TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, plans to launch only experimental third-generation (3G) services on 30 May, rather than full commercial services as originally planned. NTT DoCoMo had repeatedly said it would launch commercial 3G services in May, but in late April,...
Mobile devicesAlcatelAlcatel launched the One Touch 502 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) phone with Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) access. The phone offers GPRS monoslot technology, which is ideal for WAP transmission because the packets of data involved are small, Alcatel said. The phone also...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Vesper, Brazil's largest wireless local loop (WLL) operator, has changed its business strategy with an objective to reduce costs and to win profitability.Vesper is a "mirror" fixed wireless operator in Sao Paulo state, region three, and the 16 states of Brazil's region...
Clearwire Technologies Inc. and the Instructional Television Fixed Service Spectrum Development Alliance are teaming to deliver wireless broadband services to educational, nonprofit and commercial customers, with a $97 million commitment from Goldman Sachs & Co. and Liberty Associated Partners L.P.The partnership will give Clearwire...
It used to be that the obstacles that prevented a fixed-wireless signal from reaching its destination were ultimately the obstacles that kept the industry's service providers from reaching all their potential customers.The creation and maturation of non-line-of-sight technology however, is changing the face of...
TEL AVIV, Israel-Point-to-multipoint broadband wireless equipment providers BreezeCom Ltd. and Floware Wireless Systems Ltd. announced they plan to merge in a stock-for-stock transaction.Under terms of the merger agreement, each ordinary share of Floware will be converted into 0.767 ordinary shares of BreezeCom.The new company...
LENEXA, Kan.-Sprint PCS and Lucent Technologies Inc. completed an over-the-air data call using cdma2000 1xEV-DO, with transmission speeds up to 2.4 Megabits per second.Sprint, which is testing the technology through June, will test increased data throughput and capacity as well as applications including Web...
LAS VEGAS-Cingular Wireless said it will launch its first operational standards-based General Packet Radio Service in the United States, dubbed Cingular Wireless Internet Express, in its GSM markets in California, Nevada and Washington during the second quarter. The GPRS service is the company's first...
NEW YORK -Paragon Networks International, Brookfield, Conn., wants to take wireless carriers on a walk across "BROADway" to bridge the gap between today's circuit-switched networks and tomorrow's packet-based networks.Introduced at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association's Wireless 2001 in Las Vegas last week, the...
LAS VEGAS-Motorola Inc. announced its Global Telecom Solutions Sector has successfully transmitted live video over its own third-generation CDMA 1xEV-DV solution in its lab in Arlington Heights, Ill.According to the company, the new solution enables real-time voice, data and multimedia services on existing cdma2000...
With a view to a much smaller handset, cheaper price and quicker time to market, Conexant Systems Inc. has rolled out what it describes as a complete system solution for a multi-slot global system for GSM/GPRS."This advancement," said Moiz Beguwala, senior vice president and...
WASHINGTON-The United Telecom Council, a global trade association for utilities, pipelines, other critical infrastructure companies and their technology partners, announced it will expand its spectrum services to incorporate enhanced frequency coordination, communications system design, training and engineering services for its customers.The expansion is facilitated...
Adicom WirelessAdicom Wireless announced Asymmetric Wireless Data Link, a new broadband wireless access product. AWDL, targeted at both U.S. and European markets, is designed to resolve major challenges wireless service providers face, including universal coverage in a cell and high cost of subscriber unit...
The idea sounds compelling. With Web-enabled cellular telephones, users can dial up their favorite merchants to make automated purchases. It's called mobile commerce, but for skeptics like Lawrence Steinert, it's more a promise than reality.When it comes to new technologies, Steinert is no shrinking...
WASHINGTON-With the Federal Communications Commission having reaffirmed last month that state courts are not prohibited under the telecom act from awarding monetary damages in lawsuits against wireless carriers, the mobile-phone industry suddenly finds itself vulnerable to consumer litigation on a wide range of business...
MADRID, Spain-While third-generation services have grabbed most of the limelight in wireless news, in Spain a group of companies has been quietly rolling out high-speed voice and data services using LMDS technology. The first of these is FirstMark, which recently unveiled broadband services in...
NEW YORK-With its announcement March 5 of commercial product availability, RadioFrame Networks Inc. officially threw its hat into the ring of players competing to improve indoor coverage, an important step toward landline replacement.In late 1999, Rob Mechaley founded the privately held company, which is...
Winstar Communications Inc. beat analyst expectations for the fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31, reporting its revenues increased 59.1 percent to $225.1 million, and its total revenues for the year increased 70.4 percent to $759.3 million, compared with 1999.The company reported a net...
TOKYO-Targeting one of the most advanced mobile markets in the world, foreign and local venture capitalists are pouring money into Japanese mobile companies.H&Q Asia Pacific, one of the oldest and largest venture capital firms focused on the Pacific Rim, has invested approximately 1.7 billion...
Dear Editor: Peter Angelos, the U.S. attorney leading several lawsuits against the mobile-phone industry, has helped to effectively outlaw products from asbestos to breast implants, and only the vast deep pockets of the tobacco industry have prevented him from doing the same to cigarettes. Now...
HandsetsSendoEuropean mobile phone manufacturer, Sendo, launched its second product platform, the S200 dual-band GSM mobile phone. Aimed at the young-at-heart prepaid market, features of the small and light phone include a variety of colors, short message service (SMS) picture messaging, ring-tone sharing and games....
NEW YORK-While few people now use the wireless Web for anything more than checking e-mail and stock quotes, most are receptive to the idea of wireless shopping, results which led analysts with Accenture to conclude there is the potential for a large market for...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association last Friday filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming regulations aimed at historic preservation "favor intensive government oversight and unwieldy bureaucratic procedures."The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, focuses on regulations recently promulgated...
To the Editor: Peter Angelos has helped to effectively outlaw products from asbestos to breast implants and only the vast deep pockets of the tobacco industry have prevented him from doing the same to cigarettes. Now this high priest of the mass tort has his...
