ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. and Shanghai Posts & Telecommunications Administration have signed an agreement to trial Motorola's fixed wireless telephone system in Shanghai using Code Division Multiple Access technology.The CDMA digital wireless local loop system will operate at 1.9 GHz, said Motorola. The trial...
Oh, the shifting winds of Washington.The bill-and-keep interconnection proposal has been called the greatest issue facing the cellular industry this year. And when the Federal Communications Commission last December an nounced it would propose reforms that would no longer force commercial mobile radio service...
Qualcomm Personal Electronics has won significant handset contracts from Sprint Spectrum L.P. and PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P., with a combined value of $850 million.The Sprint Spectrum agreement requires that Qualcomm begin shipping Code Division Multiple Access phones next month, a tall order for a...
Just when every conceivable type of transmission site on earth and in orbit seems to have been recruited for wireless telecommunications, the industry now is taking to the stratosphere with lighter-than-air platforms.Sky Station International Inc. of Chantilly, Va., applied to the Federal Communications Commission...
WASHINGTON-If the Securities and Exchange Commission approves S-1 paperwork it filed June 12, NextWave Telecom Inc. could move forward with a planned stock and senior discounted notes sale in the near future. What may garner the carrier some unwanted questions in the process are...
Lucky-Goldstar won the latest battle between Korean manufacturing titans last week when it captured the only digital Korean phone license being offered to an equipment manufacturer.Foreign entities were not allowed to participate in the process because international competition doesn't begin in Korea until 1998....
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it has signed a license agreement with Forest, Va.-based Grayson Electronics Co., a subsidiary of The Allen Group Inc.Under the terms of the agreement, Grayson has been granted a worldwide, royalty-bearing license to manufacture and sell Code Division Multiple Access...
Launching new technology into a market involves more than just technological know-how. The expectations of all parties must be managed in order to control the risks, analysts say.System operators must be responsible for the expectations they create in the minds of customers. Equipment manufacturers...
LG Information & Communications Ltd. of South Korea is wagering its hand in the U.S. personal communications services market with plans to begin large scale PCS technology and equipment manufacturing in San Diego in the second half of this year.The telecommunications subsidiary of Korean...
Samsung Electronics Co. has committed $25.8 million to manufacture prototype Code Division Multiple Access equipment for PCS, illustrating confidence that its PCS partnership will win a license for personal communications services spectrum.The Korean government is expected to award three PCS licenses in mid-June. One...
Samsung said it created many of its own parts for its CDMA equipment. The company has invested $390 million into telecom research and development this year. A total of 34 percent of workers in the company's Telecommunications Systems division are in research and development.Samsung...
Samsung said it created many of its own parts for its CDMA equipment. The company has invested $390 million into telecom research and development this year. A total of 34 percent of workers in the company's Telecommunications Systems division are in research and development.Samsung...
SINGAPORE-Numerous announcements about Code Division Multiple Access technology came out of last week's CDMA World Congress in Singapore. The event was attended by about 600 people from 40 countries.Motorola Inc. has formed a joint venture with two Chinese entities to manufacture CDMA infrastructure products...
"This is not a race," said AirTouch Communications Inc. about its controlled rollout of digital cellular service in northern Los Angeles."It's about getting the right customers transitioned," explains AirTouch spokeswoman Amy Damianakes.The "right" customers, to the California-based cellular operator, are the heavy phone users...
Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Group announced that PacLink has become the first to launch Motorola's FLEX paging protocol and distribute FLEX protocol-based pagers in Thailand. PacLink is investing more than $1 million in the FLEX protocol-capable infrastructure system and plans to launch the latest...
Code Division Multiple Access has been touted as a success story in Seoul, South Korea and in Hong Kong. Many U.S. personal communications services licensees have based their access technology decision on CDMA's reported superior performance, high capacity and low cost. Many analysts put...
The introduction of fully digital wireless networks means that marginal readings by portable test equipment are no longer acceptable."It's all ones and zeros now, so you have to be precisely tuned," said Jan Whitacre, spokeswoman for Hewlett-Packard Co.That reality lit a fire under the...
NEW YORK-While other cellular carriers are going national and international, Three-sixty Communications Co. sees advantages in taking the road less traveled, through clustered regional markets in the United States."We are strictly a domestic company,"said Dennis Foster, the company's chief executive officer, at a New...
MAY6 The Emerging Market for Wireless Location-based Products and Services, by Telestrategies Inc. Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, Arlington, Va. (703) 734-7050.6-9 Inside Washington: Business and Public Policy Focus on the Information Superhighway, by The Brookings Institute. Embassy Row Hotel, Washington, D.C. Call Joan Milan at...
Depending on who is doing the talking, Code Division Multiple Access technology either is venerated or vilified. While several major A-, B-and C-block personal communications services operators have committed to the nascent technology, others are wondering if CDMA is worth the wait. Part 1...
NORMAN, Okla.-The first phase of University of Oklahoma research has concluded that different digital phone technologies can interfere with hearing aids, but researchers have yet to settle on how to resolve the problem."This clinical study is the most comprehensive scientific effort to date in...
NEW YORK-With the advent of a personal communications services overlay onto the nation's traditional cellular landscape, 1996 also will mark the debut of the dual-mode wireless phone as a consumer product.To Terrence Valeski, vice president of marketing for Pacific Bell Mobile Services, Pleasanton, Calif.,...
Cable television infrastructure is making a comeback as a solution to help companies mix-and-match architectures to deliver personal communications services in the face of community resistance to tower build-outs.Cox California PCS Inc. has long advocated such a cable-based solution.The San Diego-based company began exploring...
APRIL28-1 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference '96, by IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. The Westin Peach-tree Plaza, Atlanta. (908) 562-3870.30 The Telecom Act of 1996: Myths and Markets, by Creamer Dickson Basford. Sheraton Hotel, Needham, Mass. Call Christine Campbell at (617) 467-1521.MAY6 The Emerging Market for Wireless...
