NEW YORK-It is all too easy to get "starry eyed" about the prospects for new generations of wireless services. As a counterpoint, a reality check is required about deployment and data speeds, handset availability and consumer interest, panelists said at the recent "Bear Stearns...
COLUMBUS, Ohio-Nortel Networks and Verizon Wireless announced today they completed a third-generation, over-the-air trial of data transmission and voice calls using cdma2000 technology.The companies said the successful trial processed both voice and data calls between three active cell sites. The companies said the trial...
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay-The Direccion Nacional de Comunicaciones in Uruguay is drawing up rules for an auction of personal communications services licenses. The government will auction 15-megahertz blocks in the A and C band and 5-megahertz blocks in the D and E bands. No date was...
NEW YORK-Applied Digital Solutions Inc., Hauppauge, N.Y., hopes its Digital Angel will take commercial flight within 12-18 months, providing an on-body gauge of vital signs transmitted wirelessly to medical professionals.Digital Angel is a miniature digital transceiver, whose patent rights Applied Digital Solutions purchased late...
TOKYO-The third-generation (3G) business plans and service strategies of three Japanese cellular carriers are becoming more concrete. NTT DoCoMo and J-Phone Group, the mobile business of Japan Telecom, are going to launch 3G services based on wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) technology in 2001, and the country's...
After pioneering efforts to bring Bluetooth technology to market, Ericsson dropped plans to launch the T36 cell phone, its first Bluetooth-enabled handset, in an attempt to pull its handset division back toward profitability. The T36, announced in June, was one of two cell phones...
AlcatelEurope. With Orange as a strategic supplier for its third-generation networks throughout Europe.Value: UndisclosedItaly. With Wind Telecomunicazioni as a preferred third-generation network supplier.Value: UndisclosedEricssonChina. With China Telecom and Guangdong Mobile Communications to build a fixed network and expand Guangdong mobile networks.Value: US$550 millionChina. With China Mobile for...
TORONTO-Now that the C$6.6 billion (US$4.3 billion) Telus deal to acquire Clearnet Communications has been finalized, engineering issues are starting to surface.The challenge? How to combine the wireless operations of Telus and Clearnet and determine the best path for third-generation (3G) services. The new...
TOKYO-The mobile music distribution business is going to take off in Japan, according to industry representatives. Some carriers have already revealed their services, while others are promoting field tests in cooperation with vendors.NTT DoCoMo at the beginning of 2000 established a joint venture with...
SAN DIEGO-While many at the CDMA's Development Group's Americas Congress reminisced about how far the technology had come in such a short period of time, the big buzz on the show floor was about CDMA's future.And what better place to talk about that future...
Aether Systems Inc. is celebrating its one-year anniversary as a public company, capping a busy year of acquisitions, investments and partnerships that have positioned the firm at the center of the wireless-Internet convergence.And after a year in the public spotlight, Aether's goals have only...
BOSTON-Nortel Networks Corp. and Sprint PCS said they are cooperating to build the first access technology-independent wireless network test bed using Internet Protocol technology for both voice and data.The companies will test Nortel's e-mobility Multimedia Core IP Network. With this technology, a user will...
SAN DIEGO-Stellcom Inc. said it has agreed to use a platform from Air2Web Inc. in a solution to extend enterprise applications to wireless devices.Specifically, Stellcom said it will create applications to allow data from enterprise legacy systems to feed through Air2Web's XML-based application programmer...
Radio data network operator Cue Corp. made several announcements at last week's Convergence 2000 show in Detroit, furthering its position as an international traffic and navigation information provider.Cue said it will use U.S. Wireless Corp.'s RadioCamera system to distribute speed and traffic congestion data...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-JP Systems introduced a new platform at CTIA's Wireless I.T. show last week called SureWave, along with a WAP browser for Palm OS devices, supporting the Palm Query Application over multiple wireless networks.The SureWave platform replaces the firm's InfoBeam technology as its...
Aether Systems Inc. added to its growing portfolio of investments through a strategic partnership with MicroStrategy Inc., parent company of Strategy.com.Under the deal, Aether and MicroStrategy will develop a new product called MicroStrategy 7M, which combines Aether's Intelligent Messaging platform with the Micro-Strategy 7...
As it initiates a beta launch of its wireless Internet solution and wireless portal this week, YadaYada Inc. is preparing to go head to head with competitors OmniSky Corp. and GoAmerica Inc.Calling itself a wireless version of America Online, YadaYada uses the same equipment...
BARCELONA, Spain-Nortel Networks announced new Internet Protocol core network, base station and management offerings as part of its `Wings of Light' strategy last week at the UMTS 2000 show in Barcelona, Spain.The latest additions to the company's portfolio of wireless Internet solutions are expected...
With the home rapidly becoming an extension of the workplace, consumers increasingly are turning to wireless home networking equipment as a way to keep connected. According to an IDC report, worldwide local area network shipments are expected to top 4 million in 2003, with...
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 in the industry.While Iridium shuffled in and out of bankruptcy court and deliberated with...
Florida awarded ComNet-Ericsson a contract to upgrade and enhance the state's partially completed law enforcement radio system, much to the chagrin of Motorola Inc., which supplied the original system.ComNet-Ericsson said the contract, representing the largest public-private partnership in Florida history, will shift the risk...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Sanyo Fisher Co., a division of Sanyo North America Corp., reported plans for an alliance to accelerate commercialization of mobile Internet services over Lucent wireless networks and next-generation Sanyo consumer appliances.The planned complementary offer, named 1XEVolution, will enable...
WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court this session has before it three mobile-phone health cases, a sign of things to come in a Digital Age where technology outpaces the law and raises novel questions for the courts.The high court, which returned to work last week, must decide...
BelgiumBelgium's ASTRID, the government-owned corporation responsible for providing communications to all Belgian public safety organizations, launched Nokia Corp.'s TETRA network. Nokia said the TETRA system will provide ASTRID with secure and reliable communications to emergency and security organizations nationwide.Hong KongThe government of Hong Kong...
