ORLANDO, Fla.-In the sun-draped city of Orlando, with its springtime spurts of rain and dreamy lakes, the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium drew a mixed crowd of wireless vendors, operators, developers and analysts to re-energize interest in its brand of technology and to contemplate strategies...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand-AAPT and Lucent Technologies Inc. said they abandoned plans to roll out a CDMA network in Australia. AAPT, a Telecom New Zealand subsidiary, suspended rollout of the network last December to review the plan and determined it would not continue with the...
Three scientists accused of stealing Lucent Technologies Inc. software and sharing it with a Chinese company made plans to take their venture public and bragged it would become an Internet equipment giant in China, authorities say.The two Lucent employees and another man, all Chinese...
The monthly average revenue per user (ARPU) of Southern Cone cellular operators fell more than 50 percent during the last five years. In 1996, a cellular user in Argentina spent US$95 per month and one in Chile US$63, and those same subscribers paid US$45...
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...
Alcatel has signed a memorandum of understanding to outsource the European manufacturing of its GSM handsets to Flextronics amid rumors the French equipment vendor was holding talks with Lucent Technologies Inc.over a possible merger.Under the MOU, Alcatel will transfer its Laval GSM manufacturing facility...
The weak economy has turned profit into loss, changed workers into job applicants and dropped high stocks into the tank.Now, it seems to have transformed love into poison between some vendors and some of their shareholders as demonstrated by a series of class-action lawsuits...
The alliance between Sony Corp. of Japan and L.M. Ericsson of Sweden is giving the two companies hope they have a chance to trump Nokia Corp. as the supreme player in the mobile- phone market. But similar alliances in the past have been failures.After...
Sony of Japan is holding talks with Sweden's L.M. Ericsson on merging their handset divisions, hinting at what some analysts perceive as a possible trend in the industry.Both companies recoiled from revealing details on the talks, a deal from which would promise to leverage...
Several companies have formally expressed interest in Lucent Technologies Inc.'s fiber-optic unit, but according to Friday's Wall Street Journal, the rumored sale is probably still weeks away.Because Lucent wants, and needs, to make as much cash as it can without forking over too much...
LAS VEGAS-With company names based more on family names or regions of the country instead of original creations brewed up by marketing experts, members of the Rural Cellular Association last week held their Ninth Annual Convention and Exhibition in the city of excess, Las...
Wideband CDMA and cdma2000 are not only migrating to the future, but also to the battleground.Both technologies will hoist their banners as they deploy their strengths and shield their weaknesses, especially in the two main places where they hope to flex muscles for market...
Shortly following Winstar Communications Inc.'s announcement last Monday that it had failed to make aggregate interest payments of approximately $75 million on loans, the local multipoint distribution service carrier voluntarily filed for bankruptcy, and then in a surprise move, filed a $10 billion lawsuit...
NEW YORK-With Andersen, the consulting firm, and Lucent Technologies Inc. as founding corporate sponsors, the London Business School has established a new Centre for the Network Economy.The interdisciplinary research and teaching center will focus on four areas: how business models and economic activity are changing...
The stock market is up. The Dow is back over 10,000, but no one really knows why. Ignore it.The stock market, especially technology stocks, has been changing faster than Colorado's springtime weather. One minute Lucent Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. are fighting off reports...
NEW YORK-Although Sprint PCS announced earlier this year its subscribers with smart phones had reached 1 million, "the number doesn't mean anyone is using them and the smart phones are anything but," said Joe Korb, president of GoAmerica, at the Angelbeat "Internet Untethered" conference...
LENEXA, Kan.-Sprint PCS and Lucent Technologies Inc. completed an over-the-air data call using cdma2000 1xEV-DO, with transmission speeds up to 2.4 Megabits per second.Sprint, which is testing the technology through June, will test increased data throughput and capacity as well as applications including Web...
On the heels of a similar situation involving Lucent Technologies Inc., Motorola Inc. late Friday denied published reports that it faces a serious liquidity problem."Motorola today is financially sound. Any suggestion or erroneous report that Motorola faces a serious liquidity problem is simply not...
Even rumors did not forgive Lucent Technologies Inc. last week as the telecom equipment maker scrambled to reassure its nervous investors that it was not doomed to bankruptcy."The rumors that Lucent is filing for bankruptcy are baseless and irresponsible," said Deborah Hopkins, the company's...
Whether the issue is a high-stakes spectrum fight key to the New Economy, a free-falling stock market key to the Old Economy or a U.S.-Sino spat key to the global economy, the question for all America is the same: Who's running the country? Is it...
In addition to being headquarters to a slew of businesses that have become known worldwide, including Microsoft Corp. and Starbucks, Seattle last week was ground zero for GSM technology as VoiceStream Wireless Corp. hosted the GSM Association's 45th Plenary Meeting.While the meeting is only...
NEW YORK-Lenders anted up significant capital during the first quarter for the five publicly traded wireless tower companies, even as their share prices declined amid the stock market's general concerns about telecommunications."At a time when companies like PSINet made announcements that their stock is...
Agere Systems Inc., Allentown, Pa., the communications semiconductor unit of Lucent Technologies Inc., made it to market with an initial public offering priced at $6 that began trading on the New York Stock Exchange March 28.Agere had amended its IPO registration March 21 by...
With its feet in the New York Stock Exchange and an eye toward the future, Siemens AG has advanced a package of products and strategies to make it a major player in the U.S. wireless space.Making its big debut on the threshold of the...
