CDMA

SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Qualcomm Inc. said it has rolled out Wideband CDMA test mobiles at 1900 MHz for North American deployment. “These test mobiles are identical to those used for W-CDMA …

ATLANTA-ART Advanced Recognition Technologies Inc. (ART) announced it will join with Qualcomm Inc. to implements its smARTspeak XG software into Qualcomm’s CDMA Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chipsets. ART’s phoneme-based name …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Kyocera Wireless entered the Chilean cellular market as a terminal provider for the Smartcom PCS network. Smartcom is the first South American operator outside Brazil to launch a …

BEIJING-China Mobile plans to buy 300,000 General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) handsets to promote its multimedia messaging service (MMS), which the company will launch in the coming days, following a …

BUCHAREST, Romania-Romanian GSM operator Connex and Zapp Mobile, the country’s CDMA 450 MHz operator, announced that users of the two networks now can send each other text messages. The new …

LIBERTYVILLE, Illinois, United States-Motorola said it signed a licensing agreement with Latin American distributor Brightstar. The agreement allows Brightstar to develop, manufacture, distribute and sell CDMA and TDMA 800 MHz …

TOKYO-The Japanese government on 18 September granted J-Phone, a Vodafone company in Japan, a license for third-generation (3G) commercial service. Based on the governmental approval, J-Phone will launch its nationwide …

JAKARTA, Indonesia-Telkom, Indonesia’s incumbent information and communication services carrier, has decided to divest its non-GSM subsidiaries. Currently, Telkom has five cellular subsidiaries-Telkomsel, a GSM operator; Komselindo and Mobisel, CDMA operators; …

BEIJING-Sony Ericsson is considering applying for a CDMA handset manufacturing license in China. If a new license is unavailable, the company may team with one of the 19 handset makers …

SAN DIEGO, Calif.-The Economist has named Qualcomm Inc.’s chairman and chief executive officer Irwin Jacobs as an innovation leader in the area of communications for the CDMA technology at its …

NEW YORK, N.Y.-Spirent Plc said it has acquired Ubinetics” CS100 product line and rights to associated intellectual property for $6.5 million in cash. “The CS100 3G base station emulator product …

BEIJING-China United Telecommunications Corporation launched its 11.5 billion yuan (US$1.4 billion) domestic initial public offering (IPO), the largest ever in China by number of shares and the second-largest in value, …

NEW YORK-With the possibility of being released from its obligations to the Federal Communications Commission’s Auction 35 fiasco, Verizon Wireless Inc. is reported to be interested in purchasing Cablevision Systems …

SAN DIEGO-The agenda for the 2002 CDMA Americas Congress, to be held December 3-5, 2002, in San Diego, has been released. Confirmed speakers include Ralph de la Vega, president of …

BEIJING-China Eastcom, one of China’s 19 licensed CDMA handset manufacturers, has reached an agreement with carrier China Unicom to offer CDMA handsets to consumers at one-third of market prices. Its …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-A strong discussion has started in Argentina about what platforms will prevail in Latin America. On the one hand, the 3G Americas organization maintains that GSM will be …

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SAN DIEGO-The first International Wireless Symposium, scheduled to be held October 2-4, 2002, in San Diego, will be attended by wireless experts specializing in third-generation technologies, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, according …

BEIJING-China’s number-two mobile operator, China Unicom, reported a profit increase of 2.7 percent in the first half of the year to 2.25 billion yuan (US$272 million) compared with the same …

OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-CDMA operators are leading the race to deploy third-generation services in North America, according to Allied Business Intelligence. GSM/GPRS operators are pursuing EDGE, a much less complex technology …

DENVER-BVRP Software USA licensed Novatel Wireless Inc. to bundle BVRP’s Mobile PhoneTools connectivity software with its Merlin G201 and G301 Wireless PC Modems. BVRP said the software is designed to …

While U.S. wireless carriers have often strayed from the international model when it comes to delivering service, most industry watchers anticipated the U.S.-based GSM carriers would follow a similar path …

NEW DELHI, India-Cellular phone customers in one of the fastest-growing markets in Asia are a happy lot, but this happiness is not shared by operators, as they face mounting losses …

COSTA MESA, Calif.-The CDMA Development Group reported more than 127 million worldwide CDMA subscribers at the end of the second quarter and 15 million worldwide third-generation CDMA subscribers as of …

BEIJING-Kyocera President Yasuo Nishiguchi launched a new CDMA handset in China, produced by the Kyocera Zhenhua Communication Equipment Company, based in China’s southwest Guizhou province. The company is a joint …