HONG KONG-China United Telecommunications Corp.'s plan to deploy Code Division Multiple Access technology ensures its survival into the next generation and creates momentum for cdmaOne technology throughout the Asia-Pacific region, cdmaOne proponents indicated at the CDMA Development Group's fourth annual CDMA World Congress in...
China Unicom, which received the go-ahead from the Chinese government earlier this year to deploy cdmaOne technology, will gain control of four experimental Code Division Multiple Access networks operated by China Telecom Great Wall.Great Wall was a source of concern for the Chinese government...
SWINDON, U.K.-Motorola Inc. said it achieved the world's first voice call over Global System for Mobile communications connected Internet Protocol technology.Motorola gave the demonstration at a conference in London, attended by 180 GSM network operators from 75 countries. The first test call made by...
NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service, London, assigned a speculative grade rating of Ba3 to Orange plc's planned private placement of $562 million in 10-year senior notes."The Ba3 rating factors in the risks associated with Orange's funding of its capital ... requirements to provide sufficient capacity...
The Semiconductor Industry Association said it is encouraged by President Clinton's decision to extend Normal Trade Relations with China for another year, and it urged Congress to support the measure. "If Congress fails to support extension of NTR with China, American industries could lose...
Sprint PCS announced it will stop operating its Global System for Mobile communications network in Washington, D.C., by the end of the year, ending months of speculation and denials from the nationwide Code Division Multiple Access operator.Sprint PCS, which once held a 58.5-percent interest...
MADRID, Spain-Telefonica Moviles, part of the Telefonica Group S.A., Madrid, Spain, announced it gained 822,487 new customers during the first quarter of this year, more than triple the net additions posted during the same period a year ago.The Spanish wireless carrier had 5.72 million...
SWINDON, England-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced plans to deliver PacketGSM, a technology that will allow both voice and data to travel on more cost-efficient packet networks within a Global System for Mobile communications infrastructure."PacketGSM technology is intended to offer a real path towards the much...
CHICAGO-The North American GSM Alliance said 3.6 million customers across the United States and Canada use Global System for Mobile communications wireless phones."More than 600,000 new GSM customers were added in the first quarter of 1999," said Don Warkentin, chairman of the North American...
MONTREAL-The GSM Alliance and Nortel Networks announced they completed North America's first third-generation wireless telephone call using a wideband Code Division Multiple Access trial network under live conditions.The trial is one the GSM Alliance announced last year would take place in a MicroCell Telecommunications...
NEW YORK-The $5 billion Internet backbone upgrade that Teleglobe Communications Corp., Reston, Va., announced last week is intended to meet the growing cross-border data communications needs of its wireless and wireline carrier customers.The five-year project, called GlobeSystem, will be comprised of new and newly...
NEW YORK-All eyes are on Omnipoint Corp., which one investment banker has likened to a poster child for personal communications services.What will be the final chapter in Omnipoint's search for a strategic partner, and how soon will it be written? How might this conclusion...
In the wake of the deadly tornadoes earlier this month that ripped through Oklahoma and Kansas, the idea of using wireless technology as a warning system for natural disasters is receiving renewed attention.Douglas "Bud" Weiser, who heads a volunteer organization dedicated to establishing emergency...
GENEVA-As any one of the tens of thousands of visitors who thronged the halls of February's GSM World Congress knows, the latest word in GSM services is Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). If the sheer quantity of recent WAP-related announcements is anything to go by,...
The Operators Harmonization Group, an assembly of mobile phone operators from around the world, said they agreed last month in Tokyo to a baseline proposal to harmonize ITU CDMA-based third-generation technology proposals.The proposal needs further refinement, a process that should be completed in the...
VLSI Technology Inc. said it received a major order from Mitsubishi Electric Corp. for its OneCT single-chip Global System for Mobile communications baseband solution. The order is valued at $19 million. Mitsubishi will use the OneCT product in its Trium GSM phones.Northern Telecom Ltd....
SnapTrack Inc. last week announced a strategic partnership with Motorola Inc. under which it will license its personal location system to Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector.Motorola will use SnapTrack's technology through a royalty-bearing license agreement to offer personal location services as a part of its...
Sirius CommunicationsSirius Communications NV introduced the DataSat Code Division Multiple Access development system. It offers an alternative to today's very small aperture terminal systems. It works with all existing satellite bands, and TV satellite receiver antennas may be used to receive the signals. The...
Powertel Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Allen Smith hinted the company's national roaming rates could fall substantially in the coming months.The carrier today charges 50 cents per minute with a 25-cent toll fee for roaming outside of its Global System for Mobile communications...
Carriers are keeping quiet about events that transpired during a third-generation harmonization meeting two weeks ago in Japan, but an independent study commissioned by Vodafone plc is seen by cdmaOne players as a smoking gun in favor of their technical parameters.Major carriers from around...
BrazilClariti Wireless Messaging, a division of Clariti Telecommunications International, announced it signed a memorandum of understanding with Acme Paging, one of the largest paging providers in Latin America. Under terms of the MoU, Acme Paging will sell Clariti's digital voice pagers and wireless voice...
SANDTON, South Africa-Telecel International, one of the most active cellular investors in Africa, split into two separate companies as from the end of April. The resulting companies are Telecel One, run by the American Joseph Gatt with headquarters in the United States, and Telecel...
Lucent Technologies announced three technical initiatives designed to increase capacity in TDMA equipment. The company announced a series of software enhancements developed by Bell Laboratories to increase frequency re-use; as well as new PCS Minicell growth hardware designed to provide higher capacity for traffic-intensive...
JOHANNESBURG-Michael Stocks, legal and regulatory general manager for MTN in South Africa, assumed the chairmanship of the GSM Association as from 1 May, taking over for Richard Midgett.Stocks is the first GSM representative from Africa to be elected to the post."I am very excited...
