Network coverage is the unexciting side of the wireless industry. Sure, most carriers proclaim to have excellent coverage in their markets, but real-world results are often lacking. Someone in the wireless industry recently discussed a conversation she tried to have with an executive of...
Each time the death knell sounds, Lucent Technologies Inc. seems to rebound.Last week was a metaphor of what might be the roller coaster ride the Murray Hill-based telecom equipment company has experienced in the past three quarters.Moody's Investors Service downgraded the company to junk...
In spite of recent questions regarding the availability of spectrum for next-generation services, Sprint PCS pushed forward last week, announcing two deals with Lucent Technologies Inc. and Nortel Networks to upgrade the carrier's nationwide network for high-speed services planned for later this year.The deal...
By outsourcing their handset and network equipment production, major vendors may be unwittingly yielding enormous influence to contract electronics manufacturers that could acquire enough expertise and experience to develop their own brands and technologies.Two reports, one by market research firm Bear Stearns and the...
DENVER-A Cingular Wireless executive last week discussed the benefits of EDGE technology as an alternative to true third-generation networks, further evidence that EDGE may still play heavily in future plans for U.S. operators.Anil Doradla, a wireless technology researcher for Cingular, made his comments during...
DENVER-Qwest Wireless last week filed to change its Enhanced 911 Phase II solution from a network-based solution to an assisted Global Positioning Satellite-or hybrid-solution.Qwest in November was one of the 14 carriers to file with the Federal Communications Commission for a network-based solution. Fifteen...
The economy cast a pall over the vendor space last week with major equipment makers wallowing in job cuts, negative credit ratings, earnings forecast reviews and downgrades.The companies involved are the struggling Lucent Technologies Inc., Nortel Networks Corp. and the almost immune Nokia Corp.Lucent...
Verizon Wireless is considering either using wideband-CDMA technology as its third-generation network standard or adding the technology to its CDMA-based network. Company spokespeople assert the move is not new-or news-but it is nonetheless representative of the murky realm of 3G wireless issues and carriers'...
802.11b, otherwise known as WiFi, is growing into one of the most buoyant fountains of money in the wireless industry, challenging big and small vendors to seek differentiating models in a tightening economic landscape.According to industry sources, the technology, which is thriving on the...
With an eye to rich services, reduced complexity and higher profits for service providers catering to their enterprise customers, Lucent Technologies Inc. has rolled out five new high performance, attractively priced IP services products for virtual private networks and integrated voice and data.The solution...
HONG KONG-Not even torrential rains around portions of Hong Kong could dampen the spirits of CDMA supporters at the 3G World Congress. Even with the lack of sunshine outside, to go along with the lack of CDMA coverage for roaming, most attendees seemed bright...
Major hardware and software vendors are teaming up to reinforce their strengths and shore up their weaknesses as the wireless industry marches to the third-generation of Internet services.Involved in marriages and talks of marriages are Nokia Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc., Nortel Networks, Mitsubishi Electric...
Smart-phone company NeoPoint Inc. quietly closed its doors late last month, apparently exiting the industry it lit up only a few short years ago with its advanced phone/personal digital assistant offering.While the company hadn't yet filed as of Friday in the bankruptcy court that...
NEW YORK-To celebrate World Environment Day, a group of telecommunications carriers, equipment vendors and industry associations formed the Global e-Sustainability Initiative last week, an alliance billed as the first of its kind."Modern telecommunications, a major theme of this year's international World Environment Day celebrations,...
NEW YORK-A New Jersey grand jury indicted three men, including two former Scientists at Lucent Technologies Inc., for conspiracy to steal trade secrets from the company. If convicted, Hai Lin and Kai Xu may face maximum penalties of up to 10 years in prison...
In the United States, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 freed telephone companies to deliver video programming and cable companies to provide phone service. But even though the 1996 telecom act opened up competition, the United States' $100 billion telephone industry still had some big...
Heinz Corp.Heinz Corp., which provides services to wireless carriers, has promoted Rick Vogt to senior project manager. In his new position he will be responsible for Heinz's projects for Cingular Wireless. Vogt has been with Heinz for about a year, and most recently supervised...
Highlighting the complex fashion in arriving at standards for the wireless industry, Paul Mankiewich, the chief technology officer of Lucent Technologies Inc., joked that the various standards organizations also have had difficulty figuring out a standard on where to meet. Until recently, that is,...
As expected, Teligent Inc. voluntarily filed for bankruptcy last week following a long and tedious demise that included debt extensions, layoffs and management shake-ups.Vienna, Va.-based Teligent said it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of...
As the news swirls around Wall Street, analysts think a possible merger between Alcatel Alsthom of France and Lucent Technologies Inc. may not only be the biggest acquisition of a U.S. telecom company, it could also generate an investigation as to whether such an...
With four big CDMA infrastructure contracts ramped up last week by China Unicom, the country's second-largest operator, the Asian nation is on pace to race past the United States as the biggest wireless market in the world.The contracts, penned with Lucent Technologies Inc., L.M....
Top players in both the vendor and carrier space are pitching in to advance GAIT-GSM ANSI Interoperability Team-a new network standard that fuses TDMA and GSM technologies to enhance roaming, preserve TDMA and serve as an interim solution in the sojourn to the third-generation...
NEW YORK-The promise of intelligent networks will be realized in their convergence with the world of the Internet, said Paul G. Florack, co-author of a recently published book, Wireless Intelligent Networking.WIN has not succeeded in its ultimate goal of "freeing carriers from the grasp...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia-The St. Petersburg-based Telecominvest holding said it decided to work with Finnish supplier Nokia Corp. instead of Germany's Siemens AG to create a GSM-900 MHz network in North Caucasus.Siemens originally won the tender for the Megaphone project, in which it competed with...
