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DENVER, United States-L.M. Ericsson, Nokia Corp. and United Kingdom-based Psion Computers plc conditionally have agreed to form a joint venture called Symbian, and Motorola Inc. has signed a memorandum of …

CHINA L.M. Ericsson signed a $50 million framework agreement to expand capacity on SmarTone’s Global System for Mobile communications network in Hong Kong during the next year. SmarTone acquired an …

BOSTON-Cellular and personal communications services have entered the mainstream U.S. market in earnest, with a presence in 35 percent of all households in the nation, according to the Yankee Group’s …

ECUADOR STOCKHOLM, Sweden – L.M. Ericsson was awarded a five-year frame agreement valued at more than $250 million by BellSouth Ecuador to upgrade its Advanced Mobile Phone Services wireless network …

SINGAPORE-The International Telecommunication Union has some difficult work ahead of it to harmonize the various third-generation proposals standards bodies around the world will submit by tomorrow. While most of the …

NEW YORK-The continuing growth of wireless telecommunications worldwide has expanded both the amount and the types of business opportunities for Microwave Power Devices Inc., which designs and manufactures highly linear …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson was selected by Srinivas Cellcom Ltd., a Global System for Mobile communications operator in India, to build the largest mobile network ever to be rolled out in …

Industry veteran Fred M. Link died last week. He was 93. Link’s company from 1931 to 1950-first called Fred M. Link Co. and later called Link Radio Corp.-manufactured two-way radio …

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Telecommunications software company Global Mobility Systems Inc. announced it opened a regional office in Richardson, Texas. Dean Jordan was hired as senior sales technical analyst for GMS and bring …

LONDON-Recently formed Belgian wireless communications company KPN Orange Belgium NV was awarded the third license to build and operate an 1800 MHz Global System for Mobile communications network in Belgium. …

NEW YORK-Like comets flashing across the sky, one vendor that topped the 1996 revenue charts dropped significantly on the 1997 charts, while another that was absent from the major players …

It’s one thing to have lofty ambitions within the safe confines of executive boardrooms, but it’s quite another to let the world in on them. That’s what Philips Consumer Communications, …

Competition among companies that supply digital signal processors to the wireless industry is beginning to heat up with new alliances and investments changing the competitive landscape. IBM Corp.’s Microelectronics division …

Interlink Electronics Freedom Writer OEM, the first application using Interlink Electronics Inc.’s new medium-range wireless communications technology, RemoteLink, is set to be introduced this month at InfoComm International, said Interlink. …

WASHINGTON-Notwithstanding the Federal Communications Commission’s consistent call for Congress to pass legislation to protect FCC licenses from being held up by auction bidders in bankruptcy proceedings, it became apparent last …

WASHINGTON-A seemingly parochial fight between a small San Diego firm and two European manufacturing giants over next-generation wireless technology could foreshadow a larger confrontation between the United States and the …

NEW YORK-Electric Fuel Corp. completed a prototype zinc-air disposable battery it said is lighter and delivers more talk and standby time than comparable rechargeable batteries. Developed by the company’s Consumer …

RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. acquired the remaining interest in GE Mobile Communications, a joint venture of Ericsson and General Electric Co. The companies formed the joint venture in 1989 to manufacture …

Motorola Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. have formed an alliance to jointly develop next-generation digital signal processing technology, a move that is expected to jump-start third-generation mobile phone technology. Motorola’s …

Wideband cdmaOne will play a small part in the proposal Japan’s standards body will submit to the International Telecommunications Union as a third-generation technology choice. The Association of Radio Businesses …

BALTIMORE-After a 95-minute delay during which 15 attorneys negotiated the Pocket Communications Inc. bankruptcy case last Thursday at the courthouse cafeteria here, the bankruptcy judge said Pocket can participate in …

WASHINGTON-While lawmakers and industry executives toiled last week through the minutia of competing third-generation wireless technologies, Qualcomm Inc. was laying the foundation to parlay an esoteric standards dispute into a …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson GmbH and two German operators-Mannesmann Mobilefunk GmbH and T-Mobil GmbH-announced they will conduct a research and evaluation project in Dusseldorf, Germany, to test Wideband Code Division Multiple Access …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it continues to be the primary vendor of digital Advanced Mobile Phone System network infrastructure and services to Rogers Cantel Inc. of Canada, after the companies …

WASHINGTON-The House Science subcommittee on technology will hold a hearing this Thursday to address third-generation wireless technology, an issue that appears to be mushrooming into a major trade dispute between …