Wireless Technology

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration’s campaign to narrow the digital divide has come under attack by the American Electronics Association, the National Telephone Cooperative Association and some Republican presidential candidates. The digital …

WASHINGTON-With predictions that data-particularly e-commerce-will shape the industry’s future, the big question is which enterprise network will handle the most wireless traffic in the New Millennium. Will it be a …

The harmonious relationship between wireless technology and the Internet is making monumental advances in communication, but the rate at which consumers are taking advantage of both is lagging a little …

WASHINGTON-A Clinton administration telecom grant program under attack by key House Republicans has changed its name and recommitted itself to helping minorities, rural communities and other underserved entities. The National …

WASHINGTON-Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is pressing the White House to include funding for mobile phone-cancer research in the president’s fiscal 2001 budget proposal. President Clinton is expected to submit his …

MENLO PARK, Calif.-Customers of the American Automobile Association of Michigan will have a little more help trying to get where they are going. GetThere.com has announced that AAA Michigan will …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration, backed by telecom firms and other U.S. businesses, last week said it will launch an aggressive lobbying campaign to win congressional backing this year for China’s membership …

If recent announcements by paging vendors and carriers are any indication, two-way paging products and services are poised to make a big splash in 2000. Both Motorola Inc. and Glenayre …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-The principal supporters of the Bluetooth short-range wireless technology used the U.S.-based Comdex exhibition late last year to take the message of its capabilities to a much wider …

BOSTON – At the end of the year there will be 875 active wireless operators worldwide, growing to 937 by the end of next year, according to The Yankee Group’s …

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS and Motorola Inc.’s Network Solutions Sector signed an agreement to begin a third-generation trial of Code Division Multiple Access digital wireless technology in the third quarter …

NEW YORK-In the last seven years, semiconductor processing capacity has increased by about 2,600 percent while battery technology has improved by approximately 65 percent on a watts basis, said Phillip …

LOUISVILLE, Colo.-AirCell Inc. said it signed a contract with Cellular One of Northeast Arizona to provide air-to-ground communications to its aviation customers in the Four Corners region and the White …

Motorola Inc. found a third operator in the United States willing to deploy its proprietary integrated Digital Enhanced Network technology and more may follow. Specialized mobile radio operator Pacific Wireless …

WASHINGTON-A new study by University of Washington researcher Henry Lai suggests rats exposed to cell phone microwave frequencies suffered long-term memory loss. “Studies before this one have focused more on …

LAS VEGAS-L.M. Ericsson announced its first consumer product incorporating Bluetooth technology at Comdex/Fall ’99. The cellular phone headset connects to a mobile phone by a radio link instead of a …

WASHINGTON-The Food and Drug Administration-which recently agreed with the cellular industry to replicate two studies by Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. that showed positive findings-may have rejected cooperating with industry on …

NEW YORK-Landline replacement, the Holy Grail of wireless telephony, received a boost from an array of forces unleashed simultaneously into the communications environment. This is not a high-stakes game of …

Canada Bell Canada offered to purchase for cash up to 15.8 million of the outstanding common shares of Aliant, the largest telecommunications company in Atlantic Canada, at a price of …

WASHINGTON-Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), ranking minority member of the Governmental Affairs Committee, called for a congressional investigation into whether mobile phones pose a health risk to the nation’s 80 million …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week attempted to delay ABC’s “20/20” broadcast on mobile phones and attacked the credibility of the man who led CTIA-funded health research. ABC said …

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Audiovox Communications Corp. said it is expanding its international sales and operations and introducing three new Global System for Mobile communications handsets as well as a dual-mode, dual-band Code …

Dear Editor, Studies of possible harms to the brain from cell phone use by the Wireless Technology Research Group, meant to be a definitive, industrywide effort, focus on cancer and …

NEW YORK-“We’ve done the really easy stuff, and now the fun begins,” Ivan Seidenberg, chairman and chief executive officer of Bell Atlantic Corp., said in a keynote address Oct. 7 …

WASHINGTON-With only eight months before the World Radiocommunication Conference in Turkey, U.S. spectrum policy for third-generation wireless systems is on the verge of meltdown as the Clinton administration and industry …