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Wireless local loop continues to make a strong showing in its “classic” form in various parts of the world, particularly in India and South America, but in the United States, …

NEW YORK-The promise of intelligent networks will be realized in their convergence with the world of the Internet, said Paul G. Florack, co-author of a recently published book, Wireless Intelligent …

EMMA’s 2001 Congress 16-18 May Rome European Mobile Messaging Association Tel: (+44) (0) 20 7747 5417 [email protected] WAP Congress 17-18 May Rome IBC Global Conferences Tel: (+44) 1932 893 855 …

108,159. It’s quite a large number. It’s also the sum of a brief scan through RCR Wireless News headlines from the past few months, headlines detailing job cuts carried out …

NEW YORK-Rural carriers, with operating histories often many decades old, appear poised at the forefront of the strategy for long-term growth based on bundled or converged services. Seeking to be …

It’s all about connecting. The notion that telecommunications exists to connect people is no longer a simple yet catchy idea, but an obvious cliche that does little to sell communications …

NEW YORK-Some recent developments have brightened the longer-term prospects for smart cards in North American wireless communications, although the picture gets cloudier when framed as an immediate prospect. Opportunity is …

2001 Latin American Conference (at CTIA) 19 March Las Vegas, United States Alacel Tel: (+1) 305 468 7911 Fax: (+1) 305 468 7922 www.alacel.com CTIA Wireless 2001 20-22 March Las …

As technologies duel and markets discriminate, the impression is growing that TDMA will roll over in the dust trail and exhaust fumes of GSM and CDMA as both whistle past …

NEW YORK-Borrowing the vernacular of a traffic engineer, a financier compared the current capital market conditions for telecommunications companies to rush-hour congestion, but observed that the tie-up looks like it …

As the wireless industry is rocked with one huge acquisition, spectrum auction and technological development after another, a small-and often overlooked-market segment continues to operate just below radar. Resellers have …

NEW YORK-Domestic wireless operators have begun to take prepaid services seriously, although it will be awhile before they approach the successful benchmark set by their European counterparts. Comfort with credit …

Like the harmony of opposites, caution and adventure characterize the journey to the wide-scale rollout of GPRS. Vendors are playing starry-eyed idealists while operators are avoiding a possible precipice on …

In an age of customer-service fumbles and a plethora of services, high-tech wizards dream of bundling as the lightning rod to greater revenues. So far, theory has proved superior to …

WASHINGTON-The Bush administration and a Republican-majority Federal Communications Commission likely will put their stamp on wireless issues in 2001, even though telecom issues are largely nonpartisan. “Understand a lot of …

Chris Gent has had quite a year. For the chief executive of Vodafone Group plc, 2000 began with a hostile takeover of Mannesmann AG, parent of its rival Orange plc, …

While the latest wireless handsets feature such technological advancements as wireless Internet access, short message service and ever-decreasing size, the power sources needed to supply those functions have been left …

NEW YORK-In this year’s RCR Wireless News Major Players Vendors listing, Nokia Corp. and Ericsson Inc. each moved up a notch, rising to first and second place respectively among equipment …

NEW YORK-The major players’ rankings reflect the dynamic environment of telecommunications as some stalwarts held their ground, some newcomers joined the group, while still others showed substantial rises or falls …

Subscription fraud is as old as the wireless industry itself, and responsible for the creation of numerous companies and products that exist solely to develop new ways to combat this …

If you were to ask most wireless subscribers what they wanted out of their wireless service, you would get a variety of answers that led to one overriding desire-more. If …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Here we go again. After 10 years of asking the question, we finally have an answer. “Everybody has been asking when wireless data is going to come,” said …

NEW YORK-A 6-percent average summer dip in the price of shares in American Tower Corp., Crown Castle International, Pinnacle Towers Inc., SBA Communications and SpectraSite Communications also reflected “a shift …

For more than six months the mobile satellite industry has been trying to polish its image after the well-publicized failure of Iridium L.L.C. tarnished the reputation of all those involved …

As handset makers continue to stretch their resources in the three digital technologies and future 3G technologies, they are finding an increasing need to outsource a portion of the business. …