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...
MINSK, Belarus—Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies launched its pilot GSM network in Belarus. The ceremony, which looked like a clear advertising event, was attended by the Chinese ambassador and top Belarussian communication officials.Huawei first tried to enter the Belarusian market when it bid at a...
BEIJING—Huawei Technologies, based in Shenzhen, China, announced the launch of its U.S. subsidiary FutureWei, headquartered in Texas. The company will provide telecommunications and enterprise networking equipment to the U.S. and Canadian markets.Privately owned Huawei is one of China's largest telecommunications equipment vendors. It mainly...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—Swedish company Tele 2 denied plans to sell the St. Petersburg-based FORA Communications AMPS carrier, which combines operators St. Petersburg Telecom and Oblcom."We are not going to sell FORA. On the contrary, we are planning to develop it and create a third...
MOSCOW—Siemens has reportedly won the tender for equipment supplies for the construction of the second GSM 900/1800 MHz network in Belarus, which is to be operated by the leading Russian carrier Mobile TeleSystems (MTS).Official tender results were expected on 4 February, but have not...
MINSK, Belarus—The Saudi Oger carrier is considering the purchase of a 50-percent stake in the Belarussian Belcel carrier, with a deal likely to shape out by the end of February.The Saudi Arabian carrier, which lost the tender for the second Belarussian GSM license to...
BEIJING—Philips Semiconductor and China's Huawei Technologies have agreed to jointly develop application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for 3G products.Philips Semiconductor will mainly provide technical support and manufacturing services. The company will provide Huawei with 0.18 micron ASICs.Both companies are also considering cooperating in the...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Many eyes in the wireless industry have recently focused on the emerging market of Africa with a lot of attention going to the recent auction of four mobile network licenses in Nigeria. The road to victory for Nigerian mobile prosperity has not...
LAGOS, Nigeria-Six global telecom vendors are vying to build out Nitel's GSM network in Nigeria. Nigeria awarded four GSM licenses earlier this year, and state-owned Nitel received one of the four.U.S.-based Motorola, Germany's Siemens, France's Alcatel, Ericsson of Sweden and Chinese firms Huawei Technologies...
BEIJING-Although no official announcement has been made yet, an official at Unicom Horizon Mobile Communications, the subsidiary of China Unicom entrusted with building a CDMA network, said 10 vendors out of 12 have been selected to supply equipment for the network.The 10 successful bidders...
WASHINGTON-Huawei Technologies Inc., a Chinese telecom firm that is quickly becoming a global wireless juggernaut, is reportedly suspected of violating U.N. sanctions by supplying Iraq with fiber optic cable to improve its air defense capability.The Washington Post, citing Western and Asian sources, said Western...
WASHINGTON-Huawei Technologies is reportedly suspected of violating U.N. sanctions by supplying Iraq with fiber optic cable to improve its air defense capability.The Washington Post, citing Western and Asian sources, said Western officials have asked Beijing to investigate whether Huawei was the supplier of fiber-optic...
BEIJING-Huawei Technologies, based in China's southern boomtown of Shenzhen, is poised to become a global player in the telecommunications field. Already China's largest producer of telephone switches, the company is now branching out into the mobile field and aggressively moving abroad. While privately owned,...
GERMANYSonera is looking to reduce its stake in Group 3G, the consortium that won a third-generation license in Germany last year. Sonera, which currently holds 42.8 percent of the consortium, would like to reduce its stake to around 20 percent, according to international press...
WASHINGTON-Beijing appears to be thumbing its nose at wireless provisions of the landmark U.S.-China trade agreement, posing potential problems for American mobile-phone firms and the next administration.The move comes as a group of U.S. wireless executives prepare to meet with their counterparts in China...
