SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Standard Telecom Inc., manufacturer of the Nixxo brand of pagers, and Qualcomm Inc. have signed a license agreement allowing Standard Telecom to use Code Division Multiple Access technology.Standard Telecom said it plans to develop CDMA personal communications services handsets, which it will...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced it completed tests for Code Division Multiple Access intersystem network roaming in Beijing.The tests were conducted jointly with China Telecom Greatwall Network, which is a cooperative entity between China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and China...
KANAGAWA, Japan-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it is establishing a Bell Laboratories presence in Japan at the Yokosuka Research Park to develop and test a prototype Wideband Code Division Multiple Access system for third-generation wireless communications systems.Lucent said its presence in Japan complements its ongoing...
LONDON-Code Division Multiple Access technology is playing a key role in several leading technology contenders for third-generation wireless networks in Europe, but back-to-back industry shows held here last week underlined just how convoluted and contentious Europe's standards process has become.And while CDMA technology seems...
SEOUL-In a city where a mobile phone is as common as kimchi and coffee shops must provide a landline phone at every table in order to draw in customers, Seoul, one of the largest cities in the world, seems to be a wireless carrier's...
Customers of two-way paging devices using WolfeTech Corp.'s PocketGenie software now will have access to the information services provided by InfoSpace, according to a strategic partnership announced between the two. Motorola Inc.'s PageWriter 2000 and Research In Motion's Inter@ctive Pager both use the PocketGenie...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. announced plans to work with Siemens AG and other Global System for Mobile communications equipment manufacturers to develop a next-generation wireless standard that combines elements of Code Division Multiple Access and Time Division Multiple Access technologies.Motorola said it joins Alcatel,...
SEOUL-It was only fitting that the future of Code Division Multiple Access technology was discussed in South Korea at the 2nd CDMA International Conference.Since SK Telecom launched the country's first CDMA system in January 1996, South Korea now has five CDMA operators and about...
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PanaVise Products Inc. introduced a combination mounting kit designed to keep cellular phones secure while driving, but quickly release the phone for easy removal from the vehicle. The PortaGrip 2000 cellular phone holder can be used alone to prevent a phone from sliding around...
CUPERTINO, Calif.-DSP Communications Inc. said it delivered Code Division Multiple Access baseband processor samples to original equipment manufacturer customers for use in subscriber handsets.At the same time, DSPC and NEC America Inc. announced joint development efforts for Interim Standard 136A-based Time Division Multiple Access...
The personal communications services industry saw its second top management change in less than a month as Pacific Bell named John Polumbo president and chief executive officer of its PCS business, Pacific Bell Mobile Services.Polumbo replaces Lyndon Daniels, who was appointed chairman of the...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. signed a royalty-bearing license agreement with Hitachi Ltd. of Japan, which grants Hitachi a license to manufacture and sell subscriber products for wireless applications based on the Code Division Multiple Access Interim Standard-95 technology standard."Hitachi is ready to apply its extensive...
NEW YORK-Established and new entrants to the wireless handset manufacturing sector are sitting pretty on the crest of a wave of growing worldwide demand, said participants in the NatWest Securities Corp. "Global Mobile Handset Conference."Handset sales could reach 250 million units in 2000 compared...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced two projects with Telebahia, the A-band cellular operator in Bahia, Brazil.Qualcomm announced a pioneering project with Nec Do Brasil S.A. and Telebahia to deploy a Code Division Multiple Access 800 MHz overlay system in Bahia. The system will use Qualcomm's...
TORONTO- Bell Mobility launched its PCS Plus personal communications services network in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City.Subscribers can use dual-mode analog/digital phones, by Sony Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. The operator deployed Code Division Multiple Access technology on its 1.9 GHz PCS Plus system."Clearly...
More than two years after offering iDEN technology to other manufacturers willing to license it, Motorola Inc. still hasn't found any takers, despite the growing success of iDEN-user Nextel Communications Inc."There's a lot of interest in the technology," insisted David Kurt, manager of public...
BATON ROUGE, La.-C-block license holder Meretel Communications L.P. is expected this week to launch personal communications services in Baton Rouge, La., using dual-mode, dual-band Code Division Multiple Access handsets.Eatel Inc., one of Meretel's owners, is introducing the CDMA service under the Eatel name. The...
I read the 50-page document several times but I still can't find the reorganization plan that is supposed to be included in Pocket Communication Inc.'s reorganization plan submitted to a Maryland bankruptcy court Sept. 29. What I did read was page after page of...
NEW YORK-Gemplus Corp., Montgomeryville, Pa., gambled early and big on the nascent U.S. Global System for Mobile Communications personal communications services business. Today, it has won close to a 50-percent share of the subscriber identity module market.Gemplus and Schlumberger Smart Cards & Systems, Telecom...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group introduced a Code Division Multiple Access cellular base transmission system that supports about twice the capacity of current commercial CDMA networks, said the company.Motorola currently is deploying the new SC 4840 base stations in Japan as part...
When Mark Feighner took the reins as president of GTE Wireless Corp. a little more than two years ago, his goal was to profitably grow the company in line with industry growth.Now he is keeping the pace by almost doubling the company's wireless subscriber...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it has shipped more than 6 million Mobile Station Modem chips to Code Division Multiple Access handset manufacturers worldwide.Qualcomm's ASCI Business Unit is producing approximately 1 million chipsets each month.The chips being shipped are Qualcomm's third-generation design, which will be...
