RESTON, Va.—Seeking to further solidify its place in the wireless data market, Nextel Communications Inc. released a new wireless modem for laptops, as well as a new data compression technology the company said will speed wireless data transmissions by up to five times the...
RIDGELAND, Miss.—SIGFX L.L.C. announced field trials of its two-way wireless communications systems are now underway at company headquarters in Ridgeland, Miss.The network uses vacant spectrum in analog and digital television transmissions to provide personal wireless voice or data services—a plan SIGFX said can help...
TORONTO—Pilots on transatlantic flights will soon be able to communicate with air controllers through instant text messaging. Nav Canada, which runs Canada's air navigation system, announced a major upgrade to its communications capabilities over the Atlantic Ocean. The changes will take pressure off the...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—A U.K.-based company is claiming that most 2.5-generation (2.5G) applications will be almost impossible to run, given that more than 40 percent of packets can become lost on General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) networks. The firm said that independent trials indicate that...
WASHINGTON—A leading public-safety organization today told the Federal Communications Commission it has serious concerns about potential interference from ultra-wideband transmissions to radio systems used by police, firefighters and emergency medical workers and to GPS-based technologies used to locate emergency callers.The Association of Public-Safety Communications...
HAYWARD, Calif.—Certicom announced its Digital Rights Management and content protection security technology and services are being used to provide secure data transmissions in new wireless applications from Honeywell and XM Satellite Radio.Certicom's technology will be used by Honeywell to deliver its Flight Information Systems...
So Paulo, Brazil-Telesp Celular announced that as soon as October it will begin commercially operating a network based on the CDMA 1x technology. The operator, controlled by Portugal Telecom and Spain's Telefonica, provides wireless service to 4.5 million customers in So Paulo, by far...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it has solved a technical problem disrupting operation of its Digital mova P503I Hyper mobile phone. The technical problems affected voice and e-mail reception of the i-appli compatible i-mode phones in certain areas where the handset was unable to...
NEW YORK-OmniSky Corp., a San Francisco-based wireless Internet service provider, has taken a series of steps recently to expand the number and kinds of devices with which it can communicate.This month, the company began offering support for the Hewlett-Packard Pavilion notebook personal computer and...
NEW YORK-To help wireless carriers assess the quality of service as it is delivered to their customers via the Internet, Agilent Technologies Inc., Fort Collins, Colo., introduced at Supercomm its Firehunter/mobile Web monitoring product.It is available now to monitor Wireless Application Protocol, short message...
LINCOLN, Neb.-EFJohnson, a subsidiary of Transcrypt International, will fill a $900,000 order to manufacture integrated radio and control units for Nexterna Inc., a provider of wireless mobile computing solutions.According to the company, the units manufactured by EFJohnson will offer a communication link using a...
NEW YORK-Although growing use of Research In Motion's BlackBerry e-mail service has congested wireless networks in some areas, paging carriers are not well-positioned to seize this opportunity to serve as alternative providers, said Jim Balsillie, co-chief executive officer of RIM."Paging carriers have tried to...
While carriers' network upgrade plans have garnered the majority of attention from the wireless industry, there is another equally important area that many wireless companies are now focusing on: the applications."Applications are everything," said Adam Guy, senior analyst of mobile wireless research for The Strategis...
It may seem unbelievable now, but there was a time, not too long ago, when having spectrum that cost millions of dollars was looked upon as a good thing when offering wireless broadband service.The promise of interference-free transmissions and the freedom of owning a...
LucentLucent Technologies Inc. announced that John Young, former president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Co. and a current member of the Lucent board of directors, will become chairman of the company's Microelectronics business, which will be spun off into a separate company next...
WASHINGTON-At RCR Wireless News press time, the Federal Communications Commission was preparing to release a public notice asking for industry comment on the August federal appeals court decision that threw out key items of the FBI's punch list to implement the digital wiretap act.At...
WASHINGTON-Verizon Wireless has been dragged into litigation that has percolated up to the Supreme Court, which has been asked by a group of Vermont citizens to rule whether local zoning is pre-empted by federal law when telecommunications facilities cause interference to electrical and electronic...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. began shipments of its Mobile Station Modem 3300 chipset samples and system software, and its IFR3300 chip, an intermediate frequency-to-baseband receiver enabling integration of a GPS-band radio without additional external radio frequency or IF chips.Qualcomm said the MSM3300 chipset and system...
NEW YORK-In order to handle the converged communications revolution, the vision of L.M. Ericsson is the evolution of network reliability to a degree that today is only a dream on a drawing board.The so-called 10 nines, or 99.99999999 percent reliability, is a Holy Grail...
Certicom, an encryption technology company specializing in solutions for the mobile computing and wireless data markets, has introduced a virtual private network software solution for handheld mobile devices.The Certicom VPN solution is interoperable with a range of VPN systems, allowing organizations to incorporate mobile...
AUSTIN, Texas-Neomar Inc. said it will use Wireless Transport Layer Security Protocol technology from Certicom to protect transmissions using its WAP browser technology designed for Research In Motion Ltd. devices and other wirelessly enabled handheld computing devices.
NEW YORK-With existing wireless carriers seeking to expand coverage and capacity and new spectrum poised for commercial use, building owners and managers must develop enhanced expertise in telecommunications before negotiating cell site leasing deals.Landlords must deal with issues including: health hazards to equipment installers from...
Verizon Wireless, now the country's largest operator, said it will begin field trials of cdma2000 1XRTT technology with Lucent Technologies Inc. in June, and follow with a rollout of the technology next year.Verizon is the second U.S. Code Division Multiple Access operator to announce...
With concerns rising over the need for enhanced security in future wireless e-commerce, several firms in both the wireless and security industries launched efforts last week aimed at designing secure wireless networks.The largest initiative was that between leading phone manufacturers L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc....
