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Korean telephone service provider Shinsegi Telecomm Inc. awarded Lucent Technologies Inc. a contract to supply and install a Code Division Multiple Access-technology based cellular network in the southern cities of Pusan and Kyungnam. Lucent said it immediately will begin installing its 5ESS-2000 switch-based mobile...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Uniden Corp. said its San Diego Research and Development Center entered into a licensing agreement to use Unwired Planet Inc.'s wireless communications software platform that includes an Internet/intranet browser, server and mark-up language. Uniden said it plans to debut its first Unwired Planet-based product...

MICROCELL’S PCS SERVICE TO PREMIERE FOR HOLIDAYS

Canadians may be giving Fido to their loved ones this Christmas.But Fido is not a dog. It's the spunky brand name for Microcell Telecommunications Inc.'s personal communications service scheduled to be available in Montreal in time for the holidays."We wanted to find a word...

MICROCELL'S PCS SERVICE TO PREMIERE FOR HOLIDAYS

Canadians may be giving Fido to their loved ones this Christmas.But Fido is not a dog. It's the spunky brand name for Microcell Telecommunications Inc.'s personal communications service scheduled to be available in Montreal in time for the holidays."We wanted to find a word...

QUALCOMM EXEC ARGUES WSJ STORY

Editor: Quentin Hardy's article, "Jacobs' Patter," in the Sept. 6 edition of The Wall Street Journal claims that "some of the biggest names in telecommunications" have invested perhaps $20 billion based on my promises about Code Division Multiple Access technology. This might be flattering if...

PRODUCTS

The Micro Digital M75 is a Time Division Multiple Access digital phone from Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Subscriber Group. The Flip Phone meets the Telecommunications Industry Association IS-136 standard for North American TDMA digital cellular service. The dual mode phone automatically will access a TDMA...

BELLSOUTH MOBILITY REPORTS LAUNCH OF ATLANTA DIGITAL NETWORK

BellSouth Mobility has launched digital cellular service in Atlanta. After spending $77 million preparing the network for the Summer Olympic Games, the company said it was more than ready to roll out service.The carrier previously announced it would turn off its Time Division Multiple...

METAWAVE OFFERS PRODUCT TO EX PAND CELL SITE COVERAGE

REDMOND, Wash.-Metawave Communications Corp. is offering a new product for Code Division Multiple Access networks that can expand the coverage of cell sites.The Metawave Echo CDMA Enhancer allows operators of personal communications services to increase system capacity and extend portable battery life.The Echo system...

BUSINESS & FINANCE: AIRTOUCH ADD N.Y. TO PAGING NETWORK GTE, LUCENT SHOW CROSS SPECTRUM, CELLULAR-PCS CALL

SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Paging, a division of AirTouch Communications Inc., announced it will add New York City to its paging network. AirTouch currently serves several major cities in the Northeast, including Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore and Washington D.C."Opening our New York office is an important milestone...

PRUDENTIAL ANALYST PREDICTS `SUPER TELECOM NETWORKS’ WILL EVOLVE

NEW YORK-Within two years, AT&T Corp. and Sprint Corp. "will be the dominant wireless players," said Michael Elling, senior telecommunications analyst for Prudential Securities Inc., at a press conference Sept. 26.Today, he said, the United States telecommunications market is balkanized like the former Yugoslavia....

WORLD BRIEFS

Sagem SA, a French manufacturer, plans to supply Global System for Mobile communications handsets to Omnipoint Communications Inc., a personal communications services operator. According to the contract, valued at $10 million, Omnipoint will offer two models of Sagem SA's GSM phone: the CS610 and the...

SPRINT PCS VENTURE GETS NEW ALIAS, MANUFACTURER

Qualcomm Personal Electronics says it is meeting the handset manufacturing contract requirements of Sprint PCS, which intends to launch service in 15 to 20 major markets by year's end. Even though Sprint recently signed a handset contract with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung isn't scheduled...

PRODUCTS

Northern Telecom entered the wireless handset market in North America for the first time by introducing PCS 1911, a personal telephone that supports voice mail and messaging services, the company said. Nortel was awarded a contract by BellSouth Mobility DCS to deploy the handsets...

BUSINESS & FINANCE: AIRTOUCH ADD N.Y. TO PAGING NETWORK GTE, LUCENT SHOW CROSS SPECTRUM, CELLULAR-PCS CALL

SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Paging, a division of AirTouch Communications Inc., announced it will add New York City to its paging network. AirTouch currently serves several major cities in the Northeast, including Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore and Washington D.C."Opening our New York office is an important milestone...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Oki telecom, one of Oki America Inc.'s five divisions, announced Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. will realign the corporate structure of its U.S. telecommunications group. On October 1, a new corporation named Oki Telecom Inc. will be established to better address the opportunities presented...

N.J. CDMA COMES IN CLEAR IN COLORADO

TRENTON, N.J.-To paraphrase an old Barbra Streisand song, "On a rainy day, you can hear forever," even when making a call to Colorado from a car parked beneath a water tower in the state capital of New Jersey.That's the sound quality of a brief...

ITU LOOKS AT TECHNOLOGY DRIVERS FOR 21ST CENTURY

WASHINGTON-U.S. manufacturers have begun mounting a counter offensive to what they see as a European-led, anticompetitive effort to restrict global wireless standards for third generation pocket phones.The controversy surfaced as International Telecommunication Union members developed recommendations on which technology or technologies should drive wireless...

MOTOROLA INC. SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH BELL ATLANTIC NYNEX MOBILE

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Pan American Wireless Infrastructure Division has signed a network upgrade agreement with Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile.The arrangement, valued at $53 million, will include the deployment of Code Division Multiple Access technology in Phoenix and Charlotte, N.C.Motorola has agreed to install...

CALENDAR

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SYSTEM COSTS, NOT CAPACITY, SHOULD DRIVE PCS BUILDOUT CHOICES

Digital wireless technologies were designed to answer issues of quality, capacity and cost. But by releasing huge swaths of new spectrum, the Federal Communications Commission has changed the rules, and capacity is now much less important than cost-but not everybody in the industry has...

CDMA MAY ENTER CHINA AS GSM NETWORK FILLS UP

CDMA supporters are buzzing with the prospect of entry into China.Wireless local loop trials have started and recent activities suggest China is interested in Code Division Multiple Access technology for cellular systems as well.Arun Sarin, president and chief executive officer of AirTouch International and...

AIRTOUCH PLANS TO PURSUE BOTH EUROPEAN AND DOMESTIC AVENUES

NEW YORK-When it comes to bundling wireless and landline telephone services, AirTouch Communications Inc. will pursue two different strategies, one domestic and one European, key executives said at a Sept. 11 meeting with the Wall Street investment community.On the home front, "we plan to...

BC TEL MOBILITY MOVES FORWARD WITH ROLLOUT OF CDMA SERVICE

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Following successful completion of field trials of Northern Telecom Ltd.'s 800 MHz Code Division Multiple Access network, BC Tel Mobility has committed to move forward with full commercial rollout of its CDMA digital cellular service in British Columbia, Canada."Our trials and controlled...

THE CASE FOR BUILDING CDMA-BASED WIRELESS LOCAL LOOP NETWORKS

This paper will show that wireless local loop systems provide more capacity than mobile cellular systems. Code Division Multiple Access technology has proven to have higher capacity than other multiple access schemes.Industrial countries require quality and service features from their mobile networks, while developing...