LIBERTYVILLE, Ill.-Motorola Inc. and Nokia Corp. said they will develop a prototype digital handset for NTT DoCoMo in Japan based on wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology.NTT recently announced it plans to implement wideband CDMA technology by 2000. L.M. Ericsson and Lucent Technologies Inc....
SPOKANE, Wash.-GTE Wireless activated its Code Division Multiple Access personal communications services network in Spokane, Wash."The introduction of this new wireless service in Spokane completes our PCS market launch on schedule," said Mark Feighner, president of GTE Wireless. "As one of the country's leading...
Motorola Inc. has won what it calls the largest cellular infrastructure contract in the world to date.The company's Cellular Infrastructure Group announced Japanese carriers DDI Corp. and Nippon Idou Tsushin Corp. (IDO), two of Japan's leading cellular service providers, have selected Motorola to provide...
A Minnesota cryptographer said the cellular industry knows the cryptographic algorithms used in U.S. cellular digital systems are inadequate and were watered down by U.S. military pressure-and the industry is trying to hide that information.Bruce Schneier, president of Counterpane Systems, and several colleagues last...
Motorola Inc. said it intends to file a patent infringement lawsuit against Qualcomm Inc., claiming Qualcomm's new Code Division Multiple Access "Q" phone copies the basic look and functions as well as marketing literature of Motorola's StarTac wearable phone.Qualcomm in turn has filed a...
WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court last week overturned the Federal Communications Commission's rejection of Qualcomm Inc.'s pioneer's preference application, saying the agency was inconsistent in awarding licenses for innovative broadband personal communications services technologies.The court said there was disparate treatment of Omnipoint Corp., which received...
BANGKOK, Thailand-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it has signed a multimillion dollar contract with Thailand's Total Access Communication Company Ltd. to supply and install the country's first commercial Code Division Multiple Access wireless network.Lucent said it was chosen by the Communications Authority of Thailand for...
Editor's Note: No other debate has ignited the wireless telecommunications industry like the one that rages between TDMA and CDMA technology. For several years, the greatest argument against CDMA technology was that it was not commercially available. That changed in 1996 as both cellular and...
Qualcomm Inc. has made a double-barrel response to claims by L.M. Ericsson that Qualcomm's Code Division Multiple Access products infringe on Ericsson technology patents.Both Qualcomm and Ericsson hold CDMA U.S. patents. Qualcomm has designed and is building commercial CDMA infrastructure and handset equipment for...
Sprint PCS said software problems by one of its two equipment vendors will delay the launch of personal communications service in some markets by year's end, but the company still intends to roll out service in five to 10 markets by the end of...
Hughes Network Systems Inc. aspires to accomplish a great deal more than just to supply $1 billion of network equipment to NextWave Telecom Inc."This goes beyond equipment supply. That's why we took the equity position," said Pradeep Kaul, executive vice president of Hughes Networks...
Frequencies and technologies may not matter much in the scramble to capture the wireless consumer market. Instead, wireless carriers plan to compete in marketing and customer service."Everyone has a different edge or weakness" when it comes to price, coverage, technology and features, said Bukasa...
Editor: Quentin Hardy's article, "Jacobs' Patter," in the Sept. 6 edition of The Wall Street Journal claims that "some of the biggest names in telecommunications" have invested perhaps $20 billion based on my promises about Code Division Multiple Access technology. This might be flattering if...
TRENTON, N.J.-To paraphrase an old Barbra Streisand song, "On a rainy day, you can hear forever," even when making a call to Colorado from a car parked beneath a water tower in the state capital of New Jersey.That's the sound quality of a brief...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Pan American Wireless Infrastructure Division has signed a network upgrade agreement with Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile.The arrangement, valued at $53 million, will include the deployment of Code Division Multiple Access technology in Phoenix and Charlotte, N.C.Motorola has agreed to install...
CDMA supporters are buzzing with the prospect of entry into China.Wireless local loop trials have started and recent activities suggest China is interested in Code Division Multiple Access technology for cellular systems as well.Arun Sarin, president and chief executive officer of AirTouch International and...
If you look at a list of nations supporting commercial Global System for Mobile communications networks, Japan is conspicuously absent from the list.Its neighbor, China, has numerous GSM systems, as do several countries in Southeast Asia. Korea is valiantly testing the U.S.-developed standard, Code...
ATLANTA-GTE Mobilnet Inc. switched 250 cellular customers in Austin, Texas, from its analog network to a trial network using Code Division Multiple Access technology.GTE said it intends to gather customer response on voice quality and special features, such as caller identification and numeric messaging....
WASHINGTON-Principals of the Code Division Multiple Access advocate North American Wireless Inc. are deep in discussions to decide if the organization has a future in the personal communications services arena. Some top personnel already have departed for other jobs.While touting its success during the...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. and Shanghai Posts & Telecommunications Administration have signed an agreement to trial Motorola's fixed wireless telephone system in Shanghai using Code Division Multiple Access technology.The CDMA digital wireless local loop system will operate at 1.9 GHz, said Motorola. The trial...
Oh, the shifting winds of Washington.The bill-and-keep interconnection proposal has been called the greatest issue facing the cellular industry this year. And when the Federal Communications Commission last December an nounced it would propose reforms that would no longer force commercial mobile radio service...
Qualcomm Personal Electronics has won significant handset contracts from Sprint Spectrum L.P. and PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P., with a combined value of $850 million.The Sprint Spectrum agreement requires that Qualcomm begin shipping Code Division Multiple Access phones next month, a tall order for a...
Samsung Electronics Co. has committed $25.8 million to manufacture prototype Code Division Multiple Access equipment for PCS, illustrating confidence that its PCS partnership will win a license for personal communications services spectrum.The Korean government is expected to award three PCS licenses in mid-June. One...
NORMAN, Okla.-The first phase of University of Oklahoma research has concluded that different digital phone technologies can interfere with hearing aids, but researchers have yet to settle on how to resolve the problem."This clinical study is the most comprehensive scientific effort to date in...
