EATONTOWN, N.J.-Telecom Analysis Systems Inc. said the CDMA Development Group accepted its application to become a member of the consortium that focuses on Code Division Multiple Access technology.Telecom Analysis provides test instruments and systems for Interim Standard 95 and J-STD-008 systems.
The technology wars aren't over until the new universal, third generation worldwide standard is developed.Two prominent institutions are pushing the development of such a standard-the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva and the European Union in Brussels.The ITU first proposed the idea. A committee called...
For a cellular carrier competing in a growing marketplace, value-added services translate into more revenue. A small Silicon Valley development firm plans to deliver on that concept.San Jose, Calif.-based Aeris Communications Inc., formerly known as Axion Logistics Corp., plans to position itself as a...
Company Technology Wquipment Provider21st Century Telesis Inc. PACS/DCTU Siemens AG NEC Corp.Hughes Electronics Corp. BellcoreACC-PCS Inc. N/A N/AAer Force Communications L.P. N/A N/AAmerican Portable Telecommunications Inc. ...
WARREN, N.J.-Anadigics Inc. said it has shipped more than 1 million gallium arsenide integrated circuits for use in personal communications services handsets for the 1900 MHz Code Division Multiple Access standard.The circuits are used in the transmitter of CDMA phones and consist of a...
NEW YORK-A happy marriage of convenience is taking place among billboard companies and wireless communications carriers looking for antenna sites."It's something that just seems to be coming around the pike," said James M. Marsh, an equities research analyst for Prudential Securities Inc., New York,...
WASHINGTON-The worldwide market for cellular and personal communications services will reach more than 500 million subscribers by 2002, predicted The Strategis Group in its "World Cellular and PCS Markets: 1997" report. The company noted there were 140 million subscribers to cellular and PCS at the...
If you look at maps of the United States that depict the 1900 MHz coverage for the nation's three primary digital standards, it appears each standard will cover a great deal of the country.In the future, that is, because illustrations of coverage footprints are...
QUEBEC CITY-Microcell Telecommunications Inc. will activate its personal communications services network April 3 in Quebec City, which initially will provide service in 23 municipalities of the greater metropolitan area, said the company.The network, built by Microcell Connexions, is the second Microcell PCS 1.9 GHz...
Motorola Inc. has won what it calls the largest cellular infrastructure contract in the world to date.The company's Cellular Infrastructure Group announced Japanese carriers DDI Corp. and Nippon Idou Tsushin Corp. (IDO), two of Japan's leading cellular service providers, have selected Motorola to provide...
WASHINGTON-The worldwide market for cellular and personal communications services will reach more than 500 million subscribers by 2002, predicted The Strategis Group in its "World Cellular and PCS Markets: 1997" report. The company noted there were 140 million subscribers to cellular and PCS at the...
A Minnesota cryptographer said the cellular industry knows the cryptographic algorithms used in U.S. cellular digital systems are inadequate and were watered down by U.S. military pressure-and the industry is trying to hide that information.Bruce Schneier, president of Counterpane Systems, and several colleagues last...
Cellular One offers DPCS in Bay areaCellular One said it will begin offering digital cellular service branded Digital PCS in the San Francisco Bay area today. In conjunction with the launch, Cellular One is premiering a simplified rate plan and an off-the-shelf retail package.Features...
MANILA, Philippines-Lucent Technologies Inc. signed a contract with Pilipino Telephone Corp. to supply and install a Code Division Multiple Access network in the Philippines. Lucent values the contract at $23 million.The network, which the company said will be operational in June, will cover the...
SEOUL, South Korea-Korea Mobile Telecom reported strong growth in both its cellular and paging businesses in 1996, in addition to good interconnection revenue.According to KMT President Dr. Jung Uck Seo, the company experienced an 85 percent increase in cellular revenue to $1.86 billion, and...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS-Motorola Inc.'s Asia Pacific Cellular Infrastructure Group will install a trial Code Division Multiple Access cellular network in mainland China. The agreement is with Beijing Telecommunications Administration and the Telecommunications Development Department of the China Electronic System Engineering Co.Motorola said it will supply...
"The world's smallest PCS phone.""The world's lightest mobile phone.""The smallest and lightest CDMA phone in existence."The battle for the tiniest phone is no longer just a matter of shape and size. The technological standard used by the phone is now a clear differentiator.The new...
SAN FRANCISCO-A Code Division Multiple Access digital/analog dual-mode, dual-band telephone has been introduced by Qualcomm Inc., along with two other new CDMA portable phones in its QCP series.The manufacturer expects the three phones will be commercially available this summer: the QCP-2700 800 MHz MHz dual-band...
E.F. Johnson Co. and Motorola Inc.'s Land Mobile Products sector said they will submit a proposal to build a new digital, trunked 800 MHz public safety radio system for the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. E.F. Johnson said the Metropolitan Radio Board, a group of public...
SAN FRANCISCO-Market segmentation and minimizing costs are critical success factors for wireless operators, and as countering forces, these topics were hot conversation at this year's Wireless '97 conference. Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association President Tom Wheeler hatched dialogue among four of the industry's carrier heads...
CUPERTINO, Calif.-DSP Communications Inc. and Siemens Wireless Terminals, a division of Siemens Business Communications Systems Inc., announced they have signed a worldwide strategic agreement for Interim Standard 95 and J-STD-008-based Code Division Multiple Access subscriber equipment.DSP will develop and supply IS-95-J-STD-008 baseband processor chipsets...
SAN FRANCISCO-Saying the timing is right to pursue the Code Division Multiple Access technology-based handset market, Nokia Mobile Phones Inc. announced it plans to build phones for the CDMA market.Nokia said it has designed its own chipset to be used in its handsets, the...
Motorola Inc. said it intends to file a patent infringement lawsuit against Qualcomm Inc., claiming Qualcomm's new Code Division Multiple Access "Q" phone copies the basic look and functions as well as marketing literature of Motorola's StarTac wearable phone.Qualcomm in turn has filed a...
Nokia Corp. signed an agreement with Beijing Telecommunications Administration to expand its Global System for Mobile communications network in Beijing. Nokia values the agreement at $50 million. Nokia said it will provide its DX 200 mobile switching centers, base station controllers, base stations and...
