Expenses were significant for Qualcomm Inc. in the second quarter, deeply affecting its earnings and sending its stock down 10 points.The San Diego company said it expects to build up its supplier side and manufacturing capabilities in coming quarters, and it defended the ability...
Although I promised myself a break from any columns that have to do with CDMA vs. GSM technology and hearing aid interference, I'm breaking the rule-because something positive happened and, frankly, there hasn't been that much positive to comment about on the issue.However, Dr....
A cellular network using Code Division Multiple Access technology is live in South Korea, but so far enduring only a lukewarm reception. Current analog operator Korea Mobile Telecommunications Corp. introduced CDMA service Jan. 1 in Inchon, a port city west of Seoul, and plans...
L.M. Ericsson announced its subsidiary, Ericsson Australia Pty. Ltd., has signed a contract to install a switching system for 4,000 mobile telephones in Rangoon, Burma's capital. Ericsson said it will also build four radio transmitting stations to expand the city's phone network. This is...
Rules. It seems as soon as we enter this world, we're forced to comply with a blanket set of rules that someone else has decided for us.You can't have dessert until you finish your vegetables.Turn off the light when you leave a room.Balance the...
This may be the year that Code Division Multiple Access technology becomes a commercial reality for cellular operators, with one system already running in Hong Kong and four nearing completion in the United States.Systems launched today are deployed with an 8-kilobit vocoder chips for...
Lest anyone forget how many billions of dollars stand to be made - and lost - from teh emerging personal communications services equipment market, just listen to a panel of manufacturers touting teh benefits of CDMA technology over GSM, or vice versa.I got that...
Unless there is court action, a government shutdown or some cataclysmic event, the auction of C-block broadband personal communications services licenses is scheduled to begin today.Thirteen bidders have made double-digit, multimillion dollar upfront payments, indicating the seriousness with which some are approaching the opportunity....
It's the morning after.The reporter arrives at 10: 15 a.m. at the historic Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., (conveniently across 14th Street from the National Press Building) to interview the co-recipient of RCR's 1995 Person of the Year: American Personal Communications Chairman Wayne Schelle.Schelle, 61, greets...
As the entrepreneurial block auctions for broadband personal communications services get underway this December, the first broadband PCS services also are scheduled to become reality. But a later rollout schedule is par for the course among major PCS license holders, resulting in part from...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt directed the wireless telecommunications industry to develop a plan by next week to address interference from European-designed digital pocket telephones to hearing aids.Hundt, according to sources, met last Monday with representatives from the Personal Communications Industry Association, the...
PCS PrimeCo L.P. has chosen AT&T Network Systems Inc. and Motorola Inc. to be equipment manufacturers for its nationwide personal communications services network.AT&T and Motorola will split the contract equally, with Motorola primarily supplying radio transmitters and receivers. The total contract is valued at...
Reversing an earlier stance, South Korea is trying to deter infighting among some of its industrial heavyweights by awarding a single personal communications services license to a consortium that includes everybody but gives control to nobody.In early August, the Korean Ministry of Information and...
Hoping to raise $1 billion to be used toward cellular expansion efforts, L.M. Ericsson said it is proposing an equity share offering."There is an increased need for working capital in the rapid growth phase which Ericsson is currently experiencing," noted Lars Ramqvist, Ericsson's chief...
Launching personal communications services with a multitude of standards may be the way for industry to sort out the benefits of each technology, but it could set consumers up for chaos and confusion, said longtime wireless architect Jesse Russell.The AT&T Bell Laboratories engineer is...
Sprint Telecommunications Venture-which plans to operate next-generation mobile phone service across much of the nation-is keeping to its cable roots by selecting Code Division Multiple Access technology as the foundation for its network.The Sprint-cable TV consortium last month announced it would use CDMA technology...
Arch Communication Group Inc. said it has acquired Professiona Paging & Radio Inc., a privately owned paging business with operations in Florida, for $3 million in cash. PoePage's operations will become a part of Arch Southeast Communications Inc. TEh acquisition incresases Arch's total cousomer...
Gearing up for upcoming personal communications services auctions, Qualcomm Inc. has introduced several products based on its Code Division Multiple Access digital technology, including the company's first portable phone for the PCS market.Qualcomm's eight ounce QCP-1900 transmits radio frequency power at extremely low levels,...
