NEW YORK-InterDigital Communications Corp., King of Prussia, Pa., will field test its new wireless local loop product in northwest Iowa this fall in conjunction with Pioneer Holdings L.L.C.The agreement represents the first full U.S. field trial of InterDigital's TrueLink fixed wireless system, which uses...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. announced InterDigital Technology Corp. entered into a worldwide, royalty-bearing Time Division Multiple Access patent license agreement with Toshiba Corp.For an upfront payment of $15 million, ITC granted Toshiba a paid-up license for Personal Handyphone Systems and Personal Digital...
MACH India Pvt Ltd. entered into a contract with Bharti Cellular of India to offer cellular clearinghouse services for the country. The agreement includes MACH Data, the clearing service for automatic roaming; MACH Finance, financial clearing and settlement services; MACH Fraud, exposure and high-usage...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Technology Corp. entered into patent license agreements with two unnamed Japanese manufacturers of digital cellular equipment, resulting in up-front payments of $33 million.One licensee will pay the ITC future royalties on the sale of products based on Personal Digital Cellular...
Nextel CommunicationsKevin Gleason was hired at Nextel Communications Inc. as Indiana General Manager and Sherri Cobb joined the company as market branch manager for Knoxville, Tenn. Prior to joining Nextel, Gleason served as vice president and general manager of PageNet of Indiana and also...
AUTHENTIX NETWORK INC.William W. Erdman was named president and chief executive officer of Authentix Network Inc., a company offering enhanced roaming solutions to wireless service providers. Erdman was one of the founding members and the first chairman of the Cellular Radio Communications Association, which...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. said it received orders for UltraPhone wireless local loop systems from Telecom Namibia, Vietnam PJT, Kenya KPTC and Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications. The company cumulatively values the deals at $1.3 million.InterDigital said several of the orders resulted from...
HANNOVER, Germany-InterDigital Communications Corp. and Siemens AG said they are first to market with a broadband Code Division Multiple Access-based wireless local loop solution that delivers advanced broadband services.Both companies are displaying their version of the system at CeBIT '98 in Hannover, Germany, where...
Globecomm Systems Inc. and Tecore Inc. formed an alliance to offer design, integration, installation, training and maintenance services for satellite communications and wireless networks. A key feature of the new service is its distributed switching architecture-a routing system that provides local links for a...
InterDigital Technology Corp. made another move in a long-running patent dispute with Ericsson Radio Systems AB.The company's parent, InterDigital Communications Corp., announced ITC has sought a further stay of its patent litigation with Ericsson in federal court, requesting a re-examination by the U.S. Patent...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. announced it signed a technology and product engineering and test site support agreement with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. The new agreement will cover Samsung's field trials and advance deployment of telecommunications equipment using InterDigital's Broadband Code Division Multiple...
Rank Company Name 1996 Revenues (000)1 Matsushita Electric Inds. Co. Ltd. $63,192,0002 NEC Corp. $41,174,0003 Motorola Inc. $27,973,0004 Lucent Technologies Inc. $23,286,0005 Ericsson...
Rank Company Name 1996 Net Income (000)1 Motorola Inc. $1,154,0002 Lucent Technologies Inc. $1,054,0003 Ericsson (L.M.) Telephone $1,034,1524 NEC Corp. $718,0005 Nokia...
RANK/COMPANY NAME TOTAL RETURN1 Brightpoint Inc. 259.88%2 Tellabs Inc. 169.96%3 Specialty Teleconstructors 150.00%4 ADC Telecommunications Inc. 149.00%5 WinStar Communications, Inc. 132.53%6 ...
SINGAPORE-An air of triumph permeated last week's second annual CDMA World Congress as the supporters of Code Division Multiple Access celebrated the past year's network launches, announced a unified branding plan and prepared to enter the next millennium with a platform for advanced wireless...
Telemac appointed Peter McCracken chief executive officer, with responsibility for overseeing the development of innovative software technology and formulating strategic alliances with wireless industry leaders. Previously, McCracken was president and CEO of VentureLine Database Corp., an Internet/intranet database company he founded.Dr. Ronald C. Maehl...
German cellular service provider T-Mobil awarded a contract to Lucent Technologies Inc. to expand T-Mobil's Global System for Mobile communications network. Lucent values the agreement at more than $30 million. T-Mobil's D-1 network currently serves 2.5 million subscribers. According to the contract, Lucent will...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. has dismissed its chief executive officer, Gregory Webb, after only seven months in the position.Prior to joining InterDigital, Webb was corporate vice president of Qualcomm Inc., where he was responsible for marketing, sales and strategic business relationships.During the...
Metawave Communications Corp. named Tom Crawford director of product marketing and business development. He will be responsible for maintaining strategic partnerships that provide new sales and marketing opportunities for Metawave's multibeam antenna systems. Prior to joining the company, Crawford was director of strategic accounts...
Swedish telecommunications giant L.M. Ericsson is promoting the application of wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology, and recently announced a partnership with Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Corp. of Japan to develop commercial uses for W-CDMA.The announcement has raised a few eyebrows for a number...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. signed a letter of intent with Worldwide Wireless Inc. to trial its TrueLink broadband Code Division Multiple Access wireless local loop product in Worldwide Wireless' service territory.Worldwide Wireless holds licenses covering portions of Vermont, New York and New...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. will provide its UltraPhone system to Bukaka Sing Tel International of Indonesia, a joint systems operator owned by Singapore Telecom and PT Telkom of Indonesia. InterDigital values the order at $1.2 million."There is tremendous follow-on opportunity with Bukaka...
