LOS ANGELES-The Digital Imaging Group, an open industry consortium created to expand the use of digital images across markets and applications, launched the Wireless Image Transmission Initiative to accelerate the adoption of wireless technology in digital imaging devices and simplify connectivity issues for end...
NEW YORK-After first admonishing all attendees to turn off their cell phones, William T. Lake, a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C., convened a recent Practising Law Institute conference on Telecommunications Convergence with these remarks."Convergence is a word used without knowing what...
FREEREALTIME.comFreeRealTime.com Inc. launched a beta version of FRT2go, a service for use on 3Com Corp.'s Palm Computing unit Palm VII and Palm.net service, giving its members wireless access to real-time stock quotes as well as other financial market information. The company noted it does...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and Globe Telecom, a Philippine telecommunications company, singed an agreement to expand Globe Telecom's Handyphone service, the company's Global System for Mobile communications-based Cellular Mobile Telephone System.Under the agreement, Nokia will supply mobile switching centers, home location registers, short messaging centers,...
ChinaMotorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector was awarded a $14.5 million contract to install a Global System for Mobile communications 1800 network in China. The contract, signed with Shangdong Mobile Communications Corp., calls for Motorola to deploy the new network in four cities in Shangdong...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. reported that PacketVideo Corp.'s PVPlayer decoding software and PV Author encoding software will provide streaming media support for TI's next-generation Open Multimedia Application Platform.The new software will support the delivery of full-motion video and audio over wireless networks on mobile information...
The hype surrounding the possibilities of wireless Internet services has reached an all-time high following Wireless 2000 in New Orleans last month.But in the wake of this fevered pitch has come a backlash from analysts determined to draw a firm distinction between hype and...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's decision to delay until June 7 the auction of broadcast spectrum has raised questions about the agency's motives and intentions.The spectrum, freed up as a result of TV broadcasters transition from analog to digital technology, is known as 60-69 because...
Nokia threw its support behind Motorola Inc.'s 1X Plus proposal last week and said it is evaluating making cdmaOne-based infrastructure equipment.Motorola announced earlier this month plans to challenge Qualcomm Inc.'s proprietary High Data Rate technology, introducing its own 1XRTT enhancement for cdmaOne carriers to...
WASHINGTON-With a little more than 18 months until the deadline for the implementation of enhanced 911 Phase II service, carriers are beginning to think about how they can make money from a government mandate that requires location technology.They are not alone. Vendors, too, are...
DENVER-VeloCom Inc., an international broadband communications company, began providing high-speed Internet and data transmission services in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and said it soon will expand its services to other cities in the country.VeloCom Argentina SA launched service in the principal zones of the Capital...
PARIS-Nortel Networks announced that U.K. operator One 2 One recently signed a series of orders valued at $100 million for expansion of the carrier's national Global System for Mobile communications network. The orders include General Packet Radio Service equipment for commercial launch later this...
MANILA, the Philippines-Globe Telecom, the second-largest cellular phone operator in the Philippines, announced a $2.3 billion merger with another Philippine wireless service provider, Isla Communications. The agreement allows Ayala Corp., Singapore Telecom and Deutsche Telekom to partner in the country.Globe Telecom is a joint...
PLANO, Texas-EDS announced it is helping GTE Wireless bring the convenience of online bill payments to its more than 7 million customers by providing interactive online billing as part of the GTE's corporatewide e-commerce strategy.Interactive Billing Services, based on EDS' electronic billing offering, allows...
NEW ORLEANS-Motorola Inc. said it successfully made a voice over Internet Protocol call on top of a third-generation high-speed packet data call at 384 kilobits per second in a laboratory experiment.The 3G experimental system is an Aspira network architecture-based system demonstrating 3G cellular services...
NEW YORK-The telecom/wireless sector of U.S. industry stood out last year, riding high on an overall rising tide of venture capital investments, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers' "MoneyTree Survey."Taken in aggregate, venture-backed investments in domestic companies during 1999 shattered all previous records, with 4,006 firms receiving...
NEW ORLEANS-A standoff over 1XRTT technology enhancements began to brew at last week's Wireless 2000 show, as Motorola Inc. challenged the business case of Qualcomm's proprietary High Data Rate technology, introducing its own 1X enhancement for cdmaOne carriers to consider.Qualcomm has aggressively marketed HDR...
TOKYO-An NTT laboratory is gearing up its efforts to develop Advanced Wireless Access (AWA), a next-generation wireless system that will enable users to access data at a speed of up to 36 Megabits per second (Mbps).NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa...
SEOUL, South Korea-Korean mobile telecom carriers are looking to stake out the biggest share in the fast-growing wireless Internet and data market, shifting from a voice-oriented strategy.The explosion of the Internet and mobile-phone use is driving the convergence of the two high-tech media, offering...
TOKYO-Three Japanese carrier groups are gearing up their efforts to launch IMT-2000 services-earlier than any other wireless carriers in the world. The three players are NTT DoCoMo Group, Japan Telecom (JT) Group and DDI Group.NTT DoCoMo plans to be the first carrier in the...
MANILA, The Philippines-Globe Telecom, the second-largest cellular telephone operator in the Philippines, announced a US$2.3 billion merger with another Philippine wireless service provider, Isla Communications. The agreement allows Ayala Corp., Singapore Telecom and Deutsche Telekom to partner on the island nation.Globe Telecom is a...
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...
MONTREAL-The transmission was delayed 20 minutes because the test PC had crashed. And the picture quality, to put it kindly, was choppy. Nevertheless, in February, Rogers AT&T Wireless and Ericsson Canada made the first wireless phone call in North America to be carried over...
HandsetsPhilipsPhilips introduced several new handsets. The Ozeo GSM dual-band mobile phone offers a new user interface and a large LCD display with five text lines. The carousel icon screen feature simultaneously displays up to five visual icons representing the phone's functions and features. The...
