WASHINGTON-Carriers last week overwhelmingly warned the Federal Communications Commission that while they will make their best efforts to meet implementation deadlines for enhanced 911 Phase II, they are concerned that solutions-whether they be handset, network or hybrid-will meet the time lines or accuracy requirements...
WASHINGTON-The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said it plans to fine Clear Communications Group $120,000 for willful and repeated violations of federal workplace safety regulations."The failure to provide adequate fall protection is one of the most common and most preventable causes of injuries in...
Deutsche Telekom expects to obtain approval of its proposed purchase of VoiceStream Wireless Corp. by the first quarter of next year, according to a report in German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The deal, valued at $37 billion, still requires U.S. regulatory approval.Lucent Technologies...
The specialized mobile radio industry is quickly becoming a fractured market divided between the traditional small SMR carriers, which are focused on providing dispatch services to customers at reasonable prices, and big players, which are marketing services as a high-end alternative to personal communications...
ARLINGTON, Va.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate TeleCorp PCS Inc., which plans to merge with fellow AT&T affiliate Tritel, added 85,563 subscribers during the third quarter ended Sept. 30, bringing the company's total customer base to 405,444 subscribers. The additions were a 27-percent increase from...
WASHINGTON-The FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau on Oct. 27 approved the transfer of several personal communications services and local multipoint distribution service licenses to TeleCorp Wireless Inc.The bulk of the licenses are being transferred as part of TeleCorp's merger with Tritel Inc."The approval is...
NEW YORK-In this day of mega-mergers and high-dollar corporate buyouts, the thought of exchanging assets of similar value seems like a throw-back to our bartering ancestors. Trading objects of similar value is now largely left to the realm of sports, where teams exchange players...
REDMOND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced it has created a new default home page for PocketNet wireless Internet subscribers geared for teen users, with some 60 content sites of interest to younger users.Subscribers have a choice of default home pages-either the AT&T Main Page...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Residents in Virginia and West Virginia will likely see an expanded PCS network after a $100 million deal between Lucent Technologies Inc. and CFW Communications goes into effect.CFW, which does business under the Ntelos name, awarded a three-year contract to Lucent to...
TOKYO-The Japanese government decided not to use the 5 GHz band for wireless access services in an open field. An advisory body for the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications on the same day concluded it is impossible for wireless services operators to share the...
HERNDON, Va.-InphoMatch, a Web-to-wireless applications developer, and online community site eNeighbors teamed up to provide wireless communications and commerce services to communities connected through eNeighbors.com.The goal is to link neighborhood businesses to the communities they're in, allowing community members to complete their business online.The...
EMERYVILLE, Calif.-Informano Networks announced it added interactivity to The Gallup Organization's Election 2000 wireless Web site.Informano said users will be able to remotely check Gallup's site for specific information, such as how certain blocks of voters will cast their vote, using the company's CastCom...
NEW YORK-Worries are misplaced that the proposed split of AT&T Corp. into four parts next year means a lost opportunity to tap the lucrative potential of multimedia bundling of services, the company's chairman and chief executive officer said."A lot of analysts are concerned about...
NEW DELHI, India-India is set to witness an explosion in wireless services during the next few months, with the decision to end the duopoly of GSM operators and to allow fixed telephony companies to offer "limited mobility" services using wireless technology.Two more cellular operators...
TOKYO-The third-generation (3G) business plans and service strategies of three Japanese cellular carriers are becoming more concrete. NTT DoCoMo and J-Phone Group, the mobile business of Japan Telecom, are going to launch 3G services based on wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) technology in 2001, and the country's...
DENVER, United States-U.S. paging operator WebLink Wireless is making plans to implement a narrowband PCS (NPCS) network in Central America using a first-ever infrastructure-sharing arrangement that would enable low-volume providers in the seven-nation region to cost effectively begin providing two-way paging services.Central America, sandwiched...
NEW YORK-More than any other part of telecommunications, the handset business "will go through the most severe changes in the next several years," said Jeffrey Schlesinger, wireless technology analyst for UBS Warburg in New York.Slowing rates of growth in voice communications, coupled with the...
CHICAGO, United States-One of the first commercial deployments of Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution (EDGE) technology could be in Mexico next year based on presentations and interviews at the PCIA GlobalXchange event in late September. Mexico's largest wireless carrier, Telcel, plans to roll...
SAN DIEGO-Kyocera Wireless Corp. and Lucent Technologies Inc. reported an agreement to work together to accelerate global deployment of third-generation CDMA wireless services by aligning development of Kyocera's wireless handsets and accessories with Lucent's wireless network equipment.The collaboration will encompass marketing activities, technical support...
WASHINGTON-Network-based solutions to meet the wireless enhanced 911 Phase II mandate may be winning the battle with handset-based solutions because handsets are not available as the deadline looms for carriers to make a choice.While many of the largest carriers-including Verizon Wireless, Sprint PCS and...
Less than a week after introducing a new suite of messaging services targeted in part to teen users, Sprint PCS introduced a new package of wireless Internet-based games to its Wireless Web service.The move is targeted at capitalizing on two wireless trends-increasing teen usage...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. could have a more difficult time offering bundled services to its customers after the business unit is separated from the parent group, according to one analyst.Now that AT&T has announced it will create four separate companies, each operating under the...
WASHINGTON-VoiceStream Wireless Corp. fully expects to meet the extended deadlines the Federal Communications Commission set out for it to implement enhanced 911, said the GSM carrier recently."All of VoiceStream's infrastructure vendors have confirmed that they will have products available incorporating location solution by...
Noting the importance of wireless Internet and data services to wireless service providers, along with Goldman Sachs findings that more than 50 percent of all Web access will be delivered through a wireless device within the next five to 10 years, Telephia Inc. has...
