WASHINGTON-In an effort to prove it is a viable company and at the same time help a struggling icon, bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. said on July 2 it has signed a contract with Lucent Technologies Inc. to begin building out a CDMA network."We are...
Unplugged Games Inc. officially released its MobileStage gaming product, a wireless video game platform for carriers designed to increase revenues through multiplayer games and specialized billing systems."It, in many ways, is the core of our business," said Eric Goldberg, founder and president of Unplugged...
Mobile-phone maker LG InfoComm U.S.A. Inc. has been "in the closet, so to speak," according to Michele Thenegal, the company's marketing director.While LG InfoComm hasn't been completely dormant during its time in the closet-the company said it garnered about 11 percent of the U.S....
OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Aether Systems Inc. today announced an ambitious plan to expand its business into South Korea and get some first-hand experience with the country's advanced cdma2000 1xRTT network. The move could better position Aether in the United States when carriers like Verizon Wireless...
While large wireless operators are more than happy to discuss their plans for next-generation wireless services, some of the small- to mid-sized carriers seem to have let the idea of high-speed networks fall through the cracks of providing services to their customers. Even though...
Network coverage is the unexciting side of the wireless industry. Sure, most carriers proclaim to have excellent coverage in their markets, but real-world results are often lacking. Someone in the wireless industry recently discussed a conversation she tried to have with an executive of...
Each time the death knell sounds, Lucent Technologies Inc. seems to rebound.Last week was a metaphor of what might be the roller coaster ride the Murray Hill-based telecom equipment company has experienced in the past three quarters.Moody's Investors Service downgraded the company to junk...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruling that the Federal Communications Commissions illegally repossessed NextWave Telecom's personal communications services licenses has turned a once $17 billion windfall for the federal government, and much needed capacity for wireless carriers, into...
WASHINGTON-The impact on the federal budget of last month's decision by a federal appeals court to overturn the reclamation and re-auction of bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc.'s 90 PCS C- and F-block licenses was an undercurrent of Thursday's Senate Appropriations commerce, justice, state and the...
NEW YORK-With a stroke of Republican Gov. George Pataki's pen June 28, New York became the first state in the country to impose a statewide ban on the handheld use of wireless phones by most drivers in most instances."The misuse of cellular telephones has...
Just beating a federally mandated deadline, Verizon Wireless sold off its Chicago interests in PrimeCo Personal Communications last week to a telecommunications investment group led by Southern California-based Clarity Partners L.P. Other members of the investment group include Pacific Capital Group Inc., Trimaran Capital...
NEW YORK-Kyocera Corp., Motorola Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. showcased new wireless phones at the TechXNY PC Expo 2001 last week that are more than conversation pieces.PC-EPhoneIn early July, San Diego-based distributor PC-EPhone Inc. will begin marketing through carriers, electronics retailers and online...
In technology as in life, the last protocol on stage is the hero. While time will serve as jury in due course, for now the CDMA operators and manufacturers seem to be gloating, sometimes quietly and sometimes on rooftops, that they are a few...
TOKYO- NTT DoCoMo, in cooperation with KPN Mobile and E-Plus, is scheduled to launch i-mode-like services in the Netherlands and Germany in the fourth quarter. Access, a Japanese provider of microbrowsers for non-PC devices including NTT DoCoMo's i-mode service, is also exploring the European...
WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc., a one-time poster child for everything that went wrong with the government's C-block auction for PCS licenses, said it stands ready to continue to build its network, following an appeals court ruling last Friday that said the government could not cancel...
NEW YORK-A noteworthy dynamic has developed in which major players like AT&T Wireless Services Inc., Cingular Wireless and Sprint PCS are actively promoting prepaid services, while smaller providers like Dobson Communications Corp. and TeleCorp PCS want to minimize its role."The irony is not lost...
WASHINGTON-While policy-makers struggle to balance commercial spectrum needs and national security, the outcome of industry efforts to secure the military's 1700 MHz band for third-generation wireless systems could be influenced greatly by Pentagon budgetary constraints, international pressure, presidential politics and last Friday's stunning court...
WASHINGTON-The Communications Workers of America last week accused Verizon Communications Inc. of violating last summer's labor agreement by blocking wireless and information services workers from unionizing."The company has been doing everything it can to mislead and intimidate workers and block their organizing efforts," said...
Tower companies tend to fall into a safe and cozy place in the hard driving, fast moving wireless machine, seemingly immune to the pitfalls that plague carriers and network equipment suppliers, pitfalls such as subscriber churn, microprocessor shortages and a crashing stock market that...
WASHINGTON-The cellular industry, putting the brakes for now on major legislation to avoid unnecessarily provoking the Pentagon, is floating a stop-gap plan on Capitol Hill that urges federal regulators to postpone next month's ruling on third-generation mobile-phone spectrum and that calls on the departments...
WASHINGTON-The House telecom subcommittee heard testimony last Thursday on what Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) called "the most compelling issue to come before it this year: " enhanced 911 deployment. But instead of a status report, the committee was treated to finger pointing and unanswered questions.The...
Verizon Wireless is considering either using wideband-CDMA technology as its third-generation network standard or adding the technology to its CDMA-based network. Company spokespeople assert the move is not new-or news-but it is nonetheless representative of the murky realm of 3G wireless issues and carriers'...
A few years back RCR Wireless News ran a story that said AT&T Corp. was exploring-just studying the possibility, mind you-of implementing a CDMA overlay onto its TDMA network, and we incurred the wrath of AT&T CEO John Zeglis.My, how times have changed.Today carriers...
STAMFORD, Conn.-Verizon Wireless users are the most satisfied, according to a recent survey by Gartner Inc.Verizon received the highest marks in service satisfaction, with 87 percent of those surveyed reporting they were very or somewhat satisfied with their wireless voice service. AT&T Wireless followed...
