STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it has opened a wideband Code Division Multiple Access demonstration center in Stockholm, Sweden, where operators and others can experience third-generation services in a high bandwidth environment.Ericsson, along with Swedish operator Telia, also launched the W-CDMA test network in Kista,...
VLSI Technology Inc. announced its board of directors adopted a new shareholder rights agreement and bylaw amendments to fend off a hostile bid from Royal Philips Electronics.Philips launched the bid for all of the outstanding common shares of VLSI after the semiconductor company declined...
WARREN, N.J.-Anadigics Inc. said its dual-band power amplifier supports the Ericsson I 888, a Global System for Mobile communications world phone that works on 1900 MHz GSM in the Americas and 900 MHz GSM in Europe and most of the world.The power amplifier supports...
NEW YORK-As wireless telecommunications heads into the new frontier of electronic commerce, service providers must answer a question posed by an old British rock song: "I really want to know, who are you?"Toronto-based Diversinet Corp. is in business to provide an answer in the form...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson introduced its first product as a result of its participation in the Symbian initiative-a mobile companion to Global System for Mobile communications phones called the MC 218.The product is designed according to Ericsson's divided smart-phone concept, in which the voice-based phone...
WASHINGTON-Continuing its strategy to get some of Pocket Communications Inc.'s personal communications services licenses, National Telecom PCS Inc. last week offered to pay $13 million for the 12 C-block licenses.NatTel sent a reorganization plan to Judge E. Stephen Derby, seeking the licenses owned by...
Sources close to International Telecommunication Union activity on third-generation technology say standards likely will not be set during the 31 March meeting in Brazil.The ITU had hoped ideally by the end of March to set a single 3G standard-one that will allow for global...
UkraineOrbcomm Global L.P. announced it has signed a service license agreement with Transexpo Corp. to provide its satellite data services to the Ukraine. According to the agreement, Transexpo will take delivery of an Orbcomm gateway, which includes a gateway earth station and a gateway...
CANNES, France - L.M. Ericsson Inc. displayed the R250 PRO, its water, dust and shock resistant mobile phone, for use on the Global System for Mobile communications 900 and GSM 1800 networks, at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France.The phone supports both GSM...
BALTIMORE-Judge E. Stephen Derby last week denied a motion by Pocket Communications Inc. to reverse its election, thus allowing the re-auction of all but 12 of Pocket's licenses to go forward later this month.Derby's decision was necessary after Pocket's unsecured creditors, Pocket owner Daniel...
PISCATAWAY, N.J.-The Wireless Information Network Laboratory at Rutgers University is working to set a research agenda that will facilitate deployment of General Packet Radio Service, a new wave in wireless data communications.GPRS is a large, complex system that merges cellular telephone radio transmission technology...
Word broke last week that Qualcomm Inc. and L.M. Ericsson are negotiating a settlement over CDMA Interim Standard 95 patents at issue in a Texas court. The leak came during a key pre-trial hearing over the matter and continued rumblings of U.S. trade action...
MONTREAL-Telesystem International Wireless Inc. announced its affiliate, Telet S.A., launched digital cellular service in Greater Porto Alegre and Greater Caxias do Sul in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil under the brand name "Claro Digital."Telet's network is supplied by Ericsson Inc....
WASHINGTON-In potentially a major breakthrough in the gridlocked third generation mobile phone controversy, U.S. and European wireless executives here last week agreed to pursue a framework for an umbrella Code Division Multiple Access standard that combines common elements of competing CDMA technologies and gives...
NEW YORK-Compaq Computer Corp., Houston, announced a new services initiative designed to help large enterprises "rapidly transform their existing networks into adaptive, next-generation networks necessary for ... a global, Internet-driven business world."The first phase of the initiative encompasses next-generation network infrastructure at the enterprise...
STOCKHOLM-Ericsson Inc. and EuroTel Bratislava said they have signed a $51 million contract to expand EuroTel's Global System for Mobile communications system in Slovakia.Under the terms of the contract, Ericsson said it will provide base stations, base station controllers and service solutions.In the past...
NEW ORLEANS-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium and the GSM North American Alliance announced plans to work to achieve interoperability between TDMA and GSM technology, a move that could facilitate national and global consolidation among carriers with incompatible technologies and in particular allow SBC Communications...
BALTIMORE-At press time Friday, Judge E. Stephen Derby told parties in the Pocket Communications Inc. bankruptcy case he would make a decision in the latest round of this convoluted case on Feb. 24.The parties in the case were back in court locked in battle...
NEW ORLEANS-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium, which represents the interests of Time Division Multiple Access technology proponents, demonstrated interoperability between 850 MHz and 1900 MHz networks at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association Wireless '99 show in New Orleans.Groups of attendees on the show floor...
NEW ORLEANS-1999 could be a key year for many carriers in determining if wireless users want to access the Internet from mobile devices.Nextel Communications Inc. announced it will begin rolling out limited mobile Internet access service to six East Coast markets during the fourth...
WASHINGTON-In an embarrassing political blunder that lends insight into the tricky third-generation wireless debate, Sen. Chuck Robb (D-Va.) last week joined two fellow Finance Committee members in urging the Clinton administration to use renewed Super 301 trade authority to make Europe open its market...
NEW ORLEANS-International Telecommunication Union members did not reach any consensus in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, on harmonizing the various radio transmission technology proposals received by the ITU for third-generation technology.The ITU has decided harmonization efforts will rest with carriers and has asked them to put...
At CTIA's Wireless '99: The Jambala Wireless Application Protocol Gateway, which will allow operators to improve and expand wireless data services to their customers, said the company.An open-application platform, the Jambala WAP Gateway is a network node that serves as a bridge between the...
The CDMA Development Group and Qualcomm Inc. are in the minority in asking the International Telecommunication Union to stop work on third-generation technology development because of the intellectual-property-right standstill between Qualcomm and L.M. Ericsson.ITU members met Saturday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to obtain industry...
