WASHINGTON-Despite the much-ballyhooed settlement of the patent dispute between Qualcomm Inc. and L.M. Ericsson and the global embrace of multiple third-generation mobile phone standards, it remains unclear whether American wireless technology can break into a European market that has shunned it to date.Some industry...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J.-International Wireless Technologies L.L.C. has developed a single-chip solution that permits wireless device manufacturers to use one platform for multiple mobile and fixed voice and data standards.By mid-year, IWT said it expects to beta test with two equipment manufacturers its patent pending...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Electronic Messaging Association announced the formation of the Wireless Messaging Group, designed to help bring wireless messaging mainstream.According to EMA, the WMG's specific charter is "to promote wireless technologies and solutions and educate corporate end users, (Information Technology) managers, (Chief Information Officers),...
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 and declined to review a lower court's dismissal of a class-action lawsuit against Motorola...
Polson on target regarding public's RF perceptionThank you for Peter Polson's excellent article "Public opposition expected to rise about RFR radiation," Feb. 8 in RCR. I agree that there is, indeed, a great storm brewing and it is about to break over the wireless...
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 it has made available a development kit for Bluetooth hardware and software development. VLSI 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 technologies remain separate.Armstrong, speaking last week at a luncheon sponsored by the American Enterprise...
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 a key pre-trial hearing over the matter and continued rumblings of U.S. trade action...
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 administration to use renewed Super 301 trade authority to make Europe open its market...
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 reluctant to predict where that regulation will go in the next century."I don't think...
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 a big driver of the two-way messaging paradigm.If recent announcements are any indication, that...
February 8-10Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Ernest N. MorialConvention Center, New Orleans.(202) 785-2842.Post-CTIA '99February 10-12Wireless Institute of Technology. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans. (210) 344-6660.Radio-frequency SiteSafety Awareness SeminarFebruary 9Radiofrequency Safety International Corp. Kent State University. Kent, Ohio. (316) 825-4600.Expo Comm Mexico '99February 9-12E.J....
Power ProductsPower 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 director of marketing and carrier support for Cliffco Wireless.WirelessNorthWirelessNorth promoted its market development coordinator, Heidi...
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 end of the century were everywhere. Yet the number of lines actually deployed today...
Paging Latin AmericaFebruary 2-3IBC UK Conferences Ltd. Loews Miami Beach Hotel, Miami. (+44) 171-453-5495.CTIA Wireless '99February 8-10Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans. (202) 785-2842.Post-CTIA '99February 10-12Wireless Institute of Technology. Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans. (210) 344-6660.Radiofrequency SafetyInternational...
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 that calls for bilateral negotiations on trade disputes but can lead to retaliatory action, was...
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 the handsets here.The World 718 phone can operate on Global System for Mobile Communications...
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 for rapid growth and increased market share."The more we explored the opportunity of expanding...
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 for CDMA infrastructure going into next year and to a certain extent greater Asia," said...
"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 American GSM Alliance," reads a news release from the alliance.Joseph Farrell, a University of...
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 of the transaction were not disclosed. The company also said last month it launched...
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 advocates and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute in response to Congress and the White...
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 Geneva-based international standards body is mulling through 15 different proposals, the majority based on CDMA...
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 has received a temporary license for a pilot broadband wireless network in Amsterdam, the Netherlands,...
