Validation of increased efforts by carriers to improve the quality of service of their still-expanding wireless networks recently came in the form of ramped up announcements, including financial and product news, from wireless test and measurement companies.Last week, test equipment company Agilent Technologies Inc....
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. has extended the scope of its EDGE-based high-speed wireless data service to south Florida, providing customers with access to network speeds of up to 170 kilobits per second using either the Sony Ericsson GC82 PC Card or slower speeds using Nokia...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. used last week's Lehman Brothers 2004 Global Wireless financial conference to announce its UMTS rollout plans, while rival carrier Sprint Corp. backed off earlier promises that it would wait for DV technology to roll out its high-speed data offering.Cingular said that...
Several third-generation commercial launches were announced in markets across Western Europe last week, with market leaders Vodafone Group plc, Telefonica Moviles and Telecom Italia Mobile all beginning services in various countries.In Italy, Telecom Italia Mobile launched its EDGE and UMTS services May 24. The...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson signed a $58 million GSM/GPRS expansion contract that includes equipment that supports the latest GPRS and EDGE versions with Jiangsu Mobile Communication Corp. Ericsson will provide infrastructure and services.The project, which will increase the carrier's network capacity to 10.91 million lines, is...
Cingular Wireless L.L.C. reported a deal with Lucent Technologies Inc. to deploy a UMTS-based trial network in Atlanta this summer supporting internal users who the carrier said it will use to evaluate mobile voice, high-speed data and multimedia services.The network will operate in Cingular's...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana-Trans-World Telecom Caribbean Ltd. has started installing GSM equipment from Nortel Networks Ltd. in Guyana. TWTC, a new telecom carrier in the Caribbean, will offer wireless service through its Cel*Star Guyana subsidiary.The Nortel infrastructure, which will be GPRS and EDGE ready, will include...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced two contracts this week, one worth $1.5 billion and the other valued at $120 million.The company signed a 10-year $1.5 billion contract with MTN Group in Sub-Sahara Africa, and it will involve equipment supply and delivery for both core and...
Several third-generation commercial launches were announced in markets across Western Europe this week, with market leaders Vodafone Group plc, Telefonica Moviles and Telecom Italia Mobile all beginning services in various countries.In Italy, Telecom Italia Mobile launched its EDGE and UMTS services Monday. The carrier,...
Handset distribution company InfoSonics Corp. said it plans to sell 2 million shares for between $5.50 and $6.50 per share in its upcoming initial public offering. The company plans to list its common stock on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol IFO. Founded...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-UMTS technology will almost double its market growth this year compared with 2003, according to ABI Research's latest "Wireless Infrastructure Quarterly Service" report.The update attributed the growth not so much to higher data rates and video services as to increased voice capacity...
SANTA ROSA, Calif.-Sirific Wireless Corp., a radio-frequency transceiver company, closed its series B financing of $17 million. TD Capital Ventures led the funding. Intel Communications Fund made an initial strategic investment.Sirific is demonstrating a single-chip CMOS quad-band EDGE RF transceiver for mobile handsets, laptops...
Two years ago, the wireless gaming market in the United States comprised a few tiny start-ups selling a handful of black-and-white, text-based games. The wireless gaming market today is a multimillion-dollar industry with dozens of players and literally thousands of games.Consolidation is rampant. Earnings...
NEW DELHI, India-Motorola Inc. said it has successfully completed EDGE trials with wireless carrier Hutchison Max Telecom and will deploy the technology later this year."We were the first operator to offer multi-circle GPRS roaming services early last year in India, as also MMS," said...
HELSINKI, Finland-Following two third-generation contract announcements yesterday, Nokia Corp. said it will supply another 3G network in Poland. Polkomtel S.A. has selected Nokia to supply and deploy the initial phase of its 3G network and to expand its existing GSM/EDGE infrastructure.The value of the...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. said it has signed a deal to expand Chile Telefonica Movil's GSM/EDGE network. Telefonica launched Latin America's first commercial EDGE network last October in Chile.The value of the new deal was not disclosed.Under the agreement, Nokia will deploy GSM/EDGE radio network...
Wireless vendors are reaping contract dividends as carriers loosen their purse strings. L.M. Ericsson announced three contracts today, while Siemens AG and Alcatel Corp. announced one each.Ericsson said it won a UMTS deal with Mobilkom Austria, a CDMA2000 1x deal with Sichuan Unicom and...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-In 2004, UMTS technology is poised to grow more than 200 percent from 2003, according to a report from ABI Research. The group notes that the growth points to the advantages of increased voice capacity at a lower cost than GSM technology,...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it has deployed EDGE technology in its South Florida market providing customers with wireless data speeds up to 170 kilobits per second and average throughput of between 75 and 135 kbps. In support of the launch, Cingular also...
As the standards bodies for two metropolitan area network protocols prepare for separate meetings in May, both 802.16 and 802.20 are spoiling for a battle for survival. Neither .16e nor .20 have reached standards specifications yet, but supporters of each are pushing the strengths...
With bigger net incomes and increasing orders, wireless vendors blossomed with more optimism and richer cash flows than a year ago, signaling what industry watchers see as better times ahead.However, stock-market gains remain modest.L.M. Ericsson edged out market expectations in its fiscal first-quarter results...
L.M. Ericsson edged out market expectations in its fiscal first-quarter results with a net income of $387 million, showing not only the resilience of the infrastructure business but the company's strong position as leader in mobile systems.The net income compares with a loss of...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. soared to high profits in its second-quarter results, emphasizing the prosperity of its CDMA offerings and its place in the industry's travel to next-generation services.The company basked in a net income of $488 million, representing a 39-percent leap over the previous...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced two new contract wins for GSM technology.Nokia will extend its contract to Russia's VimpelCom for GSM/GPRS equipment under a $60 million agreement for 2004. The gear will be used to develop the Bee Line GSM network in the northwest and...
