STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson Radio Messaging AB agreed to transfer all production and marketing rights for Ericsson's RDS products to Cetronic AB.RDS is a subcarrier technology that is used in the ordinary broadcasting network, said Ericsson.Using RDS technology, motorists in Europe can receive notification of incoming...
Ericsson Inc. announced it supplied equipment and services to Airadigm Communications Inc. for its Einstein personal communications services network in Appleton, Wis. The network uses Global System for Mobile communications technology. Ericsson supplied mobile switching centers, base station controllers, base stations and the MXE...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. and the University of Texas at Dallas will jointly develop curriculum for electrical engineers specifically for the wireless telecommunications industry.Stephen Gibbs, an Ericsson employee of seven years, will teach at the University's Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, and...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-BT Mobile awarded a contract to Ericsson Ltd. to upgrade BT's wide area paging network.The project, scheduled for completion this year, will add features and increase network capacity."BT needs flexibility to adapt their system as the subscriber base grows and new services are...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson signed two contracts to expand Global System for Mobile communications and Total Access Communications System mobile networks in the Hebei province of China. The company values the contracts with Hebei Post & Telecommunications Administration at $71 million.The first contract, which accounts...
BALTIMORE-A creditors' committee made up of the seven largest owners of unsecured debt in C-block winner Pocket Communications Inc. was chosen by the U.S. Trustee's Office in Baltimore April 16 to address the direction Pocket's Chapter 11 bankruptcy will take and to suggest solutions....
Comsat Corp. said its offer to repurchase 8.13 percent debentures due April 1, 2004, was concluded April 9. The company repurchased $89.5 million of the $160 million in principal amount of debentures outstanding.Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd.'s board of directors declared a two-for-one split on the...
DENVER-In concert with the company's previous digital cellular launches, AirTouch Cellular announced it is offering its high-end business users in Denver and Detroit Powerband service."In the past, we have launched new services to business and retail customers simultaneously," said Julie Dexter Berg, executive vice...
Qualcomm Inc. signed a royalty bearing license agreement giving Kokusai Electric Co. Ltd. of Japan a patent and technical license to manufacture and sell Code Division Multiple Access subscriber equipment. "Kokusai will help meet the demand for CDMA products that will result from Japan's...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. announced that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California dismissed a lawsuit filed against it by Qualcomm Inc. in December. However, Qualcomm said the dismissal was issued in an effort to consolidate the companies' claims against each other...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced plans to establish a research and development center in Shanghai, China. The center will develop telecommunications and data communications products for the Chinese and global markets.The center is scheduled to be operating by the third quarter, Ericsson said. Its initial...
Advanced network performance is a key factor for wireless carriers trying to pull ahead of the competition, says a Westford, Mass., producer of transmission equipment.Intraplex Corp. said it has the technology to keep transmission signals running on a network when transmission links are not...
Antenna placement at the new Denver International Airport is on hold until carriers can convince airport authorities that additional sites won't cause interference."We didn't spend $8 million building a radio system for this airport to have anyone come in and interfere with the operational...
Total Access Communications, a wireless operator in Thailand, has relatively strong credit protection measures due to low levels of wired and wireless penetration and heavy demand for telecommunications services, according to a credit analysis report issued by Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co. Michael...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson signed two contracts with the Jiangsu Post & Telecommunications Administration to expand its Global System for Mobile communications and Total Access Communication System networks in China.Ericsson values the contract for GSM equipment at $60 million. The equipment is part of the...
WASHINGTON-Commerce Secretary William Daley next month will lead a trade mission to Latin America, a hotbed for the wireless telecommunications business that the Clinton administration does not want to lose to foreign competitors.The trip to Brazil, Argentina and Chile, May 11-19, will be the...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson won a contract to supply three new Advanced Mobile Phone Service and Digital AMPS networks in Russia.The contract with Millicom International Cellular calls for Ericsson to supply equipment for the systems, which will cover the Kemerovo region and the Republic of...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson Telecommunications Sdn Bhd received an order to expand Mutiara Telecommunications Sdn Bhd's nationwide personal communications network in Malaysia. Ericsson values the contract at $130 million.Mutiara's order consists of switching, radio base stations and transmission equipment."We currently have 130,000 subscribers on the Mutiara...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson and Lucent Technologies Inc. were among the vendors selected by NTT DoCoMo of Japan to develop an experimental "third generation" wireless communications system capable of delivering high-speed multimedia services.The system will provide services including full-motion video, video conferencing and Internet access....
Customer care has become an increasingly important tool for operators competing in the wireless market, says a Swedish company that recently launched its third-generation customer care product in the United States in conjunction with InfoCellular Inc.When wireless carriers in Scandinavian countries began to experience...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson won two contracts to expand Advanced Mobile Phone Service analog cellular networks in Brazil.The first contract is with Telpe from the state of Pernambuco, and the second contract is with Telesp from the state of Sao Paulo. Both Telpe and Telesp...
WASHINGTON-Despite the optimism expressed fewer than two weeks ago by Daniel Riker, chairman and chief executive officer of Pocket Communications Inc., regarding the financial future of his C-block personal communications services company, things apparently were not as rosy Riker described them.Citing the preservation of...
Cellemetry Data Service has signed eight new contracts since it was launched almost a year ago, and now provides total coverage to 125 million pops in North America.The service was developed by BellSouth Corp. in the early 1990s, and launched commercially 10 months ago....
