Even more nascent than the wireless Internet industry, the wireless multimedia industry is expected to represent a good portion of next-generation wireless Internet services.PacketVideo Corp.-which develops wireless streaming video and audio solutions-last week introduced a showcase of streaming video media applications available on today's...
NEW YORK-The Land of the Rising Sun has emerged as the place to be for investors interested in grabbing onto incipient wireless telecommunications trends, said a managing director of Whitney & Co., the oldest American venture-capital firm.Venture-capital companies based in Japan have become more...
NEW YORK-In this year's RCR Wireless News Major Players Vendors listing, Nokia Corp. and Ericsson Inc. each moved up a notch, rising to first and second place respectively among equipment vendors that are net income leaders.Lucent Technologies Inc., which had previously topped the charts...
NEW YORK-Tokyo-based NEC Corp. has ambitious expansion plans for its wireless handsets and infrastructure business, but the plans do not target North America, said Koji Nishigaki, president.In Asia, the company sees a big opportunity to supply third-generation mobile networks and terminals. In Europe, it...
TOKYO-The third-generation (3G) business plans and service strategies of three Japanese cellular carriers are becoming more concrete. NTT DoCoMo and J-Phone Group, the mobile business of Japan Telecom, are going to launch 3G services based on wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) technology in 2001, and the country's...
After pioneering efforts to bring Bluetooth technology to market, Ericsson dropped plans to launch the T36 cell phone, its first Bluetooth-enabled handset, in an attempt to pull its handset division back toward profitability. The T36, announced in June, was one of two cell phones...
TOKYO-Japanese vendors are in the final stages of developing third-generation (3G) terminals. Japanese 3G services are scheduled to be launched earlier than any other country in May 2001 by NTT DoCoMo, followed by J-Phone, the mobile business of Japan Telecom and the newly merged...
TOKYO-NEC do Brazil, a subsidiary of NEC Corp., won a total of 50 billion yen (US$466 million) in communications contracts from major Brazilian carriers and has started shipping them, the company announced Sept. 15.Including the deal, NEC is expected to win a total of...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Two issues characterized the Brazilian cellular market during the first half of the year-an increase in subscriber numbers and the rollout of more advanced services.Latin America in general saw an explosion of prepaid services, but in Brazil, prepaid subscriptions overcame all operator...
WASHINGTON-In addition to new litigation alleging that mobile phones cause brain cancer, the wireless industry also faces possible Supreme Court litigation over government exposure standards and a class-action lawsuit in New Orleans that claims manufacturers failed to take steps to minimize consumer exposure to...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Two issues characterized the Brazilian cellular market during the first half of the year-an increase in subscriber numbers and the rollout of more advanced services.Latin America in general saw an explosion of prepaid services, but in Brazil, prepaid subscriptions overcame all operator...
Analog DevicesAnalog Devices Inc. introduced the AD9226, a 12-bit, 65 MSPS analog-to-digital converter designed to increase data rates and enable direct intermediate frequency-sampling architectures for communications applications, including next-generation cellular base station and software radio applications. Analog Devices said the key to the AD9226...
NEW YORK-Israeli wireless broadband equipment companies have been strutting their stuff on Wall Street lately.Floware Wireless Systems Ltd. sold its 4.5 million-share initial public offering Aug. 1. Credit Suisse First Boston served as lead underwriter for the Nasdaq-listed stock sale, which priced at $13...
TOKYO-Japanese wireless operator NTT DoCoMo selected NEC Corp. to supply an experimental, next-generation Internet Protocol core network system for use in mobile communications and to develop application services.NEC said it would supply its most advanced switching router and other converged open network architecture-based products...
NigeriaMotorola Inc. was awarded a $21 million expansion contract from Intercellular Nigeria Ltd. to supply and deploy a Code Division Multiple Access fixed wireless loop network in Nigeria. Motorola's Network Solutions Sector said it will deploy its CDMA WiLL infrastructure at 800 MHz providing...
WARWICK, England-Crown Castle UK Ltd. announced it won a contract to roll out a third-generation network on the Isle of Man, to be built by NEC and Siemens for Manx Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecom.Crown Castle will provide turnkey project management,...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Anatel, Brazil's telecommunications regulatory agency, will not divulge the frequency band-either 1.8 GHz or 1.9 GHz-that band C cellular telephony operators will use until after the World Radiocommunication Conference ends in June. Anatel President Renato Guerreiro made the announcement in April just...
Phone.com Inc. fired the first shot against Geoworks' claim that it holds intellectual property rights to Wireless Application Protocol technology by suing the company.Geoworks claims its patent concerning a flexible user interface implicates all carriers, vendors and applications developers using WAP technology, while the...
Spyglass Inc. has agreed to merge with OpenTV, a worldwide provider of interactive TV software that plans to buy all of Spyglass' outstanding stock in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at about $2.5 billion.By acquiring Spyglass, OpenTV hopes to expand its interactive digital TV services...
SAN DIEGO-PacketVideo Corp. will provide its PVPlayer MPEG-4 decoding software to NEC Corp. for a demonstration of high-quality, one-way video streaming capability on NEC's video cell phone platform.According to PacketVideo, the PVPlayer software displays media content, regardless of network speed or protocol, through a...
Com-Net EricssonCom-Net Ericsson Critical Radio Systems Inc. will introduce several new products at the International Wireless Communications Expo in Las Vegas ranging from trunked and conventional radios to a new voice-over-Internet Protocol product. The Panther 300P portable and Panther 300M mobile conventional radios will...
British Telecom plc unveiled its mobile Internet strategy last week, setting up a new unit to offer global mobile Internet services by extending its existing Genie Internet services to Wireless Application Protocol-enabled phones.BT said it will invest $250 million in WAP technology and form...
HANNOVER, Germany-After a year of industry enthusiasm and the wild market forecasts that have surrounded the short-range wireless technology Bluetooth, the silicon-chip developers used the giant CeBIT 2000 exhibition to unveil products that appear to provide the first step on the path toward implementation.Key...
TOKYO-Three Japanese carrier groups are gearing up their efforts to launch IMT-2000 services-earlier than any other wireless carriers in the world. The three players are NTT DoCoMo Group, Japan Telecom (JT) Group and DDI Group.NTT DoCoMo plans to be the first carrier in the...
