LGP Allgon has been awarded a contract to provide an indoor distributed antenna system to improve wireless phone and data coverage at Moscone West, the expansion of San Francisco’s Moscone Center conference facility. The contract was awarded by InSite Wireless, which leases wireless capacity in the facility. The contract calls for LGP Allgon to extend the system it originally installed in the Moscone Center in 2001 to cover the facility’s expansion. The system will support multiple wireless service providers and technologies, including Wi-Fi.
Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has unveiled a solution to enable service providers to manage customer data, such as subscriber profiles and user location. The platform, known as Flexent super-distributed home location register, also allows customers to authenticate users for both voice and data in third-generation networks, according to the company. It is also backward compatible with GSM/GPRS networks, Lucent said.
Chipmakers STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments Inc. said they are jointly developing a standard CDMA2000 1x EV-DV solution, which they hope to market to handset manufacturers worldwide. The protocol, which provides both voice and data, will enable cell phones, personal digital assistants and other mobile devices to have remote Internet access, as well as a slew of dynamic media like interactive online gaming, streaming video and video conferencing. The solution will be available for sampling in early 2004. Both companies announced a solution for CDMA2000 1x technology earlier this month.
Tectonic Engineering & Surveying Consultants P.C. and water services provider American Water plan to make more than 2,000 facilities, including water tanks and towers, raw land and rooftops, in 19 states available to the cellular industry. Tectonic will act as program manager for the project.
