Following is a summary of the finalists for the tower industry Excellence in Business Awards sponsored by RCR and Shorecliff Communications Inc. Winners will be announced at the 1999 Tower Summit & Trade Show Nov. 8 in Las Vegas.Most Innovative Collocation Solution Crown Castle...
The Wireless Application Protocol had the biggest coming-out party of its 20-month life span during Telecom '99 in Geneva, with more than 100 carriers, vendors and content providers displaying WAP and WAP-related products, warts and all.While WAP's momentum has grown all year, many consider...
HarrisHarris Corp. previewed its ClearBurst 2.5/3.4/10.5 GHz point-to-multipoint system, the newest addition to the Harris broadband wireless access product line, which is intended for deployment by public service providers as well as private network operators. The ClearBurst product offers a solution for delivering Time...
DENVER-VeloCom Inc., which recently won mirror licenses to operate competitive telecommunications networks in Brazil, said today it has acquired the Latin American assets of Argentina-based SLI Wireless S.A. and Brazil-based Taquari Participacoes S.A. in return for stock. The move gives VeloCom interests in telecommunications...
WASHINGTON-The Network Reliability and Interoperability Council is recommending that wireless carriers voluntarily report when a mobile telephone switching office fails, preventing transmission of new calls for 30 minutes or more.Making the reporting requirement voluntary is a win for the wireless industry, which had worried...
Palm Computing Inc. introduced the Palm VII wireless organizer nationwide last week, featuring a sale price of $500, $100 less than originally expected.The Palm VII-first available in May in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut-features many of the same organizer functions of its predecessors,...
HIGHLANDS, N.J.-The Wireless Information Networks Laboratory at Rutgers University commemorated Sept. 30 its 10th birthday and the centennial anniversary of Guglielmo Marconi's historic first, the transmission of wireless telegraphy messages from a lighthouse here."The first wireless messages ... followed the progress of Commodore George...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia and the Research Institute of Telecommunications Transmission signed a cooperation agreement to further the development of third-generation mobile communications in China.Under terms of the agreement, RITT and Nokia will set up and operate in Beijing an experimental field trial based on Nokia's...
TOKYO-DDI Pocket Telephone Group, the leading PHS carrier with 60 percent of the market share, on 30 July launched 64 kilobits per second (kbps) data transmission service. At the same time, it began offering a new series of PHS terminals, called Edge, for receiving...
TOKYO-While operators and venders successfully found a way to interconnect two different systems for third-generation services, NTT DoCoMo and its vendors are now gearing up to develop equipment for wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA).NTT DoCoMo in April selected a total of 11 3G vendors, including three foreign...
TOKYO-At the International 3G Mobile Systems Japan '99 conference in early September in Tokyo, Japanese carriers and vendors disclosed their strategies for third-generation (3G) technology.Masayoshi Wakao, managing director of the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses (ARIB), a standardization organization in Japan, gave a...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments plans to introduce today a chipset that combines radio-frequency data transmission and reception with a microcontroller unit.The chipset consists of the TRF6900 single-chip RF transceiver, which provides for flexibility in low-power RF transmission and reception, while the MSP430 MCU is part of...
TOKYO-Softbank, Microsoft Corp. and Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) announced in August they will establish a joint company to provide wireless access line services.According to the announcement, the new joint company will provide the wireless service at a speed of 1 Megabyte per second...
Analog Devices Inc. plans to introduce today a radio chipset that it calls the Holy Grail of radio receiver architectures.Called Othello, the chipset features an open market Global System for Mobile communications direct-conversion receiver, which ADI said is a breakthrough in RF technology. The...
PageMart Wireless Inc. has begun marketing its products and services through BizBuyer.com, a Web site accessed by small and mid-sized businesses nationwide.BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. introduced an online demonstration of its Interactive Paging Service. "Our research shows that the best way for potential users...
NEW YORK-Even amid the rapidly expanding parade of venture capital investments, the telecommunications/wireless sector of American industry stands head and shoulders above the crowd.Venture capital investments in this sector totaled $1.59 billion during the second quarter of the year, more than triple the amount...
WARWICK, United Kingdom-Castle Transmission International, the U.K. subsidiary of Crown Castle International Corp., said it is working in cooperation with One 2 One on plans for a mobile network in Northern Ireland.Under terms of a preliminary agreement, CTI will design the One 2 One...
DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P. said it signed an agreement with GE Harris Railway Electronics L.L.C. to add satellite-based data transmission capabilities to its Pinpoint Locomotive Tracking System.
NEW YORK-Deutsche Telekom, which bought England's One-2-One last month, considers its 10-percent stake in Sprint Corp. too minuscule a toehold in the burgeoning and beckoning American market, company executives said at a press conference Sept. 9.Make no mistake, the German giant is pleased with...
DENVER-An Aspen, Colo., city council member said he is reviewing a new ordinance passed earlier this year in a Cleveland, Ohio, suburb that regulates cellular phone use while driving.Councilman Terry Paulson thinks such an ordinance would prevent traffic accidents. The Brooklyn, Ohio, ordinance makes...
HELSINKI-Finnish operator Sonera said its High Speed Circuit Switched Data network would be ready to begin offering services to data customers today.Handsets for the networks are not yet available, but expected to be delivered later this year. Depending on delivery schedules, the carrier could...
HandsetsNokiaNokia announced a new NMT 450 analog handset, to be available in the third quarter, that features true 3-volt technology and the Nokia NaviKey concept. The Nokia 640 weighs 195 grams and has a standby time of up to 80 hours and talk time...
SANDTON, South Africa-Tanzania has been described as one of the least-developed countries in the world per capita, yet only recently prominent local investors with international backing have described it as "Africa's rising star."Taking advice that the country needs to make its business environment more...
