Delays in deploying third-generation networks combined with an overall slow economy helped create a 12-percent drop in demand for wireless equipment last year, according to a new report from the Gartner Group, a research and analyst company.But the fourth quarter witnessed an upturn in...
German handset maker Siemens AG and Chinese vendor Ningbo Bird Co. Ltd. announced a new strategic partnership to build and sell mobile phones in Chinese and international markets, moves that could expand both companies' sales opportunities. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.Under...
German handset maker Siemens AG and Chinese vendor Ningbo Bird Co. Ltd. announced a new strategic partnership to build and sell mobile phones in Chinese and international markets, moves that could expand both companies' sales opportunities. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.Under...
Alcatel's new handset deal with Chinese electronics manufacturer TCL Corp. is part of a notable and growing trend toward joint ventures and acquisitions, and analysts expect the pace to accelerate."There's going to be some consolidation," said John Jackson, a wireless and mobile technology analyst...
TOKYO-NEC Corp. said it will start marketing third-generation node base stations based on the Common Public Radio Interface specification.The vendor said it will partner with Siemens AG in the project.CPRI includes such vendors as L.M. Ericsson, Huawei Technologies Inc., Nortel Networks and, of course,...
BEIJING-Siemens AG and Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. said they have signed a contract to form a joint venture for the third-generation mobile standard known as TD-SCDMA.The deal, which will draw a combined $100 million from both companies, will allow them to develop, manufacture and...
BEIJING-Siemens AG and Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. said they have signed a contract to form a joint venture for the third-generation mobile standard known as TD-SCDMA.The deal, which will draw a combined $100 million from both companies, will allow them to develop, manufacture and...
HONG KONG-Chinese equipment vendor Huawei Technologies co. Ltd. said it agreed with Hong Kong wireless carrier Sunday to supply equipment and financing to assist with the rollout of Sunday's third-generation business.Huawei said a heads of agreement was signed between the two companies covering terms...
HONG KONG-Chinese equipment vendor Huawei Technologies co. Ltd. said it agreed with Hong Kong wireless carrier Sunday to supply equipment and financing to assist with the rollout of Sunday's third-generation business.Huawei said a heads of agreement was signed between the two companies covering terms...
Even while two major third-generation protocols, CDMA2000 and W-CDMA, snap up the spotlight in China, the nation's homegrown technology will not eat humble pie.The protocol was upgraded into an alliance last October, and the group announced that it will add five new members by...
Primus Telecommunications Group Inc. announced an innovative plan to sell low-end mobile phones in Europe, a move that further expands the mobile-phone market to include telecommunications providers. Further, the company said it plans to introduce a tri-band phone that will work in the United...
Communications company Primus Telecommunications Group Inc. announced an innovative plan to sell low-end mobile phones in Europe, a move that further expands the mobile-phone market to include telecommunications providers.Primus is a global telecommunications company offering bundled voice, data, Internet, digital subscriber line, Web hosting,...
With the SARS epidemic now out of sap, the land of wonton soup and TD-SCDMA technology is regaining its place on the front burner of wireless business.Infected with a new elan for investment, vendors have announced a series of contracts and initiatives in China,...
Continuing the string of announcements surrounding the potentially lucrative Chinese market during the past few weeks, Siemens AG and Chinese company Huawei Technologies Co. said they will join forces to promote the Chinese homegrown third-generation standard TD-SCDMA. The two companies signed a memorandum of...
One of the big riddles with open standards is that not all of those who swear by the principle believe in it. Unless, of course, it works in their favor.With a myriad of technologies in the market, vendors and carriers all see their technologies...
MOSCOW-Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies said it won a frame contract valued at nearly $60 million with Russian mobile operator MegaFon. Huawei said it will help build a dual-band network to offer mobile services for a population of 30 million, reaching the Far East and...
Barely nine months after Nokia Corp. led a base-station interoperability initiative, L.M. Ericsson and other major infrastructure vendors have countered with a new one, indicating a tension in that sector.The new initiative, known as the Common Public Radio Interface, also includes Siemens AG, Huawei...
Some major vendors have come together to form a new industry cooperation known as the Common Public Radio Interface to allow members to make base station subsystems that can work with each other.The vendors involved include L.M. Ericsson, Huawei Technologies Inc., NEC Corp., Nortel...
BEIJING-The Beijing Morning Post reported Huawei Technologies came out on top of a third-generation (3G) vendor test by China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII), beating Nokia, Ericsson, Siemens and Nortel. The report added that Alcatel, Zhongxing Telecom, Lucent and UTStarcom flunked the test.The newspaper...
OSLO, Norway-Ericsson's mid-November confirmation that its sweeping restructuring and job slashing would lead to a 50-percent reduction in its research and development (R&D) staff struck a raw nerve in Sweden. By the end of 2003, Ericsson will halve its R&D staff to 12,000, with...
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan-The Uzbektelecom landline national operator received a CDMA 450 MHz license and launched the construction of a wireless network with a capacity of 150,000 clients.The Chinese company Huawei is to supply equipment worth US$200,000 for the pilot project in the Dzhizak region of...
BEIJING-Ericsson has granted Huawei Technologies a worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable patent license for its W-CDMA/UMTS mobile telephony technology, allowing Huawei to develop, manufacture and sell infrastructure and subscriber equipment using Ericsson's technology.Huawei Technologies is one of China's leading communications equipment vendors. In return, Huawei will...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson finalized the sale of its stake in joint venture Ericsson Panda Mobile Terminals Co. Ltd. in Nanjing, China, to Microcell S.A., and concluded a patent license agreement with Huawei Technologies for network equipment.Under terms of the agreement, Ericsson granted Huawei Technologies...
