CDMA

SINGAPORE-The Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore released a report showing newcomer StarHub has the poorest GSM cellular service. It had the highest incidence of dropped calls and fared poorly …

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 …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. have agreed to develop GPRS phones using Microsoft Corp.’s Stinger smart phone platform and Mobile Internet Explorer microbrowser software for VoiceStream’s …

WASHINGTON-Carriers last week overwhelmingly warned the Federal Communications Commission that while they will make their best efforts to meet implementation deadlines for enhanced 911 Phase II, they are concerned that …

SINGAPORE-Singapore operator MobileOne (M1) accused rivals SingTel Mobile and StarHub of efforts to lure away its CDMA customers. An advertising war has been under way, with SingTel Mobile and StarHub …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-3Com Corp. released two new carrier-class solutions for delivering virtual private network services. The solutions, from the company’s Carrier Networks Business, are media independent and can be delivered …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. reported that its High Data Rate technology will be the basis for the Telecommunications Industry Association’s third-generation CDMA 1xEV standard, to be published as TIA/EIA/IS-856 “CDMA2000 High …

CAMBODIA In a joint venture with Cambodia’s Royal Group of Companies and the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, Millicom International Cellular launched an international gateway in the country, the company …

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 …

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 …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. completed an over-the-air CDMA position location demonstration on a commercial network using a small-form-factor handset with the company’s gpsOne and SnapTrack position location technology. The demonstration, which …

Spirent Spirent Communications, which provides performance analysis solutions, announced the InfoDM v2.0 release, which is part of the company’s acquisition of InfoSoft Technologies, will supplement Spirent’s CDMA test solution with …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. reported an amendment to Kyocera Corp.’s existing CDMA license agreement with Qualcomm to include the development, manufacture and sale of subscriber equipment for third-generation CDMA technologies, wireless …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Residents in Virginia and West Virginia will likely see an expanded PCS network after a $100 million deal between Lucent Technologies Inc. and CFW Communications goes into effect. …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Israel is determined not to be shaken from its pristine position of having one of the highest cellular penetration rates in the Middle East by the current unrest …

SINGAPORE-The once sleepy telecommunications market in technology-centric Taiwan is finally stirring from its slumber. Having taken a back seat to the country’s more well-known semiconductor industry until now, Taiwan’s mobile-phone …

China Zhang Fan, head of mobile communications at China Unicom, said his company would definitely build narrowband networks based on the CDMA standard. In June, the company had still ruled …

Handsets Neopoint The company released new dual-band and tri-mode smart phones that include increased capacity for personal digital assistant functions, built-in e-mail capabilities and a NeoPad Qwerty keyboard. The dual-band …

Alcatel Europe. With Orange as a strategic supplier for its third-generation networks throughout Europe. Value: Undisclosed Italy. With Wind Telecomunicazioni as a preferred third-generation network supplier. Value: Undisclosed Ericsson China. …

NEW DELHI, India-Wireless seems to be the latest buzzword in the corridors of the Sanchar Bhawan, the building that houses India’s telecom establishment, as well as in telecom industry circles. …

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 …

SAN DIEGO-Kyocera Wireless Corp. and Lucent Technologies Inc. reported an agreement to work together to accelerate global deployment of third-generation CDMA wireless services by aligning development of Kyocera’s wireless handsets …

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 …

IRVINE, Calif.-STM Wireless Inc. announced it was awarded a patent for its special form of CDMA called Cyclic Code Phase Multiple Access. The technology provides the benefits of CDMA but …

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 …