Public skirmishes over third-generation technology died last year when the wireless industry embraced a harmonized CDMA-based standard, but old feelings between camps die hard it seems.The CDMA Development Group, the interest group that represents Interim Standard-95 carriers, said it is testing just how much...
GENEVA-The European Telecommunications Standards Institute and the Wireless Application Protocol Forum signed a cooperation agreement designed to drive interoperability of standards for wireless mobile Internet, according to the WAP Forum.The organization said this new agreement underlines the importance of collaboration between standardization groups to...
NMT 450 operators are to decide by early October whether to push forward with three digital mobile-phone standards that include CDMA technology, which could give cdmaOne technology its first entrance into Europe.The NMT MOU Digital Interest Group (DIG)-an assembly of operators tasked with evaluating...
NEW ORLEANS-Standards bodies met with the International Telecommunication Union last week to prepare the detailed specifications of third-generation mobile-phone technology.The ITU is trying to find the best way to work with all standards bodies developing 3G specifications. This follows a recent ITU meeting in...
Nordic Mobile Telephone 450 MHz operators will decide by early October whether to push forward with three digital mobile-phone standards that include Code Division Multiple Access technology, which could give Interim Standard 95 technology its first entrance into Europe.The NMT MOU Digital Interest Group-an...
The Americans are at it again.Letters from the U.S. Secretary of State to the European Commission are demanding the commission put pressure on ETSI to prioritize development of CDMA standards for Europe.The demands have, quite rightly, been robustly rebuffed.Never mind that the European Commission...
Third-generation technology standards groups say they accept the tri-mode Code Division Multiple Access standard recommended by mobile-phone operators worldwide.The 3G Partnership Project 2, a standards group established in North America, last week said it agreed to accept the recommendations of the Operators Harmonization Group...
WASHINGTON-A major dispute has erupted between the wireless industry and the Clinton administration over the crafting of U.S. policy on third-generation wireless spectrum less than a year before the World Radiocommunication Conference next spring in Istanbul-a venue that could move to Geneva because of...
Industry executives in February hailed the TransAtlantic Business Dialogue agreement as a major breakthrough in the 3G debate, but today it appears standards bodies have made little progress to pursue this framework, and political infighting among the 3G players remains.Executives in February agreed to...
U.S. government officials pressed L.M. Ericsson Chief Executive Sven-Christer Nilsson last week to lobby the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to adopt the tri-mode CDMA third-generation standard framework agreed to at a TransAtlantic Business Dialogue meeting months ago.Government officials are concerned over statements Ericsson made...
GERMANTOWN, Md.-Hughes Network Systems announced it has prepared a mobile satellite radio interface standard for mobile satellite services using geosynchronous-earth-orbit satellites.The company said the European Telecommunications Standards Institute and the Telecommunications Institute of America are carrying out the standardization work together. The ETSI standard...
Dear Editor: There was an article by Paul Rasmussen in the March-April edition of Global Wireless that discusses the situation concerning ERMES two-way. In that article, he says some disparaging things about ETSI and, in particular, about the committee RP04.Could I please bring it to...
If there is any hope second-generation CDMA technology will penetrate Europe, it may be through some struggling NMT 450 operators.The NMT MoU group, consisting of NMT 450 operators from Europe and Asia, wants members to vote at its October meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia,...
HELSINKI, Finland-L.M. Ericsson and Nokia Corp. said they support the European Telecommunications Standards Institute's work on a global standard for Global System for Mobile communications on the 450 MHz frequency band.Nordic Mobile Telephone 450 MHz operators are looking to migrate to digital technology. Ericsson...
NEW YORK-The European Telecommunications Standard Institute's approval and publication of a new Europe-wide narrowband specification has given the licensing of Intek Global Corp.'s proprietary linear modulation technology a major boost, said the company.Intek's LM technology-a patented technique that compresses wireless signals and conserves bandwidth-uses...
PISCATAWAY, N.J.-The Wireless Information Network Laboratory at Rutgers University is working to set a research agenda that will facilitate deployment of General Packet Radio Service, a new wave in wireless data communications.GPRS is a large, complex system that merges cellular telephone radio transmission technology...
The Finnish government said it will be the first European country to grant third-generation mobile phone licenses by spring, and one company's bid to use cdma2000 technology remains.Finland's Ministry of Transport and Communications said Vodafone Group plc and a consortium consisting of British Telecom,...
A Finnish Internet service provider will test the European Commission's claim it has not shut competing mobile phone technologies out of Europe.Clari Net Oy, wholly owned by Finnish ISP Saunalahden Serveri Oy, has applied for a license to operate a third-generation mobile phone network...
A group of cdmaOne operators are making another push to harmonize third-generation technology and avoid a potential deadlock within the International Telecommunication Union over intellectual property rights.The CDMA Development Group last week released a proposal based on technical work done within U.S. standards group...
The State Department late last month urged the European Commission to allow U.S. third-generation wireless equipment and service providers a fair opportunity to compete in Europe.In a letter sent to EC Commissioner Martin Bangemann Dec. 19, the United States expressed concern Europe may be...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark-Reaching agreement on a single work item within a standards organization can be a long and laborious process. Reaching an agreement between five standards organizations across the world is nothing less than a minor miracle.The miracle happened on 4 December 1998 in Copenhagen,...
"Consumers of third-generation wireless technology will be better served by marketplace competition than by a single government-mandated standard, according to a new economic white paper released today by the North American GSM Alliance," reads a news release from the alliance.Joseph Farrell, a University of...
WASHINGTON-A critical European Parliament vote last week, which could effectively mandate a third-generation mobile phone standard dominated by Sweden's L.M. Ericsson and Finland's Nokia Corp. and lock out American technology, will ratchet up the stakes in upcoming negotiations here among U.S., European Union and...
In a surprising letter to the International Telecommunication Union, Europe's standards body said it will consider harmonizing all CDMA-related third-generation proposals sent to the ITU, including cdma2000.The move is a positive sign for vendors and U.S. carriers that have pushed heavily for convergence of...
