Microsoft Corp. launched its MSN Mobile service, a wireless extension of its MSN.com Internet portal that allows customers to receive their information services on pagers, cell phones and other wireless devices.To make this possible, Microsoft May 20 acquired OmniBrowse Inc., a wireless data company...
SAN FRANCISCO-3Com Corp. and Sun Microsystems outlined plans to develop a reference port for the Java 2 Platform Micro Edition, Sun's Java runtime environment for consumer products, for 3Com's Palm operating system software later this year.The companies also agreed to make Sun's K Virtual...
TOKYO-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it was selected by NTT DoCoMo to supply wideband Code Division Multiple Access equipment, including base transceiver stations and radio network controller/multimedia processing equipment, for NTT DoCoMo's next-generation wireless network.
U.S. government officials pressed L.M. Ericsson Chief Executive Sven-Christer Nilsson last week to lobby the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to adopt the tri-mode CDMA third-generation standard framework agreed to at a TransAtlantic Business Dialogue meeting months ago.Government officials are concerned over statements Ericsson made...
TOKYO-As part of its effort to become a comprehensive multimedia service provider rather than just a cellular telephone operator, NTT Mobile Communications Network (NTT DoCoMo) has joined up with the world's leading software companies to use their leading-edge enabling technologies.Japan's cellular telephone market, which...
TOKYO-Yoshiaki Shioda, senior manager for NEC, recently visited Kirgiz, a republic south of the Commonwealth of Independent States, to help local people get connected with each other.In Kirgiz, only one out of every 100 people have access to a telephone, and locals occasionally have...
TOKYO- To preserve more resources for its new business objectives and recover a balance between a currently too-heavy workforce and a shrinking beeper business, NTT DoCoMo announced it is restructuring its Beeper Business Division. Some of the 400 employees currently working for the division...
Sun Microsystems Inc. last week signed two separate memorandums of understanding designed to further its presence in the wireless industry.The first MoU calls for Japan's NTT DoCoMo to deploy the company's Java, Jini and JavaCard technologies in its i-mode digital cellular phone and wireless...
TOKYO-NEC Corp. and NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. have agreed to work together in technical trials of a wideband Code Division Multiple Access system with the Telephone Organization of Thailand.Based on a memorandum of understanding with the TOT, NTT DoCoMo and NEC plan to...
The International Telecommunication Union said it may look for a way to work around the
intellectual-property-right stalemate caused by Qualcomm Inc. and L.M. Ericsson over third-generation
technology.
Fabio Leite, counselor in the Radiocommunications Bureau of Geneva-based ITU, said for now Code
Division Multiple Access proposals that have unresolved...
The International Telecommunication Union's 31 December deadline passed without resolution in the intellectual-property-right stand-off over third-generation technology, but the ITU has indicated it may push ahead anyway.The ITU warned the wireless industry in December it may only consider proposals for 3G technologies based on...
L.M. Ericsson's offer to compromise on third-generation technology may not change the International Telecommunication Union's action on Dec. 31. The ITU is likely to halt any work on Code Division Multiple Access-based proposals unless intellectual-property-right issues are resolved by the end of the year.Sweden-based...
Chesapeake MicrowaveChesapeake Microwave Technologies Inc. introduced a 50-watt personal communications services Global System for Mobile communications amplifier and a 30-watt DCS GSM amplifier. The 50-watt PCS GSM amplifier is a Gallium Arsenide FED Class AB linear amplifier that provides 45 dB of gain and...
TOKYO-NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc., known as NTT DoCoMo, launched the biggest initial public offering in Japanese history on 22 October, raising 2.1 trillion yen (US$17.95 billion).DoCoMo ended its first day on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) at 4.65 million...
NEW YORK-NTT Mobile Communications Networks Inc. sold the second-largest initial public offering in history Oct. 22, raising $18.4 billion as its stock began trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. sold one-third of its stake in the wireless carrier, which does...
NEW YORK-NTT Mobile Communications Networks Inc. plans to raise $18.4 billion when its 545,000-share initial public offering begins trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Oct. 22.The carrier, which does business as NTT DoCoMo, has a 57-percent share of Japan's 36.5 million wireless telephony customers.Its...
TOKYO-In reaction to the Japanese government's announcement it will limit to three in each district the number of carriers providing IMT-2000 services, cellular carriers here have started playing musical chairs, struggling to get one of the three seats by forming new strategic partnerships.NTT DoCoMo,...
JAPANNTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. filed applications with Japan's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications seeking approval for an international call service based on a service agreement between NTT DoCoMo and AT&T Corp. NTT DoCoMo has established a network directly connecting its gateway switch to...
The high bids placed for Brazil's eight A-band cellular companies late last month may cause some consortia members to rethink their positions.Reports already indicate Japan's NTT DoCoMo and Japanese trading group Itochu Corp. are reviewing their participation in a consortium led by Spain's Telefonica,...
Transcrypt International Inc. announced Aug. 6 a net loss of $5 million, or 39 cents per share, for the second quarter, which ended June 30. Revenues for the latest quarter totaled $13.9 million, way above the $2.9 million reported for the same quarter in...
TOKYO-DDI Cellular Group is set to kick off its cdmaOne IS-95 service in mid-July in western Japan. The service gradually will spread across the nation. Once IDO Corp. kicks off the same service next year, the service will become nationwide. IDO offers cellular in...
TOKYO-NTT has decided to liquidate its PHS (Personal Handyphone System) business, run by NTT Personal Group, with cellular subsidiary NTT DoCoMo Group taking over by year-end. DoCoMo said it has not decided yet how to deal with PHS business. But a DoCoMo spokesperson said...
TOKYO-IDO, a cellular operator covering the Kanto and Chubu regions of Japan, will market a 69-gram cellular terminal starting in mid-July, the company announced recently. While this is just the latest in a succession of increasingly lighter handsets sold in the Japanese market, what...
SINGAPORE-ArrayComm Inc. announced it was awarded a contract to supply several wireless local loop systems to Philippine telecommunications operator, Smart Communications. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.ArrayComm also announced from the CommunicAsia '98 show in Singapore it has added several features to...
