JapanConductus Inc. announced it shipped a 16-pole ClearSite wireless subsystem to a major Japanese cellular operator for performance testing. The system will be used for testing within Japanese frequency bands for potential field deployment.SENEGALSENTELgsm launched Global System for Mobile communications 900 service in the...
The telecommunications authority in France is asking the mobile phone industry to comment on licensing procedures for third-generation mobile phone systems with the goal of issuing licenses by 2000.The French telecommunications regulatory authority said comments on the matter are due May 28. The agency...
Unwired Planet Inc. last week filed a registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of common stock in June, and also announced the first commercial launch of its technology by a Global System for Mobile communications operator.Although it...
The government of India last month revealed a new telecommunications policy that aims, among other things, to rectify issues surrounding licensees of basic and cellular services, to redefine the competitive nature of the country's telecom industry and to strengthen its independent telecom regulator, the...
While many major cities are supporting up to seven mobile phone operators, cellular carriers operating in small markets aren't expected to face much competition for many years to come, say analysts.According to Chris Larsen, senior wireless analyst with Prudential Securities Inc. in New York,...
WOODBRIDGE, N.J.-BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. announced its Interactive Paging Service customers now have four levels of operator service options through a deal with National Dispatch Center Inc.The standard operator dispatch service lets users receive messages via a nationwide 800 number, while the enhanced personal...
CdmaOne vendors in China anxiously are awaiting official government word on whether China Unicom is allowed to deploy Interim Standard-95 technology."It appears China Unicom has been told that they can proceed with their plans to deploy a CDMA network using the spectrum they already...
Although Qualcomm Inc. and L.M. Ericsson announced resolutions to Code Division Multiple
Access disputes and the standoff over third-generation intellectual property rights, the companies didn't resolve key
technical differences 3G parties have tried to resolve for more than a year.
Qualcomm and Ericsson announced last
week they resolved...
GermanySiemens' Information and Communication Networks Group, T-Mobil and Unwired Planet Inc. announced they will participate in a field trial to integrate Wireless Application Protocol compatible software from Unwired Planet into Global System for Mobile communications infrastructure. Under the agreement, Siemens will integrate Unwired Planet's...
The cry "paging is dead" began once digital cellular and personal communications services providers obtained the ability to offer paging services on their networks and handsets.However, while paging carriers are struggling with certain problems, messaging competition from voice operators isn't one of them.Analysts have...
What exactly is Nextel Communications Inc.?The simple definition of an enhanced specialized mobile radio operator using integrated Dispatch Enhanced Network technology catering to business users who need private-dispatch functions as well as cellular-like service no longer tells the entire story.As this column goes to...
NEW YORK-Montreal-based Telesystem International Wireless Inc. has wandered far from its home base and original paging strategy as it pursues emerging opportunities in developed and developing markets in Europe, Latin America and Asia."We like to say that only crazy people never change their minds,"...
Several class-action lawsuits have be filed by various law firms representing shareholders of Orbital Sciences Corp., claiming the company overstated both revenues and earnings.Orbital Sciences is the parent company of Orbcomm Global L.P., a low-earth-orbit satellite operator providing data and messaging services.Class-action lawsuits were...
NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular S.A. said it is underwriting a $10 million capital increase in Celcaribe S.A., its cellular operator in the northern region of Colombia, and purchasing an additional 2.5-percent stake in Telefonica Celular de Bolivia S.A., its cellular operator in Bolivia, from...
The Federal Communications Commission could rule today on whether Leap Wireless International Inc. is qualified to own C-and F-block personal communications services licenses and bid in tomorrow's reauction of C-block spectrum.Leap's U.S. subsidiary, Cricket Communications, launched service last week in Chattanooga, Tenn., under a...
CHICAGO-Personal communications services operator Aerial Communications Inc. announced its board of directors approved a tax settlement agreement with Telephone and Data Systems Inc.TDS owns 82.3 percent of Aerial. The agreement called for TDS to pay $114.5 million to Aerial March 15. TDS said the...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it has opened a wideband Code Division Multiple Access demonstration center in Stockholm, Sweden, where operators and others can experience third-generation services in a high bandwidth environment.Ericsson, along with Swedish operator Telia, also launched the W-CDMA test network in Kista,...
DENVER-Telecom Italia Spa has received permission from its board of directors to merge with its mobile phone operator subsidiary, Telecom Italia Mobile, as a defensive measure against a hostile takeover bid from rival Olivetti Spa, according to Italian news agencies.Telecom Italia owns 60 percent...
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,...
Intelligent roaming is guaranteed to change the face of the wireless industry, and smaller carriers that have built their businesses on making money from roaming better pay attention, say experts."Intelligent roaming opens up competition, and will require carriers to work hard for roaming minutes,"...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. lawyer Thomas Cullen, attempting to convince U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan last Friday to accept the dispatch giant's request to vacate a 1995 antitrust consent decree, argued 900 MHz is not the best spectrum for specialized mobile radio entry but...
Nextel Communications Inc. said it more than doubled its 1998 subscriber unit base to a total of 2.96 million, adding more than 1.5 million domestic digital subscribers during the year, including 372,500 new subscribers during the fourth quarter.The enhanced specialized mobile radio operator said...
TOKYO-Anticipating the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU's) scheduled March decision regarding key characteristics for the third-generation cellular, IMT-2000, Japanese carriers are mounting efforts to be able to kick off their 3G businesses earlier than any other nation.Japan Telecom Co. (JT), in cooperation with Nissan Motor...
The Wireless Application Protocol effort gained momentum last week at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, with several Global System for Mobile communications carriers and handset manufacturers announcing WAP-compatible products.Nokia Corp. announced both a WAP-compatible handset and an agreement with France Telecom Group...
