Monthly Archives: March, 1999
WIRELESS MESSAGING GROUP AIMS TO TAKE MESSAGING MAINSTREAM
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...
HANDSET SUBSIDY COULD UP IRIDIUM NETWORK USAGE
Early cellular carriers did it. Early paging carriers did it. Mobile data carriers are doing it now, and according to analyst Tim O'Neil of...
MOTOROLA GETS EQUIPMENT CONTRACT IN MEXICO
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. signed an $85 million contract to supply Code Division Multiple Access digital cellular phone equipment to Baja Celular Mexicana S.A....
CONDUCTUS REPORTS CLEARSITE ORDERS
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. announced it received multi-unit orders for its ClearSite front-end receiver systems from a large Japanese original equipment manufacturer and two U.S....
TECHNOLOGY TRENDS EXPECTS WIRELESS REVENUES TO FALL
POWAY, Calif.-According to an economic model developed by Technology Trends, Technology Focus Inc., 1999 wireless revenue in the United States is likely to fall...
FOURTH ITALIAN LICENSE COMING SOON
Reuters reported that Italy's Ministry of Communications approved the auction process for a fourth cellular license there, scheduled to get underway in June or...
AT&T MAY AWARD LUCENT INFRASTRUCTURE CONTRACT
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is expected to award Lucent Technologies Inc. a Time Division Multiple Access contract valued at more than $1 billion during...
LUCENT PLATFORM ENABLES 3G TDMA
HANNOVER, Germany-Lucent Technologies Inc. introduced a wireless platform that will enable TIme Division Multiple Access network operators to offer third-generation services such as seamless...
WORLD BRIEFS
GermanySiemens' Information and Communication Networks Group, T-Mobil and Unwired Planet Inc. announced they will participate in a field trial to integrate Wireless Application Protocol...
VIEWPOINT: KEEPING SCORE
Qualcomm decides to sell its infrastructure division to archrival Ericsson.VLSI rejects Philips' takeover bid, but says it will explore others.Four Canadian carriers join forces.Cable...
D.C. NOTES: SECOND THOUGHTS
FCC Chairman Bill Kennard now says the agency has an open mind on the question of private wireless auctions. It wasn't always that way.The...
RURAL AMERICA LEFT OUT OF C-BLOCK RE-AUCTION
WASHINGTON-Rural America may be left out of the re-auction of personal communications services licenses. At the end of round six on Thursday, 37 percent...
PCIA IN THE MIDDLE OF COORDINATION DISPUTES
WASHINGTON-As the private wireless industry prepares to enter the battle against auctioning spectrum, competing private wireless groups are fighting over how spectrum should be...
QUALCOMM, ERICSSON LEAVE OTHERS TO DECIDE CHIP RATE
Although Qualcomm Inc. and L.M. Ericsson announced resolutions to Code Division Multiple
Access disputes and the standoff over third-generation intellectual property rights, the companies didn't...
CANADA’S TELECOM LANDSCAPE GETS MAKEOVER
Canada's telecom market saw major changes last week, as its four smallest telecom companies agreed to merge into one company and Bell Canada formed...
ROHN/PIROD MERGER POSTPONED
PEORIA, Ill.-Rohn Industries Inc. said its previously announced merger with PiRod Holdings Inc., which was expected to close in the first quarter, has been...
LIGHTBRIDGE TO DEPLOY SERVICES FOR SPRINT PCS
BURLINGTON, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. announced Sprint PCS will deploy Lightbridge's Retail Management System and consulting services.According to Lightbridge, RMS will help Sprint PCS to incorporate...
OMNIPOINT DEMOS 14.4 KBPS DATA DELIVERY
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. said it successfully demonstrated circuit-switched wireless data delivery at a connection speed of 14.4 kilobits per second on its...
LETTERS
Modeling important in MPE solutionDear Editor,In your article, "Countdown to MPE rules" (RCR, March 15), the reader is left with the impression that field-testing...
CHINESE GOV’T CLOSE TO ACCEPTING CDMAONE STANDARD
CdmaOne vendors in China anxiously are awaiting official government word on whether China Unicom is allowed to deploy Interim Standard-95 technology."It appears China Unicom...
HP OFFERS NEW PHONE TEST PLATFORMS FOR CDMA, GSM
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Hewlett-Packard Co. introduced the HP TS-5530 mobile phone test platform, a tester that meets the demands of Code Division Multiple Access and...
IRIDIUM BRASIL WORKS TO PROMOTE SERVICE
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Iridium Brasil reports it has 1,000 subscribers and that next month it will reduce the cost of its Motorola satellite handset to...
NEW DSP CHIP WILL USE IBM TECHNOLOGY
CUPERTINO, Calif.-DSP Communications Inc. announced the D5361, a single-chip radio-frequency solution for the Personal Digital Cellular standard, which will be manufactured by IBM for...
BRAND MUST INCLUDE PROMISE FOR WIRELESS COMPANIES
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a hamburger and French fries? Probably McDonalds.Think of a pair of...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Globalstar L.P. announced it successfully launched an additional four low-earth-orbit satellites on a Soyuz-Ikar rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Globalstar now has...
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