Some Telecommunications Industry Association members and U.S. carriers were angered last week by comments attributed to a TIA senior executive by the French Press Agency. The incident illustrates the continuing technology holy wars and brings to surface concerns a few large members have about...
WASHINGTON-By the end of nearly three weeks of bidding, action has all but stopped on the major markets left in the re-auction of personal communications services licenses.The only major market to receive any activity as of the end of round 42 was Little Rock,...
The telecommunications authority in France is asking the mobile phone industry to comment on licensing procedures for third-generation mobile phone systems with the goal of issuing licenses by 2000.The French telecommunications regulatory authority said comments on the matter are due May 28. The agency...
Unwired Planet Inc. last week filed a registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of common stock in June, and also announced the first commercial launch of its technology by a Global System for Mobile communications operator.Although it...
SWINDON, U.K.-France Telecom said Motorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector this summer will set up a General Packet Radio Service field trial on France Telecom's Itineris Global System for Mobile communications network in the Lille area of northern France."The future of mobile communications lies in...
Dynamic Mobile Data SystemsDynamic Mobile Data Systems Inc. announced its Mobile Server product is commercially available. Mobile Server is a set of wireless drivers and controls for Microsoft NT servers and wireless devices that the company said extends beyond-firewall corporate data and applications to...
GUANGZHOU, China-Motorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector announced it won two contracts valued at a total of $100 million to expand the digital Global System for Mobile communications 900 and 1800 cellular networks for China's Hunan Posts and Telecommunications Administration. China Unicom also awarded Motorola...
WASHINGTON-Personal communications services 1900 MHz networks using Code Division Multiple Access technology lead in terms of radio-frequency footprint, according statistics released by The Strategis Group.As of March, CDMA systems covered 10.4 percent of the U.S. geography, followed by Global System for Mobile communications systems...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-VLSI Technology Inc. announced it received its largest-ever single order, valued at approximately $34 million, from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for VLSI's Global System for Mobile communications chipsets used in Samsung's current and future generations of GSM handsets.The order is expected to...
It was an unprecedented event. Qualcomm Inc., the biggest defender of CDMA technology, and L.M.
Ericsson, the largest naysayer of the technology, embraced last week, ending more than 10 years of open hostilities
between the two.
"It's wonderful to be together," said Dr. Irwin Jacobs, chairman and...
CdmaOne vendors in China anxiously are awaiting official government word on whether China Unicom is allowed to deploy Interim Standard-95 technology."It appears China Unicom has been told that they can proceed with their plans to deploy a CDMA network using the spectrum they already...
WASHINGTON-Rural America may be left out of the re-auction of personal communications services licenses. At the end of round six on Thursday, 37 percent of the C-block licenses had not received any bids.Information provided by the Federal Communications Commission shows these 128 markets had...
Although Qualcomm Inc. and L.M. Ericsson announced resolutions to Code Division Multiple
Access disputes and the standoff over third-generation intellectual property rights, the companies didn't resolve key
technical differences 3G parties have tried to resolve for more than a year.
Qualcomm and Ericsson announced last
week they resolved...
GermanySiemens' Information and Communication Networks Group, T-Mobil and Unwired Planet Inc. announced they will participate in a field trial to integrate Wireless Application Protocol compatible software from Unwired Planet into Global System for Mobile communications infrastructure. Under the agreement, Siemens will integrate Unwired Planet's...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-Siemens Information and Communication Networks Inc. joined the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium in support of the Time Division Multiple Access-Global System for Mobile communications interoperability agreement made between the UWCC and the North American GSM Alliance L.L.C. in February, said Siemens.The TDMA-GSM...
STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson is testing a wireless financial information and transaction service with Dagens Industri AB, a leading business daily publication in Sweden.The test involves about 40 selected Internet brokerage customers who will be able to buy and sell shares and options on the Stockholm...
HANNOVER, Germany-From the CeBIT '99 show in Germany, L.M. Ericsson made several announcements. Ericsson unveiled the R380 dual-band mobile phone with built-in personal digital assistant functionality including address book, calendar, voice note recorder and notepad. It also features hand writing recognition, voice dialing and...
HANNOVER, Germany-Motorola Inc. introduced a portfolio of digital wireless devices at the CeBIT exhibition and promised to offer Internet-browsing capability on its entire line of digital mobile phones by 2000.The new product line includes what the company called the world's lightest and smallest dual-band...
WASHINGTON-The Wireless Data Forum, a technology-neutral trade association for wireless data and mobile computing, announced the North American GSM Alliance L.L.C. became its newest member. The GSM Alliance is a group of 16 Global System for Mobile communications operators located throughout the United States...
WARREN, N.J.-Anadigics Inc. said its dual-band power amplifier supports the Ericsson I 888, a Global System for Mobile communications world phone that works on 1900 MHz GSM in the Americas and 900 MHz GSM in Europe and most of the world.The power amplifier supports...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson introduced its first product as a result of its participation in the Symbian initiative-a mobile companion to Global System for Mobile communications phones called the MC 218.The product is designed according to Ericsson's divided smart-phone concept, in which the voice-based phone...
WHEATON, Md.-A recent report from Herschel Shosteck Associates Ltd. examines the reasons why Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Subscriber Sector lost market share to Nokia Corp., which today is the leader in worldwide handset market share."The answer lies in Nokia's long-term strategy and Motorola's overconfidence," said...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. became the first Global System for Mobile communications carrier to eliminate long-distance and roaming charges on GSM networks in the United States and Canada. The company also announced OmniRate International, a rate plan that allows customers to call more...
CANNES, France-CDMA proponents have their voice in the CDMA Development Group. TDMA advocates have their say through the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium. Now the GSM world has its own lobbying force with the formation of the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA).The GSA, comprising only...
