The market for broadband wireless access services is expected to grow dramatically in the next several years, and vendors are scrambling to get systems ready for the emerging market.Fixed terrestrial wireless systems are expected to generate global service revenues of nearly $10 billion during...
First out of the box with an end-to-end solution allowing voice carriers a means to migrate their networks to a packet-based paradigm, Lucent Technologies Inc. introduced a product portfolio targeted at new and incumbent operators.Lucent's R/Evolutionary Networking solution is based around the 7R/E Call...
BAL HARBOUR, Fla.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. says it is on track to fix network capacity problems associated with high demand for the digital one-rate service by June."We have a well-defined plan to get ahead on capacity," said Rod Nelson, vice president and chief technology...
After coming off one of its worst years in history, the semiconductor industry continues to show signs of recovery.The industry finished last year with total sales of $125.6 billion, a decrease of 8.4 percent from year-end 1997 sales, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association....
Sprint Corp. announced April 20 first-quarter consolidated revenues of $4.72 billion, a 16-percent increase from the $4.08 billion posted for the same period of 1998. The next day Sprint said it awarded Lucent Technologies Inc. a $780 million equipment contract.Kansas City, Mo.-based Sprint is...
Motorola Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc. signed a memorandum of understanding that, if fulfilled, will license Glenayre to manufacture all Motorola's paging infrastructure-effectively heralding Motorola's exit from the paging infrastructure manufacturing business."We need to focus on the things we do best," said Amanda Dahlke,...
WASHINGTON-With the Clinton administration's failure to close a deal on Chinese World Trade Organization membership, U.S. firms and congressional moderates have become angry and concerned about China backing off commitments to open wireless equipment and services markets.In coming months, business executives plan to lobby...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-Mobile Data Solutions Inc. and Kenan Systems signed a cooperative marketing agreement that will join MDSI's mobile work force management products with Kenan's billing, customer care, order management and decision support software.According to the agreement, MDSI and Kenan will cooperate in identifying and...
NEW YORK-Despite the current slowdown in Asian, Latin American and Russian markets, the United States has taken a commanding lead in industries most important to the global economy during the next several decades: communications equipment, computer hardware and software, biotechnology and health care, retailing and...
WASHINGTON-The United States and China, submitting to a hostile political atmosphere that will delay any decision on Chinese entry into the World Trade Organization until year's end, still managed last week to reach major agreements to open wireless telecom equipment and service markets in...
Widespread consolidation among telecommunications carriers has concentrated buying power into fewer and fewer hands, with vendors experiencing many of the side effects.In the last year alone, at least half of the carriers on RCR's 1998 Top 20 cellular carriers' list have been acquired by...
WASHINGTON-Despite China's agreement to open its doors to Code Division Multiple Access technology, differences over telecom foreign investment and other matters make it doubtful a deal will be struck on Chinese entry into the World Trade Organization during Premier Zhu Rongji's visit here later...
WASHINGTON-Despite China's making new promises to open its telecom market to competition and foreign investment, the Clinton administration is avoiding making any commitments to endorse Chinese entry into the World Trade Organization in advance of a U.S. government-industry trade mission to China later this...
It was an unprecedented event. Qualcomm Inc., the biggest defender of CDMA technology, and L.M.
Ericsson, the largest naysayer of the technology, embraced last week, ending more than 10 years of open hostilities
between the two.
"It's wonderful to be together," said Dr. Irwin Jacobs, chairman and...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is expected to award Lucent Technologies Inc. a Time Division Multiple Access contract valued at more than $1 billion during the next three years, sources close to the companies say.Joseph Bellace, analyst with Merrill Lynch, indicated last week that AT&T...
WASHINGTON-In reporting its year-end 1998 results, Pathnet Inc. also announced it expanded its wholesale-to-carriers digital broadband access provision strategy beyond wireless to include fiber-optic cable, supplied exclusively by Lucent Technologies Inc."We have encountered significant customer demand for high bandwidth facilities that our wireless network...
NEW YORK-As wireless telecommunications heads into the new frontier of electronic commerce, service providers must answer a question posed by an old British rock song: "I really want to know, who are you?"Toronto-based Diversinet Corp. is in business to provide an answer in the form...
The state of Utah awarded Applied Cellular Technology Inc.'s Communications Infrastructure division a $6.1 million contract to provide infrastructure and construction improvements for the 10 buildings on the University of Utah campus that will be used to house Olympic athletes, said the company. Applied...
BASKING RIDGE, N.J.-AT&T Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc., among others, have joined to create a standard that will allow users to access Web-based information via mobile or landline phones, called Voice eXtensible Markup Language.The group, called the VXML Forum, aims to set...
EMERYVILLE, Calif.-Several technology companies announced they have created an alliance to develop an interface connecting consumer and small-business appliances to Internet services, called the Open Service Gateway specification.Its backers say the specification will allow Internet service providers, network operators and equipment manufacturers to deliver...
CANNES, France-CDMA proponents have their voice in the CDMA Development Group. TDMA advocates have their say through the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium. Now the GSM world has its own lobbying force with the formation of the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSA).The GSA, comprising only...
AMSTERDAM-Royal Philips Electronics Friday made a bid to acquire San Jose, Calif.-based VLSI Technology Inc., a company that designs and manufactures custom and semi-custom integrated circuits for the wireless communications and computing markets.The proposal calls for VLSI shareholders to receive $17 per share cash,...
PISCATAWAY, N.J.-The Wireless Information Network Laboratory at Rutgers University is working to set a research agenda that will facilitate deployment of General Packet Radio Service, a new wave in wireless data communications.GPRS is a large, complex system that merges cellular telephone radio transmission technology...
NEW ORLEANS-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium, which represents the interests of Time Division Multiple Access technology proponents, demonstrated interoperability between 850 MHz and 1900 MHz networks at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association Wireless '99 show in New Orleans.Groups of attendees on the show floor...
