Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the...
Just as the GSM Association prepares to announce the winner of its low-cost 3G handset contract in conjunction with the group's 3GSM trade show in Barcelona, Spain, next week, the CDMA Development Group rolled out news that some CDMA handsets are now selling for...
HONG KONG-The CDMA Development Group has added a new acronym to the already-crowded wireless lexicon. The CDG has christened the technology formerly known as CDMA 2000 1x EV-DO Revision C with a much more memorable brand name: Ultra Mobile Broadband, or UMB.The new standard...
As the world's more mature wireless markets shift to third-generation networks and beyond, it seems as if backers of CDMA technology and those who are pushing 3G flavors of GSM are racing each other to hype their respective market gains.The GSM Association recently published...
COSTA MESA, Calif.-Striking back at concerns over CDMA operators switching to GSM, the CDMA Development Group said it now counts 39 GSM operators that either have deployed or are deploying CDMA2000 networks for voice and data services. The group attributed the move in part...
WASHINGTON-U.S. law enforcement and homeland security officials gave their blessing to Japan-based NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s proposed $72 million purchase of Guam Cellular & Paging Inc. and Guam Wireless Telephone Co. L.L.C., after the parties agreed to certain conditions. While it pales in comparison to...
WASHINGTON—U.S. law enforcement and homeland security officials have given their blessing to Japan-based NTT DoCoMo Inc.’s proposed $72 million purchase of Guam Cellular & Paging Inc. and Guam Wireless Telephone Co. L.L.C., after parties agreed to certain conditions. The Department of Justice, FBI and...
Controversial competing technologies. A spectrum auction that brings in billions of dollars. Am I flashing back to 1995?No, but a few noteworthy announcements in recent weeks are reminiscent of spectrum auctions and subsequent buildouts for second- and third-generation services. If history repeats itself, look...
The CDMA camp is on a roll with a litany of recent successes, guaranteeing its place at a global wireless table still dominated by GSM technology, according to the CDMA Development Group. The expected network upgrades to CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A in Asia...
In the wake of several announcements regarding HSDPA contracts and gear testing, the CDMA Development Group reminded the wireless industry that CDMA technology's evolution path is marching along swiftly and expects to announce further advancements by the end of this year. The CDG said...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.—Though overall base station deployments are on the decline, ABI Research forecasts that the prospects for W-CDMA and CDMA2000 1x EV-DO base stations are trending upward worldwide. Lance Wilson, director of Mobile Wireless Research at ABI, explains that the improved deployment forecasts...
COSTA MESA, Calif.-The CDMA Development Group announced that Wireless Test Systems in San Diego, Calif., and Telecommunications Technology Association in Seoul, Korea, have been authorized as CDMA Certification Forum test facilities for CDMA2000 devices. The move is an attempt to speed up the testing...
COSTA MESA, Calif.-The CDMA Development Group announced that Indian CDMA operators Reliance Infocomm and Tata Teleservices Ltd. are set to offer data-enabled CDMA2000 phones to their most price-sensitive customers by leveraging the requirements developed by the CDG's Global Handset Requirement for CDMA team."The developments...
HONG KONG-The CDMA Development Group announced that the standard for CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision B is on schedule for publication in the first quarter of 2006 and should significantly increase the technology's data throughput by allocating multiple radio-frequency carriers across wider frequency blocks. "EV-DO...
HONG KONG-The CDMA Development Group announced that the standard for CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision B is on schedule for publication in the first quarter of 2006 and should significantly increase the technology's data throughput by allocating multiple radio-frequency carriers across wider frequency blocks. "EV-DO...
SAN FRANCISCO-Syniverse Technologies Inc. signed an agreement with LM&O Advertising, Arlington, Va., to provide its Mobile Marketing solution as part of an integrated marketing campaign for the Army National Guard. The two-way message broadcasting tool delivers time-sensitive information via text messaging.LM&O Advertising created the...
COSTA MESA, Calif.-The CDMA Development Group said its Global Handset Requirements for CDMA team has developed and published common requirements for different classes of CDMA2000 handsets to reduce cost and time to market, as well as to facilitate service provisioning across CDMA2000 networks. "As...
COSTA MESA, Calif.-The CDMA Development Group said it formed the CDMA Certification Forum to develop a global standardized certification process from CDMA devices.Founding members of the forum include the CDMA Development Group, Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp., Qualcomm Inc., Telstra Corp., U.S. Cellular and Via...
The CDMA Development Group signed a cooperation agreement with the TD-SCDMA Forum to develop joint market opportunities for CDMA2000 and TD-SCDMA technologies and work together on technical, regulatory and marketing activities. The CDG noted that key initiatives of the agreement include developing interoperability and...
COSTA MESA, Calif.—The CDMA Development Group said it has signed a cooperation agreement with the TD-SCDMA Forum to develop joint market opportunities for CDMA2000 and TD-SCDMA technologies and work together on technical, regulatory and marketing activities.The CDG noted that key initiatives of the agreement...
COSTA MESA, Calif.-More than 16.4 million new users signed up to CDMA networks during the first quarter, according to the CDMA Development Group.The total number of CDMA subscribers stands at 256.6 million, said CDG. Perry LaForge, executive director of the organization, said CDG expects...
Sprint Corp. said it has added seven countries to its international CDMA roaming list, bringing the total number of countries in which Sprint's wireless customers can use their CDMA devices to more than 40 countries. The carrier noted the newest roaming partnerships expand service...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil-The CDMA Development Group said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the International 450 Association, formerly the NMT Association, to cooperate on promoting CDMA2000 technologies in the 450 MHz band worldwide. The groups also agreed to work together on...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil-The CDMA Development Group said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the International 450 Association, formerly the NMT Association, to cooperate on promoting CDMA2000 technologies in the 450 MHz band worldwide.The groups also agreed to work together on technology,...
