BEIJING-Northern Telecom Ltd. said its focus at the 1998 Second China CDMA International Summit will be on third-generation wireless services.The summit, which opened March 23 and continued through March 25, is endorsed by China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and sponsored locally by the...
PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. awarded Lucent Technologies Inc. a $500 million three-year exclusive contract to supply personal communications services equipment and services for the next phase of its network development.The announcement is a blow to Motorola Inc., which was in discussions with PrimeCo in...
Vendors and carriers have renewed hope that the world could have one standard in place for third-generation systems, but Europe holds one of the keys in making it a reality.The situation is as political as ever as vendors, carriers and interest groups work within...
PAIGNTON, United Kingdom-Northern Telecom Inc. said it successfully demonstrated Integrated Services Digital Network capability via fixed wireless access.The company said it plans to begin field tests and customer implementation of ISDN on Nortel Proximity fixed wireless access systems later this year."An operator using Proximity...
Ericsson forms office mobility unitATLANTA-Ericsson Inc. announced the formation of the Wireless Services unit in response to the increasing need for wireless communications in the workplace.Ericsson said the new unit will provide a wireless office solution based on the Interim Standard-136 Time Division Multiple...
Qualcomm Inc. announced a joint agreement with AirTouch Cellular, U S West NewVector Group and PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. for the supply of Qualcomm's Code Division Multiple Access digital Q phone and QCP series handsets. The agreement, valued at $250 million, is a continuation...
ATLANTA-Cellcom of Wisconsin selected Northern Telecom Inc. to supply Code Division Multiple Access cellular and personal communications services network infrastructure equipment and services under a five-year, $42 million supply agreement, announced Nortel.The deal includes CDMA digital networks for seven F-band PCS markets in Wisconsin...
In the early 1990s, many industry observers enthusiastically predicted that wireless local loop (WLL) deployments would spread fast and furiously throughout the international telecommunications arena. Given emerging economies' pent-up demand for basic phone service, the introduction of local-exchange competition within industrialized nations and major...
Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) now accounts for 31 percent of the world's wireless market, and the GSM industry is well on course for the `"early achievement" of 100 million customers during 1998, said Adriana Nugter, chairman of the GSM MoU Association, in...
MexicoGrupo Iusacell inaugurated its new Code Division Multiple Access network with a phone call by the company's president, Fulvio del Valle, from its headquarters in Mexico City to a nearby community. The launch marks the first phase of Iusacell's $200-million network modernization plan to...
ITALYBusiness customers of Omnitel Pronto Italia now can call from Italy to Europe, the United States and Canada for the same price as local calls, announced Omnitel. "Italian telecommunications is evolving into a hyper-market, with multiple global players and a strong `customer pull' for...
WASHINGTON-In the FBI's Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement implementation report, submitted Jan. 26 to Rep. Harold Rogers (R-Ky.) for review, the dates for actual CALEA hardware and software rollout remain outside of the October 1998 deadline.Only two solutions providers-Northern Telecom Inc. and Bell Emergis-were...
Affordable Message Center announced a new pricing plan and a new e-mail service to complement its Simplicity e-mail service. The AMC One Rate Pricing charges resellers for usage without requiring message plans by instituting a 25-cent per-call price per pager activated on the AMC...
IRVINE, Calif.-Powerwave Technologies Inc. said it received orders from Northern Telecom Ltd. for its multicarrier radio-frequency power amplifiers.The orders, totaling $5 million, will be for a Time Division Multiple Access digital cellular network, Powerwave said. The company began delivery during the fourth quarter of...
TORONTO-Northern Telecom Ltd. completed the purchase of Broadband Networks Inc. for $414.6 million, a large portion of which consists of research and development operations, Nortel said.Nortel funded the acquisition with about $148.9 million in cash and 5.6 million shares of common stock. Nortel said...
OTTAWA-Northern Telecom Singapore Pte. Ltd., the Philippines Communications Satellite Corp. and its subsidiary, CALL Telecoms, have signed a memorandum of understanding to roll out an international gateway facility, local exchange carrier network and a personal communications services mobile network in the Philippines.Philcomsat leases satellite...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.-Vicorp, a subsidiary of Precision Systems Inc., will provide its UniPort enhanced services platform to Northern Telecom Inc., announced Precision. Under the five-year contract, Nortel will use Vicorp's UniPort in its ServiceBuilder intelligent network portfolio.UniPort is a Unix-based call processing engine that...
MAIDENHEAD, United Kingdom-Northern Telecom Ltd. and Cellnet announced the start of a joint project to bring next-generation information and communication services to Cellnet's mobile telephone users.Cellnet will be offering customers online access with its Genie PC-based Internet product using Nortel's Orbitor, the name for...
ST. CLOUD, Minn.-Wireless carrier CMS St. Cloud said it will become one of the first operators in the United States to offer customers a choice of Code Division Multiple Access, Time Division Multiple Access and analog wireless service using a network solution from Northern...
CALGARY-The People's Republic of China President Jiang Zemin visited Northern Telecom Ltd.'s Westwinds facility in Calgary during his visit to Canada for the recent APEC meetings.Coinciding with Jiang's visit, Nortel met with several of its Chinese customers and signed nine contracts valued at about...
TORONTO-Northern Telecom Ltd. announced several senior management changes intended to strengthen the company in three key areas of its operations.Jim Long was appointed executive vice president and president of Nortel's Enterprise Networks, succeeding Rick Faletti, who has decided to leave the company to pursue...
CANCUN, Mexico-Northern Telecom Ltd.'s Proximity T-LTX, which allows operators to offer fixed wireless services from a wireline switching system, is now commercially available, announced the company at Mexico's Wireless '97 show.The Proximity T-LTX uses Time Division Multiple Access technology to deploy additional capacity, particularly...
Addressing a chief concern from designated entities over upfront financing, the Federal Communications Commission has postponed the Local Multipoint Distribution Service auction until Feb. 18.The FCC said it delayed the auction, previously scheduled for Dec. 10, in an effort to provide a greater opportunity...
Northern Telecom Ltd. won a $780 million contract with Teligent Corp. and offered to purchase all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Broadband Networks Inc. on a fully diluted basis, indicating its desire to become the leading vendor in the emerging fixed...
