Japan's mobile-phone carriers said interim findings from research they sponsored found radio-frequency radiation from base stations does not affect human cells, according to an NTT DoCoMo Inc. press release. The research, funded by DoCoMo, KDDI Corp., Vodafone K.K. and Tu-Ka Cellular Tokyo Inc., was...
It undoubtedly will take years to sort out why some first-responder communications worked and why some did not after terrorists navigated jet planes into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. But it appears one suspected culprit has been exonerated.The National Institute of...
Clearinghouse vendor NeuStar Inc. filed plans for a $690 million initial public offering last week, a further sign that the financial drought of the past few years is slowly washing away. Indeed, companies across the economic spectrum are seeing the light at the end...
Clearinghouse vendor NeuStar Inc. hopes to raise up to $690 million in an initial public offering, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company filed for the ticker symbol NSTR. NeuStar manages telephone area codes and numbers and enables the...
Iridium Satellite L.L.C. announced it added push-to-talk services to its worldwide satellite-based network, allowing customers to deploy what the carrier calls "multi-user communication nets."Separately, Iridium announced it will sell a new data transceiver based on its Short Burst Data technology, which will support asset...
TOKYO-Vodafone K.K., the Japanese subsidiary of Vodafone Group plc, said Monday it obtained a license from Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to conduct field tests for High Speed Downlink Packet Access technology using experimental radio stations. Accordingly, Vodafone K.K. will begin field...
NORWALK, Conn.-Wireless companies will continue to invest heavily in their networks in the United States and abroad for at least the next several years, according to two new studies. A soon-to-be-released report from Business Communications Company Inc. indicates worldwide wireless infrastructure expenditures will increase...
From the consumer's point of view, 2005 is shaping up to be the year mobile music goes big-time. And nearly everyone in the wireless industry is scrambling to make sure they cash in. Industry observers predict this year may do for mobile music what...
NORWALK, Conn.-Wireless companies will continue to invest heavily in their networks in the United States and abroad for at least the next several years, according to two new studies.A soon-to-be-released report from Business Communications Company Inc. indicates worldwide wireless infrastructure expenditures will increase by...
Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. made headlines last week by announcing it was part of an effort to develop standards for a new mobile-phone technology that would transfer data more than 10 times faster than current third-generation networks. But exactly what that technology will...
WASHINGTON-Nearly two years after the Bush administration announced an agreement to free 5 GHz frequencies for Wi-Fi technology without causing interference to military radar systems, government and industry officials have yet to settle on a solution that fully resolves technical and national security issues....
LONDON-Motorola Inc. said it recorded speeds of 2.9 megabits per second during outdoor High Speed Downlink Packet Access trials with five major European operators.Motorola did not name the carriers.The technology, which is expected to launch in the second half of 2005, is designed to...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand-4RF Communications, a digital UHF and microwave radio product developer, introduced its new 2 GHz version of its Aprisa XE digital microwave radio transmission system. The system provides transmissions of 100 kilometers or more on a single link, said the company."We've identified...
Startup Xcelis Communications L.L.C. last week introduced a service that essentially re-routes Cingular Wireless L.L.C.'s in-network calls to numbers outside the carrier's network. The $10-per-month service allows Cingular customers to place a call to any phone number in the United States and Canada, but...
WASHINGTON-The House of Representatives said Friday the transition to digital TV should end Dec. 31, 2006. "It is the sense of Congress that the Communications Act should be amended to eliminate the 85-percent penetration test and to require broadcasters to cease analog transmissions at...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit has agreed to rehear a case that potentially created a loophole in e-mail privacy."The 1st Circuit has dealt a serious blow to online privacy," said Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on the floor of the Senate...
ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems said it plans to submit a proposal to IEEE this summer for a baseline wireless networking specification that establishes ultra-fast data streams for wireless high-definition TV transmissions and high-density user environments for corporate and retail wireless networks.The proposal calls for a...
WASHINGTON-The two main players in the mobile satellite services market reacted favorably to the Federal Communications Commission's spectrum-sharing plan.The FCC approved a plan for Iridium Satellite L.L.C. to share 3.1 megahertz of spectrum in the 1.6 GHz band with Globalstar L.L.C. to meet increasing...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has proposed rules allowing unlicensed services to operate in the unused TV band."What we have always been committed to is that there has to be as many competitive broadband platforms as possible. I have been a broken record on this...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission Thursday proposed rules allowing unlicensed services to operate in the unused TV band."What we have always been committed to is that there has to be as many competitive broadband platforms as possible. I have been a broken record on this...
Dear Editor, Our company is one of the few that did not sell our 800 MHz licenses to Nextel. We have systems in Phoenix and several rural Arizona cities, so obviously I have been following the 800 MHz interference issue with great interest. Over...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission approved rules improving radio frequency identification systems for commercial shipping operations, a move that comes as enterprise applications and consumer concerns about the wireless technology attract increased attention on business and regulatory fronts.The FCC ruling increases the maximum power level...
Airline workers could be tasked with a new set of responsibilities as wireless industry advancements make it possible to safely use portable electronic devices like cell phones while in flight.Several wireless devices now offer "plane safe" or "flight" modes that allow radio transmitters to...
WASHINGTON-Federal regulators today proposed setting aside more unlicensed spectrum for wireless broadband operations, which could make it easier for vendors to build devices that work across all Wi-Fi frequencies and create new wireless Internet opportunities in rural America.The initiative, launched today by the Federal...
