OmnipointOmnipoint Communications Inc. introduced its Option Snap-On terminal adapter that connects a 3Com Corp. personal digital assistant to a digital data-ready Global System for Mobile communications phone, allowing users to browse the Internet and send and receive e-mail. Selling for about $200, the Snap-On...
Transcrypt International Inc. announced Aug. 6 a net loss of $5 million, or 39 cents per share, for the second quarter, which ended June 30. Revenues for the latest quarter totaled $13.9 million, way above the $2.9 million reported for the same quarter in...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced it was contracted by Finnish operator Kuopio Telephone Co. to provide a complete 1800 MHz Global System for Mobile communications network that initially will cover Kuopio and Varkaus in eastern Finland.KTC plans to market cost-efficient mobile services to families with...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced it signed a three-year framework agreement with the Wind consortium, which recently won Italy's third mobile cellular license. The agreement with Wind establishes Ericsson as the company's primary supplier of both mobile and fixed network equipment in Italy, said Ericsson.Under...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said the effect of the Asian currency crisis has become increasingly noticeable in the company's net sales, which-varying from country to country and excluding China-decreased by 27 percent in that region.In China, Ericsson's single largest market, there continued to be strong...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration, encouraged but apparently not swayed by assurances in Brussels that Europe will be open to multiple third-generation wireless standards, is growing increasingly worried that American mobile phone technology will be locked out of the 15-nation European Union in the next century."We...
RALEIGH, N.C.-The 1999 Special Olympics World Summer Games announced Platinum sponsor Ericsson Inc. will supply mobile phones, two-way radios and telephone handsets for the Games.The '99 Games, June 26 to July 4, will bring nearly 7,000 athletes from 150 countries to North Carolina's Triangle...
Mobile phone sales during the second quarter gave Nokia Corp. a boost when it released its second-quarter earnings July 24, while its Swedish rival L.M. Ericsson suffered a plunge in its stock prices and several ratings downgrades on news its mobile phone sales were...
IsraelGilat Satellite Networks Ltd. said Paging Network Inc. has chosen the enhanced version of its Skystar Advantage very small aperture terminal satellite earth station, called NPCSkystar, for its narrowband personal communications services. NPCSkystar was developed to serve as a satellite-based infrastructure link between base...
This week the wireless industry at last understood the pace of summer. Only 10 or so breaking news events designed to change the face of the industry as we see it today happened.With that in mind, I finally managed to organize the pile of...
L.M. Ericsson signed a software licensing agreement with Lernot & Hauspie Speech Products for the latter's speech recognition, text-to-speech and speech compression technology.L&H in the past has signed licensing agreements with Motorola Inc., Deutsche Telekom AG, Northern Telecom Inc. and Intellivoice Communications Inc.Speech user...
At a somewhat lavish press event at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Motorola Inc. announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Starfish Software Inc., a leading supplier of customized solutions for the Connected Information Device market.Terms of the transaction were not...
NEW YORK-Proceeding toward its vision of the network as the computer, Sun Microsystems Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., is expected to introduce formally this week the successor to its Java programming language.Spelled J-i-n-i, and pronounced "genie," the new software allows Java to enable devices like...
COMSTREAMJohn F. Hodgson joined ComStream Corp. as vice president of human resources. Before ComStream, Hodgson held the same position with NextWave Telecom, San Diego, and prior to that with General Communications Inc., Anchorage, Alaska. He also has been the director of human resources for...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it signed a contract with CTC-Startel, Chile's largest wireless network operator, to expand its Digital Advanced Mobile Phone Interim Standard-136 network.The contract, valued at $31.5 million, is Ericsson's third expansion order this year from CTC-Startel, totaling more than $60 million.The...
NEW YORK-A Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association group is developing recommendations for handset manufacturers that would reduce fraud potential and facilitate over-the-air customer activations for non-Global System for Mobile Communications carriers.The CTIA Fraud Technology Assessment Group, charged with evaluating and recommending new fraud-prevention measures, has...
WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. has launched a summer-long promotion offering four digital handsets for $50 each. The company is waiving its $30 activation fee as well."Our research has clearly determined that consumers are more likely to purchase PCS services if they can minimize their...
Though most are based on some form of wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology, the proposals submitted to the International Telecommunication Union last month suggest a tough road toward achieving the family of systems concept to allow for global roaming, let alone convergence of...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson signed a contract to provide a turn-key Global System for Mobile communications network to Paltel in the Autonomous Areas of the West Bank and Gaza. The contract is valued at more than $40 million.The new network will support more than 100,000...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced it won a $45 million order to expand the digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service network operated by Telefonica Comunicaciones Personales in central and southern Argentina.This is TCP's largest expansion order since the original network was purchased in 1995, said Ericsson....
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson and Toshiba Corp. have merged Ericsson Toshiba Telecommunications Systems K.K. with Nippon Ericsson K.K. in Japan.Ericsson Toshiba Telecommunications was a joint venture between Ericsson and Toshiba. Ericsson owned 60 percent of the company. Nippon Ericsson was a wholly owned Ericsson subsidiary.Ericsson...
WASHINGTON-As U.S. and European wireless firms accuse each other of gaming the standards-setting process for third-generation wireless technology, it turns out the high-powered Qualcomm Inc. lobbyist playing the trade card here represented Sweden's L.M. Ericsson in a separate standards fight two years ago.In the...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced plans to introduce late next year a phone with roaming capability on Global System for Mobile communications 900 MHz and 1800 MHz, digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service 800 MHz and 1900 MHz, and analog 800 MHz AMPS networks.Those digital modes...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The imminent explosion of the mobile data market has been like a constant companion for the past 12 years. The technology driving this supposed market expansion may have changed over time, but the predicted boom has always been present, always just about...
