In an agreement announced today, outsourced service provider Brightpoint Inc. will provide handset procurement, online order processing, inventory management, handset programming and distribution of wireless handsets for buy.com's Wireless Store. buy.com is an Internet store with close to 3 million customers and offers a...
BEIJING-Zhang Fan, head of mobile communications at China Unicom, this week said his company would definitely build narrowband networks based on the CDMA standard.After Qualcomm Chairman Irwin Jacobs recently met Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji and China Unicom Chairman Yang Xianzu in Beijing, China's second...
NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. has begun carrier trials of its first Bluetooth-capable wireless phone, the Timeport 270, and expects to begin shipping the CDMA handsets by year-end.Depending on "carrier testing regimens," the manufacturer expects to ramp up to full production of the tri-mode PCS, analog...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Baltimore Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. announced a strategic agreement to provide security solutions for Internet-enabled wireless devices.Under the agreement, Baltimore will provide mobile root digital certificates which Motorola will embed in its upcoming wireless handsets and gateways. The two said they will...
WASHINGTON-VoiceStream Wireless Corp. fully expects to meet the extended deadlines the Federal Communications Commission set out for it to implement enhanced 911, said the GSM carrier recently."All of VoiceStream's infrastructure vendors have confirmed that they will have products available incorporating location solution by...
Nokia Corp. appeared to be the only mobilephone manufacturer to emerge unscathed from a tumultuous their quarter that saw Motorola Inc. and Ericsson Inc. stumble and their stock prices fall after global handset sales shifted and slowed.Nokia moved its earnings release up a week...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-The Gartner Group predicts Brazil will have about 600,000 WAP users at the end of the year.The market research company said handset suppliers did not accomplish their goals of making available WAP-enabled TDMA handsets, and the carriers did not set the price...
WASHINGTON-Fixed-wireless carriers last week were praising both the Congress and the Federal Communications Commission for rules they say will help them gain access to federal government and business customers in multitenant buildings.Congress included language in the transportation appropriations bill that prohibits landlords of buildings...
Motorola Inc. stunned investors and analysts last week, lowering its fourth-quarter and 2001 earnings estimates despite reporting third-quarter earnings that mostly fell in line with expectations. Upon release of the poor financial outlook on Wednesday, the company's stock tumbled nearly 18 percent to $21.75...
TOKYO-A three-hour bus ride from Tokyo will get you to Kakegawa, the leading production area of two popular Japanese items: green tea (ocha) and Panasonic wireless phones. But just like green tea, Panasonic's wireless phones have not achieved the same level of success in the...
Verizon Wireless turned the industry on its ear last week, announcing plans to support legislation in Illinois that would ban cell-phone use while driving unless the caller is using a hands-free device.The decision is "in direct response to the political situation in Illinois and...
CHICAGO-One of the first commercial deployments of EDGE technology could be in Mexico next year based on presentations and interviews at the PCIA GlobalXchange event. Mexico's largest wireless carrier, Telcel, plans to roll out commercial EDGE service in the country's three largest cities in...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. subsidiary Brightpoint Middle East FZE entered an agreement with Go Mobile, a GSM operator based in Malta, to provide wireless prepaid products and integrated services.From its facility in the Dubai Airport Free Zone, United Arab Emirates, Brightpoint will provide prepaid fulfillment and...
CHICAGO-Partnerships are the key to success in the wireless Internet space, was the resounding theme at last week's PCIA GlobalXChange convention keynote session."The wireless Internet is like the proverbial wild West or the first blast off into space," Janiece Webb, senior vice president and...
NEW YORK-More than any other part of telecommunications, the handset business "will go through the most severe changes in the next several years," said Jeffrey Schlesinger, wireless technology analyst for UBS Warburg, New York.Slowing rates of growth in voice communications, coupled with the lag...
CHICAGO-The Personal Communications Industry Association Foundation honored individuals and companies with its PCIA Foundation Leadership Awards during last week's PCIA GlobalXChange show.The awards included the Albert Gore Jr. LifePage Achievement Award, presented to companies or individuals who exemplify the program's standards of leadership and...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint de Mexico S.A. de C.V., a subsidiary of Brightpoint Inc., entered into an agreement with Mexican radio spectrum license holder Unefon S.A. de C.V. for the provision of integrated logistics services including picking, packing, distribution and other services relating to wireless handsets for...
Korea-based LG TeleCom Co. Ltd. moved one step closer to Java-enabled handsets last week, announcing a collaboration with AppStream Inc. to use AppStream's Java software technology solution in its next generation of ez-i CDMA handsets.AppStream's agreement with LG TeleCom will increase the adoption rate...
LOWELL, Mass.-Wireless radio frequency and microwave components supplier M/A-Com Inc., a division of Tyco Electronics Corp., unveiled an integrated circuit upconverter for use in cellular band CDMA handsets and communications systems.The MD59-0039 upconverter integrates an IF amplifier, RF mixer, LO buffer, voltage attenuator and...
TOKYO-Intel Corp.'s stock took a beating early Friday after the world's largest silicon chip manufacturer reported third-quarter sales would fall short of analysts' expectations.The company's stock lost about 22 percent of its value, dropping more than $14 per share as soon as the market...
At the GSM Association we believe third-generation Global System for Mobile Communications (3GSM) will truly mean an exciting worldwide revolution in human communications. It will be a revolution that enables people around the globe to have high-speed, personal access to electronic information when and...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Mixed-signal integrated circuits developer Maxim Integrated Products signed a licensing and royalty agreement for Parthus Technologies plc's NavStream single-chip global positioning system radio, designed specifically for implementing GPS in cellular handsets and automobiles.The NavStream platform includes an SiGe RF, 0.18 complementary metal...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Two issues characterized the Brazilian cellular market during the first half of the year-an increase in subscriber numbers and the rollout of more advanced services.Latin America in general saw an explosion of prepaid services, but in Brazil, prepaid subscriptions overcame all operator...
Czech RepublicThe Czech Telecommunications Office (CTU) has preliminarily decided to issue fixed wireless access mobile telephone network licenses to three companies selected from 13 applicants, CTU Vice President Vladimir Kukra said Sept. 14. CTU is giving final consideration to the three applicants; it will...
