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Sky’s the limit for domestic WAP rollout

In the next three to eight months, U.S. wireless carriers will upgrade their HDML-based wireless Internet servers to full WAP compliance, meaning they will support WML technology native in both the network and in new WAP-compliant phones.The result is a greater array of handsets...

Strike continues, wireless issues may still be in play

WASHINGTON-Union employees at Verizon Communications, the parent company of Verizon Wireless, remained on strike at RCR's deadline Friday afternoon with both sides refusing to say when the strike might end.Whether the key issue of easing efforts at union organizing of wireless employees has been...

High-tech positions difficult to distinguish

WASHINGTON-Despite splashy headlines of multibillion dollar telecom deals, wild dot-com stock swings on Wall Street and all the hot-button digital issues that have GOP and Democratic policy-makers crawling over each other to champion, it is virtually impossible to distinguish the high-tech policies of Republicans...

Additional health-related lawsuits expected soon

WASHINGTON-The Baltimore law firm that earlier this month filed a mobile-phone cancer lawsuit against several wireless firms and two industry trade associations is expected to file additional lawsuits as early as this week, according to sources. The lawsuits could be filed in Georgia and...

With deadline looming, Texas 911 commission cries foul

WASHINGTON-With an Aug. 31 deadline looming, a Texas state commission has asked the Federal Communications Commission to intervene in assisting them to compel wireless carriers to deploy enhanced 911 Phase I services.Under Phase I, a call-back number and cell-site information is delivered to a...

New wireless operator picks up Verizon’s divested properties

A long list of investors led by J.P. Morgan Capital Corp., FirstCall Telephone Corp. and the management team from former operator Triton Cellular Partners have formed a new wireless carrier.BGV PCS Acquisition Co. L.L.C. has acquired PCS licenses in Chicago and Cincinnati from Verizon...

Carrier marketing centers on wireless data world

The realm of wireless data is uncharted territory for most consumers, but carriers also are feeling their way through the darkness, searching for the best way to market data and Internet services to an audience with little or no knowledge of wireless outside voice.Everyone-from...

Strike issues largely settled at other firms

WASHINGTON-While Verizon Communications workers strike in part to make it easier for its wireless workers to join unions, union issues have been largely settled at other companies.Before its workers began striking Aug. 6, Verizon Communications said it did not believe it was in a...

Employees may strike on Verizon Wireless union issue

WASHINGTON-Whether Verizon Wireless employees can join a union was a key topic that may have led to a strike by Verizon Communications employees as of midnight Aug. 6.The Communications Workers of America released a statement late last week noting none of its issues had...

Wireless-only funds track industry

NEW YORK-Amid the clutter of conflicting and shifting capital market indicators, the outlook for companies in any sector related to wireless telecommunications nevertheless appears positive.The daily whipsawing of the Nasdaq, where the stocks of many high technology companies trade, may obscure but does not...

Verizon rolls out ad campaign, inks RadioShack deal

NEW YORK-Verizon Communications, formed by the merger of Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp., has begun an intense national advertising campaign touting the Verizon name to customers and the general public.In addition, Verizon said it will begin a 12- to 18-month effort to change...

Novatel files for IPO

WASHINGTON-Novatel Wireless Inc., which makes the Minstrel wireless data modem line, filed for a $105 million initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission.Novatel makes the Minstrel V modem used in the OmniSky wireless data solution for the Palm V personal digital assistant,...

Doctor sues over tumor

BALTIMORE-Maryland doctor Chris Newman, 41, filed an $800 million lawsuit in Baltimore City Circuit Court claiming his wireless phone caused a malignant tumor behind his right ear.The tumor was discovered in March 1998.The lawsuit, first reported by Jeffrey Silva in the July 31 issue...

Resale on upswing

Just yesterday, it seems wireless carriers and resellers were at legal odds in front of the Federal Communications Commission.Resellers fought for mandatory access to carriers' networks, while carriers battled that effort, coming up with a concession that would end mandatory reselling two years from...

Health-related lawsuits on front burner

WASHINGTON-A top-flight Baltimore law firm is expected to file a lawsuit this week claiming a malignant brain tumor diagnosed in a 42-year-old male neurologist was caused by heavy and long-term mobile-phone use.The lawsuit, likely to be filed in a Washington-Baltimore area court, is being...

Smaller transactions expected ahead on acquisition front

WASHINGTON-While international attention is focused on Deutsche Telekom AG's $50.3 billion bid for VoiceStream Wireless Corp. and the fireworks it has set off in Congress, merger and acquisition activity in the coming months is expected to be dominated by smaller wireless transactions as large...

Convergys wins Verizon contract

CINCINNATI-Convergys Corp. signed a five-year contract for billing and customer-care systems with Verizon Wireless.Convergys, which has pre-existing relationships with Bell Atlantic Corp., Vodafone AirTouch plc and GTE Corp., said it will provide its client/server billing solution, which performs real-time rating and supports customer care...

Cellular carriers lobby for spectrum

WASHINGTON-Cellular carriers have mounted an all-out assault on the Federal Communications Commission to get more spectrum."Spectrum is the `life blood' of wireless services. But not all radio-frequency spectrum is equally useful or suitable. Spectrum-management policies determine the `rule of the game;' that is, who...

AT&T to offer two-way SMS this year

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said it will offer two-way short messaging service later this year, giving the carrier a more seamless data offering with its affiliates.AT&T Wireless offers SMS service today and relaunched its PocketNet service, based on Cellular Digital Packet Data service, earlier...

Tower construction enjoys growth spurt

Wireless carriers spend billions of dollars on spectrum to support the latest high-speed wireless applications that are designed to change the way the world communicates. Knowing they can't provide that potential to end users without the proper infrastructure, companies are also spending a little...

Industry: Delay 700 MHz auction

WASHINGTON-A congressional subcommittee and the wireless industry put pressure on the Federal Communications Commission to delay the upcoming 700 MHz auction, while private wireless wants the agency to go ahead with the guard-band auction.In addition, Verizon Wireless asked to delay the Nov. 29 re-auction...

Verizon demonstrates 3G call

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless released an online video featuring a third-generation wireless data call on its Lucent Technologies Inc.-supplied network.The video shows a comparison of two laptops loading the Verizon Wireless home page. One computer is shown downloading the page in three seconds using 3G...

Concourse aims to improve airport networks

NEW YORK-Concourse Communications Group L.L.C., Mineola, N.Y., is on a mission to turn the problem of poor reception inside public facilities into a business opportunity that will benefit wireless carriers and their customers.Last week, Concourse announced a two-year strategic alliance with LGC Wireless of...

Wireless bureau examines prickly 911 issues

WASHINGTON-Thomas Sugrue, chief of the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, has begun preparing for the likelihood that many mobile-phone carriers will not meet upcoming deadlines governing location-based 911 wireless emergency service rules.Meanwhile, Sugrue and his staff are mired in other prickly 911 policy issues dealing...