Wireless Technology

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry scored big legal victories on the health front last week as the Supreme Court put strict limits on the admissibility of expert testimony in product liability cases …

Polson on target regarding public’s RF perception Thank you for Peter Polson’s excellent article “Public opposition expected to rise about RFR radiation,” Feb. 8 in RCR. I agree that there …

SOPHIA-ANTIPOLIS, France-VLSI Technology Inc. announced it has incorporated Bluetooth technology into its portfolio of wireless technologies and, with L.M. Ericsson, has co-developed a Bluetooth baseband processor. The company also said …

WASHINGTON-AT&T Corp. head C. Michael Armstrong envisions a global wireless world where Time Division Multiple Access and Global System for Mobile communications converge but TDMA and Code Division Multiple Access …

Word broke last week that Qualcomm Inc. and L.M. Ericsson are negotiating a settlement over CDMA Interim Standard 95 patents at issue in a Texas court. The leak came during …

WASHINGTON-In an embarrassing political blunder that lends insight into the tricky third-generation wireless debate, Sen. Chuck Robb (D-Va.) last week joined two fellow Finance Committee members in urging the Clinton …

NEW ORLEANS-For an agency whose job it is to regulate an industry, last week at CTIA’s Wireless ’99 three of the five people sitting on the Federal Communications Commission seemed …

When BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. introduced its Interactive Paging service at PCS ’98 last year, Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing Janet Boudris said she expected financial applications to be …

February 8-10 Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans. (202) 785-2842. Post-CTIA ’99 February 10-12 Wireless Institute of Technology. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans. …

Power Products Power Products Unlimited Inc. selected Ken Donofrio as its new marketing director. He will orchestrate all aspects of the company’s marketing and carrier services program. Donofrio previously was …

Earlier in this decade, the wireless industry began heating up over the immense promise of wireless local loop applications. Predictions of an explosion of worldwide WLL system installations through the …

Paging Latin America February 2-3 IBC UK Conferences Ltd. Loews Miami Beach Hotel, Miami. (+44) 171-453-5495. CTIA Wireless ’99 February 8-10 Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, …

WASHINGTON-President Clinton’s renewal last week of a potent trade weapon-known as Super 301-could become a vehicle for prying open markets closed to U.S. wireless technologies. Super 301, a multistep process …

NEW YORK-Denmark-based Bosch Telecom Inc., which introduced the World 718 phone in June, has decided to close its Dallas office for U.S. sales and marketing, although it will continue selling …

WOOD DALE, Ill.-Ericsson Inc. and Rockwell Electronic Commerce said they plan to form an alliance to cooperate in international marketing, distribution and integration development activities that will position both companies …

Some analysts are expecting Code Division Multiple Access infrastructure spending to taper off in 1999 as cdmaOne infrastructure deployments in China remain questionable. “I think China is the lynch pin …

“Consumers of third-generation wireless technology will be better served by marketplace competition than by a single government-mandated standard, according to a new economic white paper released today by the North …

Alltel Corp. said it acquired Armstrong Cellular Inc.’s 15-percent interest in a network the two companies operate in Charleston, W.Va. Alltel now has 100 percent control of the operation. Terms …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration will brief the Senate Finance Committee this week on mobile phone trade and standards policy, a meeting prompted by intensified lobbying by Global System for Mobile communications …

The International Telecommunication Union has yet to decide on the air interface for third-generation mobile phone technology, but many vendors are pushing ahead anyway with GSM-based wideband CDMA technology. The …

NEW YORK-Comcast Corp., Philadelphia, announced Oct. 20 it will become the majority shareholder and operating partner of TeleSource Corp., a start-up wireless telecommunications carrier headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. TeleSource already …

Royal Philips Electronics and Lucent Technologies Inc. last week said they will dissolve the consumer communications joint venture they established just more than one year ago. At the time of …

While the debate around third-generation wireless technology to date has focused on which air interface to incorporate into the standard, leading wireless vendors brought up a few other crucial points …

Changing times are requiring some infrastructure vendors to reorganize their businesses and better align themselves with their customers. Siemens AG of Germany is the latest vendor to realize this. The …

CARLSBAD, Calif.-Telecommunications executives convened in California last month to discuss the challenges facing the industry, including competition, regulation and technological change, as part of the 21st Century Telecoms Company Global …