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In a move designed to further its interests in the wireless environment, Microsoft Corp. announced it has formed an agreement with British Telecommunications plc to develop a set of services …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The domestic telecom market is abuzz with mergers, acquisitions and mega-deals. The industry is consolidating again, not so long after AT&T Corp. was broken up into Baby Bells; cellular and …

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 …

A Finnish Internet service provider will test the European Commission’s claim it has not shut competing mobile phone technologies out of Europe. Clari Net Oy, wholly owned by Finnish ISP …

WASHINGTON-The President’s Export Council, confronting the Clinton administration on third-generation wireless policy, urged the White House against endorsing convergence of wideband mobile phone technologies being evaluated by the International Telecommunication …

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Anatel, Brazil’s telecommunications regulatory agency, announced the auctions for the remaining two mirror licenses would be delayed from March 11 to April 23. The two licenses, for the …

DENVER-WirelessKnowledge L.L.C., the joint venture between Microsoft Corp. and Qualcomm Inc., said it will announce at Wireless ’99 this week significant additions to its recently introduced Revolv service. “The main …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. introduced its UD3000 chip, which will provide greater transmit functionality and enhanced performance of its 3000-generation chipset for an Interim Standard-95A or IS-95B Code Division Multiple Access …

A new San Diego-based company has begun developing subscriber communicators for low-speed, two-way global data communications over Orbcomm’s low-earth-orbit satellite network. Quake Wireless Inc. expects to have its first commercial …

Marketwave Richard Bryan is the new senior vice president of sales and marketing at Marketwave Corp. Bryan previously worked for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. as its vice president of sales …

The third-generation technology debate is beginning to have a negative impact on the valuation of the world’s largest wireless carrier, Japan’s NTT Mobile Communications, which plans to become the first …

Power Products Power Products Unlimited Inc. selected Ken Donofrio as its new marketing director. He will orchestrate all aspects of the company’s marketing and carrier services program. Donofrio previously was …

The 3G debate these days could be characterized as a global poker game-no one is quite sure who’s bluffing, who holds the winning cards or who plans to fold. Whether …

SAN DIEGO – Qualcomm Inc. said it has begun production shipping its integrated fifth-generation Code Division Multiple Access chipset and system software for use in cdmaOne handsets. The chipset and …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. today introduced the Qualcomm Thin Phone featuring an ultra-thin design with an internal battery that supports up to 10 hours of talk time and eight days of …

Companies already are feeling the pinch from Brazil’s falling currency, which, at RCR press time, had lost about 20 percent of its value against the U.S. dollar since Brazil’s central …

WirelessKnowledge L.L.C., a joint venture between Microsoft Corp. and Qualcomm Inc., introduced Revolv, its first service offering since forming in November. The service will allow users remote access to e-mail, …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration, invoking powerful references to the World Trade Organization, competition and convergence, last week said the European Commission’s response to U.S. concerns about potential trade barriers to third-generation …

SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. announced that as of the end of its first quarter of fiscal year 1999, ended Nov. 30, two of its networks initiated commercial operation and …

A group of cdmaOne operators are making another push to harmonize third-generation technology and avoid a potential deadlock within the International Telecommunication Union over intellectual property rights. The CDMA Development …

The reauction of C-block personal communications services spectrum is expected to be a dismal affair in March, and most small entrepreneurial businesses-which the auction was designed for-are likely to forgo …