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,...
LONDON-The wireless division of Marconi has acquired Northwood Technologies, a Canadian wireless telecom software company, in a transaction valued at more than $27 million.With the acquisition of Northwood software products, including the deciBel Planner, Marconi will be better positioned to address emerging 2.5-generation and...
NEW YORK -Ten Square, San Jose, Calif., plans to expand its provision of wireless e-commerce services to 2,800 service stations and convenience stores in various cities by year-end.The privately held company, whose lead investor is Marconi Ventures, delivers interactive content to consumers during the...
Shunichiro Mishima, vice president of business development for NTT DoCoMo USA Inc., said the Japanese parent company would convert its 16-percent ownership of AT&T Wireless Group into tracking stock of the AT&T unit once those securities are sold publicly. In coverage of his presentation...
LONDON-Infrastructure supplier Marconi Inc. said it will lay off 3,000 workers this year as part of its strategy to save costs.The company, however, says it will create 3,000 new jobs in the high skill cadre in the United Kingdom.Half the job cuts will also...
Motorola Inc.'s miserable journey into the realm of mobile satellite communications with Iridium L.L.C. worsened last week when a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge in New York ruled that creditors of Iridium could proceed with plans to sue Motorola for $2 billion in damages.Creditors contend...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia-The St.Petersburg-based RadioTel carrier concluded an agreement with the Russian Transport Ministry regarding the construction of the first Trans European Trunked Radio (TETRA) network along the Moscow-St. Petersburg-Vyborg-Finnish border highway.TETRA was designed by the European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI), which was also...
Telcom GlobalChris Carter was appointed Telcom Global Solutions Inc.'s senior director for engineering services. In his new position, Carter will be responsible for planning and managing the company's global resource pool. Carter has more than seven years of experience in wireless network design and...
Marconi Corp. plc and ArrayComm Inc. announced a deal under which Marconi will embed ArrayComm's Intellicell smart antenna technology in its third-generation wideband-CDMA base stations.The open-ended deal is expected to generate more than $300 million in revenues during the next five years, ArrayComm said."The...
HOUSTON-Compaq Computer Corp. and Siemens Information and Communication Mobile said they have signed a worldwide agreement to jointly provide network management solutions for their base of worldwide wireless customers.Under terms of the agreement, Siemens ICM will serve as a strategic partner for Compaq's Telecommunications...
EndwareBroadband wireless product supplier Endware Corp. appointed Mike Roush vice president of manufacturing and operations, Nick Ingrao director of wireless programs and Chris Brown system engineering manager. Roush will oversee the expansion of the company's Diamond Springs, Calif., manufacturing plant in his new position....
Alcatel supplied European wireless operators France Telecom Mobiles, Mobistar and Dutchtone a solution that will allow their customers to continue making or receiving calls on their prepaid mobile phones when they are traveling abroad. Alcatel said the services are delivered using its intelligent network...
GENEVA-Second-ranked Spanish carrier, Retevision, is taking to the air waves with plans to build one of the world's largest networks based on point-to-point and point-to-multipoint fixed wireless access technology.The company, which became Spain's first new market entrant following the liberalization of the Spanish market...
DUBLIN, Ireland-Trunked radio may be dismissed by some as the poor relation of GSM and an irrelevance in the world of multibillion pound Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) license bids, but it has carved a niche in the communications world, and at least one...
United KingdomBritain-based Marconi plc announced it has sold its Network Components & Services business in Europe and China to Viasystems Group Inc. for $115 million in cash. The sale of NC&S, a component manufacturer for the telecommunications industry, is part of Marconi's strategy to...
"I now felt for the first time absolutely certain that the day would come when mankind would be able to send messages `round the wires, not only across the Atlantic, but between the furthermost ends of the earth."Guglielmo Marconi could certainly justify his statement...
GENEVA-Russia's Gazprom, the world's largest supplier of natural gas, is completing the final stages of a $100 million trunked radio network built to service gas drilling towns located in one of the most remote and inhospitable regions on the planet.Covering an area of more...
HIGHLANDS, N.J.-The Wireless Information Networks Laboratory at Rutgers University commemorated Sept. 30 its 10th birthday and the centennial anniversary of Guglielmo Marconi's historic first, the transmission of wireless telegraphy messages from a lighthouse here."The first wireless messages ... followed the progress of Commodore George...
ElectofuelElectrofuel Inc. announced the Lithium Ion SuperPolymer battery, which has an energy density of 470 Wh/liter and 183 Wh/kilogram, almost doubling the previous endurance records of rechargeable batteries. With the SuperPolymer battery, laptop computers will run 15 or more hours on a fully charged...
Geoworks Corp. said it provided the engineering expertise behind a new handset from Seiko Epson Corp. of Japan, called the Locatio. The multi-purpose phone combines Personal Handyphone System technology with global position system and digital camera functions and runs on Seiko Epson's i-Point network,...
NCRNCR Corp. introduced a software product that allows carriers to perform event-driven marketing by analyzing customer behavior and predicting a customer's readiness to respond to particular marketing efforts. Called MarketingAgent, the software is part of NCR's Customer Relationship Management Solutions 4.0 portfolio. "Businesses that...
CLEVELAND-Reltec Corp. officially adopted Marconi Communications' corporate name, logo, signage and letterhead, said Marconi, establishing a North American operator for the United Kingdom-based company.In March, General Electric Co. plc acquired Cleveland-based Reltec for $2.1 billion. GEC subsequently merged Reltec into its wholly owned subsidiary,...
AdiCom Wireless Inc. signed an agreement with Marconi Communications giving the company distribution rights to market and sell AdiCom's wireless local loop products worldwide. Marconi will offer AdiCom's WLL products and services under its brand name of MAARS 100 and MAARS 200, and they...
Like their counterparts in the wireless service and infrastructure arenas, telecom equipment vendors are consolidating and reorganizing at an increasing pace.Most segments seem to be affected, from tower companies to semiconductor manufacturers. One segment that has been particularly active during the last several months...
