Conductus Inc. announced two agreements providing up to $4.5 million in financing to support the commercialization of its new ClearSite wireless products next year. Conductus also said it concluded the first phase of a field trial of the ClearSite superconductive receiver subsystem with RadioFone,...
Superconducting Core Technologies Inc. has ended commercial distribution of its cryoelectronic receiver front-end products for the mobile wireless base station market, igniting questions of whether superconductor companies targeting the wireless industry can raise enough capital to operate.Robert Paige, chief operating officer of Golden, Colo.-based...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. said initial results from field trials with two new cellular operators show that its ClearSite receiver front-end subsystem reduces dropped calls and interference, fills in coverage gaps and improves overall voice quality. The tests involved five base stations.One operator, located in...
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SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Cellcom, which operates a cellular network in Wisconsin and Iowa, will purchase four beta units of Conductus Inc.'s ClearSite receiver subsystem following a successful trial of the system, Conductus said.Cellcom is evaluating how many additional sites should be upgraded with the system.Data from...
PanaVise Products Inc. debuted PortaGrip 2000, a cellular phone holder that features four-way adjustability. The side jaws move back and forth, while the support slide moves up and down, the company said. PortaGrip adjusts to hold any size or shape cellular phone. Three models...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. received awards from two government agencies to develop superconducting and cryogenic technology for use in wireless base stations.The first contract was awarded to a consortium composed of Conductus, Bell Labs and CTI-Cryogenics by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The companies...
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...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. announced it has completed a beta deployment agreement with Cellcom, a rural cellular company based in DePere, Wis.Under the agreement, Cellcom will install three Conductus ultra-low-noise receiver subsystems in its Wisconsin network this fall, said Conductus.In field tests conducted earlier this...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. announced it has successfully completed two additional rural field tests of its ultra-low-noise receiver subsystem for cellular base stations.The Conductus subsystem is designed to provide enhanced range, improved coverage and improved signal quality in rural cellular sites by combining a superconductive...
ArrayComm Inc. announced it has closed a private equity placement totaling $12.3 million. The placement, which was oversubscribed, was managed by UBS Securities Inc. and Volpe, Welty & Co. ArrayComm said the placement will fund the completion of its wireless local loop product and...
