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SAN DIEGO (AP)-Disgruntled employees are suing Qualcomm Inc., demanding potentially millions of dollars in stock options. The class-action lawsuit filed last week demands that unvested stock options for workers in Qualcomm’s infrastructure division be immediately vested. The lawsuit also seeks …

Working in the fast-paced world of wireless telecommunications is like playing a game of musical chairs-everything moves along smoothly until the music stops. In the silence, many are making a mad dash to get their seat in the circle only …

DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P. and Qualcomm Inc. signed an agreement under which Qualcomm will market and deliver the satellite-based trailer tracking system developed by Vantage Tracking Solution, a business unit of Orbcomm. Orbcomm also announced Schneider National Inc., one of …

WASHINGTON-Motorola Inc., the top American wireless manufacturer, is internally debating whether it can support what appears will be a weak U.S. position on third-generation mobile phone spectrum at the World Radiocommunication Conference next year. Motorola, according to sources, is distressed …

U.S. government officials pressed L.M. Ericsson Chief Executive Sven-Christer Nilsson last week to lobby the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to adopt the tri-mode CDMA third-generation standard framework agreed to at a TransAtlantic Business Dialogue meeting months ago. Government officials are …

NEW YORK-Amid good news about resurging American investments in Latin American mutual funds and the gradual rebound of Brazil’s economy, Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette International announced it has started covering the region’s wireless telecommunications carriers. “In order to initiate coverage …

If there is any hope second-generation CDMA technology will penetrate Europe, it may be through some struggling NMT 450 operators. The NMT MoU group, consisting of NMT 450 operators from Europe and Asia, wants members to vote at its October …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has completed the re-auction of 356 PCS licenses in the United States. Licenses had to be re-auctioned after several of the original bidders were unable to pay for the licenses they won in 1996 and …

Capping a string of negative developments leading up to its first-quarter earnings report that showed a net loss of US$505 million, Iridium announced Edward Staiano-the company’s vice chairman, chief executive officer and most voracious supporter and motivator-resigned. Reports are that …

Australia The Australian Communications Authority said it will complete its PCS auction of 800 MHz and 1.8 MHz spectrum, with the final 800 MHz lot covering Central Australia to be brought to auction for the third time. No time frame …

Germany InterDigital Communications Corp., through its subsidiary InterDigital Technology Corp., entered a worldwide, royalty-bearing Time Division Multiple Access patent license agreement with Robert Bosch GmbH of Germany. According to the agreement, InterDigital granted Bosch the license under its TDMA patent …

BAL HARBOUR, Fla.-Let the lobbying wars begin. The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium is stepping up efforts to promote Time Division Multiple Access technology around the world following the CDMA Development Group’s success in working to open up the Chinese market …

STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson said it paid less than $120.8 million net for Qualcomm Inc.’s Code Division Multiple Access wireless infrastructure operations in a deal settled last month. Ericsson spokeswoman Pia Gideon said the net amount also included compensation for cross licensing …

WASHINGTON-The re-auction of personal communications services licenses for the C, D, E and F blocks closed last week with participants bidding $412.8 million in 78 rounds, or about $3.60 per pop, according to BIA Consulting of Chantilly, Va. The Federal …

The world’s carriers are set to meet in Tokyo this week for another round of discussions on converging Code Division Multiple Access-based third-generation technology. The International Telecommunication Union adopted a framework in March resulting in a single flexible standard with …

L.M. Ericsson said it supports the third-generation TDMA proposal and a group of 3G CDMA technologies that accommodates three different modes and various chip rates. The statement comes just weeks after ending the deadlock with Qualcomm Inc. over rights to …

Some Telecommunications Industry Association members and U.S. carriers were angered last week by comments attributed to a TIA senior executive by the French Press Agency. The incident illustrates the continuing technology holy wars and brings to surface concerns a few …

WASHINGTON-The United States and China, submitting to a hostile political atmosphere that will delay any decision on Chinese entry into the World Trade Organization until year’s end, still managed last week to reach major agreements to open wireless telecom equipment …

WASHINGTON-By the end of nearly three weeks of bidding, action has all but stopped on the major markets left in the re-auction of personal communications services licenses. The only major market to receive any activity as of the end of …

Unwired Planet Inc. last week filed a registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of common stock in June, and also announced the first commercial launch of its technology by a Global System for …

San Diego-based Ensemble Communications Inc. is approaching worldwide broadband wireless access markets with a point-to-multipoint wireless system that has three key technology layers with one thing in common-they can be adapted. The company, with roots stretching back more than 30 …

WASHINGTON-Despite the much-ballyhooed settlement of the patent dispute between Qualcomm Inc. and L.M. Ericsson and the global embrace of multiple third-generation mobile phone standards, it remains unclear whether American wireless technology can break into a European market that has shunned …

WASHINGTON-Despite China’s agreement to open its doors to Code Division Multiple Access technology, differences over telecom foreign investment and other matters make it doubtful a deal will be struck on Chinese entry into the World Trade Organization during Premier Zhu …

AO PAULO, Brazil-Samsung in mid-March opened its first manufacturing operations for cellular handsets outside of South Korea. The company began manufacturing a Code Division Multiple Access handset for the Brazil market in Manaus, in the northern state of Amazonas, where …

MEXICO CITY-Pegaso PCS announced it obtained $100 million in working capital from a consortium of international financial institutions to complete the funding it needs to build out and launch its wireless network in Tijuana, Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara-Mexico’s four …