BROWSING: ARM

Soul searching for Britain’s BT

GENEVA-How the mighty have fallen. British Telecommunications (BT), once ranked among the world's most powerful carriers, is finding itself buckling under a crippling mountain of debt in a climate where raising equity in the telecom/information technology (IT) sector has hit an all-time low. In...

Legal parties join forces on mobile-phone health issue

WASHINGTON-The law firm of Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos, which earlier this year took control of an $800 million mobile phone-brain cancer lawsuit, has joined forces with attorneys in a New Orleans class-action case against the wireless industry seeking to force equipment manufacturers to...

Inhofe weighs in on 3G spectrum battle

WASHINGTON-Last December, two months after President Clinton ordered government studies on spectrum availability for third-generation wireless systems and at a time when mobile-phone and Pentagon officials were intensely studying the issue, Senate Armed Services Committee member James Inhofe (R-Okla.) quietly directed the General Accounting...

IBM offers “wireless” components for the desktop

In the drive to miniaturize, IBM Corp. is leveraging the strengths of wireless for its desktop technology.Pursuant to that, the company has introduced wireless enhancements to create a cordless, clean-desk environment for the end user.The wireless kit consists of a keyboard, mouse and receiver...

Lucent boosted by Verizon contract win

LAS VEGAS-Like fresh water on a dry rock, some good news for Lucent Technologies Inc. But how good?The $5 billion deal last week with Verizon Wireless provided a shot in the arm for a company whose repeated stumbles have made industry watchers wonder if...

GAO draft of mobile-phone health report expected

WASHINGTON-The General Accounting Office this week is expected to send drafts of a mobile-phone health report to key government agencies, suggesting congressional investigators are on track to complete by early May an investigation whose results could greatly impact wireless health policy and research funding...

Conexant rolls out solution for broader Internet services

With a view to a much smaller handset, cheaper price and quicker time to market, Conexant Systems Inc. has rolled out what it describes as a complete system solution for a multi-slot global system for GSM/GPRS."This advancement," said Moiz Beguwala, senior vice president and...

BT Cellnet, Seven offer corporate data solution

OXFORD, United Kingdom-BT Cellnet and its wireless services arm Genie are to launch a data service to allow mobile users and field workers wireless access to corporate networks. The two BT divisions have agreed to team up with the U.S. infrastructure developer Seven to...

GSM Europe: EC proposals will threaten Euro success

OXFORD, United Kingdom-New proposals from the European Commission covering how telecom operators will be regulated have been met with hostility by GSM Europe, the European arm of the GSM Association. The group claimed the proposals will significantly increase the chances of EC intervention in...

Beatnik signs agreements with TI, ARM

DALLAS-Beatnik Inc., which provides audio solutions and content for digital devices, games and the Web, has announced agreements with Texas Instruments and ARM, which provides 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions. According to the agreements, Beatnik will optimize its Beatnik Audio Engine for use on...

Incumbents win big in Canadian auction

TORONTO-The established Canadian wireless fraternity scooped up most of the available spectrum licenses contested in the February auction. All told, Industry Canada's auction for wireless spectrum in the 2 GHz band raised US$964 million for federal coffers.Rogers Wireless and Bell Mobility were the two...

Lucent secures credit facility

DATELINE-Lucent Technologies got a shot in the arm last week with $6.5 billion in credit facilities.The company said it obtained $4.5 billion of 364-day credit facilities arranged by J.P. Morgan and Salomon Smith Barney.A portion of the loan, said Lucent, expired Feb.22 while Agere...

2Roam enters powerhouse deal with Matsushita

Wireless Web site enabler 2Roam Inc. announced several new deals last week, one of which the company hopes will propel it into new and more profitable markets in the Asia-Pacific and European regions."In the last 90 days, 2Roam has really expanded its business," said...

Small screen size shrinks U.S. wireless Internet market

Although U.S. trade negotiator Richard Fisher called the mobile Internet arm candy, the delicacy may have to improve into an eye candy for Americans to call it sweet. But, so far, it is not tasty enough because it is not big enough. The size...

Widcomm’s BlueGate gives Bluetooth shot in the arm

Bluetooth's wireless networking prospects received a shot in the arm last week with the introduction of Widcomm Inc.'s shoebox-sized BlueGate 1000, a standalone Bluetooth wireless access point for original equipment manufacturers to purchase and customize.Widcomm is touting the BlueGate network access point as the...

Latest health lawsuit filed in Georgia

WASHINGTON-A Georgia man last week filed lawsuit against mobile-phone giant Nokia Corp. and others, claiming cell phone use caused his brain cancer. The mobile-phone-cancer lawsuit is the latest in a mushrooming field of litigation that is beginning to hang over the wireless industry.In addition...

Tenders and licenses

BulgariaOte Telecom won Bulgaria's third mobile-phone license for US$135 million, beating out Telecom Italia Mobile through an auction. Ote plans to partner with Bulgarian Telecommunications Co. (BTC), the country's fixed-line provider, to build out the GSM network.FranceMartin Bouygues, chairman of Bouygues Telecom, called on...

Vodafone begins 2001 with strong foundation

The millennium is off to a good start for Vodafone Group.The U.K.-based carrier began 2000 with a hostile takeover of Mannesmann, parent of its rival Orange, and continued with a spending spree for third-generation (3G) licenses across Europe. The year also marked the finalization...

Telia left out of Swedish UMTS tender

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-In a surprise announcement, the Swedish government awarded four Universal Mobile Telecommunications System licenses on Dec. 16, dismissing a proposal from Telia, the country's current mobile leader. Sweden's other two incumbent operators, NetCom and Europolitan, won licenses through a "beauty contest," along with...

Gent shows foresight, confidence, determination in building, leading world’s largest mobile carrier

Chris Gent has had quite a year.For the chief executive of Vodafone Group plc, 2000 began with a hostile takeover of Mannesmann AG, parent of its rival Orange plc, and continued with a spending spree for third-generation licenses across Europe. The year also marked...

Nokia: the best is yet to come

With a new venture fund and optimistic forecast extension, Nokia set out last week to fortify its already strong position in the wireless communications industry.Its venture arm, Nokia Venture Partners, launched a new $500 million fund to buoy start-up companies in the mobile Internet...

Clear of bankrupt parent, Vast free to tackle wireless ASP market

Now that Arch Wireless Inc.'s acquisition of Paging Network Inc. is complete, former PageNet subsidiary Vast Solutions Inc. is free of the dead weight its former parent company represented and can begin establishing its place in a marketplace it originally helped define.Vast was born...

Qualcomm forms venture to advance CDMA

Qualcomm Inc. announced it will form a venture arm to invest in start-up companies in an effort to proliferate the use of CDMA technology.Qualcomm is making a $500 million commitment to the new venture company, Qualcomm Ventures."The convergence of wireless technology and the Internet...

Cambridge Silicon uses ARM core

CAMBRIDGE, England-Cambridge Silicon Radio selected the ARM core for the applications programs that run above the existing CSR BlueCore, Bluetooth hardware and firmware in its range of programmable Bluetooth devices.ARM, a provider of 16/32 bit embedded RISC processor technology, will supply CSR's microprocessor core...