NEW YORK-Compaq Computer Corp., Houston, announced a new services initiative designed to help large enterprises "rapidly transform their existing networks into adaptive, next-generation networks necessary for ... a global, Internet-driven business world."The first phase of the initiative encompasses next-generation network infrastructure at the enterprise...
STOCKHOLM-Ericsson Inc. and EuroTel Bratislava said they have signed a $51 million contract to expand EuroTel's Global System for Mobile communications system in Slovakia.Under the terms of the contract, Ericsson said it will provide base stations, base station controllers and service solutions.In the past...
NEW ORLEANS-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium and the GSM North American Alliance announced plans to work to achieve interoperability between TDMA and GSM technology, a move that could facilitate national and global consolidation among carriers with incompatible technologies and in particular allow SBC Communications...
BALTIMORE-At press time Friday, Judge E. Stephen Derby told parties in the Pocket Communications Inc. bankruptcy case he would make a decision in the latest round of this convoluted case on Feb. 24.The parties in the case were back in court locked in battle...
NEW ORLEANS-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium, which represents the interests of Time Division Multiple Access technology proponents, demonstrated interoperability between 850 MHz and 1900 MHz networks at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association Wireless '99 show in New Orleans.Groups of attendees on the show floor...
NEW ORLEANS-1999 could be a key year for many carriers in determining if wireless users want to access the Internet from mobile devices.Nextel Communications Inc. announced it will begin rolling out limited mobile Internet access service to six East Coast markets during the fourth...
WASHINGTON-In an embarrassing political blunder that lends insight into the tricky third-generation wireless debate, Sen. Chuck Robb (D-Va.) last week joined two fellow Finance Committee members in urging the Clinton administration to use renewed Super 301 trade authority to make Europe open its market...
NEW ORLEANS-International Telecommunication Union members did not reach any consensus in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, on harmonizing the various radio transmission technology proposals received by the ITU for third-generation technology.The ITU has decided harmonization efforts will rest with carriers and has asked them to put...
At CTIA's Wireless '99: The Jambala Wireless Application Protocol Gateway, which will allow operators to improve and expand wireless data services to their customers, said the company.An open-application platform, the Jambala WAP Gateway is a network node that serves as a bridge between the...
The CDMA Development Group and Qualcomm Inc. are in the minority in asking the International Telecommunication Union to stop work on third-generation technology development because of the intellectual-property-right standstill between Qualcomm and L.M. Ericsson.ITU members met Saturday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to obtain industry...
A Finnish Internet service provider will test the European Commission's claim it has not shut competing mobile phone technologies out of Europe.Clari Net Oy, wholly owned by Finnish ISP Saunalahden Serveri Oy, has applied for a license to operate a third-generation mobile phone network...
WASHINGTON-The President's Export Council, confronting the Clinton administration on third-generation wireless policy, urged the White House against endorsing convergence of wideband mobile phone technologies being evaluated by the International Telecommunication Union.The export body, headed by AT&T Corp. Chairman Michael Armstrong and comprising other U.S....
WASHINGTON-The Competitive Telecommunications Association, also known as CompTel, planned to celebrate the third anniversary of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 Feb. 8 with a celebration including blasts of confetti, balloons, the Morehouse University Marching Band and more than 1,800 participants, including William Kennard, chairman...
RICHARDSON, Texas-TruePosition Inc. and Ericsson Inc. announced an agreement to develop and market a mobile positioning solution for Time Division Multiple Access networks, based on the TruePosition Wireless Location system and the Ericsson Mobile Positioning Center.Under the agreement, Ericsson and TruePosition said they will...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-The North American GSM Alliance announced Omnipoint Communications Inc. will supply a temporary Global System for Mobile communications digital network to serve GSM customers attending the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's Wireless '99 convention in New Orleans.Omnipoint has installed equipment at three primary...
NEW YORK-TeleCorp PCS Inc., an AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate, Tuesday plans to debut its first commercial market, from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, La., at Wireless '99.Later in the quarter, TeleCorp, an F-block personal communications services carrier, expects to roll out commercially its...
Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. plans to introduce a new series of Code Division Multiple Access phones this week at Wireless '99 in New Orleans, including the company's first CDMA tri-mode handset.According to Peter Skarzynski, vice president of wireless sales and marketing at STA, the...
C-block personal communications services operator Indus Inc. remains committed to launching Time Division Multiple Access service within the coming weeks despite buildout, zoning and technical struggles that delayed its launch date by about eight months.The company initially planned to launch service last summer in...
ChinaMetawave Communications Corp. announced it entered into an agreement with Shanghai Post & Telecommunications Administration and Shanghai New Globe Co. to develop and test a Metawave smart-antenna system for Global System for Mobile communication networks, and for the trial of the system in Shanghai...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. and Tritel Communications Inc. announced they signed a $300 million agreement for Ericsson to supply Time Division Multiple Access infrastructure equipment for Tritel's personal communications services markets located in the southeastern United States.Ericsson said Tritel will deploy the 1900 MHz digital...
STOCKHOLM-Ericsson Inc. announced it signed a contract with German operator Deutsche Telekom MobilNet to implement General Packet Radio Service into T-Mobil's Global System for Mobile communications network.The technology will allow T-Mobil to offer wireless Internet and other Internet Protocol-based services at speeds up to...
NEW YORK-Nearly 40 electronics manufacturers have joined forces with Sun Microsystems Inc. to develop new devices that run Jini programming language, some of which could come to market by late this year.Jini, pronounced "genie," is an enhancement of Sun's Java programming language, which permits...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson introduced its new T 28 dual-band mobile phone based on Global System for Mobile communications technology.The phone's functions include voice control, automatic world clock and new batteries that use lithium polymer technology. The phone also includes a feature called Profiles that...
The third-generation technology debate is beginning to have a negative impact on the valuation of the world's largest wireless carrier, Japan's NTT Mobile Communications, which plans to become the first carrier in the world to deploy wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology.Dresdner Kleinwort Benson...
