The Washington Times last week reported China's new rocket stage booster developed for Motorola Inc.'s Iridium project created a technology bridge that could help the Chinese deploy multiple warheads on strategic missiles, according to a classified Air Force intelligence report.Loral Corp. and Hughes Corp....
Global System for Mobile communications operators in Europe soon could face a formidable opponent for commercial business accounts if Canada's Telesystem International Wireless Inc. follows through with its plans.The company has emerged not only as the dominant specialized mobile radio service provider in Europe,...
QualcommQualcomm Inc. announced its shipment of samples for its fifth-generation chipset, including the MSM3000 single-chip Mobile Station Modem and the IFT3000 and IFR3000 fully integrated Intermediate Frequency chipset. The new low-power chipset and software solution enables design of small form-factor handsets with very long...
WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel Inc. has launched a summer-long promotion offering four digital handsets for $50 each. The company is waiving its $30 activation fee as well."Our research has clearly determined that consumers are more likely to purchase PCS services if they can minimize their...
Phoenix Wireless GroupPhoenix Wireless Group announced several new appointments. Christopher Bear was named director of engineering. He joins the company from AccessLine Technologies Inc., where he was director of product development. Previously, he was lead manager of CDMA open interfaces for Northern Telecom Inc.Kenneth...
FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. launched a print ad campaign called Summer Necessities.The campaign targets retail customers of the more than 200 TSR Wireless store's nationwide and features newspaper advertisements and direct mail literature.The ads depict humanized versions of Motorola Inc. wireless products enjoying...
Irwin Jacobs, chairman of Qualcomm Inc., fought a David and Goliath battle during the 1980s to get Code Division Multiple Access technology accepted by the U.S. wireless establishment. Having accomplished that in a big way, Jacobs now is fighting another war of biblical proportion...
AustraliaThe Australian Communications Authority said it prepared a recommendation to the Minister for Communications, the Information Economy and the Arts, for a nationwide reallocation of spectrum in the 3.410 GHz to 3.6 GHz band. The intent of the proposal is to support the government's...
As the digital revolution begins to move at a substantial pace, mobile phone manufacturers have some tough decisions to make.The demand for digital handsets is growing, especially in the CDMA arena, where carriers are screaming for more handsets. More cellular carriers aggressively are pushing...
Though most are based on some form of wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology, the proposals submitted to the International Telecommunication Union last month suggest a tough road toward achieving the family of systems concept to allow for global roaming, let alone convergence of...
PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it began shipping the Synapse Pager Card, which allows wireless messaging on 3com Corp.'s PalmPilot Organizer.The card-developed by PageMart, 3Com and Motorola Inc.-upgrades all Pilot, PalmPilot and IBM WorkPad models to the functionality of the Palm III and adds a...
NEW YORK-Comunicacion Nextel de Mexico SA executives were scheduled to meet late last week with officials of the Mexico Federal Telecommunications Commission, or Cofetel, to resolve an apparent disagreement about what kinds of wireless services its licenses permit it to offer.Two wire service stories,...
Motorola Inc. last week announced its long-awaited plan for realigning the company along with another quarter of depressing financial results.Ending its "warring tribes" way of doing business, Motorola announced its communications-related businesses will be restructured under a single organization called the Motorola Communications Enterprise....
A group of smaller, paging manufacturers impudently are challenging the pager dominance of the 800-pound gorilla that is Motorola Inc. by creating products with unique features designed to set themselves apart."Paging is a commodity," said Tim Kataras, president of Global Access Inc., a smaller...
Comverse Network Systems, a division of Comverse Technology Inc., joined the Wireless Application Protocol Forum Ltd., said the company. Comverse said it is the first vendor exclusively dedicated to providing network operators with enhanced services platforms to join WAP. WAP is a non-profit organization,...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Land Mobile Products Sector signed a multiyear contract to manage wireless communications equipment facilities located on Waste Management of North America Inc.'s property at sites across the country.The Antenna Site Division of Motorola plans to manage communications towers located at some...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-The Cellular Infrastructure Group of Motorola Inc. agreed to jointly develop and market Rapid Deployment Vehicles with Xi'an Datang Telephone Company Ltd.The agreement calls for Motorola CIG to provide the vehicle and base station equipment for the 900 MHz Global System for...
WASHINGTON-As U.S. and European wireless firms accuse each other of gaming the standards-setting process for third-generation wireless technology, it turns out the high-powered Qualcomm Inc. lobbyist playing the trade card here represented Sweden's L.M. Ericsson in a separate standards fight two years ago.In the...
FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. announced it will resell Conxus Communications Inc.'s Pocketalk voice paging services in the Philadelphia area.Pocketalk is based on Motorola Inc.'s FLEX technology. TSR said it is the nation's seventh-largest paging company. The carrier has 12 retail stores operating in...
Could Japan, America's venerable trade nemesis, be the key to future global economic stability generally and the wireless revolution specifically?Without doubt.The Clinton administration believes it has Japan over a barrel on trade now that the Asian financial crisis has that region in its grip....
LOS ANGELES-Global Access Pagers Inc. said it plans to introduce a pen-based personal digital assistant this fall that supports Motorola Inc.'s FLEX messaging protocol.The company said it hopes the Air Track Compose PDA will allow users to access the Internet at all times from...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The imminent explosion of the mobile data market has been like a constant companion for the past 12 years. The technology driving this supposed market expansion may have changed over time, but the predicted boom has always been present, always just about...
TOKYO-DDI Cellular Group is set to kick off its cdmaOne IS-95 service in mid-July in western Japan. The service gradually will spread across the nation. Once IDO Corp. kicks off the same service next year, the service will become nationwide. IDO offers cellular in...
The highly competitive wireless market in the Republic of the Philippines-with five carriers serving some 70 million people-is perhaps the most ripe for consolidation compared with all Southeast Asian countries.With cellular companies burdened with the devaluation of the Philippine peso against the dollar, mandatory...
