KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS engineers have developed standard specifications that enable interoperability between two major components of wireless networks-mobile switching centers and base station subsystems-from two different vendors of Code Division Multiple Access equipment, the company announced."This significant development will lead to increased competition...
Sierra Wireless said it has brought together 17 other companies in an alliance formed to work together to offer more complete solutions so the general public will adopt wireless data devices more quickly.The WirelessReady Alliance is an invitation-only collaborative venture of hardware vendors, software...
EDISON, N.J.-AAT Communications Corp. will manage the marketing and collocation activities for Union Pacific Railroad Co.'s network of 1,200 towers located along its more 36,000 miles of railroad, under a new agreement signed by the companies, said AAT.Union Pacific has towers and rights of...
WASHINGTON-In comments filed late last week with the Federal Communications Commission, CTIA asked the regulator to provide nationwide liability protection for wireless service providers when their systems are used to connect callers to emergency services.The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association pointed out in its comments...
WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Resellers Association last week told the Federal Communications Commission it should not delay the rollout of wireless number portability despite the industry's claims it isn't technically possible to implement number portability prior to June."Achieving wireless number portability using the method proposed by...
WASHINGTON-Iridium L.L.C. announced it has signed distribution agreements with 209 regional wireless service providers and roaming partners across the globe.The distribution agreements bring Iridium access to 72 million wireless subscribers, a population of 3.4 billion people, representing 60 percent of the world's population and...
SHELTON, Conn.-ADC Telecommunications Inc.'s ADC NewNet introduced its CALEAserver software that allows wireless and wireline service providers to meet intercept-wiretap requirements outlined in the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act.CALEAserver will allow carriers to meet the original Oct. 25 CALEA compliance date, said ADC....
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced it is deploying data and fax capabilities on commercial Code Division Multiple Access wireless networks.Motorola CIG is deploying circuit-switched data in networks in Japan, South America and the United States. GTE plans to test the service...
PHOENIX-AG Communication Systems introduced Incoming Call Screening, an application that enables wireless service providers to offer enhanced call-management services to their subscribers, said the company.INgage ICS is a wireless intelligent network application that allows subscribers to filter incoming calls before the call reaches their...
IRVINE, Calif.-Subscriber Computing Inc. introduced a wireless intelligent network-based prepaid billing solution, which uses Oracle Corp.'s scalable RDBMS technology on a Sun Microsystems Inc. Sun Solaris platform.SCI's first installation of the PrePay Metered Billing solution, for "one of the largest wireless prepaid carriers in...
WASHINGTON-Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), in a fit of anger last week, threatened to eliminate the Federal Communications Commission if it continues to embrace Vice President Gore's goal of wiring all schools, libraries and rural hospitals to the Internet by 2000 at the expense of...
Possio InternationalWireless fax machinePossio International, based in Sweden, introduced the PM80, a wireless, briefcase-portable terminal for transmitting and receiving fax messages. The device connects to a mobile phone with either infrared light or a PC card. The portable fax machine will be upgradable to...
Moffet, Larson & JohnsonMoffet, Larson & Johnson Inc. announced the integration of Comarco Wireless Technologies' Network Evaluation System tool NES-250 with the PathPro drive-test post-processing module, PathView. The integration provides the capability to transmit data from the GEN II series to the PathPro, the...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association said it published two new interim standards."Wireless Radio Telecom-munication Intersystem Non-Signaling Data Communication DMH (Data Message Handler)," or IS-124-A, describes the test procedures and messages necessary to provide to wireless service providers non-signaling data communications requiring interaction between different...
ArrayComm Inc. announced that G. John Gruen III will fill the newly created position of director of corporate development. Gruen will be responsible for building and enhancing strategic partnerships and corporatealliances as well as developing pre-initial public offering strategies and communications for the privately...
Astronet Corp. announced the promotions and additions of several employees. Dave Segbers was promoted to vice president of sales and marketing, from director of the same division. Max Ohyama was hired as his assistant vice president. Randy Terman was promoted to marketing manager from...
NEW YORK-Texas Instruments Inc, and Sun Microsystems Inc. want to keep things comparatively simple within the handset as demands on its capabilities grow more complex.With that goal in mind, the two companies announced an agreement last week that will permit delivery of Sun's Java...
Stratus Computer Inc. and IEX Corp. have developed a joint solution for local number portability that features IEX's Nexus Service Control Point software running on Stratus' Continuum fault-tolerant software.The company's LNP solution will allow local telephone wireless and wireline customers to retain their existing...
Lodestar Towers Inc., a developer and manager of multi-use transmission sites, broke ground on its Mt. Harvard facility in Southern California.Lodestar said the facility is the nation's first multi-use facility equipped to provide turnkey transmitter plant facilities for digital television in the Southern California...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt has informed Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) that decisions are nearing on key wireless petitions seeking relief from antenna siting moratoria and taxation through federal pre-emption of state and local regulations.In a May 14 letter to...
ELGIN, Ill.-The National Cellular Safetalk Center, a nonprofit wireless industry advocate, has introduced a car phone safety public education program.The new program is based on Safetalk's successful high school driver education program sponsored by 11 carriers in 16 states and one Canadian province, Nova...
WASHINGTON-Some 116 siting moratoria have taken place or are pending in the United States since the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was enacted in February, impeding the entry of several varieties of wireless service providers into the marketplace, according to the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association.A...
The village of Schaumburg, Ill., and the city of Half Moon Bay, Calif., allege the U.S. Postal Service is overstepping its legal bounds for building tower sites on post office property, disregarding local zoning authorities in favor of making money from the private sector.UniSite...
SAN FRANCISCO-Natural Microsystems Corp. announced an enhanced version of the TX2000, a high performance communications processor, in an effort to integrate the core SS7 technology gained in its recent acquisition of TEKnique Inc.The new version of the TX2000 adds a dual-T1 interface, which enables...
