WASHINGTON-TeleCorp PCS Inc. signed an exclusive contract valued at $280 million with Lucent Technologies Inc. to supply the infrastructure for its Time Division Multiple Access network.TeleCorp entered into a joint venture with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. in January and is the carrier's largest affiliate....
Several leading telecommunications and computer industry companies last week announced a technology platform that would allow all types of mobile devices to communicate with each other without cable connections.Companies including Intel Corp., IBM Corp., Toshiba Corp., Nokia Corp. and L.M. Ericsson are participating in...
Building on its Element Activation suite of software products introduced last month, Bellcore has created new software product families to provide network monitoring and management solutions to the telecommunications industry.Bellcore's Element Activation products are designed to automate and streamline the process of activating service...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced two of Japan's leading cellular service providers have selected it to deploy a trial of a third-generation wideband cdmaOne system.DDI and IDO said the trial system, based on Code Division Multiple Access Interim Standard-95 technology, will...
Brightpoint Inc. announced it extended for three years its agreement with Esat Digifone, a Global System for Mobile communications operator based in Dublin, Ireland. Brightpoint supplies Esat fulfillment and distribution services and wireless handsets and accessories from its new Dublin facility, said the company.The...
WASHINGTON-U.S. economic sanctions slapped on India last week for nuclear testing are expected to have a relatively minor, short-term impact on wireless investment in that populous emerging market. But the prospect of a nuclear arms race in Asia combined with political unrest in Indonesia...
After eliminating several engineering and operations positions in January, Sprint Spectrum L.P. said it is now in a long-term hiring mode with plans to focus heavily on technology development."From a technology perspective, we're really looking at being a leader in the industry," said Keith...
As standards bodies around the world study the possibility of harmonizing third-generation technology, the prospect has taken an ugly turn in the United States.While GSM-based wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology will be a key element in almost all proposals that will be submitted...
WASHINGTON-Rep. Connie Morella (R-Md.), chairwoman of the House Science subcommittee on technology, is pressing the Clinton administration for support to prevent U.S. companies from being unfairly muscled out of the international standards-setting process by Europeans for third-generation wireless communications."I am not supporting a specific...
DENMARKMobilix, a France Telecom subsidiary, has begun offering services on its DCS 1800 network.GERMANYLucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group acquired Optimay GmbH, a privately held software-development company based in Munich. Optimay, which will become a subsidiary of Lucent Technologies International, develops software products and services...
BEIJING-In the wireless world, China no longer is a forgotten backwater, but is rapidly moving to center stage. According to the new Ministry of Information Industry (MII), the country had a 92-percent growth rate last year, bringing total mobile users to 13 million, and...
Qualcomm Inc. and Philips Consumer Communications L.P. entered into a royalty-bearing, cross-license agreement for CDMA technology and products, said Qualcomm. Philips granted Qualcomm a license under its patents for its own use and for sale of CDMA products. Qualcomm granted Philips a license under...
OTTAWA-The Canadian wireless telecommunications industry is doing some important looking ahead, even though it still is preoccupied with rolling out the four competing national PCS services.Appearing on the horizon for wireless-industry leaders in Canada are advanced wireless communications technologies-third-generation (3G) systems. Canada has left...
Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group acquired Optimay GmbH, a privately held software-development company based in Munich, Germany.Optimay, which will become a subsidiary of Lucent Technologies International, develops software products and services for Global System for Mobile communications wireless handsets. The arrangement is valued at...
LAS VEGAS-Sierra Wireless Inc. introduced a new type of wireless data modem at the International Wireless Communications Expo in Las Vegas last week that combines Circuit Switched Cellular and Cellular Digital Packet Data services.The 3-watt modem allows transmission of CDPD protocol-based packets over circuit...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration says China's telecommunications services market remains off limits to foreigners, a situation that could complicate the president's visit to Beijing this June, undermine the Asian giant's prospects for membership in the World Trade Organization and foreclose to U.S. wireless firms the...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-The pace of liberalization in the Brazilian wireless markets has taken on new speed in the past two weeks following a judicial ruling grant-ing the region 2 B-band license to the Telia-led Tess consortium and swift movement by the Ministry of Communications...
Qualcomm Inc. and Philips Consumer Communications L.P. entered into a royalty-bearing, cross-license agreement for Code Division Multiple Access technology and products, said Qualcomm.The deal "amicably settles litigation" that Qualcomm filed last year seeking a judicial determination that certain features of its products do not...
CHICAGO-The status of Motorola Inc. has been the hot topic of the week.Again.First, reports surfaced that the vendor was preparing a corporate restructuring that would separate its various businesses into two divisions-an industrial products group and a consumer products group-ending the internal competition fostered...
PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. awarded Lucent Technologies Inc. a $500 million three-year exclusive contract to supply personal communications services equipment and services for the next phase of its network development.The announcement is a blow to Motorola Inc., which was in discussions with PrimeCo in...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. and Lucent Technologies Inc. signed a letter of intent for Lucent to supply equipment and integrate Advanced Radio's planned wireless broadband data network.Under the agreement, Lucent will provide equipment and vendor financing valued at up to $200 million...
NEW YORK-Look no further than North American borders for the biggest near-term opportunities to provide billing and customer care systems.In recent years, the focus of procurement contract competition has been on supplying operations support systems, which include billing and customer care, to the green...
NEW YORK-Philips Consumer Communications L.L.P., has embarked on plans at home and abroad to market aggressively its new ISIS Advanced Mobile Phone Service/Narrowband Analog Mobile Phone Service handsets.The Dallas-based joint venture between Lucent Technologies Inc. and Philips Electronics North America Corp. began selling ISIS...
ATLANTA-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium, a group made up of Time Division Multiple Access technology supporters including AT&T Wireless Services Inc., announced a migratable solution to IMT-2000 technology called UWC-136. UWCC said the solution meets the high-speed data application requirements the International Telecommunications Union,...
