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| CTIA Daily News from WOW-COM - September 1, 1998 | ||
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| Cellular Providers Race to Provide Locator Technology | ||
| Besides making mobile phones more useful for reporting emergencies, locator technology provides the opportunity to load up wireless phones with dazzling new information features that will both change the way people use them and the industry markets them. (ORLANDO SUN SENTINEL) | ||
| Omnipoint to Launch New Pricing Plans | ||
| The company will introduce new pricing plans for its prepaid and credit customers which may increase its subscribers and revenues per subscriber. (YAHOO) | ||
| Powertel Launches Pre-Paid Wireless PCS Service | ||
| Powertel, a PCS provider serving the southeastern United States, today announced the availability of pre-paid PCS services in all of the company's 26 operational markets. Powertel, Inc., is licensed to provide wireless PCS services in major cities including Athens, Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Birmingham, Chattanooga, Jackson, Jacksonville, Knoxville, Lexington, Louisville, Macon, Memphis, Nashville and Savannah. (YAHOO) | ||
| Tower Falls Short for PrimeCo | ||
| PrimeCo PCS has the preliminary OK for a 110-foot communications tower near the Five Forks intersection of James City County, Virginia, but a lawsuit for a taller tower is still pending in federal court. (NEWPORT NEWS DAILY PRESS) | ||
| Sprint Uses Church Bell Tower to Hide Antenna Site | ||
| In a move to avoid disputes with residents, Sprint PCS has proposed disguising a 70-foot communications pole as a church bell tower. According to Sprint officials, Sprint needs to erect a tower in the neighborhood of Faith Outreach Center in Hampton, Va., to cover its service area there; however, there are no structures that are tall enough for the tower. Sprint is leasing land from church pastor Rev. Mason Clark. The final design has not been decided. Conflicts between residents and wireless companies over the construction of towers have already arisen in Charlottesville, Virginia Beach, Chesterfield County and Northern Virginia. (NEWPORT NEWS DAILY PRESS) | ||
| Nextel Lawsuit Leads to Approval of Florida Antenna Site | ||
| Coconut Creek, Florida avoided a $5 million lawsuit when city commissioners essentially reversed a vote in May that banned a controversial wireless phone tower to be built. (ORLANDO SUN SENTINEL) | ||
| Georgia State Patrol
Partners with Southern LINC
for Wireless Communication Needs |
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| Nearly 300 Georgia State Patrol troopers and command personnel are using Southern LINC, which combines two-way radio, mobile phone service, numeric and text paging and data transmission in one hand-held or installed device. (YAHOO) | ||
| Teligent in Access Pact with U.S. RealTel | ||
| Teligent is to offer telecommunications services to customers in more than 200 of U.S. RealTel's commercial buildings nationwide. According to Teligent, existing or recently installed inside wiring will connect a small antenna, which is placed atop the customer's roof, with the customer's telephone equipment, personal computers, data networks, or videoconferencing facilities. Teligent's recent agreements include a pact with real estate investment trust CarrAmerica Realty. (YAHOO) | ||
| Ericsson Offers Mobile Access to Local Area Networks | ||
| Ericsson will have a full range of Wireless LAN products available by the end of 1998. (YAHOO) | ||
| DSP Architectures Target Next-Generation Cell Phones | ||
| DSP Group and Phillips Semiconductors have announced new digital signal-processing (DSP) architectures. DSP Group has unveiled its Palm core, a multiple-multiply-accumulator core designed for mobile phone applications. Working at speeds of up to 450 million instructions per second, according to a vendor, the PalmDSPCore can be integrated into wireless technology, including services such as wideband CDMA, the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System, and IMT-2000 international mobile communications. (TECHWEB) | ||
| Spyglass Releases Web
Browser Technology
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| The company has developed a version of its Spyglass Device Mosaic Web browser technology for use on the Microsoft(R) Windows(R) CE operating system. (YAHOO) | ||
| CTIA Counters Resellers Argument on Number Portability Issue | ||
| The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) has filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) taking exception to the Telecommunications Resellers Association (TRA) contention that there are practical and relatively easy ways for the wireless industry to offer number portability to customers. (WOW-COM) | ||
| Squashing the Millennium Bug to Cost Billions | ||
| Estimates within the United States alone approach $300 billion for the fix and an equal amount for litigation. (BOSTON GLOBE) | ||
| U S WEST Goes Back to Work | ||
| Some 35,000 U S WEST employees began filtering back to their jobs Monday. They confront a backlog of orders for phone repairs and new installations, and questions about what the work atmosphere will be like. (DENVER POST) | ||
| Bell Mobility to Offer Wildfire Personal Assistant | ||
| Bell Mobility and Wildfire Communications, Inc., today announced that Bell Mobility will offer Wildfire(R) personal assistant service to its subscribers in the Toronto area.(YAHOO) | ||
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