CHICAGO-The Personal Communications Industry Association Foundation honored individuals and companies with its PCIA Foundation Leadership Awards during last week's PCIA GlobalXChange show.The awards included the Albert Gore Jr. LifePage Achievement Award, presented to companies or individuals who exemplify the program's standards of leadership and...
NEW YORK-Verizon Wireless and Allen Telecom Inc. said they successfully completed a large-scale CDMA field trial of Allen Telecom's Geometrix E911 Wireless Location Solution in Kentucky, verifying the Geometrix system meets the Federal Communications Commission's Phase II requirements for E911 location accuracy.Geometrix location system...
WASHINGTON-If Al Gore becomes the next president of the United States, as polls increasingly are suggesting, Big Telecom could gain unprecedented access to the White House and have extraordinary influence on high-tech policy for the next four years.It's not that Big Telecom is any...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it has signed up 29 co-sponsors for the Indian Telecom Training Initiative (ITTI 2000) to be held Sept. 25-28 in St. Paul, Minn.Co-sponsors include Alltel Corp., AT&T Corp., Ericsson Inc., Globalstar L.P., Lucent Technologies Inc., Lukas, Nace, Gutierrez &...
NEW YORK-InPhonic, still in its corporate infancy, has skipped over baby steps and is making major strides as an outsourced, behind-the-scenes distributor of private-labeled wireless and mobile-commerce services.In mid-September, the Washington, D.C.-based company announced a one-year agreement, valued at an estimated $20 million, to...
While the "in-a-box" concept seems a natural fit for a fast-food chain, the more complex task of setting up wireless service may seem to be asking a bit much from such a simple idea.Equitel Inc., based in Research Triangle, N.C., thinks simple ideas are...
WASHINGTON-In addition to new litigation alleging that mobile phones cause brain cancer, the wireless industry also faces possible Supreme Court litigation over government exposure standards and a class-action lawsuit in New Orleans that claims manufacturers failed to take steps to minimize consumer exposure to...
NEW YORK-Telecommunications is like chess, because the grand masters emerge as victors by controlling the center of the board, Ivan Seidenberg, president and co-chief executive officer of Verizon Communications Inc., said."In our case, the move to center means four platforms: robust local access, local broadband,...
WASHINGTON-The House telecom subcommittee last week voted to include wireless carriers in a new scheme for carriers to compensate each other for carrying each other's traffic.The bill, which now goes to the full committee for consideration, would end the process known as reciprocal compensation...
MINNEAPOLIS-Verizon Wireless services will be offered at more than 350 Best Buy stores nationwide beginning in October, complementing the retailer's current national wireless two-way messaging and paging relationship with Verizon Wireless.The agreement includes Verizon's wireless products and services, including the company's recently introduced mobile...
WASHINGTON-A Motorola Inc. technician who was a mobile-phone trouble shooter for 10 years plans shortly to sue Motorola Inc. and possibly others for allegedly causing his brain cancer. The man went on disability last fall after being diagnosed with a potentially deadly brain tumor...
WASHINGTON-Capitol Hill was all a flurry last week with activities related to the wireless industry, some out in the open and others behind closed doors.RCR Wireless News has learned the wireless industry has joined in a Capitol Hill fight on how local phone carriers...
Armed with approval from the state, a unit of Consolidated Edison Inc. is moving ahead with an ambitious plan to build a state-of-the-art, $115 million telecommunications network that will stretch from the financial district in lower Manhattan to Westchester County.Con Edison Communications has started...
WASHINGTON-Telecom firms-including those with major wireless properties-have contributed nearly $18 million so far in soft money in the 2000 election cycle, according to a new report.Overall, Common Cause said the telecom industry ranked second only to Wall Street in this season of record, unregulated...
China and CDMA technology have attempted marriage about as many times as Elizabeth Taylor.Now it appears the Chinese government again has given the green light to China Unicom to deploy CDMA technology as quickly as possible. Naturally, vendors remain cautious. They've heard this before.It's...
WASHINGTON-In danger of losing its funding, the Texas state commission with authority over 911 implementation is blaming the wireless industry because the commission did not meet a state-mandated target.As of Aug. 31 (the state-mandated deadline) wireless enhanced 911 Phase I service had been deployed...
Aquis Communications Group Inc. said it signed nine interconnection agreements with Verizon Communications, encompassing the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and West Virginia. Aquis will receive money for terminating Verizon-originated calls on Aquis' paging network, as well...
As handset makers continue to stretch their resources in the three digital technologies and future 3G technologies, they are finding an increasing need to outsource a portion of the business.L.M. Ericsson, struggling for profitability in its handset business, has turned to outsourcing lower-end handsets,...
Bank of America launched a wireless banking and brokerage offering last week in limited markets through a partnership with 724 Solutions Inc.Bank of America Private Bank customers in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, Baltimore and Washington, D.C., will be able to conduct banking transactions...
WASHINGTON-With the Federal Communications Commission set to rule shortly on whether building owners should be forced to open their doors to upstart telecom carriers, lobbying between fixed broadband wireless carriers and the real estate industry over building access has intensified in a controversy that...
WASHINGTON-Wireless firms last week pushed to have the Baltimore mobile phone-cancer lawsuit moved from Maryland state court to a federal court.The filing was prepared by the Atlanta law firm of Alston & Bird on behalf of Motorola Inc., Verizon Wireless, SBC Communications Inc., the...
TORONTO-The consolidation trend in the North American wireless sector is intensifying. The prevailing wisdom is that it is no longer good enough to be merely a regional or national carrier with transborder capabilities. The game plan is to be part of a global presence,...
CanadaFuzion Wireless Communications said it launched its fixed wireless broadband services network in Ontario, Canada. Serving businesses in Toronto and other locations, Fuzion said it will deliver Internet connectivity at speeds from 500 kilobits per second to 45 Megabits per second.United StatesVerizon Communications and...
BANGALORE, India-Although the Indian cellular industry is growing quite well, with the country's cumulative cellular subscriber base at 2.18 million at the end of June, operators are still hesitant to expand coverage outside high-density population centers.When the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) originally divided the...
