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TORONTO-Nortel Networks’ President Dave House plans to leave the company by the end of August. House joined Nortel as part of the company’s acquisition of Bay Networks, where he served …

PARIS-France Telecom Mobiles and Nortel Networks announced France’s first trial of a third-generation mobile communications network based on proposed standards for Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service. “By staging this trial in …

NCR NCR Corp. introduced a software product that allows carriers to perform event-driven marketing by analyzing customer behavior and predicting a customer’s readiness to respond to particular marketing efforts. Called …

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS said it signed a three-year contract with Nortel Networks valued at least $520 million for cdmaOne equipment and services for Phase III of Sprint PCS’ nationwide …

It has been more than 15 months since the first local multipoint distribution service auctions ended and brought broadband wireless access networks to reality. By all accounts, the prospect for …

Belgium Belgacom and Amdocs announced an agreement under which Belgacom will deploy Amdocs’ order-management system to handle ordering services for its convergent lines of business, including wireline, data services and …

NEW YORK-Anticipating a $2 billion market in Internet-based wireless services by 2003, Motorola Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. announced June 7 they would buy the fixed-wireless assets of Bosch Telecom …

MONTE CARLO, France-Nine global wireless communications companies formed a focus group to promote an Internet protocol-based wireless system for third-generation mobile communications technology. The group, called 3G.IP, consists of AT&T …

China Unicom, which received the go-ahead from the Chinese government earlier this year to deploy cdmaOne technology, will gain control of four experimental Code Division Multiple Access networks operated by …

TORONTO-Nortel Networks declared its regular quarterly dividend is 75 cents per common share, payable June 30 to shareholders of record at the close of business June 8. In regards to …

The Semiconductor Industry Association said it is encouraged by President Clinton’s decision to extend Normal Trade Relations with China for another year, and it urged Congress to support the measure. …

The new market for voice paging services has a rather dubious history of failed service rollouts, but companies like ReadyCom Inc.-which last week announced its first market launch-are not ready …

Xircom Xircom Inc. announced a new product line called CompactCard, which it said extends wireless connectivity for Windows CE handheld computers. CompactCard is a series of Type II CompactFlash cards …

NEW YORK-Texas Instruments announced eight of the world’s top 10 producers of third-generation wireless base stations said they plan to use TI’s latest and fastest digital signal processor in their …

WASHINGTON-The cost of complying with law enforcement’s demands for implementing the digital wiretap act is substantial, said the wireless industry last week. Responding to revenue estimates from five telecommunications manufacturers, …

MONTREAL-The GSM Alliance and Nortel Networks announced they completed North America’s first third-generation wireless telephone call using a wideband Code Division Multiple Access trial network under live conditions. The trial …

Working in the fast-paced world of wireless telecommunications is like playing a game of musical chairs-everything moves along smoothly until the music stops. In the silence, many are making a …

VLSI Technology Inc. said it received a major order from Mitsubishi Electric Corp. for its OneCT single-chip Global System for Mobile communications baseband solution. The order is valued at $19 …

Harris Harris Corp. named its current Communications Sector President, E. Van Cullens, president and chief operating officer of the company, effective July 1. He will be responsible for overseeing the …

SAN RAMON, Calif.-U.S. Wireless Corp. completed the first phase of a trial of its end-to-end wireless E911 system that integrates continuous caller location capability. The five-month trial included U S …

DALLAS-Nortel Networks introduced an end-to-end General Packet Radio Service solution based on its Passport ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) and Contivity Extranet switches. The Nortel Networks GPRS solution provides Global System …

Brazil Telemig Celular said it plans to invest R$200 million-R$220 million (US$118 million-US$130 million) during 1999 to expand its services in the state of Minas Gerais, according to the Jornal …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The potential bidders for the third cellular license in South Africa are determined to break the existing Vodacom-MTN duopoly. “We will be competing head-on with MTN and Vodacom …

BEIJING-In early February, China’s Minister of Information Industry (MII) was apologetic about the prospects for CDMA in his country. The customers couldn’t care less which technology is used-as long as …

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-Chile, which became the first country in Latin America in 1998 to implement PCS, has just felt the tremor of three new events in its market that could …