SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said its MSM2310 Mobile Station Modem, a single-chip, tri-mode vocoder solution supporting Enhanced Variable Rate Vocoder is available in production quantities.A derivative of Qualcomm's MSM2300, the MSM2310 supports all three Code Division Multiple Access vocoders and provides smooth integration from the...
The highly competitive wireless market in the Republic of the Philippines-with five carriers serving some 70 million people-is perhaps the most ripe for consolidation compared with all Southeast Asian countries.With cellular companies burdened with the devaluation of the Philippine peso against the dollar, mandatory...
TOKYO-IDO, a cellular operator covering the Kanto and Chubu regions of Japan, will market a 69-gram cellular terminal starting in mid-July, the company announced recently. While this is just the latest in a succession of increasingly lighter handsets sold in the Japanese market, what...
BANGKOK, Thailand-The Asian financial crisis is imposing a brutal shakeout on the Thai telecommunications sector, turning Darwin's law about the survival of the fittest into an apt description of the future state of the industry here.With the nation's economic turmoil entering its second year...
Stet Hallas Telecommunications S.A., Greece, went public 3 June through an equity offering by a holding company. Stet Hallas is 20-percent owned by Bell Atlantic Corp. of the United States.Telecom Finland officially has changed its name to Sonera.Telstra of Australia announced it will take...
APEC countriesTrade ministers from the 18 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies endorsed the completion of a mutual recognition arrangement for telecom equipment conformity assessment covering about US$45 billion in trans-Pacific trade.ChinaGlenayre Technologies Inc., United States, has activated what it says is the first...
BOSTON-Cellular and personal communications services have entered the mainstream U.S. market in earnest, with a presence in 35 percent of all households in the nation, according to the Yankee Group's recently released "Mobile User Survey." The wireless penetration rate is up 8 percentage points...
Applied Cellular Technology Inc. received a letter of commitment for a $15 million unsecured line of credit from Boston's State Street Bank and Trust Co.'s High Technology Lending Group. Proceeds from the line of credit, expected to close by June 30, will be used...
Direct Wireless Corp., a new company based in Houston, has filed patent applications for a wireless communications system that would allow handsets to communicate directly with each other without signals first being routed through switches and cellular infrastructure.The Direct Wireless Communication System reduces switching...
Like a teenager desperately trying to find the right "look," industry associations focused on the mobile data field continue to tweak their strategies for marketing the enigmatic technology.The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association recently announced it renamed its annual mobile data show Wireless Information Technology...
It's one thing to have lofty ambitions within the safe confines of executive boardrooms, but it's quite another to let the world in on them.That's what Philips Consumer Communications, a joint venture of Philips Electronics N.V. and Lucent Technologies Inc., did when it said...
Competition among companies that supply digital signal processors to the wireless industry is beginning to heat up with new alliances and investments changing the competitive landscape.IBM Corp.'s Microelectronics division last week announced it will pump $100 million into several new initiatives designed to expand...
MACON, Ga.-Personal communications services provider Powertel Inc. said it opened its second retail outlet-a full-service, 9-foot by 11-foot kiosk-in the Macon Mall in Macon, Ga.In addition to selling handsets and calling plans, staff at the kiosk also can activate service and take bill payments,...
NEW YORK-Wireless telephony providers are hemorrhaging revenues from organized activity by criminals drawn to the low risk and easy money of subscription fraud.Thieves are exploiting a particularly lucrative window of opportunity right now, one that is likely to remain open for a few years....
Paging is growing in popularity, and to profit from it, carriers better get their networks prepared now. That is the message Motorola Inc. is pushing with a new campaign and Web site aimed at promoting its Paging Systems Group to wireless carriers."Paging takes guts,"...
NEW YORK-Texas Instruments, Dallas, announced June 8 the release of its new TRF3040 Modulator/Synthesizer, designed to make it easier and cheaper to manufacture lighter dual-band, dual-mode wireless handsets that use less power while roaming seamlessly throughout North America.The modulator/synthesizer is designed for original equipment...
NEW YORK-Bosch Telecom Inc., Dallas, unveiled the World 718 phone, calling it the first phone that can operate worldwide on Global System for Mobile communications 1900 and 900 networks.Audiovox Communications Corp., Hauppauge, N.Y., will distribute the new phones in the United States and Canada....
Topp Telecom Inc.'s TracFone prepaid cellular phones now can be purchased in 7-Eleven stores in Phila-delphia and southern New Jersey.Charles Fortner, president of Island Page, was recognized last week by Vice President Al Gore as the National SBA Young Entrepreneur of the Year, said...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. announced it completed the acquisition of Euro-Phone Sp. The company provides distribution and value-added logistics services to the wireless communications industry in Poland, with connection services agreements with Global System for Mobile communications provider Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa.Brightpoint distributes handsets and related accessories...
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute may be at a crossroads now that Qualcomm Inc. has outlined the terms under which it will grant intellectual property rights to wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology.ETSI in January chose W-CDMA technology, based on a Global System for...
A manufacturer of mobile phone shield devices said business has been booming following the release of a Swedish study that linked mobile phone use with headaches, fatigue and tingling and heat sensations on the ear and skin."We've been inundated with calls. Our switchboard has...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week said wireless carriers could indeed use customer information to market mobile handsets and so-called information services to customers who originally purchased these items from the carrier. The FCC left in place rules that restrict the use of customer...
ENCINITAS, Calif.-CommQuest Technologies Inc. won a multimillion-dollar contract to design and supply chipsets for SOS Wireless Communications Inc.'s emergency 3-button phone, after it completed the design of the printed circuit board in eight weeks, the company said.SOS targets consumers who would like to have...
Personal communications services provider PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. signed a roaming agreement with GTE Wireless that will expand its PrimeTravel coverage area to 45 of the country's top 50 markets, said PrimeCo. PrimeCo customers now can roam in GTE's San Francisco; Indianapolis; Nashville and...
