SAN JOSE, Calif.-Fixed WiMAX products from Aperto Networks Inc., Redline Communications Inc., Sequans Communications and Wavesat Inc. have been stamped "WiMAX Forum Certified." "The WiMAX era starts today," boasted Ron Resnick, president of the WiMAX Forum, at the WCA Technical and Business Symposium in...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Fixed WiMAX products from Aperto Networks Inc., Redline Communications Inc., Sequans Communications and Wavesat Inc. have been stamped "WiMAX Forun Certified." "The WiMAX era starts today," boasted Ron Resnick, president of the WiMAX Forum.The WiMAX Forum made the announcement at the WCA...
HERNDON, Va.-The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions sent representatives from its member companies to meet with the European Telecommunication Standards Institute TISPAN Committee last week in Herndon, Va., to discuss standardization activities and future plans for next-generation networks. The meeting participants agreed to pursue...
A licensing disagreement between GSM phone maker Sendo Holdings plc and wireless technology giant L.M. Ericsson has blossomed into a full-blown legal battle, with Sendo arguing that Ericsson and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute are conspiring to limit competition in the wireless market. Ericsson...
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom-A licensing disagreement between GSM phone maker Sendo Holdings plc and wireless technology giant L.M. Ericsson has blossomed into a full-blown legal battle, with Sendo arguing that Ericsson and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute are conspiring to limit competition in the wireless...
HANOVER, Germany-Nokia Corp., Royal Philips Electronics and Sony Corp. established the new Near Field Communication Forum, which the companies said will support the use of touch-based interactions in consumer electronics, mobile devices, personal computers, smart objects and for payment purposes.The companies said the new...
China is a land of enormous opportunity for wireless infrastructure makers and the like, no doubt about it. A land with more than 1 billion people can yield a lot of cell-phone users. Motorola Inc. recently scored a $1 billion contract in China, and...
BERNE, Switzerland-The European Telecommunications Standards Institute said it signed a cooperation agreement with the Fixed Line Multimedia Messaging Service Forum to cooperate on multimedia messaging for fixed-line subscribers starting next year.The groups said they are committed to promoting and supporting an industry standard for...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-The WiMAX Forum, an organization dedicated to the IEEE 802.16 and ETSI HiperMAN wireless MAN specifications, announced it has 18 new member companies and has completed initial system profiles for the interoperability of products operating in the 2 GHz to 11 GHz...
SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France—The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) reported 440 engineers from 89 companies in 20 countries attended the sixth Bluetooth UnPlugFest in France. ETSI noted nearly half of the attendees came from Europe, with 30 percent from North America and 20 percent from...
SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France—The European Telecommunications Standards Institute reported 440 engineers from 89 companies in 20 countries attended the sixth Bluetooth UnPlugFest in France. ETSI noted nearly half of the attendees came from Europe, with 30 percent from North America and 20 percent from Asia.The...
Highlighting the complex fashion in arriving at standards for the wireless industry, Paul Mankiewich, the chief technology officer of Lucent Technologies Inc., joked that the various standards organizations also have had difficulty figuring out a standard on where to meet. Until recently, that is,...
SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France-The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) published "GEO-Mobile Radio (GMR) interface specifications," specifications for a mobile satellite radio interface.New features include direct terminal-to-terminal calls that adapt and enhance GSM radio interface coverage and a full set of circuit mode services for voice,...
Secure with 50 converts and confident of its quality, the torch bearers of the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technology believe that telecom companies are heeding their call to make it a global standard.The association, known as the OFDM Forum, seeks to foster a...
NEW YORK-The 2.4 GHz unlicensed radio-frequency band is getting a bit crowded these days, with cordless phones, microwave ovens and the new guest, Bluetooth, all tapping into it.By contrast, the 5 GHz band is wide open territory. The HiperLAN2 Global Forum is at work...
Work is under way at the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to ensure that all International Telecommunication Union-accepted third-generation standards can receive type approval in Europe.The European Commission last month laid out the standardization details ETSI must follow. It wants technical preparatory work done before...
The Third Generation Partnership Project, a standards body initially established by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to work on W-CDMA technology, last week agreed to include standards work on GSM technology as well.The organizational partners, which consist of standards-development bodies from the United States,...
Mobile LifestreamsA Web site designed for the mobile communication professional was launched by Mobile Lifestreams Ltd. According to the company, the new site, www.mobile4mobile.com, was designed to cover the needs of those involved in the mobile communications industry. The site aggregates information about mobile...
SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France-The European Telecommunications Standards Institute said the drafting of Terrestrial Trunked Radio standard Release 1 will be virtually completed by the end of the year.TETRA is the ETSI standard designed for a digital Private Mobile Radio and Public Access Mobile Radio technology...
Code Division Multiple Access technology is gaining some momentum in Europe.Lucent Technologies Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. announced they will cooperate with Hungarian Nordic Mobile Telephone operator Westel Radiotelephone Ltd. to trial CDMA 450 technology this fall in Budapest, Hungary. Lucent also announced a cooperation...
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute agreed last week to standardize all technologies the International Telecommunication Union has accepted for the third-generation market.RCR reported last week the European Commission planned to officially ask the European standards body to take up this work. The ETSI board...
American wireless firms and the U.S. government are cautiously optimistic about a move the European Commission plans to make to open Europe to competing third-generation wireless standards.The EC early this month plans to officially ask the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to standardize all technologies-including...
The Operators Harmonization Group-which began work more than a year ago as a loosely tied consortium of four operators trying to end the global debate over third-generation technology standards-is now an official organization.Earlier this month, 26 operators from around the world approved an international...
The enthusiasm surrounding the emerging broadband wireless access industry is creating an opportunity for a variety of new and established equipment vendors hoping to cash in on what is expected to be a lucrative market.Vendors are scrambling to get systems ready for BWA deployments....
