CDMA

SAN DIEGO-Wireless Knowledge Inc. and Kyocera Wireless Corp. announced they are partnering to offer mobile applications for businesses using the Kyocera QCP 6036 smart phone. “With our custom applications and …

Deutsche Telekom’s recent acquisition of U.S.-based GSM operator VoiceStream Wireless Corp. again showed the ever-shrinking nature of the wireless industry. Including United Kingdom-based Vodafone Group plc’s partial ownership stake in …

WASHINGTON-With Korea moving closer to awarding a controversial third-generation mobile-phone license that was set aside for cdma2000 technology last year, the White House is being urged to address an overseas …

Smart-phone company NeoPoint Inc. quietly closed its doors late last month, apparently exiting the industry it lit up only a few short years ago with its advanced phone/personal digital assistant …

ScoreBoard likes to keep the networking slate clean of errors. The company, which specializes in network management and optimization for the mobile communications industry, helps operators to improve network quality …

TOKYO-Japanese telecom firm KDDI Corp. has agreed to cooperate with China Unicom Ltd. on mobile-phone and Internet access technologies, according to international press reports. KDDI uses CDMA technology, and China …

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Korean CDMA wireless data modem provider Yiso Telecom Co. Ltd. will provide a third-generation compatible Compact Flash card solution to Sprint PCS. The wireless modem cards will support …

COSTA MESA, Calif.-The number of global CDMA subscribers grew by 58 percent during the past year to 90 million customers worldwide, according to the CDMA Development Group. The Asia Pacific …

Citing pride and financial stress for the collapse of the Lucent-Alcatel merger talks last week, analysts do not expect any suitors to walk up the aisle with the Murray Hill, …

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.-Executives of Motorola Inc. and the Personal Communications Industry Association sparred over the future of paging and device-makers’ support for it at last week’s Southeastern Communications Association “Wireless …

As it stands today, developers of wireless applications have to write those applications in a unique code-whether that be cHTML, VoXML, WML or XML-to make those applications recognizable to the …

Trying to pin down Nextel Communications Inc. into a specific category is not an easy chore. By definition, Nextel is a specialized mobile radio operator, yet most analysts compare it …

WASHINGTON-Cingular Wireless Inc. plans to file a waiver from the enhanced 911 Phase II rules, probably within the next two weeks, said Brian Fontes, Cingular vice president for federal relations, …

MELBOURNE-Telstra has made Wireless Application Protocol available on its CDMA digital mobile-phone network. According to director of CDMA at Telstra OnAir, Tim Buckley, Telstra’s CDMA customers will enjoy faster CDMA …

Highlighting the complex fashion in arriving at standards for the wireless industry, Paul Mankiewich, the chief technology officer of Lucent Technologies Inc., joked that the various standards organizations also have …

INDONESIA Lucent Technologies Inc. has signed two contracts with PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk to build its nationwide intelligent network and multimedia access infrastructure valued at $17.5 million. “We are pleased …

Most in the wireless industry are convinced that for wireless Internet access to succeed wireless operators have to tear down their current walled-garden plans that limit customer access to a …

Glitches are becoming to phones what muscle spasms are to track athletes-confirmation that travel to the next generation of technologies will experience limps along with leaps. Most of the big …

NEW YORK-Although growing use of Research In Motion’s BlackBerry e-mail service has congested wireless networks in some areas, paging carriers are not well-positioned to seize this opportunity to serve as …

SINGAPORE-Vietnam’s government-owned telecommunications monopoly Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications (VNPT) has asked the country’s government to prevent a rival $230 million CDMA mobile-phone network being built. VNPT Chairman Do Trung Ta …

With four big CDMA infrastructure contracts ramped up last week by China Unicom, the country’s second-largest operator, the Asian nation is on pace to race past the United States as …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Kazakhstan carrier Altel has awarded Motorola Inc.’s telecom solutions sector a contract to upgrade its existing nationwide analog system to a home location register as a groundwork for …

Since technology is almost meaningless without the phones, it also can be lonely to be a phone maker in a market where securing a cutting edge is the only pathway …

Wireless local loop continues to make a strong showing in its “classic” form in various parts of the world, particularly in India and South America, but in the United States, …

GoBeam Inc. GoBeam Inc. rolled out its GoBeam Dashboard, a dashboard user interface that enables customers to easily manage business communication services from a browser-based console. The service is accessible …