ELKHART, Ind.-CTS Corp. formed a strategic relationship with Kyocera Corp. to exchange the license of patents and intellectual property with regard to the design and manufacture of frequency control products, predominantly for wireless communications applications.Specific details of the agreement were not made available.
NEW ORLEANS-Siemens AG announced it will re-enter the U.S. mobile-phone market in 2001, about two years after it left the market unable to compete with rapidly falling handset prices in the United States.Siemens always has maintained its exit from the U.S. market was a...
DENVER, United States-Qualcomm is putting a financial stake in the ground to push CDMA technology in Europe.Qualcomm announced plans to acquire U.K.-based Tellit Communications, a cellular handset design and manufacturing company with expertise in NMT 450 technology. The purchase price is around US$20 million,...
Kansai Tele-Message and Hokkaido Telemessage became the latest victims in Japan's declining paging industry. Kansai Tele-Message filed for liquidation with US$183 million in debts, and Hokkaido had US$6.3 million in debt in excess of assets at the end of 1999, according to a Kyodo...
In a move designed to put the takeover of Iridium L.L.C.'s assets on the fast track, as well as appease disgruntled Iridium creditors, Craig McCaw and his team of investors have withdrawn the $74.6 million financing package submitted last week for the financially struggling...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. will cut hundreds of jobs as a result of selling its mobile-phone division to Japanese vendor Kyocera Corp., the company said.Qualcomm is transferring employees from its consumer products and personal electronics divisions to Kyocera and a Qualcomm subsidiary, newly created to...
NEW YORK-Calling it "a first step toward demonstrating fully open standards in General Packet Radio Services," Symmetry Communications Systems Inc. said it will collaborate with Lucent Technologies Inc. on interoperability testing of 2.5 generation wireless network elements.Venture-backed Symmetry, based in San Jose, Calif., came...
There is a chink in Nokia Mobile Phones' armor, and it is the vendor's market share in the cdmaOne handset business.While Nokia sells the most popular handsets in the world, holding more than 30 percent of the total business, its share in the cdmaOne...
Kyocera Corp. hopes to do what no Japanese handset manufacturer has been able to do to date. It wants to become a dominate global vendor.To do that, Kyocera needs to gain a significant share of the market in North America, analysts say. Kyocera has...
Kyocera Corp. hopes to do what no Japanese handset manufacturer has done to date. It wants to become a dominate global vendor.Kyocera needs to gain a significant share of the market in North America to accomplish this goal, analysts say. Kyocera has made some...
Following months of speculation, three Japanese telecom companies announced plans to merge into one group to compete in the country's increasingly competitive telecom market. DDI Corp., IDO Corp. and KDD Corp. will merge to form Japan's second-largest telecom company after Nippon Telegraph and Telephone...
Motorola Inc. found a third operator in the United States willing to deploy its proprietary integrated Digital Enhanced Network technology and more may follow.Specialized mobile radio operator Pacific Wireless Technologies Inc. announced plans to offer iDEN technology in central California. The company, formed through...
Nextel Communications Inc. finally found another vendor willing to manufacture handsets incorporating Motorola Inc.'s proprietary iDEN technology.Nextel and Kyocera Corp. signed a letter of intent last week calling for the Japanese vendor to produce a small high-end integrated Digital Enhanced Network phone by late...
TEMPE, Ariz.-Iridium North America announced the availability of a broad array of maritime-specific communication devices suitable for virtually any vessel.The single- and multi-channel equipment offers boaters various configurations from multiple manufacturers, including Motorola Inc. and Kyocera Corp. Handheld and portable versions of the phones...
While the bankruptcies of Iridium L.L.C. and ICO Global Communications have cast doubt on the mobile satellite services market, fixed satellite services provider Teledesic L.L.C. believes it may find a way to benefit from these difficulties.Teledesic is wireless visionary Craig McCaw's idea for an...
DENVER, United States-After several months of fruitlessly chasing the horizontal market of international roaming business users, Iridium announced a refocused marketing plan aimed at the vertical industrial segments and a new pricing plan featuring flat-rate airtime costs and cheaper handsets.Iridium's new chief executive officer,...
CUPERTINO, Calif.-DSP Communications Inc. announced its sixth-generation Personal Digital Cellular chipsets are featured in Kyocera Corp.'s Digital Minimo 533G handset.Available from IDO Corp. in Japan, the Digital Minimo 533G is designed using DSPC's latest PDC baseband chipsets and offers up to 120 minutes of...
HOUSTON-Seven Seas Communications announced it will unveil a new line of satellite communications products at the Offshore Technology Conference this week, which will include products from Iridium L.L.C., Inmarsat and American Mobile Satellite Corp.'s Oceancell venture.Devices include Iridium handsets made by Motorola Inc. and...
Iridium L.L.C.'s first full quarter of operation was marked with handset production delays, distribution problems, low subscriber numbers and a deepening net loss, the aftermath of which has led the company to re-evaluate its strategic focus and upper management team.Since launching in November, Iridium...
TOKYO-Yoshiaki Shioda, senior manager for NEC, recently visited Kirgiz, a republic south of the Commonwealth of Independent States, to help local people get connected with each other.In Kirgiz, only one out of every 100 people have access to a telephone, and locals occasionally have...
PASADENA, Calif.-Emultek Ltd. announced Kyocera Corp. of Japan has developed a fully functional prototype cdmaOne phone using Emultek's RapidPLUS software, which graphically models, simulates and tests virtual product interfaces and automatically generates C code and the documentation needed to begin manufacturing."The performance of the...
Unwired Planet Inc. last week filed a registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of common stock in June, and also announced the first commercial launch of its technology by a Global System for Mobile communications operator.Although it...
Early cellular carriers did it. Early paging carriers did it. Mobile data carriers are doing it now, and according to analyst Tim O'Neil of SoundView Technology Group Inc., Iridium L.L.C. should do it as well.That is-subsidize handsets to promote network usage. It's a standard...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Iridium Brasil reports it has 1,000 subscribers and that next month it will reduce the cost of its Motorola satellite handset to make the service more attractive to potential subscribers, said Pedro Schvinger, sales manager for Iridium's Brazilian operation, at the Telexpo...
