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,...
Telephone and Data Systems Inc. said Friday it would pursue a spinoff of its personal communications services business Aerial Communications Inc., a segment that has been a continual drag on its cash flow and earnings.TDS opted to withdraw its offers to exchange tracking stocks...
LISLE, Ill.-Indian mobile network operator BPL-US West Cellular Ltd. said it again selected Tellabs' MartisDXX managed transport network solution for the expansion of its Global System for Mobile communications digital cellular network. The contract was awarded through Motorola India.According to Tellabs, the subscriber base...
Unwired Planet Inc. announced it reached an agreement with Siemens Information and Communication Networks Group of Munich, Germany, to integrate its Wireless Access Protocol compatible software into Siemens AG's Global System for Mobile communications infrastructure.Specifically, Unwired Planet has licensed its UP.Link Server Suite to...
STOCKHOLM-L.M. Ericsson said it signed a Global System for Mobile communications expansion contract with Guangxi Post and Telecommunication Administration, valued at $160 million.Ericsson said Guangxi PTA began the first of seven expansions on the Total Access Communications System and GSM cellular networks in 1992....
NEW YORK-Denmark-based Bosch Telecom Inc., which introduced the World 718 phone in June, has decided to close its Dallas office for U.S. sales and marketing, although it will continue selling the handsets here.The World 718 phone can operate on Global System for Mobile Communications...
Slovenia, RomaniaOmnipoint Communications Inc. said it signed roaming agreements in Slovenia and Romania, with Mobitel d.d. Slovenia and Mobilrom S.A., respectively. Both countries are new territory for Omnipoint's roaming footprint. The company has roaming agreements throughout Europe and parts of the Middle East, Africa,...
L.M. Ericsson's offer to compromise on third-generation technology may not change the International Telecommunication Union's action on Dec. 31. The ITU is likely to halt any work on Code Division Multiple Access-based proposals unless intellectual-property-right issues are resolved by the end of the year.Sweden-based...
CanadaResearch in Motion Ltd. announced it received a $1.3 million contract to supply its original equipment manufactured wireless modems to GMSI Inc.'s fleet management and communications systems. GMSI's systems are sold to taxi, trucking and transit companies and are used to transmit data between...
A move by the Chinese government is sure to develop a new wireless telecommunications landscape in China but also may create an uncertain future for foreign wireless infrastructure and handset vendors selling equipment there.The Chinese government is urging the country's wireless operators to purchase...
CHICAGO-Safco Technologies Inc., a division of Salient 3 Communications, said its VoicePrint voice quality measurement system is available for Global System for Mobile communications networks.VoicePrint helps carriers and infrastructure vendors determine the performance of GSM networks using Harvard speech sentences and a psychoacoustic model,...
NEW YORK-Telekomunikacja Polska SA, Poland's national telecommunications carrier, was expected to raise about $1 billion last week in a private placement of debt to about 300 institutional investors.Late last month, the supervisory board of TPSA decided to increase the planned offering of five-year and...
Some analysts are expecting Code Division Multiple Access infrastructure spending to taper off in 1999 as cdmaOne infrastructure deployments in China remain questionable."I think China is the lynch pin for CDMA infrastructure going into next year and to a certain extent greater Asia," said...
"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...
LONDON-Alcatel, Gemplus SCA and Mondex International said they will cooperate to develop a Global System for Mobile communications phone that can be used as a Mondex electronic cash loading device.The technology will allow customers to withdraw funds from their bank accounts onto their Mondex...
SEATTLE-Tegic Communications announced Nov. 24 that Finland-based Benefon has licensed its T9 text input product."T9 enables users to enter text as they would on a desktop keyboard, using just one key press per letter," said Jorma Nieminen, president and co-founder of Benefon.According to Tomi...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Despite the reluctance of some carriers to report fraud figures and the inability of many to distinguish fraud from bad debt, a popular consensus is that fraud against wireless telecom providers appears to be declining, at least for now."If we think we can...
Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group introduced a new platform for Global System for Mobile communications handsets.The platform, which is slightly larger than a business card, can provide standby times of up to 500 hours, said the company. The product can operate in any of...
BOSTON-The North American GSM Alliance L.L.C. announced more than 2.3 million Global System for Mobile communications customers exist in the United States and Canada."GSM's growth continues to outpace rival digital personal communications services technologies," said GSM Alliance Chairman Don Warkentin, president and chief executive...
United KingdomCellPoint Systems AB and its partner Wasp International of South Africa demonstrated a Global System for Mobile communications phone positioning system at the 2nd International Conference on Mobile, Location & Transport Telematics in London. AU System-which is owned by L.M. Ericsson, Telia AB,...
BEIJING-Six wireless operators with 11 networks is the daunting choice offered to Hong Kong's techno-savvy consumers.The mobile phone scene here is a lot brighter than one would have expected just one-and-a-half years ago, with the territory's hand-over to the People's Republic of China on...
NEWBURY, Berskshire, England-Vodafone Group plc said it purchased from BellSouth New Zealand the national New Zealand GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) cellular network and related assets. BellSouth New Zealand is a partnership of BellSouth Corp. and Singapore Technologies.The deal also includes the whole...
Chesapeake MicrowaveChesapeake Microwave Technologies Inc. introduced a 50-watt personal communications services Global System for Mobile communications amplifier and a 30-watt DCS GSM amplifier. The 50-watt PCS GSM amplifier is a Gallium Arsenide FED Class AB linear amplifier that provides 45 dB of gain and...
WASHINGTON-As the Federal Communications Commission set the stage for auctioning nearly 500 returned C-block personal communications services licenses next March, agency lawyers successfully fought lenders Friday in Baltimore bankruptcy court to recover most of the 43 licenses held by Pocket Communications Inc.Judge E. Stephen...
