NEW YORK-Telecom Analysis Systems, Eatontown, N.J., said Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, has implemented the TAS Code Division Multiple Access Automatic Test System for testing software in its cellular and personal communications services phones.A turnkey hardware and software solution, the TAS CDMA ATS automatically tests...
Dr. Dan Schlager, M.D., president of Zoltar Satellite Alarm Systems, filed an ex parte brief with the Federal Communications Commission urging it to apply Phase II E911 rules on locating emergency callers to new wireless phones only.Schlager said the wireless industry should follow the...
SK Telecom Co. Ltd., South Korea's largest cellular operator, has completed test trials of third-generation services, which it expects to offer to the public at the 2002 World Cup in Seoul.Believing IMT-2000 (International Mobile Telecommunications) is crucial to its success, the Code Division Multiple...
Sitting in a meeting several years ago, Douglas (Bud) Weiser and his staff were oblivious to a tornado touching down not too far from their office. Traditional emergency warning systems-outdoor sirens and television and radio broadcasts-weren't able to reach them.Yet, according to Weiser, everyone...
OSHKOSH, Wis.-C-block operator Airadigm Communications Inc. said it launched 1900 MHz personal communications services in Fond du Lac and Oshkosh, Wis.The service, branded Einstein, uses Global System for Mobile communications technology. Airadigm will make Einstein PCS handsets and service available Nov. 7 at Phones...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced three South Korean wireless communications equipment manufacturers are including Lucent's digital signal processor-based compression and decompression (codec) technology in their Code Division Multiple Access wireless handsets and base stations.Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Hyundai Electronics Industries Co. Ltd. and...
PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Philips Consumer Communications L.P. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said that Philips will provide AT&T with multifunction, digital wireless handsets under an agreement previously entered into with Lucent Technologies Inc.Philips Consumer Communications is a joint venture of Lucent and Philips Electronics N.V. that...
PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Philips Consumer Communications L.P. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said that Philips will provide AT&T with multifunction, digital wireless handsets under an agreement previously entered into with Lucent Technologies Inc.Philips Consumer Communications is a joint venture of Lucent and Philips Electronics N.V. that...
It is unclear whether the wireless communications industry will be recession proof in the Asia-Pacific region if certain currencies there continue to fall taking economic growth with them.Beginning with the devaluation of the Thai baht in July, currency values have spiraled downward by as...
LONDON-Code Division Multiple Access technology is playing a key role in several leading technology contenders for third-generation wireless networks in Europe, but back-to-back industry shows held here last week underlined just how convoluted and contentious Europe's standards process has become.And while CDMA technology seems...
ATLANTA-TWS Inc., a developer and distributor of wireless telecom software, announced a deal to offer BellSouth Mobility DCS customers with TWS' new bulletIN e-mail technology directly on wireless phones.BellSouth Mobility DCS customers will receive and reply to e-mail messages on their personal communications services...
NEW YORK-The Wireless Alliance L.L.C. is testing a dual-mode service that would allow callers to dial one phone number to reach customers on either their cellular or personal communications services handsets.Under the plan, incoming calls will "group ring" both phones. If neither is answered,...
SEOUL-In a city where a mobile phone is as common as kimchi and coffee shops must provide a landline phone at every table in order to draw in customers, Seoul, one of the largest cities in the world, seems to be a wireless carrier's...
CARROLLTON, Texas-Wireless phone distributor CellStar Corp. completed a $135 million multiple currency revolving credit facility, giving it the ability to borrow in various currencies for meeting capital needs and growth plans, the company said.The new facility, arranged by Chase Securities Inc., has a term...
NEW YORK-Changing things inside a network is about to get easier by orders of magnitude, according to NEO Networks Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc.NEO Networks, Minnetonka, Minn., will integrate Lucent's Inferno, a distributed inter-networking operating system, into its StreamProcessor, a network forwarding product line....
ENCINITAS, Calif.-CommQuest Technologies Inc. said it signed a product development agreement with Niigata Seimitsu, a telecom manufacturing company in Japan.Under the agreement, Niigata will use CommQuest's Global System for Mobile communications-based chipset to build handsets to distribute in southeast Asia and China by the...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. introduced Digital PCS service at 1900 MHz in the metropolitan areas surrounding Philadelphia, Washington, D.C./Baltimore and Charlotte, N.C.The carrier is offering Ericsson Inc.'s dual-band dual-mode handsets LX 100 and LX 77. Dual-mode handset users can travel between digital wireless...
United States Cellular Corp. was once again the cash cow in Telephone and Data Systems Inc.'s family of wireless businesses during the third quarter.USCC's net income increased 38.6 percent to $36.2 million, or 42 cents per share, from $26.1 million, or 30 cents per...
NEW YORK-Established and new entrants to the wireless handset manufacturing sector are sitting pretty on the crest of a wave of growing worldwide demand, said participants in the NatWest Securities Corp. "Global Mobile Handset Conference."Handset sales could reach 250 million units in 2000 compared...
More than two years after offering iDEN technology to other manufacturers willing to license it, Motorola Inc. still hasn't found any takers, despite the growing success of iDEN-user Nextel Communications Inc."There's a lot of interest in the technology," insisted David Kurt, manager of public...
Motorola Inc. last week released its third quarter financial results, which detailed the lower-than-expected performance of the company that was forecast in December. Earnings per share, previously expected to be 60 cents, instead totaled 44 cents per share, or $266 million.The figure, while above...
NEW YORK-Gemplus Corp., Montgomeryville, Pa., gambled early and big on the nascent U.S. Global System for Mobile Communications personal communications services business. Today, it has won close to a 50-percent share of the subscriber identity module market.Gemplus and Schlumberger Smart Cards & Systems, Telecom...
Clearnet Communications Inc. launched its Mike enhanced specialized mobile radio network in Ottawa-Hull. The Ottawa-Hull, Ontario, network covers nearly 1 million people in the region-on the Ontario-Quebec border-including Aylmer, Barrhaven, Chelsea, Cumberland, Gatineau, Gloucester, Kanata, Manotick, Nepean, Orleans, St. Onge, Stittsville and Vanier as...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Southwestco Wireless L.P. have agreed to settle their highly emotional dispute over in-market roaming in Phoenix.The companies have resumed reciprocal cellular roaming under a new agreement and entered into a tentative settlement to resolve differences over roaming in Phoenix,...
