VANCOUVER, B.C.-Clearnet Communications Inc. said it officially launched Clearnet PCS, its personal communications services network based on Code Division Multiple Access technology operating in the 1.9 GHz range.The company is the second1.9 GHz PCS provider to launch service in Canada. Microcell Telecommunications Inc. turned...
Lucent Technologies Inc., the equipment division spun off by AT&T Corp. last year, and Netherlands-based Philips Electronics N.V., one of the world's largest electronic companies, announced plans to combine their consumer phone equipment operations in a joint venture sure to create the largest phone...
DENVER-While presidents from eight countries discussed pertinent topics such as arms control, peace in Bosnia and the global economy, Denver-area wireless carriers worked behind the scenes to provide handsets and equipment to some 5,000 reporters and scores of others associated with the Denver Summit...
WEST POINT, Ga.-Personal communications services provider Powertel Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of InterCel Inc., launched commercial PCS service last week in Gainesville, Fla.Allen Smith, president and chief executive officer of Powertel, said the Gainesville launch completed the company's buildout in all of its...
Southern California's emergence as a burgeoning wireless hub was reinforced when yet another new telecom company, Kokusai Communications Systems Inc., opened its world headquarters last month in San Diego.Kokusai Communications is the newest subsidiary of Kokusai Electric Co. Ltd., a Tokyo-based manufacturer of wireless...
NEW YORK-After more than two years of effort, standards for interoperability of smart cards for U.S.-based personal communications services received approval May 30."It represents a breakthrough. This is one step forward in the same direction of a universal phone that the ITU (International Telecommunications...
TORONTO-Qualcomm Inc. said it signed an 18-month contract to supply Code Division Multiple Access digital handsets to Bell Mobility, a Canadian wireless services provider. Qualcomm values the agreement at $70 million.The agreement includes Qualcomm's QCP-2700, a digital dual-band, dual-mode phone. Bell Mobility will use...
GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. has signed a contract for its wireless prepaid calling service with Cellular One of Wisconsin and Northern Illinois, which will offer the service to more than 1 million consumers in a 31-county area in the two states. Cellular One's offering...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s plan for a digital personal communications services nationwide network has finally kicked off.After receiving its long-awaited shipment of dual-band, dual-mode handsets from Ericsson Inc. last month, AT&T began offering its Digital PCS service at 1900 MHz last week in Phoenix...
TULSA, Okla.-Southwestern Bell Wireless launched its 1900 MHz Time Division Multiple Access network in Tulsa, Okla., the first time TDMA has been commercially available at 1900 MHz in the United States, the company said. The company is calling the service Digital PCS.The handsets offered...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. only now is receiving the dual-band handsets necessary to make its vision of a Digital PCS nationwide network a reality."Things will start happening pretty quickly," said AT&T Wireless spokesman Ken Woo. AT&T has not launched any of its 1900 MHz...
IRVING, Texas-Aerial Communications Inc. said it will purchase personal communications services handsets from Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc. and Nokia Corp. Aerial values both contracts at $75 million.The Mitsubishi G100 phone and Nokia's 2190 handset both incorporate plug-in subscriber identity module smart cards. Aerial also...
NEW YORK-South Korea's telecommunications marketplace is in the throes of a gradual but deliberate deregulation that is presenting opportunities and challenges for SK Telecom Co. Ltd., the largest wireless carrier."Korea will be almost wide open with free competition, but Korea is different from the...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Services Inc., a subsidiary of Omnipoint Corp., signed a retail sales agreement with Computer City, a national computer chain.According to the agreement, Computer City stores in Omnipoint markets will carry Omnipoint's personal communications services handsets and products. Omnipoint said it...
NEW YORK-The successful launch May 5 of the first six of 55 planned Iridium Inc. low-earth-orbit satellites is a good omen for the fledgling global mobile satellite service industry.The success of that initial deployment after several delays would be an important but preliminary milestone...
DENVER-Personal communications services operator Western Wireless Corp. launched its VoiceStream service last Thursday in Denver, promising rates at least 20 percent lower than AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s digital cellular rates.The company said it's Global System for Mobile communications network, supplied by Northern Telecom Inc.,...
NEW YORK-With production of handsets now hitting the current 300,000 capacity mark during some weeks, Qualcomm Inc. announced second-quarter earnings and revenues April 21 that showed dramatic growth, while gross profit margins declined.Qualcomm, headquartered in San Diego, reported revenues of $586 million during the...
ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks will expand its cooperation with Nokia to provide packaged content and services for Smart Messaging, the Nokia-developed Global System for Mobile communications wireless service architecture announced last month at the CeBIT '97 technology fair.Geoworks will provide wireless services using Nokia's newly proposed...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. announced that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California dismissed a lawsuit filed against it by Qualcomm Inc. in December. However, Qualcomm said the dismissal was issued in an effort to consolidate the companies' claims against each other...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. announced it has reached a roaming agreement with Eircell, a Global System for Mobile communications provider in Ireland. The launch of service with Eircell is Omnipoint's fifth active international roaming pact in less than three months, the company said.Omnipoint...
IRVING, Texas-Nokia Corp. signed an agreement to supply personal communications services handsets to Pacific Bell Mobile Services. The companies value the agreement at $35 million.The one-year agreement calls for Nokia to begin delivering the phones this month. The phones will be sold as an...
WASHINGTON-Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) last week launched a congressional investigation into the Food and Drug Administration's oversight of the struggling cancer research program funded by the cellular telephone industry, a move that signals renewed congressional interest in the controversial issue.The probe by Markey, top...
CUPERTINO, Calif. - DSP Communications Inc. signed a strategic agreement to supply Code Division Multiple Access subscriber equipment to Kenwood of Tokyo.The Interim Standard 95 baseband processor chipsets will be used in Kenwood's dual-mode CDMA/analog subscriber terminals offering both eight kilobits per second QCELP...
WARREN, N.J.-Anadigics Inc. said it has shipped more than 1 million gallium arsenide integrated circuits for use in personal communications services handsets for the 1900 MHz Code Division Multiple Access standard.The circuits are used in the transmitter of CDMA phones and consist of a...