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Over the past week, a wide breadth of telecom companies have completed Long Term Evolution tests.Nokia Corp. announced results last week from the first phase of a trial that the company claimed achieved 100 megabit-per-second data transfer speeds. The trial …

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A friend in need is a friend indeed. This mantra seems to ring remarkably true at Alcatel-Lucent, evident by its wide reach and the position it finds itself in the telecom industry.The telecom equipment maker fused a breadth of French …

The “merger of equals” between Alcatel Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. is officially moving forward with Lucent’s chief executive, Pat Russo, set to lead the yet-to-be-named Paris-based telecom giant, the companies said. Alcatel’s Mike Quigley, corporate operations officer, will be …

WASHINGTON-Experts said a merger between French telecom giant Alcatel SA and U.S.-based Lucent Technologies Inc. likely would undergo intense scrutiny over national security implications, possibly delaying but not necessarily dooming a blockbuster vendor deal that could become a major test …

MURRAY HILL, N.J-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it won a contract to conduct a threat assessment of Europe’s wireless, wireline and Internet networks. The contract, which was awarded by the 25-member state European Commission, calls on Lucent to perform a comprehensive …

MURRAY HILL, N.J—Lucent Technologies Inc. said it won a contract to conduct a threat assessment of Europe’s wireless, wireline and Internet networks. The contract, which was awarded by the 25-member state European Commission, calls on Lucent to perform a comprehensive …

The very mention of Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem puts a whir in many propeller hats. The whirring is justified to a certain degree, but wireless carriers have approached investment in IMS technology with much caution. To understand their position, it’s …

Most venture capitalists dream of finding the next billion-dollar company hiding in an inventor’s garage. Andy Garman, however, dreams of finding the next billion-dollar company hiding inside a current billion-dollar company. Garman is a managing partner with New Venture Partners …

ST. LOUIS-U.S. wireless operators will slowly migrate from CDMA networks to Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing technology as they move from third generation to fourth generation, according to a report from the Rysavy Research and Datacomm Research Co. The study predicts …

Mobile workers are discovering there’s nothing more tethering than wireless devices. As advancing technologies enable 24/7 communications and monitoring capabilities, the once-clear lines between “company time” and “private time” are blurring. Employees are wrestling with how to be accessible without …

PHILADELPHIA-Bell Labs said it has discovered two ways to reduce congestion and ensure smooth traffic in both cellular networks and wireless local area networks. In a paper titled, “Network Deformation: Traffic-Aware Algorithms for Dynamically Reducing End-to-end Delay in Multi-hop Wireless …

Described by its supporters as disruptive, MIMO (multiple in, multiple out) technology has spawned a triangle of love and suspicion. Airgo Networks, which claims to have pioneered the idea of MIMO as we currently know it, said it is pleased …

Fresh with a government deal to test its Packet Blast technology, Lucent Technologies Inc. confirms a trend that proclaims packet technology is king in the wireless space. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency demonstrated this with an $11.5 million …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced two new executive appointments Tuesday. The company has appointed Jan M.K. Jaferian as its new intellectual property business president and John DeBono as its new investor relations vice president. Jaferian, who comes from Xerox …

SAN FRANCISCO-Researchers from Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Bell Labs announced what it describes as the world’s first turbo decoder chip for terminals that support an enhanced version of UMTS called High Speed Downlink Packet Access. “The Bell Labs-designed chip, which will …

Send press releases of new products for consideration for future “Products” updates to Global Wireless Products [Handsets/devices |Browser technology | Chipsets | Smart card technology |Messaging technology | Billing systems Handsets/devices Nokia Nokia announced the first 3GPP-compliant mobile phone operating …

MeshNetworks offers .11b access point, router NEW YORK-With Federal Communications Commission technical approval now in hand, MeshNetworks, Maitland, Fla., has made commercially available a new 802.11b access point and a router the company believes will bring to wireless communications the …

NEW YORK-SK Telecom, which is conducting a field trial of Flarion Technologies’ mobile broadband system, has made a strategic investment of undisclosed size in the U.S. company. Building on flash-OFDM, which Bell Labs developed, Flarion’s system allows licensed wireless operators …

NEW YORK-SK Telecom, which is conducting a field trial of Flarion Technologies’ mobile broadband system, has made a strategic investment of undisclosed size in the Bedminster, N.J., company. Building upon flash-OFDM, which Bell Labs developed, Flarion’s system allows licensed wireless …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said that Bell Labs has designed two prototype chips that will enable mobile devices to receive more than 19 megabits of data per second on 3G networks. The chips are part of a multiple input/multiple …

ORLANDO—The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association honored three recipients of its 2002 President’s Awards last night. The annual awards go to individuals and companies who have made an outstanding contribution to the industry throughout the last year. Smith Bagley, founder …

WARREN, N.J.—Wireless power amplifier supplier Celiant Corp. announced it purchased most of the assets of Fujant Inc., which was a power amplifier start-up company. “Current industry conditions favoring consolidation allowed us to buy, at a significant discount, assets that mesh …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has appointed Bill O’Shea as president of Bell Labs and chief technology officer. He replaced Arun Netravvali, who will become its chief scientist “to identify new technologies that would benefit the company,” according …

NEW YORK—Bell Labs researchers said they have developed a software architecture, called Common Operations, that will enable global roaming across all wireless network types, including those providing third-generation (3G) mobile and high-speed fixed data access services. “As next-generation high-speed mobile …