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Two firms released different ratings on wireless vendor Lucent Technologies Inc. Deutsche Bank Securities maintained a hold rating, while Independent Research Group upgraded Lucent from sell to neutral. In a …

Turning wireless services from novelty to normal has engaged wireless players focusing on the emerging markets in the world. While advanced economies of North America, Western Europe and Japan grapple …

Orange plc formed an alliance with Motorola Inc. for a range of devices tailored to the Orange brand that will be available in the second half of the year. The …

LONDON-IPWireless has completed interoperability and co-existence testing between UMTS TDD (TD-CDMA) and UMTS FDD (W-CDMA) networks at Nortel Networks’ wireless headquarters in Chateaufort, France. IPWireless said the test demonstrated that …

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua-Nortel Networks said it has signed a contract with Antigua Public Utilities Authority PCS to deploy a GPRS network for the carrier. The financial terms of the deal …

LONDON-IPWireless has completed interoperability and co-existence testing between UMTS TDD (TD-CDMA) and UMTS FDD (W-CDMA) networks at Nortel Networks’ wireless headquarters in Chateaufort, France. IPWireless said the test demonstrated that …

DALLAS-Nortel Networks Ltd. reported it is the primary provider of Home Location Register infrastructure for Cingular Wireless L.L.C.’s ongoing migration to GSM/GPRS/EDGE technologies. Nortel said the HLR technology is designed …

Barely nine months after Nokia Corp. led a base-station interoperability initiative, L.M. Ericsson and other major infrastructure vendors have countered with a new one, indicating a tension in that sector. …

China has a different take on the great experiment. The Asian giant wants all the economic benefits of Western-style capitalism without the political baggage of democratic reform. China wants a …

Battle won, even before the first shot is fired. Early in the life of the technology, industry analysts and players already regard Cisco Systems Inc. as the big tree in …

Some major vendors have come together to form a new industry cooperation known as the Common Public Radio Interface to allow members to make base station subsystems that can work …

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it will provide optical technology as the backbone for Orange Netherlands’ GSM/GPRS wireless network, which already includes Nortel Networks equipment. “Our initial aim was …

ACTON, Mass.-Propagate Networks Inc. released its flagship AutoCell software, which controls 802.11 environments to make wireless local area networks self organizing and self optimizing. “If wired Ethernet switches worked the …

MANKATO, Minn.-Midwest Wireless launched the first phase of its cdma2000 1x network, spanning 68 counties in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin and covering more than 50 percent of the carrier’s total …

LONDON-Tesco, one of the United Kingdom’s major supermarket chains, announced plans to launch its own mobile service in partnership with MmO2. The supermarket will offer branded mobile services to the …

Cingular Wireless L.L.C. said it will partner with its parent companies SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. to offer residential customers a single bucket of share-calling minutes between their wireline …

RICHARDSON, Texas-Tecnomen Inc. said its prepaid solution has achieved interoperability approval from Nortel Networks based on GSM infrastructure equipment tests. Tecnomen’s intelligent network supports CAMEL Phase 2 prepaid mobile termination …

In a significant contract win, Lucent Technologies Inc. will provide MmO2 with UMTS gear, including packet technology and services for voice and data. Many industry watchers had counted out Lucent …

Midwest Wireless launched the first phase of its cdma2000 1x network spanning 68 counties in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin and covering more than 50 percent of the carrier’s total operational …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate Cincinnati Bell Wireless selected Nortel Networks Ltd. to plan, design and deliver a GSM/GPRS core wireless data network for CBW’s planned overlay of its existing …

DALLAS-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. affiliate Cincinnati Bell Wireless selected Nortel Networks Ltd. to plan, design and deliver a GSM/GPRS core wireless data network for CBW’s planned overlay of its existing …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission proposed last Thursday to make 255 megahertz in the 5 GHz band available for unlicensed devices. The FCC praised the proposal, which suggests that devices built …

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados-Nortel Networks Inc. said it will supply GSM/GPRS technology to Sunbeach Communications Inc., a wireline and wireless Internet service provider in Barbados. Sunbeach is expanding its service offerings to …

NEW YORK-UBS Warburg has upgraded L.M Ericsson and downgraded Nortel Networks Ltd., but both end up in the Neutral column. The firm upgraded Ericsson to Neutral from Reduce 2 and …

WASHINGTON-Just as in 1993 when the current wireline industry probably didn’t expect its customers to be cutting the cord in favor of mobile phones, the licensed-wireless industry should watch out …