOURG-Millicom International Cellular S.A. showed second quarter revenues of $29 million, a 58 percent increase compared with earnings of $18.4 million a year earlier.For the three-month period ended June 30, Millicom reported a net loss of $4.2 million, or 9 cents per share, compared...
ierre Dogan, David Patton and Ray Nettleton Two observations can be drawn from the recent personal communications services license auctions. First, PCS participants are willing to assume enormous financial risk, on the order of tens of billions of dollars-an unprecedented level of risk-taking by...
CINCINNATI-Despite soaring revenue and subscriber growth, USA Mobile Communications Inc. reported a sharp decline in net income for the second quarter, ended June 30, because of increases in depreciation and amortization costs associated with assets gained in recent acquisitions.Net loss reached $7.6 million, or...
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WASHINGTON-The House telecommunications subcommittee last week approved creating an industry-government panel to craft federal antenna siting guidelines and temporarily derailed a wireless resale proposal to regulate commercial mobile radio carriers like regional Bell telephone companies.The antenna siting measure, offered by Scott Klug, R-Wis., and...
Wall Street is cautiously optimistic about Craig McCaw's ability to work wireless wonders for Nextel Communications Inc., whose quest to convert radio dispatch systems around the country into one nationwide digital network has been fraught with technical, financial and legal problems in recent years.Despite...
Transmitting mug shots and fingerprint images over wireless is the aim of the FBI's $17 million-plus technology update program, but it comes at a time when government spectrum already is clogged."A picture is worth a thousand words, but it takes a lot more bandwidth...
