Many wireless carriers last week participated in Wireless Safety Week by encouraging subscribers to help out in emergency situations and use their wireless phones responsibly while driving. Carriers used everything from radio public-service announcements to celebrity endorsements to spread the safety message heading into...
WASHINGTON-Brad Clark, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, resident used his cellular phone three times to help people in emergency situations. His actions won him the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's 1997 VITA Wireless Samaritan Award for the state of Iowa.Driving to work last December in icy...
MotorolaMotorola Inc. appointed Dennis Roberson vice president and chief technology officer. Roberson reports to Merle L. Gilmore, president, Europe, Middle East and Africa. As president, EMEA, Gilmore also oversees the company's corporate technical staff functions. Roberson succeeds William Bruan, who retired as senior vice...
NORMAN, Oklahoma, United States-Follow-up research examining the interaction between cardiac pacemakers and certain wireless phones found that an adverse interaction only occurred when the devices were less than three inches apart from each other. This is half the previously recommended distance.Researchers at the University...
BALTIMORE, United States-Millions of hearing-aid wearers in Europe and throughout the world could benefit from work underway in the United States on a national standard intended to eliminate interference from signals emitted by digital wireless phones.Unlike analog phones, which cause little or no interference,...
NORMAN, Okla.-Follow-up research examining the interaction between cardiac pacemakers and certain wireless phones found that an adverse interaction only occurred when the devices were less than three inches apart from each other. This is half the previously recommended distance.Researchers at the University of Oklahoma's...
WASHINGTON-A group that claims mobile phone transmitters pose a public health risk last week asked a federal appeals court in New York to stay the Federal Communications Commission's implementation of a telecom act provision that pre-empts local regulation of antenna siting on the basis...
DENVER-The Colorado Public Utilities Commission scrapped a plan that would have provided a new area code for wireless phones and pagers only.Citing legal and financial implications, the commission has instead opted to retain an original plan calling for an all-services overlay for area-code relief.The...
As the popularity and penetration of wireless communications spreads throughout North America, wireless carriers increasingly will use mass-market retail outlets and their own direct channels to distribute handsets and services. Wireless consumers might put a cellular phone on their shopping list along with a...
NORMAN, Okla.-The University of Oklahoma's EMC Center reported recent findings indicate that interaction may occur between a small number of wireless phones and some implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs).ICDs are electronic devices inserted within a patient's body to monitor and correct abnormally fast heart rhythms....
IRVINE, Calif.-AirTouch Southern California said it expanded its "all-Southern California home calling area," called California Connection, to its digital customers in San Diego.AirTouch customers can talk on their wireless phones from San Luis Obispo to the Mexico border at their local airtime rates, the...
Further extending its reach into the wireless industry, Sun Microsystems Inc. announced it has signed an agreement giving L.M. Ericsson license to use and distribute its PersonalJava platform and Java Application Environment.The Ericsson announcement comes less than two months after Motorola Inc. announced it...
Twelve of the carriers featured in RCR's Top 20 Cellular operators list in 1987 either no longer exist or have substantially changed. It's not really that surprising since the list is more than a decade old.What is surprising is how next year's Top 20...
DENVER-The Colorado Public Utilities Commission is considering a plan to provide a new area code just for wireless phones and pagers despite a 1995 ruling from the Federal Communications Commission that prohibits such action.The CPUC believes Colorado will need a new area code by...
My head has been full of thoughts about government this week. My husband and I had the opportunity to hear former President George Bush speak last Monday as part of the Denver Distinguished Lecture Series.He shared antidotes about his presidency and his views on...
While it may be clear that the use of wireless phones is prohibited aboard commercial aircraft, many private pilots in a recent survey indicated they have made calls from their cellular phone while airborne, and some believe it is OK to do it.Billig &...
Not so long ago, I broached the subject of "goodwill capital" with a wireless industry leader at lunch. A number of things prompted me to do this.First, I've come to realize how much a pillar of the community one local TV broadcaster has become...
Ericsson forms office mobility unitATLANTA-Ericsson Inc. announced the formation of the Wireless Services unit in response to the increasing need for wireless communications in the workplace.Ericsson said the new unit will provide a wireless office solution based on the Interim Standard-136 Time Division Multiple...
More than 83,000 calls were made to 911 from wireless telephones every day last year, according to figures released by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association.During 1996, wireless phone calls to 911 dispatchers averaged 59,180 per day.CTIA highlighted safety as one of its themes last...
NEW YORK-Texas Instruments Inc. has put its money where its mouth is to support Internet content providers, whose creativity and innovation it sees as critical for sustaining and expanding the wireless telecommunications revolution."That is why is investing $100 million in a technology development...
Envision an all digital baseball stadium that allows its patrons to use their digital wireless phones to determine which parking lots are full, to order food and have it delivered to their seats or download player statistics.That is only one vision Kailas J. Rao,...
NEW YORK-It keeps going and going and going, but it isn't a rabbit or a battery.It's a miniature version of the methanol-powered fuel cells used to run rocket ships. Robert G. Hockaday, inventor of the patented Hockaday Micro-Fuel Cell, promises it will give wireless...
BOULDER, Colo.-CellPort Labs Inc. announced Everything Wireless, a Cellular Works company, will distribute the CellPort universal, hands-free car kit, according to an agreement signed by the two.Everything Wireless sells wireless phones and accessories through its customer catalog, World Wide Web site and in the...
NEW YORK-Bolstered by strong results in its wireless handset and telecommunications infrastructure businesses, Nokia Corp., Helsinki, reported the highest net sales, profits and earnings per share in its 132-year history.Nokia closed the fiscal year 1997 with net sales of $9.57 billion, up 34 percent...
