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 to use this spectrum deploy dynamic frequency selection to avoid government systems.The proposed rules...
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 include wireless voice and data services.The value of the contract was not disclosed.Sunbeach said...
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 downgraded Nortel to Neutral from Buy 2."We view management's more realistic revenue outlook for the...
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 for unlicensed technologies replacing them-not only for data but also for voice, according to...
WASHINGTON-Telecom and high-tech sectors, beaten down and eager for an economic revival, last week found themselves forced to pick and choose among competing tax-cut packages in Congress after the GOP-led House and Senate abandoned the White House plan. Just like that, with votes to...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has signed a $300 million, four-year contract to upgrade the networks of T-Mobile USA Inc. with GSM/GPRS/EDGE and packet core data gear.The deal covers T-Mobile USA's New York, Chicago, Dallas, Milwaukee, Denver and Salt Lake City markets.The upgrade...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. signed GSM/GPRS roaming agreements with T-Mobile USA Inc. and Cingular Wireless L.L.C. and said it was in discussions with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. regarding similar agreements.With the agreements, Western Wireless said it will build out a GSM/GPRS network using its...
TORONTO-In a surprise turnaround, Nortel Networks posted a profit, a quarter ahead of its forecast and a result stronger than market expectations. The company enjoyed a first-quarter profit of $54 million, or 1 cent per share, in contrast to a loss of $841 million,...
VIENNA, Austria-Mobilkom Austria this week became the third European operator and the first Austrian operator to launch commercial third-generation services. Mobilkom Austria announced a "technical launch" of its UMTS network last September, but it did not begin offering commercial service at that time due...
In the sweepstakes of third-generation (3G) contracts, smaller equipment vendors hope to outplay the bigger names by taking advantage of their product strengths and delays in Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) rollouts.Companies like Motorola, Nortel Networks and Lucent Technologies are at the low ebb...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson said Reliance Telecommunications awarded it a 1x contract worth US$145 million for a nationwide network in Nigeria.The operator is expected to launch 1x wireless local loop (WLL) services in the first half of the year.Several Nigerian WLL operators have announced contract awards...
MELBOURNE, Australia-Two of Australia's national mobile carriers will do battle for third-generation (3G) subscribers by mid-year.Telstra introduced its cdma2000 1x network, an upgrade of its CDMA network, to consumers this week. The operator launched corporate 1x services last December, and now the service is...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-With a budget of US$54 million to install a national GSM network, Siemens has won the contract with the new cell-phone operator in Colombia. The German company will take responsibility for the construction of the network, which will allow Colombia M
HANNOVER, Germany-Nortel Networks issued separate announcements with two carriers, T-Mobile International and MmO2.T-Mobile selected the Brampton-Ontario-based vendor as a preferred supplier to deliver GPRS across it main markets in Europe, including Germany and the United Kingdom.Under the motto "O2 can do," wireless service provider...
NEW DELHI, India-Hutchison CAT Wireless MultiMedia, a joint venture of Hutchison and the Thai government's Communications Authority of Thailand (CAT), has formally rolled out its CDMA mobile-phone service in Bangkok and the central provinces.However, CAT's network expansion project in areas other than Bangkok and...
The issue with U.S.-based Qualcomm has never been whether it has great technology, but whether its technology can make great market strides. Stalked by what industry watchers call either envy or sheer dominance of GSM-based technology, Qualcomm has had to combat GSM's increasing global...
CANNES, France-Operators and vendors alike expressed a quiet optimism for the upcoming year as the GSM community gathered for its annual global meeting last week in the south of France. The event focused less on when wideband CDMA launches would occur in Europe and...
CANNES, France-With the infrastructure market continuing to remain in the doldrums, most of the major infrastructure vendors are turning to 'managed services' as a fresh source of urgently needed revenue. The leading mobile equipment supplier, Ericsson, has admitted that it is now number one...
DALLAS, Texas-Nortel Networks Ltd. said it has demonstrated a 30-fold increase in UMTS radio capacity, using new multiple input, multiple output and multibeam smart antenna technologies."Using these innovations, Nortel Networks has demonstrated wireless data applications, including streaming video, large file transfers and video conferencing,...
China's homegrown technology known as TD-SCDMA is creeping up from the industry's subconscious as it attracts more resources and quiet maneuvers from major players.The Chinese government recently allocated the 2.3 GHz and 2.4 GHz bands to Time Division Duplex, where TD-SCDMA is expected to...
BERLIN-The wireless industry may not witness any mergers among the big vendors, according comments Rueters attributed to Frank Dunn, Nortel Networks Ltd. Chief Executive."I don't expect consolidation in the industry," said Dunn. "I find it hard to find consolidation that has been a success....
LONDON-Nortel Networks Ltd. said European operator Connex has deployed its Passport 2000 multiservice switches, enabling convergence of its voice and data traffic onto "one, cost effective network."The vendor described the exercise as the first live European deployment of Passport 2000."By deploying Nortel Networks passport...
