CHESTERFIELD, Mo.-The cable TV and wireless industries are poised to dominate the high-speed Internet access market, according to Datacomm Research Co.'s report, "Bandwidth Bonanza: High-Speed Internet Access Technologies, Markets and Vendors.""The cable TV industry, with its broadband hybrid fiber-coax networks, and the wireless industry, with...
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute may be at a crossroads now that Qualcomm Inc. has outlined the terms under which it will grant intellectual property rights to wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology.ETSI in January chose W-CDMA technology, based on a Global System for...
The SBC Communications Inc. and Ameritech Corp. merger means two major cellular markets may be up for grabs.Both companies own cellular licenses in Chicago and St. Louis, Mo., as well as surrounding licenses in Illinois, Indiana and Missouri. SBC will have to sell off...
This year's financial outlook appears gloomy for Motorola Inc., which released poor first-quarter results last week and told analysts this quarter's results won't look much better."The primary factors likely to prevent sequential earnings improvement include further gross-margin pressure from higher shipments of new cellular...
South Korean CDMA handset manufacturers exporting their way out of the currency crisis affecting their country are expected to fuel competition in the U.S. Code Division Multiple Access handset market this year.One analyst in South Korea expects all four of the country's main handset...
While Global System for Mobile communications technology networks currently have more subscribers, technical and competitive advantages will propel Code Division Multiple Access into a market-leading position by early 2003, concludes a recent study by Datacomm Research Co.The 208-page "CDMA Wireless Business Opportunities" challenges the...
Samsung is not a household name in the United States, but the consumer electronics giant is hoping its $10 million brand promotion campaign introduced in the fourth quarter and its aggressive strategy to grab a 40-percent share of the U.S.CDMA handset market will do...
With the introduction of the Windows CE operating system designed by Microsoft Corp.-expected to revolutionize the mobile computing industry much like the company's Windows 95 operating system changed the computing world-wireless communications companies are hot to secure strategic agreements with the software giant.Motorola Inc....
ORLANDO, Fla.-Put four analysts up on a podium, ask them what they think and while their answers don't always agree on specifics, their big picture themes often seem similar.That's what happened at the recent 1997 CDMA North American Regional Congress when four wireless market...
The personal communications services industry saw its second top management change in less than a month as Pacific Bell named John Polumbo president and chief executive officer of its PCS business, Pacific Bell Mobile Services.Polumbo replaces Lyndon Daniels, who was appointed chairman of the...
Swedish telecommunications giant L.M. Ericsson is promoting the application of wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology, and recently announced a partnership with Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Corp. of Japan to develop commercial uses for W-CDMA.The announcement has raised a few eyebrows for a number...
More than a year after the Internet burst into the wireless space, the big story in mobile data continues to be how the industry is responding to this communications phenomenon.While circuit-switched cellular still is the standard for wireless data connectivity-offering near-universal access for dial-up...
The Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications is close to officially introducing Code Division Multiple Access technology as a pocket telephone standard.The indication comes after the Japanese standardization body, the Association of Radio Industries and Businesses, adopted and modified Interim Standard 95 for the...
LOS ANGELES-The CDMA Development Group has said it wants to create a single name for the Code Division Multiple Access family of products.
Wireless local loop, cellular and personal communications services are based on the same specification, said Perry LaForge, executive director of the CDG....
The market for handheld devices may get a shot in the arm now that Microsoft Corp. has introduced Windows CE, a 32-bit operating system platform that can support a broad range of communications, computing and entertainment products, including those for wireless networks."We think this...
The market for handheld devices may get a shot in the arm now that Microsoft Corp. has introduced Windows CE, a 32-bit operating system platform that can support a broad range of communications, computing and entertainment products, including those for wireless networks."We think this...
Information services-whether it be sports, financial or headline news that arrives on an alphanumeric pager-could mark the early stages of a new industry, according to company promoters."Paging companies that don't have these services will be left in the dust," said Christopher Hayes, marketing manager...
The market for personal digital assistants, personal communicators and mobile companions will more than quadruple to one million units by 1997 and then double to more than two million units by early in the next decade, according to a new study from Datacomm Research...
WASHINGTON - Bell Atlantic Mobile President Dennis Strigl predicts that wireless data will account for a greater proportion of system operators' business in coming years, but cautioned industry against over reaching itself."Frankly, I don't think most people have any idea of what we have...
6-8 Wireless DataComm Fall '94 Exposition and Conference, by Communications Events Inc. Washington D.C. Convention Center, Washington, D.C. For information call (800) 322-WDEC, or (203) 847-5131.JANUARY6-9 Winter CES, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas. For information call (202) 457-8700.9-10 Strategic Convergence '95-The Multi-Industry Cable,...
OCTOBER3-5 Power '94, by BIS Strategic Decisions. The Westin Hotel, Santa Clara, Calif. For information call (800) 874-9980.4-5 Wholesale PCS: Less Capital for Small Business and Small Business PCS Association Annual Meeting, by the Small Business PCS Association. Hyatt Arlington, Arlington, Va. For information call...
