WASHINGTON-Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) told state regulators last week that the answer to how to get broadband services to rural American might be wireless."We can't wire rural America. ... We have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. We know we can't wire rural...
In France, the country where they offer calorie-laden pain au chocolats and croissants for breakfast, keeping one's weight under control does not seem to be a problem-probably because the locals walk the region's hilly terrain to the bus stop or train station rather than...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP)-WorldCom Inc., the nation's second-largest provider of long-distance service, on Wednesday laid off about 6,000 U.S. employees, or roughly 7 percent of its worldwide work force, as part of a restructuring announced last year, a company source said.Nearly every segment of the...
NEW DELHI, India-The Indian government has opened the floodgates to wireless technology by allowing fixed-line service providers (FSPs) to offer wireless local loop (WLL) and satellite-enabled telephony services. The duopoly regime in basic services also ended, and most major cellular companies have joined the...
WASHINGTON-The Bush administration has proposed to delay key spectrum auctions and to phase out past Internet programs, as components of the president's US$1.96 trillion budget that signals the White House's desire to improve spectrum management and its intention to end corporate telecom subsidies.Bush's spectrum...
Mobile phones are an effective comfort blanket for many people. The knowledge that help and support is just a phone call away no matter where you are is incredibly reassuring. Help and support is not limited to the owner of the phone, of course....
The fact that the telecom sector, including the mobile industry, is shivering in the cold right now after months of basking in the sun of favor from the financial community is certainly not breaking news. It seems no category-broadband wireless, mobile Internet, manufacturers, carriers,...
What is the future of the TDMA wireless interface? The issue is far from trivial. TDMA serves more than 60 million digital and 15 million analog customers and stands as the number-one technology in terms of subscribers, operators and coverage in the Americas. Moreover,...
TORONTO-The move was surprising but not totally unexpected. After many denials, U.S. carrier AT&T Wireless finally announced last November it is switching from TDMA wireless technology to the rival European-developed standard GSM technology. Moving in lock step, Rogers AT&T Wireless of Toronto, Canada's largest...
WASHINGTON-Education Secretary Roderick Paige refused to retreat from President Bush's plan to scrap the schools and libraries Internet program, a posture that prompted Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) to demand that the administration come forward with more details about how it will pay for an...
SEATTLE-Imaging technology company LizardTech Inc. partnered with computer chip giant Intel Corp. to enter the wireless Internet market with a product the company said will allow wireless users to view large, complex images.LizardTech, which currently designs technology to transmit high-quality images over the Internet,...
WASHINGTON-A new anti-crime bill would streamline law enforcement's ability to clone numeric pagers and raise the legal standard for location-based mobile phone wiretaps, changes designed to fight drug trafficking and other illegal activities that have proven controversial for industry, Congress and the Justice Department...
Editor's Note: Posted on Quantum Group, Inc.'s Web site, www.mergeusa.com, is an outspoken and somewhat controversial article on consolidating industries. It is an article that predicts general doom and misery for consolidators in any industry - including the tower industry. While the prophecy of consolidation...
SAN RAMON, Calif.- U.S. Wireless Corp. announced its South Korean joint venture, Wireless Technology Inc., signed a memorandum of understanding with SK Telecom, Korea's largest wireless carriers, to trial U.S. Wireless' RadioCamera system.RadioCamera is a network-based geolocation system that locates callers through a pattern...
Like the old dog that would not die, digital subscriber line and cable services continue to dwarf wireless in the house of the end user. Yet wireless, the new dog that is at once nimble and naive, must frail aimlessly about for a share...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell last week signaled he will not get in the way of President Bush's plan to overhaul the schools and libraries Internet discount program and that he will not be the crusader for conquering the `Digital Divide' that his...
WASHINGTON-A Georgia man last week filed lawsuit against mobile-phone giant Nokia Corp. and others, claiming cell phone use caused his brain cancer. The mobile-phone-cancer lawsuit is the latest in a mushrooming field of litigation that is beginning to hang over the wireless industry.In addition...
NEW YORK-Marking the company's move into Latin America, Securicor Wireless Inc. announced it signed a distribution deal with Marketronics Corp., which operates in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mexico City and a variety of other Latin American locations.Securicor, a subsidiary of Securicor plc, specializes in developing...
DALLAS-e2 Communications, a developer of e-mail marketing and customer relationship management solutions, acquired wireless technology developer Infoinmotion.Infoinmotion develops and markets wireless network access services.e2 said it plans to introduce wireless capabilities in its e-mail marketing and customer service program in the second quarter as...
RICHMOND, Va.-Web strategy and development company Whitlock ebs announced a strategic partnership with Voice Technologies Inc., a company focused on voice/speech technologies.The companies said they hope to help clients incorporate the latest voice and wireless technologies within existing infrastructures.
NEW YORK-Armstrong World Industries Inc., Lancaster, Pa., has produced conventional looking, pop-out ceiling tiles that hide radio-frequency antennas in their upward facing sides."Providing in-building coverage for voice and data communications is a new frontier for the wireless and ceiling industries. Ceilings can eliminate the...
FRESNO, Calif.-Pacific Wireless Technologies Inc. launched an integrated wireless communications services network using Motorola Inc.'s iDEN technology, covering 40,000 miles in California.
Centerpoint Broadband Technologies Inc., an optical networking company based in San Jose, Calif., revealed this week it is expanding the reach and capabilities of its core technology to serve the local multipoint distribution services industry.The company's new point-to-point technology is capable of delivering data...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry last week suffered two stunning legal setbacks in health-related litigation, capped by the decision of wealthy Baltimore superlawyer Peter Angelos to take control of an $800 million mobile phone-cancer lawsuit in Maryland.It was an unprecedented week that left the industry in...
