LOS ANGELES-Cingular Wireless L.L.C. is adding a Razr-esque smart phone to its device lineup, targeting business and consumer users who want access to e-mail and entertainment content, but are willing to forego a full Qwerty keyboard. RCR @ CTIAClick here for complete coverage of...
No wonder China is postponing its decision on third-generation wireless licenses. They're almost obsolete, if you believe the rhetoric thrown about these days.OK, slight exaggeration, but new technologies are being developed at a faster pace than ever before. At the same time, new spectrum...
Bidding slowed last week in the advanced wireless services spectrum auction, but the competition could be far from wrapping up as companies could bid up prices for competitors and make a few last attempts to capture always valuable spectrum. T-Mobile USA Inc. will almost...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. Click here for additional infrastructure awards from RCR Wireless...
TOKYO-Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it launched HSDPA service in Tokyo, and plans to cover all major Japanese cities with the technology by the end of October. The carrier is selling its new HSDPA-capable phone, the N902iX, to support the service launch. DoCoMo...
ATLANTA-Samsung Electronics Co. and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. announced the handset vendor's first HSDPA phone for Cingular's 3G network-in-progress. The Samsung SGH-zx20, an exclusive for Cingular, is a silver-and-black, clamshell-style handset that sells for $100 with a two-year contract (and $50 mail-in rebate, which requires...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Sierra Wireless Inc. says it expects to begin shipping wireless wide area network cards supporting CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A networks during the first quarter of 2007. The company added that WWAN cards supporting HSDPA technology should be available later in the...
ATLANTA—Samsung Electronics Co. and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. today announced the handset vendor’s first HSDPA phone for Cingular’s 3G network-in-progress. The Samsung SGH-zx20, an exclusive for Cingular, is a silver-and-black, clamshell-style handset that sells for $100 with a two-year contract (and $50 mail-in rebate, which...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Sierra Wireless Inc. says it expects to begin shipping wireless wide area network cards supporting CDMA2000 1x EV-DO Revision A networks during the first quarter of 2007, along with cards for HSDPA networks later in the year. The company said its AirCard...
The value of the contract is included when available. Click here for additional infrastructure awards from RCR Wireless News.CellularFrance: Bouygues Telecom selected Nortel Networks as a supplier for its national high-speed mobile Internet and voice network. Nortel will provide HSDPA technology for the deployment...
TOKYO—Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it launched HSDPA service in Tokyo, and will cover all major Japanese cities with the technology by the end of October. The carrier is selling its new HSDPA-capable phone, the N902iX, to support the service launch. DoCoMo said...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.—While the industry looks ahead to W-CDMA and HSDPA technologies, EDGE handsets will quietly deliver "near-acceptable" mobile broadband experiences across a wide geographic area, according to ABI Research. The firm projects that vendors will ship as many as 148 million EDGE handsets...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. Click here for additional infrastructure awards from RCR Wireless...
Look out, Texas Instruments Inc. and Infineon Technologies AG. Your closest competitor in EDGE baseband chips and W-CDMA RF transceivers, respectively-Philips Semiconductor-has a new, ambitious owner anxious to position its acquisition to eat your lunch. Or at least grow Philips Semiconductor by feeding on...
The following list details this week's infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available. Click here for additional infrastructure awards from RCR Wireless...
If the growth in handset sales in mature markets such as the United States slowed somewhat at mid-year, as some market and financial analysts have suggested, one explanation may be the dearth of new product launches. That has opened a window of opportunity for...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Manx Telecom, a subsidiary of O2 Group plc, has partnered with Lucent Technologies Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. on a UMTS and HSDPA field trial using 900 MHz spectrum on the Isle of Man. The trial, which began last week, leverages the lower...
As news of Motorola Inc.'s joint venture with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. sinks in, analysts offered insights as to what the partnership means to the two companies as well as the wireless industry as a whole. Technology Business Research's Bill Lesieur said that the...
ROSEMONT, Ill.-The answer to industry's and investors' lingering question-what the heck is Motorola Inc. going to do to follow up its monster handset hit, the Razr?-came last week in this Chicago suburb as the company unveiled new phones and boasted about its operations and...
Lucent Technologies Inc. said a North American slowdown in wireless equipment sales caused its year-over-year revenue to sink 12 percent and income to plummet 79 percent. The company reported third-quarter net income of $79 million from revenues of $2.05 billion, compared with year-ago results...
MUNICH-Siemens AG said it struck a turnkey deal with Hutchison 3G Austria GmbH worth "an amount in the multi-digit millions" to plan, set up and supply the carrier's W-CDMA network buildout. In addition, Siemens will partially operate the network, providing monitoring and maintenance services...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Sierra Wireless Inc.’s stock fell nearly 23 percent after the company reported solid second-quarter results, but lower-than expected third-quarter guidance. The company’s stock was trading at about $12.55 Friday morning after closing at $16.25 Thursday.Revenues for the quarter totaled $55.2 million, more...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Manx Telecom, a subsidiary of O2 Group plc, partnered with Lucent Technologies Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. on a UMTS and HSDPA field trial using 900 MHz spectrum on the Isle of Man. The trial, which began yesterday, leverages the lower frequency to...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Lucent Technologies Inc. said a North American slowdown in wireless network equipment sales caused its year-over-year revenue to sink 12 percent and its net income to plummet 79 percent. The company reported third-quarter net income of $79 million from revenues of $2.05...
