OXFORD, United Kingdom-Most cellular operators now recognize that to ensure their businesses continue to experience breakneck growth, they must compete more directly with fixed operators. According to industry analysts, this battle for the telephone user will take place over the provision of voice and...
The biggest challenge for wireless operators during the next four years most likely will be obtaining additional spectrum, according to Keith Radousky, director of engineering, BellSouth Cellular Corp. "(Wireless) data is going to take off similar to how it took off in the wireline...
U.S. TDMA operators must make some critical decisions about competing in the wireless data market during the next year as they witness their CDMA counterparts begin to launch circuit-switched data services on a large scale.TDMA operators-which in the late 1980s banked on Cellular Digital...
WHEATON, Maryland, United States-To succeed in wireless e-commerce, companies will have to invest in applications that have no pre-existing equivalent, according to "Wireless E-Commerce: Building Blocks for Success," a new study compiled by Herschel Shosteck Associates.Jane Zweig, executive vice president of Herschel Shosteck Associates, said...
TORONTO-Research in Motion (RIM) of Waterloo, Ontario, a small Canadian company far from Silicon Valley, has developed some of the hottest wireless technology in the world. In just a short time, RIM has transformed itself into a market leader in technically advanced interactive pagers...
Ake Persson confirmed that at the time of Telecom '95, the telecommunications business seemed a simpler industry than that of today. "We viewed it as either a fixed or mobile world-period," he declared.But unlike some of his colleagues in the industry, he is candid...
Just four years ago, no one knew the Web's popularity would be so explosive. Today, vendors and carriers are realizing its power and are crafting networks around it as they move into the third generation and beyond."Even in 1995, people didn't think the Internet...
ATLANTA-GTE Wireless and Global Data Wireless announced they have teamed up to offer wireless automatic meter-reading service for gas and electric utility companies and customers.The solution will have Global Data Wireless installing its CS-832 modem at the utility meter, which will transmit usage information...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments plans to introduce today a chipset that combines radio-frequency data transmission and reception with a microcontroller unit.The chipset consists of the TRF6900 single-chip RF transceiver, which provides for flexibility in low-power RF transmission and reception, while the MSP430 MCU is part of...
SAN DIEGO-Widcomm Inc. announced it has secured more than $5 million in first-round financing led by Enterprise Partners.The company said the funding will allow it to expand its wireless data communications product development based on Bluetooth technology.
NEW ORLEANS-BellSouth Wireless Data said it plans to introduce a portfolio of secure wireless electronic-commerce offerings by the end of this year.The company also announced several companies it is working with to develop wireless e-commerce infrastructure and applications enabled for the BellSouth Intelligent Wireless...
WOODBRIDGE, N.J.-BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. launched a new introductory service plan for its Interactive Paging Service, setting a flat service rate of $15 a month, $30 a month with pager rental. Both prices include 5,000 characters per month. Customers may sign up for service...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week told Congress it has reduced the wireless backlog to 6,000 regulatory items and plans to eliminate it completely next year."This is significant progress toward our goal that by March 1, 2000, no matters pending more than a year...
NEW YORK-I.D. Systems Inc., a newly public company, has deployed its patented wireless monitoring and tracking system to help the U.S. Postal Service keep its promise of "We deliver."The company, headquartered in New York's Silicon Alley, developed its technology, which uses the unlicensed 900...
In 1989, I started my career in wireless as an outside sales rep for Metro Mobile (which would later become part of Bell Atlantic Corp.) in my hometown of Columbia, S.C. Those were the heady days of thousand-dollar telephones, $3 per-day roaming fees, 3-watt...
TOKYO-Softbank, Microsoft Corp. and Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) announced in August they will establish a joint company to provide wireless access line services.According to the announcement, the new joint company will provide the wireless service at a speed of 1 Megabyte per second...
Portals have a hidden agenda to capture the wireless e-commerce market.Carriers had better beware.Greek mythology chronicles the fall of the once-prosperous city of Troy, misled by the promise of a gift in the form of a Trojan horse. Looking back, it seems hard to...
FAIRFIELD, N.J.-Paradigm4 said the Police Department of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico awarded it a $9.23 million contract to add wireless data communications capability to the commonwealth's law enforcement community.The company said it first will deliver a mobile computing network, integrated with advanced message...
PageMart Wireless Inc. has begun marketing its products and services through BizBuyer.com, a Web site accessed by small and mid-sized businesses nationwide.BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. introduced an online demonstration of its Interactive Paging Service. "Our research shows that the best way for potential users...
NEW YORK-Even amid the rapidly expanding parade of venture capital investments, the telecommunications/wireless sector of American industry stands head and shoulders above the crowd.Venture capital investments in this sector totaled $1.59 billion during the second quarter of the year, more than triple the amount...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. said it agreed to purchase $11 million in convertible debentures in Hybrid Networks Inc., a San Jose, Calif.-based company that designs, manufactures and sells broadband data communications systems, including wireless cable modems.Sprint also agreed to purchase $10 million in equipment...
Convinced that wireless growth was significantly outpacing its own estimates, Lehman Brothers Inc. last week dramatically upped its long-term forecast for the wireless industry and upgraded a number of wireless stocks."I think of the analogy of an earthquake where pressure builds up on either...
U.S. TDMA operators must make some critical decisions about competing in the wireless data market during the next year as they witness their CDMA counterparts begin to launch circuit-switched data services in large scale.Time Division Multiple Access operators-which in the late 1980s banked on...
At the crossroads of four wireless industry trends is where Cupertino, Calif.-based Morphics Technology Inc. believes it has found an opportunity.The four factors are expensive spectrum, expensive infrastructure, the migration of predominantly voice traffic to data traffic and fractured standards. The solution, says John...
