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...
DENVER, United States-Attention to wireless security concerns has emerged as several internationally recognized corporate security software firms stated their intentions to concentrate on the wireless industry going forward."Everybody has made the leap that there's going to be a wireless front-end to that Internet world....
Attention to wireless security concerns emerged as the de facto theme of this year's RSA Security Conference in San Jose, Calif., where several internationally recognized corporate security software firms stated their intention to concentrate on the wireless industry going forward."Everybody has made the leap...
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...
"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...
WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. is introducing Mobile e-mail, a technology allowing short e-mail messages to be transmitted directly to wireless handsets."With Mobile e-mail, the customer can receive e-mails directly or be notified of e-mails received on a home or office computer," said Mike Bashaw,...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Nextel Communications Inc. is eyeing the African continent as an ideal market for iDEN, the technology it uses in the United States. So much so that a consortium, AfricaSpeaks, included iDEN, in partnership with Nextel, in its business plan for its recent...
The waning loss of faith in the American political system can be explained away by episodes like this.The alleged misdeed, if true, is bad enough. The way the incident has been handled looks worse. It appears to be a magnificent microcosm of how the...
WASHINGTON-The private wireless and medical communities will have to wait until next year to find out if the Federal Communications Commission houses wireless medical telemetry service at 1.4 GHz.The FCC probably won't decide where to house medical telemetry service until first-quarter 2000, which again...
When the clocks roll over at midnight on 31 December, the world will usher in not only a new century, but a new paradigm in the way people communicate.What took decades to build in developed countries-a telecommunications infrastructure-will take a matter of months or...
When the clocks roll over at midnight on Dec. 31, the world will welcome not only a new year, but a new decade, a new century, a new millennium and, by many accounts, a new paradigm in the way people communicate.What took decades to...
The market for broadband wireless access services is expected to grow dramatically in the next several years, and vendors are scrambling to get systems ready for the emerging market.Fixed terrestrial wireless systems are expected to generate global service revenues of nearly $10 billion during...
Nortele-mobility servicesNortel Networks introduced a portfolio of subscriber services, called e-mobility services, that provide rapid, flexible deployment of leading-edge voice and data capabilities optimized for the Internet Protocol environment. The services include Wireless Prepaid, Group Conferencing, Smart Mobile Access, Wireless Voice-Activated Dialing, Mobile Messaging...
San Diego-based Ensemble Communications Inc. is approaching worldwide broadband wireless access markets with a point-to-multipoint wireless system that has three key technology layers with one thing in common-they can be adapted.The company, with roots stretching back more than 30 years to Linkabit, a consulting...
Frontier Corp., one of the parents of Frontier Cellular, announced plans to merge with Global Crossing Ltd., an independent global fiber-optic network operator.The transaction is valued at about $11.2 billion.Frontier Cellular is a equally owned joint venture between Frontier Corp. and Bell Atlantic Mobile....
NEW YORK-Deloitte Consulting announced it has developed an evaluation system to help telecommunications carriers and equipment vendors think like portfolio managers before jumping at cross-border opportunities in the burgeoning but risky international telecommunications marketplace."There is a need to assemble a portfolio so that if...
NEW ORLEANS-Nortel Networks announced its wireless Internet Protocol evolution plan at Wireless '99 and said it aims to reduce a wireless operator's total cost per megabit for data transmissions from 37 cents currently to 4 cents within five years."Nortel Networks has set a goal...
NEW ORLEANS-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced at Wireless '99 two new wireless intelligent network applications-Calling Name caller ID and a short messaging solution that allows originated transmissions on handsets, for Time Division Multiple Access and Code Division Multiple Access networks. The TDMA solutions will be...
The mere idea it may one day be possible to connect computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices to share voice and data transmissions without the need for cables has brought together some of the industry's heaviest hitters under the umbrella of the Bluetooth...
HOUSTON-Crown Transmissions International, the United Kingdom subsidiary of Crown Castle International Corp., purchased Millennium Communications Ltd. for about $15.5 million.Millennium will become an operating division of CTI, focused on the build-to-suit tower industry, said CCI. About 10 percent of the purchase price is contingent...
To the Editor: Back in June of 1992 my company, LMR Systems Inc., asked the Federal Communications Commission's permission to build private land mobile radio systems at 16 of the nation's busiest airports. Six years later, we're still waiting for the FCC's OK, and the...
NEW YORK-It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's `super craft'!Look up in the sky over California's Mojave Desert on the morning of Sept. 22, and you're likely to see the first public flight of the High Latitude, Long Operation Proteus Aircraft.Built by Mojave-based...
Lucent Technologies Inc. said scientists at its Bell Labs research and development arm have developed a technology that could boost capacity of some wireless links by a multiple of 10 to 20.Known as BLAST, the technology may allow fixed wireless technology to near the...
Now that the nation's top wireless carrier and its second-largest cable TV company have announced plans to merge, industry watchers are speculating about how the companies might converge their networks.Dan Youmans, a spokesman for AT&T Wireless Services Inc., said it is too soon to...
