OXFORD, United Kingdom-Regardless of concerns expressed by European third-generation (3G) license holders, the German telecom regulator, RegTP, expects wireless local area networks (WLAN) networks to complement 3G services and plans to make more spectrum available for WLAN in the 5 GHz band.RegTP said it...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Bluetooth manufacturer Taiyo Yuden announced it has begun development and commercialization of 5 GHz wireless LAN applications, with Resonext Communications Inc. supplying the 802.11a chipsets."Our company is engaged in a mission to develop innovative solutions that will simplify the adoption of new wireless...
FT. LEE, N.J.—ReefEdge Inc. said it provided the wireless network for the USENIX 2002 Annual Technical Conference held in Monterey, Calif., June 10-15, allowing conference attendees to communicate with their home office as well as to access e-mail and the Internet."In a matter of...
DUBLIN, Ireland—Ireland's telecom regulator ODTR said it is introducing new licensing regimes for fixed wireless access (FWA). The regulators plans to provide a system for local and regional licensing in the 10.5 GHz band and make available additional spectrum for license-exempt wireless local area...
TOKYO—Sumisho Oil, in cooperation with @Venture, has launched Japan's first wireless local area network (WLAN) service at gas stations.Drivers can receive 8 Megabits per second (Mbps) wireless LAN service at Sumisho Oil's gas stations free when they bring their PCs with WLAN cards. Sumisho...
LAS VEGAS—Symbol Technologies announced plans to license and integrate the Columbitech Wireless virtual private network into its wireless network management platform and new MobiusGuard suite of wireless security mechanisms to create AirBEAM Safe, a new product that will secure wireless local area networks and...
LONDON—Red-M announced a new in-building mobile voice strategy and roadmap that it believes will reduce call costs, lower voice infrastructure costs and improve employee productivity.According to Red-M, the solution integrates voice into Genos wirelessware and a new category of Bluetooth voice and data access...
TOKYO—NTT Communications, a long-distance and international business unit of the NTT Group, announced that it will launch wireless local area network (WLAN) service on 15 May at 1,600 yen (US$12.46) a month. The carrier is planning to open 1,000 "hot spots," where users can...
ORLANDO—ViaFone will team with EDS and Hewlett-Packard at CTIA Wireless 2002 in Orlando.ViaFone will join HP to show off the Quickstart Mobile Sales Solutions from HP and ViaFone. The solution allows sales representatives to manage orders, contacts and opportunities from the field across popular...
HELSINKI—Nokia introduced the Nokia D211, a multimode radio card that allows for wireless Internet access within GPRS, HSCSD and wireless LAN coverage areas.The card is designed for laptop users who require capabilities including sending and receiving e-mails, text messages, telefaxes and access to the...
CANNES, France—The GSM Association continued to move forward with its wide-ranging M-Services Initiative, announcing the second phase of the program, broad support from the supplier community, and a series of task forces to help develop the wireless data market.The association said its phase two...
WEXHAM SPRINGS, U.K.—Red-M will demonstrate its wireless Portable Office Solution, a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)-based system aimed at the mobile workgroup market.The portable office offers connectivity back to corporate local area networks (LANs) and the Internet via GPRS support, while 802.11 wireless LAN...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—The U.K. government has put an effective ban on the use of wireless local area networks (WLAN) within its departments because of rising security concerns. This move follows a decision by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Laboratory to put a temporary...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Swedish service provider iobox launched Germany's first public wireless location arena network system at the Kempinski Vier Jahreszeiten Hotel in Munich using equipment from Swedish vendor Service Factory.Iobox said it plans to establish additional WLAN hot spots in hotels, airports and conference halls...
TOKYO—A governmental advisory body for the telecommunications ministry on 16 January decided to revise the telecom regulation to let operators use the OFDM system for their wireless local area network (WLAN) services.Using the OFDM system, operators will be able to provide high-speed data transmission...
Boingo Wireless Inc. launched with plans to provide wireless Internet access at speeds up to 11 Megabits per second in major hotels, airports and coffee shops.Founded by Sky Dayton, the founder and chairman of EarthLink, the company will use 802.11b technology. A beta version...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom—More than 20 million Europeans will use public wireless local area networks (WLANs) by 2006, according to a new report from Analysys, a U.K.-based research firm.According to the report, growing adoption of the IEEE 802.11b standard, which enables access to WLAN networks,...
AUSTIN, Texas—Broadband technology company Bandspeed Inc. and Bluetooth protocol stack provider Open Interface North America announced a new product that combines Bandspeed's AFH HubMaster with Open Interface's BlueMagic AFH protocol stack. According to the companies, the new product leverages Adaptive Frequency Hopping technology to...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. says it has agreed to supply KPN with its Nokia Gateway products for the operator's wireless LAN networks."With the Nokia WLAN ADSL Home Gateway we can provide our DSL offering to the increasing wireless communication market," said Jan Wildeboer, senior vice...
TOKYO-Wireless local area network (WLAN) service targeting the retail and travel industries is set to expand quickly in Japan. Some market watchers said that once the WLAN business takes off, it might be a rival for cellular phone service and may rob the cellular...
HELSINKI, Finland-Scandinavia has long been the most fertile and concentrated spawning ground for technology innovation in Europe. The torchbearers for this culture have been led by global names such as Nokia, Ericsson, Benefon and Europolitan.In 1985, Nokia's main claim to fame was as one...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—Aptilo Networks signed an agreement to supply South Korean Internet operator Unitel with mobile access servers for a mobile network.Aptilo has delivered a test system, which will be evaluated prior to a possible nationwide buildout, the company said. Several nationwide wireless local...
TOKYO—NTT East and NTT Corporation announced that they will launch a high-speed wireless local area network (LAN) service with a data transmission speed of 36 Megabits per second (Mbps) in the second quarter of 2002 at the earliest. The service, called Biportable, uses the...
LONDON-The viability of wireless local area network (WLAN) technology is growing more questionable as its speed continues to lag behind that of wireline LANs, according to one Frost & Sullivan research analyst."The disk drive is a simple technology that does what it was designed...
