FREMONT, Calif.-The Global UMTS TDD Alliance announced today that several new operators and vendors have joined the organization, pushing the group past the 50-member milestone in less than nine months since its inception. The alliance also formed a subcommittee to address and advance global...
HONG KONG-The CDMA Development Group announced the completion of the CDMA Packet Data Roaming Exchange (CRX) specification, which is now available for carriers to implement into their CDMA2000 networks.The specification covers network interconnection, RADIUS messaging, use of packet data applications while roaming, data exchange...
MUNICH, German-The MultiBand OFDM Alliance Special Interest Group said it completed its physical layer 1.0 specifications, which will be made available to its promoter, contributor and adopter members.The specifications will allow companies to finalize their standards-based ultra-wideband chip and board-level designs, said the group."This...
COSTA MESA, Calif.-CDMA2000 subscribers surpassed 127 million in September, and the technology's subscriber base is growing by 5 million users per month, according to The CDMA Development Group.CDMA technology as a whole now has 227 million subscribers, said CDG.Asia Pacific remains the largest region...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Lucent Technologies Inc., LG Electronics and Huawei Technologies have joined the WiMAX Forum, joining fellow telecom suppliers Nortel Networks and Cisco Systems Inc.The WiMAX Forum also noted recent service provider additions to its membership, including America Online Inc., Deutsche Telecom, SBC and...
CTIA-The Wireless Association has formally adopted the aforementioned moniker as its new federally registered name. The association said its board of directors approved the change at last week's CTIA I.T. & Entertainment 2004 show in San Francisco. "Successful organizations build and maintain strong brand...
SAN FRANCISCO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it is offering advanced firmware over-the-air update capabilities via its BREW solution. The new capabilities allow wireless operators and handset manufacturers to remotely reflash a BREW-enabled device's firmware to repair software flaws or add new functions. The company is demonstrating...
SAN FRANCISCO-The number of wireless subscribers grew by an estimated 14.5 percent during the past 12 months, while the average price of local monthly service continued to hold steady, according to the Semi-Annual Wireless Industry Survey by the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association. There...
SAN FRANCISCO-The nation's wireless carriers have agreed to provide consumers with multimedia messaging service interoperability, a move that industry watchers say will give a much-needed boost to MMS use in the United States. The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association said the Inter-Carrier MMS Working...
SAN FRANCISCO-WiMAX got a boost last week as Intel Corp. and broadband wireless carrier Clearwire announced they will join forces to develop and deploy broadband networks based on the technology. Clearwire subsidiary NextNet Wireless will provide broadband equipment for the project, and future Intel...
SAN FRANCISCO-Billboard magazine and Consect, a mobile market analysis firm, announced the Billboard Hot Ringtones chart, an aggregated chart of U.S. polyphonic ringtone sales, which will premiere in the Nov. 6 issue of Billboard in the debut of the magazine's new Digital Entertainment special...
While primarily a stomping ground for carriers and content developers to meet and deal, this year's CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment show, held last week in San Francisco, also provided a platform for the launch of several new wireless handsets. Audiovox Communications Corp. led...
WASHINGTON-The chief executive officer of First Cellular of Southern Illinois, Terry Addington, will be the 2005 chairman of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association, CTIA announced.Addington has been serving as vice chairman. He replaces Scott Ford, president and CEO of Alltel. Ford will continue...
SAN FRANCISCO-Nokia Corp. and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications L.P. said they have joined the SD Card Association, whose semiconductor memory products are found in devices such as cell phones, personal digital assistants, laptop computers, digital cameras, digital audio players.The two players join companies such...
AUSTIN, Texas-The Wi-Fi Alliance said it will not certify products with enhancement features for 802.11n, warning that such pre-standard products that fail to interoperate with Wi-Fi will lose certification."To help assure that Wi-Fi technology users continue to have a positive experience, the Wi-Fi Alliance...
WASHINGTON-ATIS today released a comprehensive plan to craft new industry standards for converging multimedia architectures across wireline, PCS/cellular and Wi-Fi networks.ATIS said the Mobile Wireless Services Priority Work Plan is the result of more than a year of technical assessment and analysis of mobile...
PISCATAWAY, N.J.-The Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers said it has set up a working group for a standard to tap open channels in the television spectrum for wireless broadband applications and services. Known as 802.22, or wireless regional area networks, the new standard...
WASHINGTON-Cellular companies and a leading technical organization have created a working group to develop design and performance standards for mobile-phone batteries, a move that comes amid reports of injuries caused by exploding phones."As the number of wireless phones sold in the United States continues...
WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Industry Association, which recently pulled its support of the Supercomm trade show, today announced its new telecom-focused event, Globalcomm.The annual exhibition and conference will take place June 5-8, 2006, at Chicago's McCormick Place. TIA said the event will bring together suppliers with...
LONDON-A global alliance of wireless carriers that is working to define mobile-phone interface standards said it has added new members and outlined its work to date. The Open Mobile Terminal Platform Ltd. group, which includes heavyweights such as Vodafone Group plc, NTT DoCoMo Inc.,...
WASHINGTON—Mark Crosby, who left the Industrial Telecommunications Association in February 2001 to become president of Access Spectrum L.L.C., has returned as ITA's president and chief executive officer. Laura Smith is no longer with the organization. "Mark's passion for pursuing and achieving results that benefit...
NUREMBERG, Germany-Coding Technologies, which provides audio compression for mobile communications, said the Third-Generation Partnership Project has standardized its aacPlus audio codec.The codec currently is used for the music download services of European carriers O2 and Vodafone, and it is widely adopted in digital broadcasting...
WASHINGTON-The mobile-phone industry and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers are expected shortly to announce plans to address exploding mobile phones, possibly with an eye to crafting industry standards for batteries, which are suspected as the cause of the problem. The Cellular Telecommunications...
WASHINGTON-Mark Crosby, who left the Industrial Telecommunications Association in February 2001 to become president of Access Spectrum L.L.C., has returned as ITA's president and chief executive officer. Laura Smith is no longer with the organization."Mark's passion for pursuing and achieving results that benefit not...
