CDMA

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry told the Federal Communications Commission that integrating wireless technology into the nation’s outdated Emergency Alert System could be more difficult than expected and warned policy-makers that scrapping …

Qualcomm Inc. said Wednesday its earnings rose 35 percent in the fourth quarter, but the mobile chipmaker’s forecasts for 2005 fell below Wall Street’s expectations. The San Diego-based firm reported …

ALAMEDA, Calif.-UTStarcom announced it finalized its $165 million acquisition of some assets of Audiovox Corp.’s mobile handset division. UTStarcom, which supplies wireless and wire-line switching units, said it expects the …

Just as the hype over W-CDMA is subsiding, the industry is shifting gears to another protocol. Known as High Speed Downlink Packet Access, the technology is the focus of major …

SAN FRANCISCO-The nation’s wireless carriers have agreed to provide consumers with multimedia messaging service interoperability, a move that industry watchers say will give a much-needed boost to MMS use in …

While primarily a stomping ground for carriers and content developers to meet and deal, this year’s CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment show, held last week in San Francisco, also provided …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission today conditionally approved the $41 billion merger of Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc., requiring the new No. 1 mobile-phone operator to scale back …

MOSCOW-Lucent said its CDMA 450 MHz equipment has been deployed in Russia by Sky Link, a telecommunications holding company established to develop a nationwide CDMA 450 MHz network in Russia. …

SAN FRANCISCO-Nokia Corp.’s development program plans to use CTIA’s Wireless IT & Entertainment show to unveil a worldwide initiative designed to make it easier for developers to bring mobile content …

When wireless experts raved about the next big technologies a few years ago, they had Flash-OFDM and UMTS TDD in mind. Both protocols are not only making strides in wide …

Failing to make strong inroads into Europe with its second-generation CDMA offering, Qualcomm Inc. wants to write a different story for UMTS technology. Within a two-week span, the San Diego-based …

WASHINGTON-Three nationwide GSM carriers will participate in a digital emergency alert pilot that officially kicked off last week, but questions remain about whether the Bush administration-sponsored project can secure support …

ATLANTA-EMS Wireless said it has deployed its line of CDMA 450 MHz repeaters for Romania’s Zapp, which offers CDMA2000 1x at 450 MHz. Zapp deployed the EMS Wireless repeaters inside …

TOKYO-Japanese wireless carrier KDDI announced what it called the first music download service that allows users to download full songs. The new 1x service is called EZ Chaku-uta Full and …

SAN DIEGO-With a view to bringing CDMA to the mainstream of the European market, Qualcomm Inc. said it has acquired Trigenix, a mobile user interface company, for $36 million. The …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Telus Corp. said it would not extend its $800 million offers to acquire rival Microcell Telecommunications Inc. beyond the current Oct. 12 extension date following Microcell’s announcement last …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it has introduced two products that will increase the capacity and reduce the cost of simultaneously delivering video, audio and other content to large numbers of …

Following the recent expansion of its commercial CDMA2000 1x EV-DO network to include 14 major markets and 24 airport locations nationwide last month, Verizon Wireless is set to add 16 …

MUNICH-Siemens AG raised Flash-OFDM technology to a prime spot on the wireless radar with its decision to adopt it as an important part of its offering. Flarion Technologies Inc. is …

Before the spinoff of its chip business, Motorola Inc. often came across as an octopus-a many-sided giant. With Freescale Semiconductor Inc. now a standalone company, the wireless vendor still weighs …

Siemens AG raised Flash-OFDM technology to a prime spot on the wireless radar with its decision to adopt it as an important part of its offering. Flarion Technologies Inc. is …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it has signed a cooperation agreement with NTT DoCoMo Inc. to promote the global deployment of W-CDMA technology. The announcement follows interoperability tests by both companies, …

MIAMI—The CDMA Development Group announced winners of the 3G CDMA Industry Achievement Awards this week at the CDMA Americas Congress taking place in Miami. Among the winners were: c Wang …

Comarco Comarco Wireless Test Solutions introduced Seven.Five for EvDO, a comprehensive test system for North American EV-DO cellular systems. Seven.Five for EvDO provides drive-test and in-building-test systems that combine an …

EDGE and UMTS technologies are both on a roll, says new research. But while EDGE accounts for more deployments, all eyes are on the benefits UMTS can bring. However, CDMA …