TOKYO-The number of Japanese PHS subscribers expanded in the December-January time frame, demonstrating that the long-ailing PHS business is starting to revitalize.The number of PHS users in the country has decreased for the last few years since hitting a high of 7 million in...
PHOENIX-International FiberCom Inc.'s wireless solutions division, AeroComm Inc., was designated by Bell Atlantic Mobile as the cellular/PCS carrier coordinator for New York City's Queens Midtown and Brooklyn Battery tunnels.AeroComm will coordinate with Nextel Communications Inc., Omnipoint Corp., Sprint PCS and AT&T Wireless Services Inc....
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo's iMode Internet service is winning attention around the world as the first success case for mobile Internet.Since the carrier launched the service in February 1999, it has attracted more than 2.8 million users. Subscribers are expected to reach 4 million by March...
HANOVER, Germany-Until demand for Wireless Application Protocol handsets increases, L.M. Ericsson won't manufacture WAP handsets in volume, the company said at CeBIT 2000.Carriers have criticized manufacturers for being too slow in shipping WAP phones in volume. Ericsson President Kurt Hellstrom said at a news...
NEW YORK-In a Valentine's Day announcement, Teligent Inc., a point-to-multipoint carrier based in Vienna, Va., and Mannesmann Arcor AG & Co., said they had partnered to provide fixed wireless voice and data communications in Germany.Mannesmann AG, which recently agreed to merge with Vodafone AirTouch...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Superconductor Technologies Inc. announced it received a purchase order for 27 of its SuperFilter Systems from an unnamed cellular service provider, increasing its backlog to 56 systems and causing its stock price to soar 135 percent last Wednesday.The order helped to increase...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week expanded its rules regarding telecommunications relay services to include speech-to-speech services, Spanish language service and quality of service rules.TRS is a telephone transmission service where a person with hearing difficulties calls a center using a text telephone device....
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-As President Clinton stated in his Economic Forum speech, "The United States is unambiguously committed to open markets and trade as the best engine we know of to lift living standards, reduce environmental destruction and build shared prosperity."Space station technology was spawned...
MexicoMexican wireless company Unefon launched initial service Feb. 10 in Toluca, a city outside Mexico City. The company plans to begin services in 20 cities during the next year and plans to go public by mid-2001. The company expects to have 1.5 million users...
VoiceStream Wireless Corp. announced plans to invest in Canadian Global System for Mobile communications operator Microcell Telecommunications Inc., a move that sets the stage for a seamless North American footprint.VoiceStream will invest $275 million to purchase 9.59 million newly issued Class A shares of...
Metrocall Inc. took the latest step in the paging industry's evolutionary journey last week, unveiling an acquisition, a new joint venture, a recapitalization plan and a strong financial partner tapped to fund future acquisitions.Although negotiated separately, the various developments serve a common purpose-to prepare...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector announced a successful launch in Japan of its commercial high-speed wireless Internet access for cdmaOne networks.The new service, deployed by DDI Corp. and IDO Corp., allows subscribers to access the Internet at speeds up to 64 kilobits...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Adaptive Broadband Corp. signed a $225 million contract to provide its AB-Access fixed wireless equipment to Telecom Wireless Corp., a Colorado-based broadband wireless access provider.AB-Access is a last-mile network that offers data transmission rates of up to 20 Mbps, which supports real-time video...
Nokia announced an agreement with M1, a mobile and paging service provider, to expand M1's Global System for Mobile communications system in Singapore. The deal, valued at more than $35 million, increases M1's investment in its GSM network to more than $240 million.The deal...
PARIS-Mobile Internet financial services in Europe have a new partnership with the announcement that the Fininfo Group and FinGO have combined forces. Fininfo, which specializes in financial information services and order routing, and FinGO, a new start-up that designs and engineers a mobile portal...
NEW YORK-RateXchange Inc., San Francisco, expects by early February to execute the first trade on its new online bandwidth exchange, inaugurated to meet the growing demand for telecommunications transport capacity.In early December, the company demonstrated its Real-Time Bandwidth eXchange at a conference in New...
This holiday season heralded the beginning of the e-commerce revolution, and wireless operators have the opportunity to cash in on it with the growing proliferation of Internet-enabled wireless phones and handheld computers.Optimism among the analyst community is rampant. Most recently, Strategy Analytics predicted the...
NEW ORLEANS-While Florida State was the main story at the Nokia-sponsored Sugar Bowl, wireless communications was making its own news with the first successful completion of a two-way transmission of short messaging service using an Internet application on a Time Division Multiple Access network.The...
TOKYO-NTT DoCoMo's iMode Internet service is winning attention around the world as the first success case for mobile Internet.Since the carrier launched the service in February 1999, it has attracted more than 2.8 million users. Subscribers are expected to reach 4 million by March...
The two major developers of high-speed cellular data technology, Nokia and Ericsson, have opened a public argument over which has achieved the most success in terms of contract awards. The number of cellular operators that have placed orders for high-speed data infrastructure now amounts...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The principal supporters of the Bluetooth short-range wireless technology used the U.S.-based Comdex exhibition late last year to take the message of its capabilities to a much wider and more diverse audience. But despite this first public display of the technology, many...
"I now felt for the first time absolutely certain that the day would come when mankind would be able to send messages `round the wires, not only across the Atlantic, but between the furthermost ends of the earth."Guglielmo Marconi could certainly justify his statement...
Looking out the window of his Los Angeles office, William E. Jackson II can see two wireless sites his company designed, but he hopes nobody else can see them.Jackson is president of Clock Tower Communications Inc., one of several companies that has emerged to...
Following months of speculation, three Japanese telecom companies announced plans to merge into one group to compete in the country's increasingly competitive telecom market. DDI Corp., IDO Corp. and KDD Corp. will merge to form Japan's second-largest telecom company after Nippon Telegraph and Telephone...
