ECUADORSTOCKHOLM, 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 to the Interim Standard-136, or digital AMPS, standard.The network migration is scheduled to take place...
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 world's standards bodies and individual groups of companies diligently tried to hammer out the differences...
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 power amplifiers and related subsystems."In 1997, service providers sourced to (original equipment) manufacturers $20...
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 India, Ericsson said. The value of the contract was not disclosed.The new GSM network...
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 communications equipment used extensively by police departments in the United States and in other countries.In...
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 with him sales and technical experience from Tandem Telecommunications, the company said.Scott Barretto was hired...
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.The new company will pay a $225.3 million license fee to the Belgian government and...
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 for 1996 zoomed into second place.Between 1995 and 1996, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd....
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, a joint venture of Philips Electronics N.V. and Lucent Technologies Inc., did when it said...
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 last week announced it will pump $100 million into several new initiatives designed to expand...
Interlink ElectronicsFreedom 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. The pen-capable wireless remote control is a multibutton, original-equipment-manufacturer remote designed for makers of interactive...
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 week that such legislation is not on a fast track on Capitol Hill.The issue...
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 European Union and offer a glimpse into a future where transnational companies dominate 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 Battery Division, the new disposable has demonstrated in laboratory tests the ability to provide more...
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 and distribute cellular phones and equipment primarily in the United States and Canada. GE originally...
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 semiconductor segment and Lucent's Microelectronics Group next quarter plan to create a joint design center,...
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 and Industries, ARIB, has been trying to converge wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology, based...
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 today's C-block elections but that its selection will be held in abeyance until at...
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 major trade debate that would pit the United States against Europe in the not-too-distant...
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 technology.Mannesmann and T-Mobil operate Global System for Mobile communications networks. The project is expected...
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 signed a 3-year purchase agreement valued at $210 million.
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 the United States and Europe.The witnesses who will testify before the panel, headed by...
The Western European cellular service market will grow from $31 billion in 1997 at an annual growth rate of 7.6 percent to become a $52 billion industry by 2002, according to a new forecast from International Data Corp."The cellular market in Europe is maturing...
WASHINGTON-The federal government is expected Thursday to ask a U.S. bankruptcy judge in Baltimore to extend the so-called drop-dead date on the personal communications services licenses awarded to Pocket Communications Inc. in the C-block auction so the government can continue negotiating with the debtors-in-possession...
