WASHINGTON-Finishing guidelines to facilitate antenna sitings on park property, The National Park Service stopped short of presuming that antennas can be sited without harming NPS lands.Instead, NPS decided each application must be reviewed individually, including applications for collocation."The good news is that they have...
WASHINGTON-In perhaps the strongest signal to date of congressional concern about U.S. global competitiveness in the future third-generation mobile phone market, Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) pressed the Clinton administration to outline the steps it is taking to ensure American technology is not snubbed by...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry and the hearing-impaired community appear headed on a collision course over the implementation of the 1996 telecom act's mandate that equipment and service be accessible and usable by persons with disabilities if it is "readily achievable."The readily achievable caveat, among other...
WASHINGTON-A decision to allow law enforcement access to location information as part of the digital wiretap upgrade may have an impact on which technologies are deployed under the enhanced 911 mandate even though all players in the two dramas maintain the issues are separate."Both...
WASHINGTON-House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.), compromising with Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) on privacy, liability and cancer-research funding, won bipartisan approval last week on legislation to improve E911 wireless capability and foster antenna siting on federal land.The bill, which the House Commerce Committee...
NEW YORK-Proceeding toward its vision of the network as the computer, Sun Microsystems Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., is expected to introduce formally this week the successor to its Java programming language.Spelled J-i-n-i, and pronounced "genie," the new software allows Java to enable devices like...
WASHINGTON-The Congressional Budget Office has informed House telecom subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.) that his 911 federal land antenna-siting bill will not generate the huge windfall projected by the cellular industry and promised early on to public-safety and health-care professionals who support the measure."We...
Comverse Network Systems, a division of Comverse Technology Inc., joined the Wireless Application Protocol Forum Ltd., said the company. Comverse said it is the first vendor exclusively dedicated to providing network operators with enhanced services platforms to join WAP. WAP is a non-profit organization,...
WASHINGTON-As U.S. and European wireless firms accuse each other of gaming the standards-setting process for third-generation wireless technology, it turns out the high-powered Qualcomm Inc. lobbyist playing the trade card here represented Sweden's L.M. Ericsson in a separate standards fight two years ago.In the...
APEC countriesTrade ministers from the 18 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies endorsed the completion of a mutual recognition arrangement for telecom equipment conformity assessment covering about US$45 billion in trans-Pacific trade.ChinaGlenayre Technologies Inc., United States, has activated what it says is the first...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association unveiled an updated brochure aimed at consumers with hearing disabilities.The brochure, entitled "Access," is intended to help educate deaf and hard of hearing consumers about the choices they have in selecting wireless phone products and services.The brochure includes...
Lucent Technologies Inc. added several new applications to its Cooperative Innovations alliance program, which is meant to supplement Lucent-developed and -branded solutions.Lucent tests applications marketed through Cooperative Innovations for compatibility with its wireless infrastructure. Testing takes place at the company's Wireless Innovation Lab in...
SAN FRANCISCO-Lucent Technologies Inc. researchers have developed new software tools that promise to speed the design of radio frequency integrated circuits used in wireless phones and base stations.Lucent said it currently takes four or more design iterations to develop manufacturable RF chips within the...
PRINCETON, N.J.-WolfeTech Corp. announced it will offer NewsAlert's real-time news service to two-way pagers, wireless phones and other wireless devices equipped with the PocketGenie application.Users who enter a company's ticker symbol in their device will activate the NewsAlert search engine, which then retrieves the...
Competition among companies that supply digital signal processors to the wireless industry is beginning to heat up with new alliances and investments changing the competitive landscape.IBM Corp.'s Microelectronics division last week announced it will pump $100 million into several new initiatives designed to expand...
VLSI Technology Inc. today announced it is shipping samples of its new Code Division Multiple Access chip solution, which it is calling the first real alternative to Qualcomm Inc.'s CDMA chip products.The CDMA+ product is about the size of a dime and includes the...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week went on the offensive to put in place a technical standard that will allow carriers to alert subscribers of an impending natural disaster or weather emergency.Also, James L. Witt, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, last...
WASHINGTON-CTIA last week at its fourth annual Cellular Telephone Industry Association Foundation Achievement Awards Dinner paid tribute to Dennis F. Strigl, Newt Gingrich and the 50 winners of its Vita wireless samaritan awards who all used wireless phones to help people in danger or...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. announced it has established an online purchasing site for customers in the United States to buy wireless phones, two-way radios and accessories as part of its product unification effort.Accessories include chargers, batteries, car kits, headsets and carrying cases, as well as...
NEW YORK-Texas Instruments, Dallas, announced June 8 the release of its new TRF3040 Modulator/Synthesizer, designed to make it easier and cheaper to manufacture lighter dual-band, dual-mode wireless handsets that use less power while roaming seamlessly throughout North America.The modulator/synthesizer is designed for original equipment...
WASHINGTON-The federal government is "poised and waiting to begin a pilot program" of cellular priority access for emergency personnel, the Clinton administration's senior telecom official recently told the Federal Communications Commission.The FCC should not delay further approving the Cellular Priority Access Service, or CPAS,...
SALEM, N.J.-Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. provided 60 wireless phones to Public Service Electric & Gas earlier this month for a nuclear emergency response test. The phones essentially replaced landline communications during the drill.The exercise tested cooperation among the utility, county, state and federal agencies...
A manufacturer of mobile phone shield devices said business has been booming following the release of a Swedish study that linked mobile phone use with headaches, fatigue and tingling and heat sensations on the ear and skin."We've been inundated with calls. Our switchboard has...
Personal communications services provider PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. signed a roaming agreement with GTE Wireless that will expand its PrimeTravel coverage area to 45 of the country's top 50 markets, said PrimeCo. PrimeCo customers now can roam in GTE's San Francisco; Indianapolis; Nashville and...
