WASHINGTON-Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. last week declared digital pocket phone interference with cardiac pacemakers not to be a public health problem, saying interference problems can be minimized in the short run by increased consumer awareness and in the long run by improved design of...
Dr. George Carlo, head of Wireless Technology Research L.L.C., is a tough one to figure.Should we feel sorry for Carlo because of the lawsuits (and the accompanying indemnification snafu), wireless industry funding squabbles, logistical problems and media controversy that confront him and threaten his...
WASHINGTON-The five-year, $25 million industry-funded research program on potential cancer risks from pocket telephones will come to a screeching halt unless wireless carriers and manufacturers agree to indemnify scientists named in several pending lawsuits, according to the project director."This is a serious issue for...
OCTOBER7 Making Sense of the Changing Communications Marketplace, by TeleStrategies Inc. Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, Washington, D.C. (703) 734-7050.7-9 Wireless APPS Convention, by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Bally's, Las Vegas. (301) 694-5243.7-9 Technology Forecasting for the Telecom Industry, by Technology Futures Inc. Renaissance...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp. announced it will supply personal communications services wireless infrastructure equipment and services to Kentucky-based SouthEast Telephone Ltd., a license winner in the Federal Communication Commission's PCS C-block auction.SouthEast Telephone has obtained licenses to provide PCS service in six basic trading...
The futuresque communications previously only envisioned by StarTrek's writers are reality in the here and now as demonstrated at PCS '96 by students of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, in conjunction with Motorola Inc.The communications technology projects exhibited by MIT use Motorola's FLEX...
WASHINGTON-U.S. manufacturers have begun mounting a counter offensive to what they see as a European-led, anticompetitive effort to restrict global wireless standards for third generation pocket phones.The controversy surfaced as International Telecommunication Union members developed recommendations on which technology or technologies should drive wireless...
Wireless local loop and personal communications services technologies have come a long way but differences in their network costs don't reveal a clear winner, according to a new report from Dittberner Associates Inc.In "Wireless Access to the Switched Network," Donald Dittberner concludes, "Major niche...
SEPTEMBER16-17 CDMA System Design, Engineering & Optimizations, by the Wireless Institute of Technology. Holiday Inn, San Francisco, Calif. (510) 490-6459.16-17 1996 Communications Act-Deriving Order from Chaos, by Bell Atlantic Professional Services and Indetec International Inc. Embassy Suites Hotel, Dallas. (800) 327-8412.17-18 Broadband for Residential...
WASHINGTON-Hardcore opponents of the new hybrid radiofrequency radiation standard, believing federal regulators will reject calls to repeal it, are already considering putting a consortium together to challenge the safety guideline in court.By registering their grievances with the Federal Communications Commission, despite uncertain prospects for...
WASHINGTON-The Senate Judiciary Committee last week scrutinized pending mergers involving four of the seven regional Bell telephone companies, setting the stage for a broader debate on whether the new telecommunications law is fostering competition or limiting it.There are strong views on both sides of...
Digital wireless technologies were designed to answer issues of quality, capacity and cost. But by releasing huge swaths of new spectrum, the Federal Communications Commission has changed the rules, and capacity is now much less important than cost-but not everybody in the industry has...
Even in this new era of commoditized wireless competition, sometimes it pays to enter the market by trying to set the bar a little higher.Irvine, Calif.-based Comarco Wireless Technologies Inc. is attempting to do just that with its line of field measurement test equipment."We...
SEPTEMBER9-10 1996 Communications Act-Deriving Order from Chaos, by Bell Atlantic Professional Services and Indetec International Inc. Wyndham Bristol Hotel, Washington, D.C. (800) 327-8412.9-10 A Practical Introduction to Wireless Data, by Motorola Inc. Back Bay Hilton, Boston. (800) 771-2012.10 Paging Infomania 1996, by Motorola Inc....
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-The combined total of cellular and personal communications services devices will be in the hundreds of millions by 2000, said Allied Business Intelligence Inc. in its report, "The Wireless World Strategic Outlook."The report evaluated six categories of wireless technology and studied each...
WASHINGTON-Only weeks after luring Alex Mandl away from AT&T Corp. for a reported $20 million in a much celebrated coup, Associated Communications L.L.C. now finds itself mired in controversy over the suddenly popular 18 GHz spectrum for local broadband wireless multimedia services that Mandl...
WASHINGTON-In a highly unusual case involving improper lobbying by the lawmaker who may oversee the telecommunications industry one day, the Federal Communications Commission threw out two Louisiana rural cellular licenses after ruling that a firm's reliance on wireless technology to provide fixed telephone service...
The paging industry is celebrating the Federal Communication Commission's recent ruling on interconnection rates-for the most part.The new regulations are expected to save paging carriers money, but new state level arbitration authority could prove time-consuming and expensive.The FCC mandate means not only that paging...
AUGUST19-20 A Practical Introduction to Wireless Data, by Motorola Inc. San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel, San Francisco. (800) 771-2012.19-21 Wireless Communications Conference, by The Microelectronics Society. Regal Harvest House, Boulder, Colo. (303) 497-3037.21-22 The Wireless Buildout '96, by Shorecliff Communications. Hotel Del Coronado, San...
AUGUST13-14 Wireless Interconnection '96, by Bellcore. Westin Hotel San Francisco Airport, Millbrae, Calif. Call Pam Dunn at (800) 521-CORE.13 & 20 Semiconductor Conference, by the New York Society of Security Analysts. NYSSA Headquarters, New York. (212) 912-9249.19-20 A Practical Introduction to Wireless Data, by...
For those who are banking on the growth of specialized mobile radio during the next few years, there is good news and there is good news. The good news is: The transition to digital technology will continue to grow, adding new voice and data services,...
I wonder if Judge Loretta Preska has ever been to a professional basketball game.Preska ruled in favor of the NBA in its lawsuit against Motorola Inc., ordering Motorola and information providers STATS Inc. to stop sending accounts of NBA basketball games over its pager...
The prospect of taking SkyTel 2-Way messaging service from a workable technology to a marketplace product is at the crux of John Stupka's new role as president and chief executive officer of paging giant Mtel.In taking the helm at Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp., Stupka...
