MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Executives of Lucent Technologies Inc. say they expect the company to continue growing faster than the expanding telecommunications market and expect to take market share from competitors.One day before the Sept. 18 statement, Lucent released results for the third quarter, which ended...
The year-old Asian financial crisis is being blamed for an increasingly gloomy outlook for the third quarter, which ends this week. The situation is compounded by growing economic worries in Russia and Latin America and a weakened semiconductor market.Several companies warned investors last week...
BELLEVUE, Washington-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. launched commercial services on its new metropolitan area network in Seattle and the surrounding areas, following an eight-week service test by more than 20 business.ART's integrated broadband wireless and fiber-optic technology uses a packet switched Internet Protocol and asynchronous...
CTIAChristopher Putala joined the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association as vice president for congressional affairs. Putala worked for nine years with the Senate Judiciary Committee on a wide variety of law-enforcement issues and served as Democratic staff director and chief counsel for Sen. Joseph R....
NEW YORK-Recent gyrations in the public capital markets have made for splashy headlines, but they are not likely to stop telecommunications mergers unless there is a prolonged and profound slump, said Dave Rhodes, senior vice president of Daniels & Associates, Denver.In terms of sheer...
Northern Telecom Ltd. last week said it plans to lay off 3,500 employees, or about 4 percent of its work force.Shares of Nortel on the New York Stock Exchange fell $2.50 to close Sept. 15 at $43.75 following confirmation by the company of the...
Recent developments in Japan suggest standards leaders there realize they must deal with the cdma2000 third-generation proposal.
Japan's standards body, the Association of Radio Businesses (ARIB), recently concluded that both W-CDMA, based on the GSM platform, and cdma2000 third-generation proposals are valid proposals and meet...
When controversy comes calling, policy makers and wireless telecom firms turn to a high-tech sounding board whose work is based more on reality than on rhetoric: the Telecommunications Industry Association.TIA, comprised of U.S. and foreign telecom manufacturers that develop technical standards, has been dragged into...
U.S. stock markets, like most markets around the world, last week experienced a roller-coaster ride that left many companies with no choice but to hold on and hope for the best.Wireless stocks were not immune to the sudden drop Monday brought on by the...
An old Chinese saying may be relevant to the commercialization of CDMA mobile phone networks in China-"Those who know don't talk, and those who talk don't know"-at least on the record.When will Code Division Multiple Access networks be launched commercially in China? No one...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The licensing of two additional cellular carriers in South Africa will represent the biggest opportunity for black empowerment in Africa-and for some, the last chance to become involved in the vibrant telecommunications market here.When the Department of Communications issues tender invitations later...
The head of Philips Consumer Communications quit in late August amidst the company's announcement it doesn't expect to break even this year.PCC President and Chief Executive Officer Mike McTighe resigned from those positions effective 1 October.When Lucent Technologies Inc. and Philips Electronics N.V. hatched...
WASHINGTON-The third-generation wireless debate took a dramatic turn last week as a key Clinton administration official questioned whether the United States should follow Europe's lead in allocating massive 3G spectrum, and an industry schism erupted that could have Motorola Inc. going its own way.Motorola,...
If the promise of enhanced wireless services was a hot-fudge sundae with lots of toppings, about the only thing wireless customers have been served so far is vanilla ice cream sprinkled with nuts.That according to Larry Swasey, senior wireless analyst at Allied Business Intelligence,...
The head of Philips Consumer Communications quit last week amidst the company's announcement it doesn't expect to break even this year.PCC President and Chief Executive Officer Mike McTighe resigned from those positions effective Oct. 1.When Lucent Technologies Inc. and Philips Electronics N.V. hatched the...
WASHINGTON-In perhaps the strongest signal to date of congressional concern about U.S. global competitiveness in the future third-generation mobile phone market, Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) pressed the Clinton administration to outline the steps it is taking to ensure American technology is not snubbed by...
GoAmerica Communications Corp. announced it signed an agreement to become a value-added reseller of Information Mechanics Inc.'s line of wireless data applications for smartphones and other handheld devices. Under the agreement, GoAmerica will feature IM's Web product line on its Web@Hand portfolio of wireless...
Metrocall Inc. is conducting technical and market trials of Omni-Voice Technologies Inc.'s digital voice paging technology, according to OmniVoice. The OmniVoice platform allows compressed voice messages to be sent over FLEX paging networks, along with text and data. The company also is working on...
NEW YORK-Amid a broader trend of increasing mergers and decreasing initial public offerings among information technology, communications and media companies, carriers seized both options with gusto during the first six months of this year.The number of individual IPOs in these sectors dropped 18 percent...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration, encouraged but apparently not swayed by assurances in Brussels that Europe will be open to multiple third-generation wireless standards, is growing increasingly worried that American mobile phone technology will be locked out of the 15-nation European Union in the next century."We...
Nextel Communications Inc. announced the option exercise and issuance of 10 million common shares to the McCaw Family in a non-cash transaction. The McCaw Family options, which were to expire July 28, were split into two tranches. The first is an option to acquire...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association announced the industry leaders who will speak at the Personal Communications Showcase '98 conference Sept. 22-25 in Orlando, Fla.Federal Communications Commission Chairman William Kennard will deliver the keynote address at the opening SuperSession, "Connect to Leadership: Building a Wireless...
COMSTREAMJohn F. Hodgson joined ComStream Corp. as vice president of human resources. Before ComStream, Hodgson held the same position with NextWave Telecom, San Diego, and prior to that with General Communications Inc., Anchorage, Alaska. He also has been the director of human resources for...
NEW YORK-A Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association group is developing recommendations for handset manufacturers that would reduce fraud potential and facilitate over-the-air customer activations for non-Global System for Mobile Communications carriers.The CTIA Fraud Technology Assessment Group, charged with evaluating and recommending new fraud-prevention measures, has...
