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To the Editor: Amidst an escalating industry-wide debate about competing wireless technologies, we want to ensure that the “GSM-CDMA Economic Study,” prepared by Andersen Consulting with two other consulting firms, is not misinterpreted. Consequently, we at Andersen Consulting want to …

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration, encouraged but apparently not swayed by assurances in Brussels that Europe will be open to multiple third-generation wireless standards, is growing increasingly worried that American mobile phone technology will be locked out of the 15-nation European Union …

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-With $18 million in order bookings during the second quarter, Microwave Power Devices Inc.’s backlog reached a record high of about $100 million, boosted by an $11.1 million military subcontract and a $4.5 million Qualcomm Inc. order. MPD’s second-quarter …

MEXICO CITY-Pegaso Telecomunicaciones S.A. de C.V. increased its equity commitments to $400 million by adding four new consortium members: Grupo Televisa S.A., Citicorp Equity Capital Latin America, AIG-GE Capital Latin America Infrastructure Fund and Nissho Iwai Corp. The consortium, formed …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association announced the industry leaders who will speak at the Personal Communications Showcase ’98 conference Sept. 22-25 in Orlando, Fla. Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard will deliver the keynote address at the opening SuperSession, …

Some U.S. GSM and TDMA operators are irked at Qualcomm Inc. and its lobbying efforts within the U.S. government to frame the third-generation issue as a trade issue with Europe. They say that while Qualcomm is urging the State Department …

This week the wireless industry at last understood the pace of summer. Only 10 or so breaking news events designed to change the face of the industry as we see it today happened. With that in mind, I finally managed …

Turns out there is not one but two million-dollar men in the Portals fiasco. Subpoenaed documents provided to congressional investigators by Tennessee developer Franklin Haney last week supposedly reveal that former Tennessee senator Jim Sasser, before becoming U.S. ambassador to …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. signed an agreement with Pegaso PCS S.A. de D.V., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pegaso Telecommunications S.A. de C.V., to supply about $650 million of infrastructure equipment and deployment services in Mexico during the next three years. …

WITCHITA, Kansas-IFR Systems Inc. announced it has entered into a royalty-bearing license agreement with Qualcomm Inc. that gives IFR the right to use and continue to develop Qualcomm’s proprietary software for production testing of CDMA handsets. “We are developing automatic …

NEW YORK-A Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association group is developing recommendations for handset manufacturers that would reduce fraud potential and facilitate over-the-air customer activations for non-Global System for Mobile Communications carriers. The CTIA Fraud Technology Assessment Group, charged with evaluating and …

Irwin Jacobs, chairman of Qualcomm Inc., fought a David and Goliath battle during the 1980s to get Code Division Multiple Access technology accepted by the U.S. wireless establishment. Having accomplished that in a big way, Jacobs now is fighting another …

As the digital revolution begins to move at a substantial pace, mobile phone manufacturers have some tough decisions to make. The demand for digital handsets is growing, especially in the CDMA arena, where carriers are screaming for more handsets. More …

Though most are based on some form of wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology, the proposals submitted to the International Telecommunication Union last month suggest a tough road toward achieving the family of systems concept to allow for global roaming, …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said Richard Sulpizio was promoted to president of Qualcomm. Harvey White, current president, will assume the role of vice chairman and head of the company’s new telecom services business. Sulpizio will retain his position as chief operations …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said its MSM2310 Mobile Station Modem, a single-chip, tri-mode vocoder solution supporting Enhanced Variable Rate Vocoder is available in production quantities. A derivative of Qualcomm’s MSM2300, the MSM2310 supports all three Code Division Multiple Access vocoders and …

WASHINGTON-As U.S. and European wireless firms accuse each other of gaming the standards-setting process for third-generation wireless technology, it turns out the high-powered Qualcomm Inc. lobbyist playing the trade card here represented Sweden’s L.M. Ericsson in a separate standards fight …

WASHINGTON-Mexico will receive US$1.06 billion, plus value-added tax, for Personal Communications Services (PCS) and Wireless Local Loop (WLL) spectrum auctioned in a six-month process completed 8 May. The Sistemas Profesionales de Comunicacion (SPC) consortium, Qualcomm Inc. with consortium partner Grupo …

SAN DIEGO, United States-Qualcomm Inc. filed an information statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission concerning its proposed spinoff of its joint-venture and equity interests in certain international wireless operating companies. The new entity is known as Qualcomm SpinCo …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The debate of issuing a third or fourth cellular license in South Africa is gaining momentum, with the industry pressuring the government to speed up the tendering process before the existing operators become so powerful they would eliminate …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-High on the agenda of issues raised by African ministers at Africa Telecom ’98 held here in May was using satellite technology for boosting African economies and low telephone-penetration rates. Africa presents an ideal candidate for Mobile Satellite …

OXFORD, United Kingdom-For a while it looked as if the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU’s) original vision of a single global standard for third-generation mobile networks could be possible. Everyone was talking about harmonization, about submitting common proposals to the ITU’s …

WASHINGTON-The State Department, amid a flurry of high-level lobbying and an unsuccessful last-minute move to withdraw U.S. support for the European-based mobile phone technology used by carriers here and abroad, will forward four standards for third-generation wireless technology to the …

VANCOUVER-Nettech Systems introduced a communications solution called Smart IP that enables Internet and intranet applications to run over wireless networks without the challenges associated with Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol connections. Many Internet applications use TCP/IP as the communication protocol to …

SINGAPORE-The International Telecommunication Union has some difficult work ahead of it to harmonize the various third-generation proposals standards bodies around the world will submit by tomorrow. While most of the world’s standards bodies and individual groups of companies diligently tried …