Lucent Technologies Inc. posted a loss, while both Qualcomm Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. recorded profits in their quarterly reports last week.In spite of Lucent's loss, the company rebounded in modest market confidence as its liquidity problems were replaced by a sense that the...
Wideband CDMA and cdma2000 are not only migrating to the future, but also to the battleground.Both technologies will hoist their banners as they deploy their strengths and shield their weaknesses, especially in the two main places where they hope to flex muscles for market...
Two U.S. companies are taking their respective technologies to the Australian market, following third-generation spectrum purchases in the country last month.Qualcomm Inc. paid $79 million for 10 megahertz of paired spectrum in all capital cities through a company called 3G Investments (Australia) Pty. Ltd....
ChinaTaking one step ahead in the arduous process of establishing CDMA technology in China, China Unicom Group invited bids from vendors for a $2.42 billion project to build a CDMA mobile network and provided details on the system for the first time. The announcement...
MOSCOW-Russian Communications Minister Leonid Reiman, who is known to back European-developed technologies, confirmed that the U.S.-developed IS-95 standard is doomed in Russia."I continue to believe that the standard has absolutely no prospects for the Russian market. We shall stick to the line," the minister...
BUCHAREST, Romania-Throughout the 1990s, NMT analog wireless systems became somewhat obsolete, particularly with the advent of GSM technology. Digital GSM systems, which offer users services such as short message service, caller ID, group calls and data transmissions, are widespread throughout Europe and have outperformed...
In France, the country where they offer calorie-laden pain au chocolats and croissants for breakfast, keeping one's weight under control does not seem to be a problem-probably because the locals walk the region's hilly terrain to the bus stop or train station rather than...
TORONTO-The move was surprising but not totally unexpected. After many denials, U.S. carrier AT&T Wireless finally announced last November it is switching from TDMA wireless technology to the rival European-developed standard GSM technology. Moving in lock step, Rogers AT&T Wireless of Toronto, Canada's largest...
TORONTO-To the relief of the wireless industry, the Canadian government raised the four-year-old spectrum cap that limits the amount of radio spectrum each PCS provider may operate. Wireless carriers in Canada can now each use 55 megahertz of spectrum, an increase from 40 megahertz.In...
CanadaEricsson announced trials for Wireless Application Protocol technology over a TDMA network with Rogers Cantel, a Canadian wireless provider. The announcement is the first WAP 1.1 system on a TDMA network, said Ericsson. The system being delivered is based on a scalable, fault-tolerant Jambala...
HONG KONG-"Third-generation services are here," proclaimed the advertisements from Qualcomm at International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom Asia 2000. "The wait is over." Korea's SK Telecom was the first operator to deploycdma2000, noted Terry Yen, Asia Pacific director of the CDMA Development Group. SK Telecom...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it will license its CDMA technology to Research In Motion Ltd., which will develop CDMA and 1xEV data-centric wireless devices.RIM products include the BlackBerry wireless e-mail solution.
At the end of each year, the RCR Wireless News editorial staff looks back on the new events that made RCR headlines and decides which were the most significant, industry-impacting stories of the past 12 months. Here are our picks for 2000 in chronological...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc.'s financial expectations from its CDMA technology fell on account of the ruling by the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce that it share royalties with the Korean Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute.The award, based on the joint...
The great wall between China and the deployment of CDMA technology may finally fall. And soon.After a year-long soap opera with Qualcomm Inc. over proliferating the technology in the country, the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry signed a memorandum of understanding to allow the...
Horizon PCS, the largest Sprint PCS affiliate in terms of population covered, withdrew its planned initial public offering Dec. 4, citing "unfavorable market conditions." The Chillicothe, Ohio, carrier had registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission in May for an IPO of 9.65 million...
Isn't it ironic that German and Japanese interests are planning to take significant stakes in U.S. wireless telephony-countries that were sworn enemies of the United States nearly 60 years ago this week, when Pearl Harbor was attacked, catapulting the United States into World War...
For a new company looking to succeed in business, producing wireless handsets would seem to be one of the tougher markets to crack. Beyond the big three producers, Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson, are plenty of smaller, capable companies scavenging for leftovers of the handset...
Qualcomm Inc.'s much-battered stock received a vote of confidence last week as Lehman Brothers released an equity research report reiterating its "Buy" rating of the company's stock, which has seen its value fall from a 52-week high of $200 per share earlier this year...
NEW YORK-In this day of mega-mergers and high-dollar corporate buyouts, the thought of exchanging assets of similar value seems like a throw-back to our bartering ancestors. Trading objects of similar value is now largely left to the realm of sports, where teams exchange players...
Qualcomm released its fourth-quarter financial results ending Sept. 30 after the stock market closed last Thursday, showing a 10-percent increase in net income for the quarter compared with the fourth quarter of 1999, and just beating out analysts' lowered expectations for returns per share...
TORONTO-Now that the C$6.6 billion (US$4.3 billion) Telus deal to acquire Clearnet Communications has been finalized, engineering issues are starting to surface.The challenge? How to combine the wireless operations of Telus and Clearnet and determine the best path for third-generation (3G) services. The new...
SAN DIEGO-While many at the CDMA's Development Group's Americas Congress reminisced about how far the technology had come in such a short period of time, the big buzz on the show floor was about CDMA's future.And what better place to talk about that future...
BEIJING-Zhang Fan, head of mobile communications at China Unicom, this week said his company would definitely build narrowband networks based on the CDMA standard.After Qualcomm Chairman Irwin Jacobs recently met Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji and China Unicom Chairman Yang Xianzu in Beijing, China's second...
