While Global System for Mobile communications technology networks currently have more subscribers, technical and competitive advantages will propel Code Division Multiple Access into a market-leading position by early 2003, concludes a recent study by Datacomm Research Co.The 208-page "CDMA Wireless Business Opportunities" challenges the...
NEW YORK-While Asian troubles may obscure the big picture for awhile, international growth and the integration of wireless and wireline telephony will mean plenty of opportunities for wireless manufacturers, according to one analyst who tracks those stocks."Mobile is great, but it's getting hard to...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced an agreement totaling nearly $40 million to supply four operators in northern regions of Mexico with Code Division Multiple Access infrastructure.The agreement with Baja Celular Mexicana, Movitel del Noroeste, Telefonia Celular del Norte and Celular de...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced a $70 million contract with African Telecommunications Inc. to supply a wireless local loop system in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) based on Code Division Multiple Access technology. Qualcomm plans to begin deployment of the cdmaOne WLL system...
CommQuest Technologies Inc. today introduced a tri-band Global System for Mobile communications chipset that will allow global roaming in the 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 1900 MHz frequency bands using one handset.The two-chip product includes a single-chip Communication Application Specific Processor for baseband and...
Samsung is not a household name in the United States, but the consumer electronics giant is hoping its $10 million brand promotion campaign introduced in the fourth quarter and its aggressive strategy to grab a 40-percent share of the U.S.CDMA handset market will do...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said Interim Standard-707 packet data, circuit-switched data and digital fax capabilities are now available on its Code Division Multiple Access infrastructure equipment. The company said it offers wireless providers an end-to-end solution for data services."Operators in Chile, India, Russia and Ukraine...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. reported a 311-percent increase in net income for the quarter ended Dec. 28, 1997, from $9 million, or 13 cents per share, a year ago to $37 million, or 50 cents per share.Revenues for the company's fiscal 1998 first quarter totaled...
NEW YORK-Some interesting twists are ahead on the road to roaming for personal communications services carriers as they seek to emulate their cellular counterparts, which reap between 15 percent and 20 percent of their gross revenues from long-distance wireless calls.Last year, subscribers of all...
BrazilMicrowave radio equipment manufacturer Harris Corp. announced plans to open a plant during the second quarter in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In addition to its manufacturing operations, the new facility will employ engineers, sales representatives and customer support staff, and is expected to export microwave...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced an agreement to replace the analog equipment in GTE Wireless' Greensboro and Raleigh, N.C., and Charleston, S.C., networks, with Code Division Multiple Access equipment. The networks, which began commercial service in 1985, will be upgraded with...
ANRITSU CO.Anritsu Co. introduced the MS8606A digital mobile radio transmitter tester that performs Code Division Multiple Access measurements in less than two seconds. Covering the 300 kHz to 3 GHz frequency range, the MS8606A combines a transmitter tester, spectrum analyzer, power meter and software...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it received several contracts, totaling nearly $100 million, for Code Division Multiple Access systems in California, Georgia and South Carolina.Central Wireless Partnership purchased $50 million in equipment to construct personal communications services networks in the Fresno, Modesto and...
DALLAS-Samsung Telecommunications America introduced a new compact Code Division Multiple Access base station designed to drastically reduce initial deployment and recurring network costs.Samsung said the PicoBTS base station provides cellular and personal communications services carriers with a small and high capacity platform allowing for...
WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc. is poised to begin a technical trial in Las Vegas of what it describes as the first F-block personal communications services network built to date. The company also has built test networks in San Diego, San Antonio and Washington, D.C., but...
NEW YORK-Global TeleSystems Group Inc., an American carrier providing wireless and wireline phone service in the former Soviet Republic and Eastern Europe, plans to go public.With Merrill Lynch & Co., New York, as lead underwriter, the company has registered with the Securities and Exchange...
The Institute for Wireless Education, a nonprofit corporation that has been training wireless engineers and technicians for about a year, recently added a segment dedicated to Code Division Multiple Access technology to its two-week course, "Basic Wireless Telephony.""We cut our teeth on Time Division...
WARREN, N.J.-Dobson Communications plans to launch more than a dozen digital networks in its Arizona, California and Texas markets, using some $80 million in Lucent Technologies Inc.'s infrastructure equipment, the companies announced.With Lucent's wireless systems, Dobson can use the same network architecture to support...
The Asia-Pacific market will by far be the world's largest regional wireless telephony market by 2002, said a new study released by The Strategis Group in Washington, D.C.The firm predicts, based on examinations of 23 Asia-Pacific countries, that the Asia-Pacific market subscriber base will...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. signed a royalty-bearing license agreement granting Marconi Instruments Ltd. a license to design and develop test equipment based on its Code Division Multiple Access Interim Standard 95 technology."The license agreement allows Marconi to expand its strategy of actively supporting CDMA technology...
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute cast a preliminary vote last week in Madrid, Spain, in favor of a Wideband-Code Division Multiple Access third-generation technology proposal backed by Nokia Corp. and L.M. Ericsson.The W-CDMA proposal allows for migration from Global System for Mobile communications networks...
SAN DIEGO-Nigerian Starcomms Ltd., a privately licensed wireless local loop operator, has agreed to provide service to the Lagos area of Nigeria using a $40 million cdmaOne system supplied by Qualcomm Inc., announced Qualcomm.Deployment of the 1900 MHz Code Division Multiple Access system is...
PHILADELPHIA-Grupo Iusacell, Bell Atlantic Corp.'s communications venture in Mexico, plans to launch Mexico's first Code Division Multiple Access network as part of a $200 million upgrade beginning in Mexico City early next year, said the company.Lucent Technologies Inc. will provide the CDMA infrastructure equipment...
