Motorola Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc. signed a memorandum of understanding that, if fulfilled, will license Glenayre to manufacture all Motorola's paging infrastructure-effectively heralding Motorola's exit from the paging infrastructure manufacturing business."We need to focus on the things we do best," said Amanda Dahlke,...
WASHINGTON-House Commerce appropriations subcommittee Chairman Harold Rogers (R-Ky.) last week sternly questioned the Federal Communications Commission's consideration of cost as a factor in arbitrating a long-running dispute between the Justice Department and telecom industry over setting technical standards associated with the digital wiretap law.Earlier...
NEW YORK-Despite the current slowdown in Asian, Latin American and Russian markets, the United States has taken a commanding lead in industries most important to the global economy during the next several decades: communications equipment, computer hardware and software, biotechnology and health care, retailing and...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-On March 31, Omnipoint Corp. received $100 million from Siemens Information and Communication Networks Inc. and $25 million from Nortel Networks after signing an agreement with the two companies the previous day for $225 million in working capital and vendor financing. The...
WASHINGTON-The telecommunications industry is stalling on a lawsuit against the federal government over the implementation of the digital wiretap act.Briefs in the case were due today, but late last week the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, the Telecommunications Industry Association and the Personal Communications Industry...
Sandwiched between ads meant to tempt consumers into buying everything from vitamins to sport utility vehicles, new TV ads from Nortel Networks are meant to attract anyone but consumers.The ads, which feature music from The Beatles' "Abbey Road" album, are directed at decision makers...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-The Integrated Network Group of Glenayre Technologies Inc. and Nortel Networks announced plans to deliver enhanced voice messaging and call management services by combining Nortel's DMS-10, DMS-100 and DMS-500 switching products with Glenayre's MVP modular voice processing system.The MVP system includes Constant Touch-an...
AO PAULO, Brazil-Samsung in mid-March opened its first manufacturing operations for cellular handsets outside of South Korea. The company began manufacturing a Code Division Multiple Access handset for the Brazil market in Manaus, in the northern state of Amazonas, where Samsung has manufactured other...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. said it successfully demonstrated circuit-switched wireless data delivery at a connection speed of 14.4 kilobits per second on its Global System for Mobile communications network in Syracuse, N.Y., using equipment provided by Nortel Networks.Omnipoint is planning to offer the...
WASHINGTON-Nortel Networks last week confirmed it signed a letter of intent with the Department of Justice to develop a Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act-compliant solution.Attorney General Janet Reno told a congressional appropriations panel March 11 the Justice Department had signed a letter of...
NEW YORK-RadiSys closed March 1 on a $28 million purchase of IBM Corp.'s Arctic business, the first of up to 10 acquisitions the Hillsboro, Ore., company plans during the next three years, primarily to bolster its presence in telecommunications."Our first interest is telecommunications-base stations,...
OTTAWA, Ontario-Nortel Networks said it has developed and demonstrated an order of magnitude increase in the coverage radius of 800 MHz cdmaOne base stations to improve the economics of rural cellular service.In a series of tests conducted at its Wireless Solutions lab in Ottawa,...
WASHINGTON-Just when it appeared the United States and China were on the verge of a major trade agreement promising huge wireless export opportunities and Chinese membership in the World Trade Organization, a high-tech espionage controversy has erupted that throws both would-be breakthroughs into doubt...
WASHINGTON-The Department of Justice has signed a letter of intent with a telecommunications manufacturer to buy software and give it to carriers to implement the digital wiretap act, Attorney General Janet Reno told a congressional panel last Thursday."We have signed a letter of intent...
BASKING RIDGE, N.J.-AT&T Corp., Lucent Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc., among others, have joined to create a standard that will allow users to access Web-based information via mobile or landline phones, called Voice eXtensible Markup Language.The group, called the VXML Forum, aims to set...
EMERYVILLE, Calif.-Several technology companies announced they have created an alliance to develop an interface connecting consumer and small-business appliances to Internet services, called the Open Service Gateway specification.Its backers say the specification will allow Internet service providers, network operators and equipment manufacturers to deliver...
PISCATAWAY, N.J.-The Wireless Information Network Laboratory at Rutgers University is working to set a research agenda that will facilitate deployment of General Packet Radio Service, a new wave in wireless data communications.GPRS is a large, complex system that merges cellular telephone radio transmission technology...
U.S. Global System for Mobile communications carriers took a financial beating in 1998, but analysts expect 1999 to look brighter for these carriers as they look to butter up their bottom lines and find strategic partners.Tight financing, high churn levels and a general under-performance...
CANNES, France-ESAT Digifone of Ireland announced it signed a $45 million supply agreement with Nortel Networks to expand the capacity, coverage and services of its wireless network.Nortel Networks will provide its S8000 radio base stations and enhanced full rate vocoder technology to ESAT, said...
NEW YORK-Compaq Computer Corp., Houston, announced a new services initiative designed to help large enterprises "rapidly transform their existing networks into adaptive, next-generation networks necessary for ... a global, Internet-driven business world."The first phase of the initiative encompasses next-generation network infrastructure at the enterprise...
NEW YORK-Omnipoint Corp., parent of personal communications services provider Omnipoint Communications Inc., began a second round of serious discussions in January with potential strategic equity investors, said the corporation's chairman and chief executive officer, Douglas G. Smith, last week.In October, Omnipoint retained two New...
NEW ORLEANS-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium and the GSM North American Alliance announced plans to work to achieve interoperability between TDMA and GSM technology, a move that could facilitate national and global consolidation among carriers with incompatible technologies and in particular allow SBC Communications...
NEW ORLEANS-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium, which represents the interests of Time Division Multiple Access technology proponents, demonstrated interoperability between 850 MHz and 1900 MHz networks at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association Wireless '99 show in New Orleans.Groups of attendees on the show floor...
While wireless data applications made a big splash at Wireless '99 last week in New Orleans, a new company quietly slipped into the pool with the introduction of a new end-to-end mobile data service solution called Saraide.com.Saraide.com is a joint venture among Microcell Telecommunications...
