CDMA

MELBOURNE, Australia-Telstra announced it launched Australia’s first fully operational third-generation (3G) mobile service aimed at business users. In particular, it has upgraded base stations on its CDMA digital cellular network. …

SAN DIEGO-Indian wireless operator Reliance Infocomm Ltd. will use wireless streaming video technology from Thin Multimedia Inc. to offer streaming video applications over its CDMA 1xRTT network. The carrier will …

WASHINGTON- National Communications System official John Graves said today T-Mobile USA will be awarded a government contract by early next week to provide basic wireless priority access service to federal, …

BEIJING-Zhou Huan, chairman and president of the Datang Telecom Technology Group, told Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post that China should back its home-grown third-generation (3G) standard, TD-SCDMA. “As the …

SAN DIEGO-Spirent Communications has teamed with Minneapolis-based TestQuest to provide completely automated testing for applications embedded into most commercially available CDMA handsets. “Right now, applications testing is very labor intensive, …

ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX, France-Wavecom SA released its new tri-mode CDMA WISMO Quik module-the WISMO Quik Q2438 at this week’s CDMA Americas Congress. The module incorporates CDMA digital 800 MHz, CDMA 1900 MHz …

KANATA, Ontario-Bridgewater Systems said is working with Nortel Networks to test the interoperability of Nortel’s CDMA technology, which will allow CDMA operators to provide WLAN services to customers, with its …

IRVINE, Texas-Nokia Corp. said it expects its mobile handset business to improve in 2003, while its infrastructure business will face challenges. “We see growth potential in new product categories, especially …

SAN DIEGO-Nokia demonstrated its person-to-person IP mobility services at this week’s CDMA Development Group conference. The services are enabled by Nokia’s IP Multimedia pilot system, which provides IP Multimedia Subsystem …

IRVINE, Calif.-Disposable mobile phone maker Hop-On announced Viasystems will manufacture 61,000 CDMA 800 MHz disposable/recyclable phones to sell in China. “We now have an EMS partner with a first-rate global …

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless announced it will sell the new color-screen CDM-9500 phone, a tri-mode, CDMA 1xRTT-capable device built by Audiovox Communications Corp. and Toshiba. The phone will also include Qualcomm …

In spite of mammoth debt, operators are beginning to loosen their purse strings to buy equipment again, according to a report by market research firm Dell’Oro Group. The report said …

PLANO, Texas-Describing the product as the first chip that integrates CDMA and wireless local area network solutions in a single device, SyChip said Cyberbank Corp. has integrated the SyChip WLAN6060EB …

BEIJING-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has replaced 65 of China Unicom’s CDMA base stations with cdma2000 1x technology in a day in Shanghai province. The swap-out took place swiftly to …

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Jarbas Valente, Anatel’s superintendent of private services, said he was surprised by the auction results for the surplus licenses in bands D and E for personal communications services. …

In today’s soft economy, the benefits of outsourcing are becoming clearer to many manufacturers. Since the outsourcing trend intensified in the past few years, companies have said it has enhanced …

Wireless technology, from Wi-Fi to Bluetooth to GSM and CDMA, served a major role during the Comdex show, with attendees getting a peek at some of the latest initiatives in …

BEIJING, China-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has replaced 65 of China Unicom’s CDMA base stations with cdma2000 1x in a single day in Shanghai province. The swap-out took place swiftly …

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PLANO, Texas-Describing the product as the first chip that integrates CDMA and wireless local area network solutions in a single device, SyChip said Cyberbank Corp. has integrated the SyChip WLAN6060EB …

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia-The first commercial CDMA 450 MHz network is to be launched soon in Russia by the St. Petersburg-based carrier Delta Telecom. City streets are already abounding in billboards …

SEOUL, South Korea-Samsung Electronics laid out its vision for the U.S. wireless market in conjunction with the Comdex show in Las Vegas, boasting of its worldwide mobile phone sales of …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said more than 5 million gpsOne-enabled wireless devices are now in commercial use in Japan, South Korea and the United States, making it the most widely deployed …

BEIJING-Already the largest mobile-phone market in the world with more than 190 million subscribers at the end of September, China is gearing up to introduce third generation (3G) services on …

WASHINGTON-White House cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke said today industry unity could help win funding for wireless priority access service implementation and that security remains a big problem with wireless local …