BRASILIA, Brazil-Brazil's lower house social and family safety commission has approved a bill to create rules for the installation of wireless communications towers.The bill calls for wireless operators to share towers in urban areas, construct them 30 meters high and 500 meters apart, and...
BRASILIA, Brazil-Brazil's lower house social and family safety commission has approved a bill to create rules for the installation of wireless communications towers.The bill calls for wireless operators to share towers in urban areas, construct them 30 meters high and 500 meters apart, and...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate Cincinnati Bell Wireless selected Nortel Networks Ltd. to plan, design and deliver a GSM/GPRS core wireless data network for CBW's planned overlay of its existing TDMA network covering portions of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Nortel said that with the...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on Monday certified that bankrupt NextWave Telecom Inc. has met the five-year build-out requirement on its licenses."The construction notifications that they have supplied to us have been granted," said a spokeswoman for the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau.There was no...
WASHINGTON-Sens. Don Nickles (R-Okla.) and Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) offered legislation to make wireless telecommunications equipment eligible for depreciation treatment on par with other qualified technological gear. The bill, introduced April 11 and requiring an amendment to the 1986 tax law, was referred to the...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association is urging a California legislator to amend his bill to include tower companies in a plan to lease state lands to wireless service providers."Tower companies account for approximately 80 percent of the wireless facilities market in California. Including...
NEW YORK-In profits, the category that counts the most, Nokia Corp. retained top billing, with Ericsson Inc. holding on to second place, according to information from Standard & Poor's.Lucent Technologies Inc., which ranked sixth last year, moved into third place, displacing ADC Telecommunications Inc.,...
VANCOUVER, Canada-The consequences of Metricom Inc.'s bankruptcy continue to ripple through the wireless industry, most recently forcing a serious drop in revenues for wireless modem maker Sierra Wireless Inc.The company announced its second-quarter results, ended June 30, showing revenues of $16 million-well below the...
As wireless technologies wax stronger in the market, established wireline corporations such as IBM Corp., Cisco Systems and Microsoft Corp. are learning to leverage both divisions as a fruitful business model.The corporations have been churning out a series of products and solutions ranking them...
HOUSTON-Compaq Computer Corp. has partnered with SignalSoft Corp., SnapTrack Inc. and Wireless Facilities Inc. to develop a location solution on one platform called the Compaq Discovery Location System, the company announced.The Compaq Discovery Location System will help carriers comply with the Federal Communications Commission's...
LAS VEGAS-Sonera's zed portal service won a major victory last week as wireless carrier Vodafone U.K. adopted the services for use in the United Kingdom. Vodafone Group plc offers its own portal service to carriers in conjunction with Vivendi, called Vizzavi, and the carrier...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association last Friday filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming regulations aimed at historic preservation "favor intensive government oversight and unwieldy bureaucratic procedures."The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, focuses on regulations recently promulgated...
Telcom GlobalChris Carter was appointed Telcom Global Solutions Inc.'s senior director for engineering services. In his new position, Carter will be responsible for planning and managing the company's global resource pool. Carter has more than seven years of experience in wireless network design and...
Like the harmony of opposites, caution and adventure characterize the journey to the wide-scale rollout of GPRS. Vendors are playing starry-eyed idealists while operators are avoiding a possible precipice on board the chief migration vehicle: handsets.In view of their contrasting attitudes, operators' low blood pressure...
WASHINGTON-The EMR Network-a grassroots organization of people opposed to wireless facilities due to a fear of the impact of radiation-has come out strongly against a recent publication of the National Trust for Historic Preservation that is meant to help in siting stealth antennas and...
SAN RAMON, Calif.-Location and traffic information provider U.S. Wireless Corp. selected Wireless Facilities Inc., a network design and deployment company, as the prime contractor for the buildout of its Washington traffic network.Wireless Facilities will provide radio-frequency network design, site acquisition and other installation services,...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Staff of the federal Advisory Commission on Historic Preservation said a wireless industry proposal on collocation of wireless facilities is sound, but did not adopt the proposal, instead opting to wait for the National Conference of State Historic Preservations Officers to sign on.Staff...
Wireline technologies continue to trump broadband wireless in the journey to the last mile.In a new study on multidwelling units, Washington-based market research and consulting firm The Strategis Group says that cravings for high-speed data and video on demand among U.S. residents for cable...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Networks selected ABB, Bovis Lend Lease, MKI and Wireless Facilities Inc. as its main partners for turnkey implementation of third-generation and GSM networks in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.Nokia said its partners will help with network planning, site acquisition, construction work,...
WASHINGTON-Attempts by the wireless industry to reach a collocation agreement with a historic preservation group hit a few bumps last week when members of the historic preservation community questioned language in a document intended to allow collocation on most existing towers.While industry representatives believe...
SAN DIEGO, United States-Wireless Facilities said Siemens selected the company for phase two of its expansion of Kuwait's Mobile Telecommunications Co. dual-band GSM network, which Wireless Facilities said it originally designed and optimized. The company said it had engineering and network optimization responsibilities for...
SAN DIEGO-Wireless telecommunications systems management company Wireless Facilities Inc. acquired privately held telecom consultant Questus Ltd. for approximately $23 million in cash and stock.WFI said the additional resources provided by Questus will allow it to better serve the industry's growing demand for technology and...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it will vigorously enforce wireless radiation safety rules that go into effect later this week."We are serious about this and will be checking," said Robert Cleveland, the FCC's expert on radio-frequency exposure rules. Cleveland said the FCC will conduct...
IPmobileWireless communications infrastructure company IPmobile Inc. hired Louis Wooldridge as its vice president of sales in Asia, and Chuck Derrick as its vice president of product development. Wooldridge will spearhead the company's initiative to secure and capitalize on the growing wireless data market opportunity...
