CDMA

NEW YORK-Wireless data is like a diamond in the rough, waiting for ways to smooth out its rough edges into sparkling facets that will attract growing numbers of consumers into …

Top players in both the vendor and carrier space are pitching in to advance GAIT-GSM ANSI Interoperability Team-a new network standard that fuses TDMA and GSM technologies to enhance roaming, …

WASHINGTON-The FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau on Thursday denied a request from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. to keep confidential test results showing some enhanced 911 Phase II technologies won’t work for …

WELLINGTON, New Zealand-Hutchison has teamed with Telecom New Zealand to launch third-generation services in the Australian market and in New Zealand. New operating companies in both Australia and New Zealand …

LUBBOCK, Texas-Alamosa Holdings Inc. reported an agreement with PVT Networks Inc. for PVT to construct a CDMA personal communications services network in Artesia, Roswell and Carlsbad, N.M. PVT will market …

While carriers’ network upgrade plans have garnered the majority of attention from the wireless industry, there is another equally important area that many wireless companies are now focusing on: the …

For the thousands of children who are abducted each year, and for those adults with Alzheimer’s Disease or other impairments that can cause confusion and often lead them to become …

ORLANDO, Fla.-In the sun-draped city of Orlando, with its springtime spurts of rain and dreamy lakes, the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium drew a mixed crowd of wireless vendors, operators, developers …

NEW YORK-With up to seven competitors in some large markets, price wars have begun that are not sustainable as a long-term business case for carriers, telecommunications executives said last week …

WELLINGTON, New Zealand-AAPT and Lucent Technologies Inc. said they abandoned plans to roll out a CDMA network in Australia. AAPT, a Telecom New Zealand subsidiary, suspended rollout of the network …

BEIJING-Once again there seems to be a significant delay in China Unicom’s rollout of its CDMA network. The much-plagued endeavor was on track just a couple of weeks ago, when …

DENVER, United States-Cooperation and services are two focus areas for the GSM Association during the upcoming year, according to Scott Fox, who assumed the association’s chairmanship 1 May. Cooperation will …

NEW DELHI, India-The Indian wireless market, so far a preserve of GSM, has been opened to the competing CDMA technology in a big way. CDMA growth is expected to pick …

MOSCOW-CDMA carriers continue to operate in Russia, working to recoup costs and hoping for a possible replacement of Communications Minister Leonid Reiman, who warned last year that the U.S.-developed IS-95 …

EMMA’s 2001 Congress 16-18 May Rome European Mobile Messaging Association Tel: (+44) (0) 20 7747 5417 [email protected] WAP Congress 17-18 May Rome IBC Global Conferences Tel: (+44) 1932 893 855 …

As they launch their enhanced data networks, carriers are also planning for the third generation (3G). Carriers that choose cdma2000 have direct paths to 3G because there are no interim …

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Vesper, Brazil’s largest wireless local loop (WLL) operator, has changed its business strategy with an objective to reduce costs and to win profitability. Vesper is a “mirror” fixed …

Australia Australia’s third-generation (3G) spectrum auction fell well short of the federal government’s budget forecasts of A$2.6 billion (US$1.3 billion). Six bidders paid a total of almost A$1.17 billion (US$577 …

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 from being built. VNPT Chairman Do Trung …

BEIJING-Although no official announcement has been made yet, an official at Unicom Horizon Mobile Communications, the subsidiary of China Unicom entrusted with building a CDMA network, said 10 vendors out …

Siemens AG is eliminating 6,100 jobs from its mobile handset and network operations. The German telecom equipment and handset company, which shied away from offering its earnings picture for the …

Iridium Satellite L.L.C. appointed Gino Picasso president and chief executive officer. Picasso previously was president and chief operating officer of Ace*Comm Corp., a provider of operations support systems software. Dan …

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 …

The alliance between Sony Corp. of Japan and L.M. Ericsson of Sweden is giving the two companies hope they have a chance to trump Nokia Corp. as the supreme player …

The future of third-generation networks took a hit last week following NTT DoCoMo’s announcement that it was suspending the introduction of its highly touted 3G network in Japan from May …