BROWSING: Qualcomm

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 Rongji's visit here later...

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 it to date.Some industry...

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 years to Linkabit, a consulting...

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 Mobile communications operator.Although it...

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 tennis shoes, and you probably picture the Nike swoosh. Or a pair of jeans, and you probably think of Levi's....

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 resolve key technical differences 3G parties have tried to resolve for more than a year. Qualcomm and Ericsson announced last week they resolved...

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 & Wireless and MediaOne Group look at alternatives for their jointly owned carrier, One 2 One.You had better be careful...

It was an unprecedented event. Qualcomm Inc., the biggest defender of CDMA technology, and L.M. Ericsson, the largest naysayer of the technology, embraced last week, ending more than 10 years of open hostilities between the two. "It's wonderful to be together," said Dr. Irwin Jacobs, chairman and...

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 largest cities.This latest commitment...

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 Samsung has manufactured other...

WASHINGTON-Sixty-six bidders are competing for the 356 personal communications services licenses being re-auctioned by the Federal Communications Commission.Bidders include Omnipoint Corp., Cook Inlet/VoiceStream PCS L.L.C., Leap Wireless International Inc., a Qualcomm Inc. spinoff, and a host of other carriers whose identities could not immediately...

The Federal Communications Commission could rule today on whether Leap Wireless International Inc. is qualified to own C-and F-block personal communications services licenses and bid in tomorrow's reauction of C-block spectrum.Leap's U.S. subsidiary, Cricket Communications, launched service last week in Chattanooga, Tenn., under a...

Tensions ran high at the International Telecommunication Union two-week meeting on third-generation technology in Fortaleza, Brazil, as the industry waits for an agreement between Qualcomm Inc. and L.M. Ericsson on cdmaOne patents.Qualcomm and Ericsson won't comment on progress made in negotiating a settlement over...

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced Qualcomm Personal Electronics, a joint venture between subsidiaries of Qualcomm Inc. and Sony Electronics Inc., shipped its 10 millionth Code Division Multiple Access handset.Initial shipments began in September 1995, reached 100,000 in May 1996, grew to 1 million in February...

WASHINGTON-Just when it appeared the United States and China were on the verge of a major trade agreement promising huge wireless export opportunities and Chinese membership in the World Trade Organization, a high-tech espionage controversy has erupted that throws both would-be breakthroughs into doubt...

Qualcomm Inc. seems to be waging an uphill battle with the Federal Communications Commission over its quest for a pioneer's preference mobile phone license it believes it deserves for cdmaOne technology.The U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia will hear arguments next...

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...

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...

MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. announced it signed a three-year vendor agreement with Qualcomm Inc. for its NewNet wireless messaging products, SMserver short messaging service and the OTAserver over-the-air activation product.ADC said the SMserver software manages transmission of text messages to mobile handsets, providing subscribers with...

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...

Its vision of future wireless telecommunications, which includes the naming of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, previously the company's ASIC Products division, which develops and produces semiconductors and software. Next-generation radio-frequency and analog chips: The Code Division Multiple Access-based MSM3100, Qualcomm's sixth-generation single-chip Mobile Station Modem baseband...

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...

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...

I guess there is no use longing for yesterdays when wireless trade shows were somewhat sane.Today's conventions are full of new twists as last-minute press conferences are called to announce deals signed at 3 a.m. the previous day, and phones that were supposed to...