In the juggling act between GSM and W-CDMA, dilemma is beautiful.But it is a terrible kind of beauty because both vendors and carriers must decide how much of their resources to devote to GSM without jeopardizing the promise of W-CDMA.Today, GSM provides the main...
Nokia Corp.'s longtime stranglehold on the U.S. mobile-phone market appears to be broken-at least for now-by a major surge in sales from Motorola Inc. "Motorola products are really just more appealing right now," said Mark Bremer, an analyst with research and consulting firm Stax...
Less than three weeks after it began, the Federal Communications Commission's Auction 58 of 242 spectrum licenses in the 1.9 GHz band came to a quiet close last Tuesday, having garnered just more than $2 billion in net bids including FCC credits for 217...
Startup VKB Inc. is now selling a $200 mobile-phone accessory the company believes could significantly improve the way wireless users interact with their phones. About the size of a cigarette lighter, the company's new BTVKB gadget uses a red laser to project a full-size,...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. reported a deal with BIO-key International Inc. to provide an integrated wireless solution to the Massachusetts Port Authority that will connect law enforcement officers at Boston's Logan International Airport to mission-critical information. The two companies also said they will provide a...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.-Broadband service provider Progress Telecom said it has acquired Pure Connection, which provides fixed-wireless services in Orlando."This acquisition allows Progress Telecom to expand the edge of its core fiber network via wireless broadband services," said Ron Mudry, president and chief executive officer...
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it will create a dedicated business unit within its Networks division that will focus on carrier services, including systems integration, consulting services, managed services and software for the automation and centralization of network and service management."The market for telecommunications-related professional...
GREENSBORO, N.C.-RF Micro Devices Inc., provider of radio frequency integrated circuits for wireless applications, today opened a new customer support and design center in Toulouse, France. The office was established to support collaboration between RFMD and leading wireless manufacturers located in Toulouse and other...
MILPITAS, Calif.-Smart-phone company PalmOne Inc. appears to be gearing up to release an innovative smart phone that features a flip-open display. The company recently received a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a "compact personal digital assistant and cellular telephone with...
OTTAWA, Ontario-SiGe Semiconductor Inc. launched a Global Positioning System receiver system for cellular phones. The SE8901 GPS receiver works with GSM, GPRS, EDGE and UMTS phones. The receiver integrated circuit integrates a GPS radio, GPS processing accelerator, on-chip LNA and image reject mixer in...
Sprint PCS may be going out on a date with WiMAX, but it does not guarantee a wedding ring. That's the way another technology provider, Flarion Technologies Inc. with its Flash-OFDM, approaches the carrier's decision to join the WiMAX Forum. Since its proposed merger...
ATLANTA-Industry is awash in high-end phone news, as Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and T-Mobile in Germany showed off new smart phones, and as Panasonic gears up to release a new device running Nokia Corp.'s Symbian-based Series 60 operating system. First, Cingular announced it will sell...
ATLANTA-Industry is awash in high-end phone news, as Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and T-Mobile in Germany showed off new smart phones, and as Panasonic gears up to release a new device running Nokia Corp.'s Symbian-based Series 60 operating system.First, Cingular announced it will sell PalmOne...
DALLAS-Alcatel Corp. said it signed a $133 million contract with Thai carrier TA Orange to upgrade the operator's GSM/GPRS network with EDGE and UMTS technology. The carrier plans to deploy UMTS service in 2005 and 2006, Alcatel said.Alcatel will also deploy a mobile Next-Generation...
ATLANTA-Cingular Wireless said it will begin selling PalmOne Inc.'s new Treo 650 smart phone for $500 with a two-year contract. The device supports Cingular's EDGE network and sports an MP3 player, video capture and playback and Bluetooth technology."The future of wireless is all about...
AUSTIN, Texas-Freescale Semiconductors Inc. said it has unveiled a chip platform the size of a postage stamp for mid- and high-tier mobile devices. Royal Philips Electronics said it produced an EDGE cellular system solution in commercial volumes for handsets.Known as Mobile Extreme Convergence, the...
Wall Street stomped Sierra Wireless Inc.-sending the company's stock down an astounding 38 percent to $8.97 per share-after the company said it expects to post a massive drop in first-quarter revenues and a huge loss. Just 12 hours later, Sierra's main rival, Novatel Wireless...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission garnered more than $1.3 billion in bids following six rounds of bidding for 242 wireless spectrum licenses that it is auctioning as part of Auction 58 that began Wednesday. Regional metropolitan wireless operator MetroPCS Inc., which is participating in the...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-In its second W-CDMA contract announcement in a week, L.M. Ericsson said Connex, a wireless operator in Romania, has selected the Swedish vendor to supply gear for its W-CDMA rollout. The network will be the first to offer third-generation services to mobile users...
VIENNA, Austria-Mobilkom Austria said Thursday it will incorporate EDGE technology to expand its UMTS network coverage.The carrier said it currently has UMTS coverage across 60 percent of Austria's population, and the EDGE addition will allow for 95-percent population coverage. The new network is scheduled...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it has sampled a modem for CDMA2000 1xEV-DO services and a chipset for High-Speed Downlink Packet Access and EDGE networks .The wireless company said it sampled the Cell Site Modem, otherwise called CSM6800, for CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A infrastructure equipment."Revision...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson was selected as a supplier to build the first phase of Telenor Hungarian wireless subsidiary Pannon GSM's third-generation mobile network. The value of the UMTS contract was not disclosed. Ericsson said Pannon customers in Budapest will have access to the 3G...
Whittled down from 49 total applicants, 35 certified bidders placed more than $325 million in deposits with the government for a crack at 242 spectrum licenses up for bid in the 1.9 GHz band beginning on Jan. 26. Those licenses include spectrum in a...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-More than 3 billion mobile instant messages were sent and received through Danger's Hiptop devices last year, the developer and manufacturer said. Danger's line of Hiptop handsets, which is sold through eight operators in six countries, includes the T-Mobile Sidekick II and...
