NEW YORK—Hutchison 3G UK, holder of the largest block of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) spectrum in the United Kingdom, has contracted with U.S.-based ADC Telecommunications to deploy ADC's Singl.eView Convergent Billing system for multimedia services, including voice, data, e-mail and information.As a new...
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC has released updated third-quarter (ended July 31) earnings expectations and has laid out future plans to reduce operating expenses.The company said it now expects a loss of 5 cents per share in the third quarter, the low end of its previously stated guidance....
NEW YORK-In profits, the category that counts the most, Nokia Corp. retained top billing, with Ericsson Inc. holding on to second place, according to information from Standard & Poor's.Lucent Technologies Inc., which ranked sixth last year, moved into third place, displacing ADC Telecommunications Inc.,...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Opinion is divided on the identity of the "killer applications" that will allow operators to make a return on their significant investments in General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and third-generation (3G) technology. But while operators develop prototype services and grapple with technical difficulties...
As wireless carriers spend billions of dollars to purchase spectrum and build out vast wireless networks, several smaller companies are offering similar services but on a much, much smaller scale-out the back of a truck, to be exact.InterWave Communications International Ltd., ADC Telecommunications Inc....
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. announced it is reorganizing to better meet its operational and financial objectives.Rick Roscitt was appointed the company's new chairman and chief executive officer, and an office of the chairman has been created to bring more focused organizational oversight and leadership to...
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC, a fiber optics, network equipment, software and integration services supplier for broadband, multiservice networks, announced Singl.eView Web, a new application for its Singl.eView platform.Singl.eView Web is an Internet-based convergent billing and customer management solution. With this new solution, designed specifically for communication service...
InfowaveThomas U. Koll was appointed Infowave Software Inc.'s new chief executive officer. He previously was vice president of Microsoft's Network Solutions Group and was responsible for the company's worldwide business with telecommunications companies in wireline and wireless markets. Koll also served as general manager...
Band-XStephen Beynon was hired as Band-X's new chief executive officer. He was previously in a management position in the data and business services division of Cable & Wireless Optus.ElectrofuelPatrick R. McCool was appointed the vice president of sales for Electrofuel Inc. He was previously...
BRAZILADC Telecommunications Inc. announced it signed a $16 million contract to supply GVT Brazil with a broadband access bundled solution for the southern and central regions of Brazil. ADC said the solution is based on the BroadAccess Multiservice Access Platform and delivers narrow and...
MINNEAPOLIS-A new Australian communications provider, Virgin Mobile, chose ADC Telecommunications Inc.'s Singl.eView product as its customer management and billing system."Singl.eView is mobile-focused and has a friendly look and feel. Its flexibility in handling future wireless Web service will be invaluable in allowing us to...
NEW YORK-In this year's RCR Wireless News Major Players Vendors listing, Nokia Corp. and Ericsson Inc. each moved up a notch, rising to first and second place respectively among equipment vendors that are net income leaders.Lucent Technologies Inc., which had previously topped the charts...
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. and The Management Network Group Inc. announced plans to team up in a nonexclusive strategic alliance to provide operations support system solutions to integrated communications providers.The companies hope the deal, which comes after ADC signed up for TMNG's consulting services, will...
MINNEAPOLIS-Pak Telecom Mobile Limited (Ufone), a GSM provider in Pakistan, chose network equipment and software provider ADC's Singl.eView program to cover billing and customer management.Singl.eView is a component of the Singularit.e suite, and is ADC's new integrated customer management and real-time convergent billing application....
SASKATOON, Saskatchewan-Canadian Wireless cable and data services provider Image Wireless communications signed a $10 million contract extension for ADC Telecommunications Inc.'s Axity Broadband Wireless Access System, a carrier-class solution enabling providers to deliver two-way data services over the MMDS and MDS spectrum."The Axity technology...
Amrel SystemsAmrel Systems Inc. released a more powerful version of its Rocky II+ ruggedized mobile notebook computer, certified under MIL-STD 810E, MIL-STD 461C and IP54, offering an Intel Pentium III processor at speeds up to 650 MHz. Amrel said the faster processor provides better...
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. announced that Evertek Enterprises, an Internet service provider based in Sioux City, Iowa, plans to upgrade its current two-way multichannel multipoint distribution service system using ADC's Axity broadband wireless access system.The Axity solution will allow Evertek to supply high-speed wireless data...
MINNEAPOLIS-Broadband network equipment supplier ADC Telecommunications Inc. and Australian pay television operator Austar United Communications announced a strategic program to develop and deploy a multichannel multipoint distribution service broadband wireless system.The deployment, planned for later this year, will include two-way transmission facilities providing high-speed...
NEW ORLEANS-A sense of urgency surrounded attendees of the Wireless Communications Association's "Xtreme Wireless" conference in New Orleans last week as it became clear the marketplace is ready-but still waiting-for high-speed fixed wireless broadband service.Keynote speaker and Sprint Corp.'s Broadband Wireless Group President Tim...
MENLO PARK, Calif.-Wireless infrastructure equipment provider interWave Communications International Ltd. signed a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Microcellular Systems Ltd.The acquisition is expected to enhance interWave's strategic position to capitalize upon emerging opportunities in wireless office and the wireless...
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. will provide its Metrica/NPR network performance solution to Chilean personal communications services operator Smartcom.According to ADC, the software will manage performance statistics collected from Smartcom's PCS network, providing daily, weekly and monthly reports on traffic and grade of service. ADC will...
NEW YORK-The conventional wisdom that communications software and enhanced services were "a one-night stand as an investment opportunity," has faded away amid a proliferation of new carrier requirements, said Susan Passoni, vice president of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp.Excluding electronic commerce, DLJ projects...
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. said Telinor Television S.A. de C.V., a Mexican wireless pay-TV company, will begin field trials of new technology for business data transmission services.ADC will integrate its Axity broadband wireless access system into Telinor's network to enable delivery of two-way data to...
TektronixTektronix Inc. launched a new Global System for Mobile communications cell analysis product, the Cell Analyzer, which combines the key functions of the Actix Abis Analyzer with Tektronix's K1205 Signaling Protocol Analyzer. Available as an add-on software package for the K1205, the new analyzer...