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By Staff -- 12/2/2002

SkySites Move Closer Up To Reality

Chandler, Ariz.-based Space Data long has been preaching the importance of solving coverage gap issues in rural America, but that company's message suddenly is being heard loud and clear–thanks to the impending demise of the analog cellular network. Earlier this year, the FCC decided to sunset the analog compatibility requirement for cellular phones, making it unnecessary for carriers to ...

By Sue Marek -- 12/2/2002

Business/Finance

Briefs

By Staff -- 12/2/2002

Carriers Try To Hook Customers Online

Despite a disappointing fourth quarter last year, some major wireless carriers are optimistic their online sales will flourish this year. Online stores offered via carrier Web sites remain a small percentage of the overall wireless service sales. In fact, Telephia/Harris Interactive research shows the percentage of traffic through online stores actually declined from 7.

By Wireless Week Staff -- 12/2/2002

4Q: Carriers Keep On Spending

Overall carrier capital expenditures have dropped over the years, but operators continue to spend money. And if the fourth quarter proves a 'spend it or lose it' type of quarter, they probably will spend in the $24 billion range this year. That's based on figures for a broad cross-section of public U.

By Wireless Week Staff -- 12/2/2002

Opinion

Silence Of The Wall Street Hams

It's not surprising that once they began achieving mass market exposure and star power through the media, some Wall Street analysts took great pains to attain and hold on to the public spotlight. Now, amid the Jack Grubman scandal over analyst corruption, the question is whether the perceptions of their roles on the financial stage should change.

By Bill Menezes, Editor in Chief -- 12/2/2002

Wireless Internet

Mesh: It Works, But Will Anyone Use It?

I love technology more than the average guy and as a former physics major I developed a fascination for the way things work. But when I first came to work for Wireless Week
as technology editor, I posted a big sign over my desk to remind me what technology is. The sign, which defined the word "technology," said it was "the practical application of knowledge.

By Brad Smith -- 12/2/2002

Slot Machines And Wireless Data

Fall Comdex was recently held in Las Vegas, which is home to thousands of slot machines. What do slot machines have to do with wireless data? Many slot machines are based on TV shows such as the "Wheel of Fortune," "Hollywood Squares" and even "Dick Clark's Rockin New Year's Eve Party." They are designed to attract people who like these shows and are, in essence, an extension of the brand.

By Andrew Seybold -- 12/2/2002

Group Aims To Make Wireless An Entertaining Place

While much of the U.S. wireless market these days is focused on making networks reliable, interoperable and otherwise technically sound, one new organization formed recently is working to make sure it is also entertaining. The Mobile Entertainment Forum, which was established in Europe in 2001, has set up an American beachhead in Los Angeles.

By Karen Brown -- 12/2/2002

Coming Together To Work Out The Kinks In MMS

At last month's Comdex trade show in Las Vegas, several multimedia messaging handset and infrastructure vendors gathered to showcase their MMS equipment and demonstrate that multi-vendor interoperability exists. And while this milestone is significant, MMS advocates and experts say there are other obstacles that must be overcome before MMS will become the revenue-generating service that operato...

By Sue Marek -- 12/2/2002

Vigilance Is The Price Of Wi-Fi

Jose Granado breaks into computer networks for a living. In the last year or so, he's been hacking into more and more wireless networks. In a number of cases, it's surprised him how easy that is to do. There's something else Granado has discovered–there a lot of times that he's not the only one breaking into the wireless local area network.

By Brad Smith -- 12/2/2002

Microsoft's .NET Platform Under The Microscope

Microsoft's .NET platform was launched two years ago and with the release of Microsoft's flagship Visual Studio.NET development tool earlier this year, has become the de facto
development standard for Microsoft developers around the world. It represents a revolutionary step forward for the largest software company in the world and builds on the groundwork laid by earlier Microsoft efforts, in...

By Bryan Morgan -- 12/2/2002

Technology

The Ups And Downs Of CDMA Capacity

Here's a question that is likely to spur an interesting debate among CDMA network engineers: Is CDMA capacity always downlink limited? The standard answer is that the downlink (forward) channel in IS-95 and 1X-RTT networks runs out of capacity before the uplink (reverse) channel, so therefore capacity is downlink limited.

By Elliott Drucker -- 12/2/2002

Features

Congress Keeps Spectrum Reform In Focus

In spite of the FCC's attempt to provide a vision for future ways to harness spectrum, Congress apparently is preparing its own vision of how the resource should be used. There have been several indications in the last few weeks that Congress will take up spectrum allocation and other related issues in its session beginning in January.

By Mark Rockwell -- 12/2/2002

Global Handset Sales Beat Expectations

The market for wireless phones exceeded expectations in the third quarter of 2002, according to a recent study by Dataquest. The market increased 7.8 percent over the same period last year, with worldwide mobile phone sales totaling 104.3 million units in the quarter, according to the study. Nokia topped out the biggest winners in the market.

By Staff -- 12/2/2002

New PDAs Take On Added Meaning

When you say PDA, everyone starts thinking about devices by Palm, Handspring, HP, Sony, Toshiba and that huge host of consumer electronics manufacturers. But there's a whole other world out there of robust, vertical market devices. These handhelds–it isn't completely accurate to call them a PDA because they do so much more than contacts, calendars and to-do lists–are featuring some ...

By Brad Smith -- 12/2/2002

White Paper Fuels Competitive Fires

A white paper commissioned by 3G Americas and written by Peter Rysavy of Rysavy Research is fanning the competitive flames between the CDMA 1X technology proponents and those in the GSM/GPRS/EDGE camp. In the paper, "Data Capabilities for GSM Evolution to UMTS," Rysavy concludes that EDGE is more spectrally efficient than CDMA 1XRTT technology at data speeds of 100 Kbps and lower but that at 1...

By Sue Marek -- 12/2/2002

Alltel To Buy Mississippi Properties

Alltel has agreed to purchase wireless properties in southern Mississippi from Cellular XL Associates, a privately held company based in Hattiesburg. Alltel will add about 50,000 wireless customers as part of the transaction, which is expected to close in the first half of 2003. Terms were not disclosed.

By Staff -- 12/2/2002

Reaction To E911 Report Runs The Gamut

The complexity of the FCC's effort to create a wireless location-based enhanced 911 system was more evident than ever in the comments by the kaleidoscope of organizations and companies trying to build it. In the first comments filed in response to the so-called Hatfield Report by former FCC Office of Engineering and Technology chief Dale Hatfield, carriers, equipment providers, tower and tower ...

By Mark Rockwell -- 12/2/2002

Sprint Unveils New Enterprise Feature

The mobile computing services unit of Sprint recently announced a new feature for its Enterprise Instant Messaging platform that enables users to communicate with computer applications and databases in much the same manner as a person. The service, called Universal Application Messaging, is an interactive platform leveraging Sprint's Enterprise IM technology.

By Brad Smith -- 12/2/2002

Carriers Fight California Numbering Plan

Three big wireless carriers in California are bristling about a California Public Utility Commission plan to take wireless customers' phone numbers and give them to wireline subscribers. The move, according to the CPUC, is to allay the exhaustion of the 310 and 909 area codes. The North American Numbering Plan Administrator, the federally mandated group that oversees area codes, warns the two ...

By Wireless Week Staff -- 12/2/2002

Nextel Marks Decade Of Direct Connect

Long before cellular telephone service was the norm, members of a small entrepreneurial firm called Fleet Call were busy piecing together various analog specialized mobile radio systems across the United States and selling their service to public-safety officers, construction workers and other enterprises that required instant two-way communications.

By Sue Marek -- 12/2/2002

Operators Worldwide Near The EDGE

There was a lot of grumbling about the lack of handsets among the world's GSM carriers as they were rolling out their GPRS packet-data networks the last few years. The same thing isn't true with their next network upgrade, EDGE, which stands for enhanced data for GSM evolution. When Nokia announced its tri-band 6200 GSM/GPRS/EDGE handset Nov.

By Brad Smith -- 12/2/2002

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