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...
WASHINGTON-Top government officials, setting the stage for a showdown with Europe, said the United States likely will support multiple third-generation wireless proposals to the International Telecommunications Union in June unless a compromise can be reached soon by U.S. industry on a single standard."If U.S....
Becker/Jani Inc.A log periodic dipole antenna, the Celwave Maximizer model APL 926513, was introduced for Global System for Mobile communications and Total Access Communications systems. The antenna offers a 45 dB minimum front-to-back ratio. The Maximizer operates at 870 to 960 MHz, has a...
Berliner Communications Inc., a radio-frequency engineering, site acquisition, project management and construction company for the telecom industry, announced it opened offices in Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia to provide its services on a more regional basis. The regional directors for the new locations will...
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...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. last week introduced an aggressive national rate system that eliminates long-distance and roaming charges.The AT&T Digital One Rate plan includes three pricing options: 600 minutes for $90, 1,000 minutes for $120 and 1,400 minutes for $150. Those rates equate to per-minute...
DALLAS-"It's an exciting time in the industry. It's a time of growth and rebirth."So said Konstantin Zsigo, president of Zsigo Wireless Data Inc., at the opening session of Wireless Developer '98, formerly known as CelluComm Expo, last week in Dallas.This evangelism is nothing new...
Here's something to ponder: Is the FBI to blame for the current CALEA fiasco, as the wireless industry has long claimed? Or does this rather serious controversy reflect the wireless industry's failure to negotiate a better deal when the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act...
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...
ChinaL.M. Ericsson signed four Global System for Mobile communications contracts in China, which the company values at a total of $756 million. Ericsson will expand existing GSM networks in Shandong, Liaoning and Heilongjiang. The fourth contract calls for the company to provide a new...
MACH India Pvt Ltd. entered into a contract with Bharti Cellular of India to offer cellular clearinghouse services for the country. The agreement includes MACH Data, the clearing service for automatic roaming; MACH Finance, financial clearing and settlement services; MACH Fraud, exposure and high-usage...
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...
Croatia has announced a tender to construct and operate a nationwide GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) network. Bids were due 15 April.A consortium led by ABN Amro Bank N.V. and N.M. Rothschild & Sons has been appointed to advise the Estonian government in...
MOUNTAINVIEW, California, United States-Sun Microsystems Inc. announced it licensed L.M. Ericsson to use and distribute its PersonalJava platform and Java Application Environment.Ericsson said it intends to use Java-based technology to support development of third-generation products and systems based on W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple...
PRINCETON, New Jersey, United States-United States-based Intek Global Corp. announced its Linear Modulation Technology subsidiary entered into a five-year technology, development and supply agreement from Nokia Telecommunications, a unit of Nokia Corp.Linear Modulation (LM) technology is a patented narrowband technology that can overlay digital...
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Tele-communications and Computer Sciences Corp. formed an alliance to offer value-added services to Nokia's infrastructure clients, including mobile and fixed wireless carriers, announced Nokia.The companies intend to provide carriers a one-stop shop for value-added services and equipment. Nokia said the sophistication of...
NokiaGSM phonesNokia Corp. introduced three new GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) phones operating on the 900 MHz frequency band. The Nokia 8810 has a protective slide cover and is accented with a touch of silver. It offers built-in data communications capabilities with infrared...
OXFORD, England-Trunked radio networks are the poor relations of the European mobile community. PMR (Private Mobile Radio) and PAMR (Public Access Mobile Radio) networks are used widely in public-safety and civil markets, but are inflexible and outdated. A sorry situation compared with the success...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. experienced higher revenues and net income in all its business units during the first quarter ended March 31, reporting a slight overall revenue increase, from $2.7 billion in 1997 to $2.72 billion in the recent quarter.First-quarter revenues at Nokia Telecommunications were...
PRINCETON, N.J.-Intek Global Corp. announced that its linear modulation technology subsidiary entered into a five-year technology, development and supply agreement with Nokia Telecommunications, a unit of Nokia Corp.Linear modulation technology is a patented narrowband technology that can overlay digital and analog radio transmissions to...
A movement is slowly growing toward developing a wireless handset that can operate around the world, though few carriers seem to be taking interest at this point.The Modular Multifunction Information Transfer System Forum (MMITS), an industry group comprising the defense and commercial wireless sectors...
The Land Mobile Communications Council this week is expected to ask the Federal Communications Commission to allocate 15 megahertz now and more spectrum later for private wireless communications. The request will include opportunities for sharing with the federal government, a feature supported by the...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced it will provide Tele Danmark a full turnkey solution for a Global System for Mobile communications 1800 MHz network in The Netherlands.Tele Danmark currently is working to form a partnership to create a new nationwide wireless operator in that country....
