The CDMA Development Group said it expects handset makers to introduce commercial Code Division Multiple Access handsets with subscriber identity modules by the end of the year to allow for global roaming.The CDG announced late last month that the Telecommunications Industry Association will approve...
Sprint PCS last week announced its first voice call over 1XRTT technology, a third-generation solution for Code Division Multiple Access technology operators.The call is the first phase of a test between Sprint PCS, Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. to evaluate 1X technology...
American wireless firms and the U.S. government are cautiously optimistic about a move the European Commission plans to make to open Europe to competing third-generation wireless standards.The EC early this month plans to officially ask the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to standardize all technologies-including...
COSTA MESA, Calif.-The CDMA Development Group said the Telecommunications Industry Association will approve the Code Division Multiple Access Subscriber Identity Module standard, Removable-User Identity Module for publication.According to the CDG, this standardization represents a major step in the development of worldwide roaming as CDMA...
Qualcomm Inc. and Motorola Inc. ended their longstanding patent disputes last week, agreeing to extend their Code Division Multiple Access cross licenses.The new settlement calls for Motorola and Qualcomm to leave unmodified the financial terms of their original 1990 royalty-bearing license agreement for CDMA...
China Unicom's planned deployment of Code Division Multiple Access technology remains delayed as Unicom works on sorting out the paper work with both the Ministry of Information Industry and the State Development Planning Commission, vendors in China say.Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji recently told reporters...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and Hitachi have amended Hitachi's existing Code Division Multiple Access licensing agreement.With the amendment, Hitachi's CDMA agreement has been expanded to grant the company a license under Qualcomm's essential CDMA patent portfolio to develop, manufacture and sell infrastructure and subscriber equipment...
One press article after another has asserted that the European Union's single standards regime for wireless services has given Europe an enormous "lead" over the United States. These stories, however, do not present a complete picture regarding the global leadership of the U.S. wireless...
Nokia threw its support behind Motorola Inc.'s 1X Plus proposal last week and said it is evaluating making cdmaOne-based infrastructure equipment.Motorola announced earlier this month plans to challenge Qualcomm Inc.'s proprietary High Data Rate technology, introducing its own 1XRTT enhancement for cdmaOne carriers to...
The Operators Harmonization Group-which began work more than a year ago as a loosely tied consortium of four operators trying to end the global debate over third-generation technology standards-is now an official organization.Earlier this month, 26 operators from around the world approved an international...
Since its exit from the highly competitive U.S. mobile handset market in late 1998, Siemens AG has vowed to return.The German manufacturer will make its comeback this summer, but to a mobile-phone market that is even more crowded and competitive than ever before. Rapidly...
Com-Net EricssonCom-Net Ericsson Critical Radio Systems Inc. will introduce several new products at the International Wireless Communications Expo in Las Vegas ranging from trunked and conventional radios to a new voice-over-Internet Protocol product. The Panther 300P portable and Panther 300M mobile conventional radios will...
NEW YORK-The Federal Communications Commission 700 MHz auctions in May will be "a significant industry-transforming event and near-term catalyst ... in the race toward wireless data," John Bensche, senior analyst for Lehman Brothers Inc., said.Bidding teams could well include Internet service and content providers,...
NEW YORK-Rural carriers, many of which began as landline providers, already have experienced a long learning curve in service bundling-a current hot topic in the telecommunications industry.No doubt they face challenges posed by downward pressures on roaming revenues and increased competition in their territories....
LightbridgeJoseph Tibbetts Jr. resigned from Lightbridge Inc. as the company's chief financial officer in order to pursue an opportunity in venture capital.U.S. Wireless DataCharles Leone accepted the posts of chief financial officer and chief operating officer for U.S. Wireless Data Inc. Leone will be...
SYDNEY, Australia-Telstra, Australia's largest telecom provider, announced it will cut 10,000 jobs over the next two years including up to 220 senior management positions as part of a restructuring. The reductions are part of a program to reduce expenses by about $398.8 million per...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson unveiled its first Code Division Multiple Access phone, the A1228c, delivering access to the Internet, e-mail and other information and communications services.According to the company, the new phone features a Wireless Application Protocol microbrowser, enabling users to access the latest mobile...
NEW ORLEANS-Motorola Inc. said it successfully made a voice over Internet Protocol call on top of a third-generation high-speed packet data call at 384 kilobits per second in a laboratory experiment.The 3G experimental system is an Aspira network architecture-based system demonstrating 3G cellular services...
NEW ORLEANS-Siemens AG announced it will re-enter the U.S. mobile-phone market in 2001, about two years after it left the market unable to compete with rapidly falling handset prices in the United States.Siemens always has maintained its exit from the U.S. market was a...
NEW ORLEANS-Prairie Comm Inc., Rolling Meadows, Ill., announced the development of a next-generation digital baseband integrated circuit supporting the Code Division Multiple Access standard. The new processor, to be available in engineering samples in the second quarter, is set to provide cell phones with...
NEW ORLEANS-Nokia Corp. announced its Wireless Application Protocol 1.1 compliant Artuse Messaging Platform will be able to support Code Division Multiple Access technology.The expansion means CDMA operators can incorporate the platform in their networks, as can operators using Time Division Multiple Access or Global...
NEW ORLEANS-A standoff over 1XRTT technology enhancements began to brew at last week's Wireless 2000 show, as Motorola Inc. challenged the business case of Qualcomm's proprietary High Data Rate technology, introducing its own 1X enhancement for cdmaOne carriers to consider.Qualcomm has aggressively marketed HDR...
MELBOURNE, Australia-Telstra's new CDMA mobile phone network has come under fire from rural Australians following the closure of about 80 percent of the carrier's analog AMPS network on 31 December.Most of the criticisms of the new CDMA service surround difficulties with reception. The network,...
BEIJING-China Unicom and Qualcomm signed a landmark agreement in February, paving the way for Chinese manufacturers to get CDMA production licenses. Unicom wants to build a 10 million-line CDMA network this year and is evaluating 12 bidders to supply the equipment.But barely a week...
