OTC WirelessOTC Wireless unveiled its AirEZY-Access Management Unit, a product designed to make managing LAN and MAN networks easier. "Our new AirEZY AMU allows for massive scalability coupled with many desired management capabilities," said Kim Gough director of sales and marketing for OTC Wireless....
In technology as in life, the last protocol on stage is the hero. While time will serve as jury in due course, for now the CDMA operators and manufacturers seem to be gloating, sometimes quietly and sometimes on rooftops, that they are a few...
NEW YORK-Korea Telecom Corp., South Korea's largest fixed-line telecommunications operator and second-largest mobile wireless carrier, raised $2.24 billion in American depository receipts sold June 28 to investors outside the country.The offering was part of the South Korean government's commitment to privatize many state-run companies...
The digital technology wars that marked the launch of second-generation services in the United States is one of the most storied and significant events in the industry's short history. In its infancy, the U.S. wireless industry adhered to a common analog standard-AMPS. The...
SEOUL, South Korea-South Korea is confronting a row over awarding a third license for third-generation (3G) mobile services, as the government has called for consolidation in the telecom market as a precondition for re-starting the long-delayed spectrum auction.The confusion was sparked in mid-June, when...
DENVER-Qwest Wireless last week filed to change its Enhanced 911 Phase II solution from a network-based solution to an assisted Global Positioning Satellite-or hybrid-solution.Qwest in November was one of the 14 carriers to file with the Federal Communications Commission for a network-based solution. Fifteen...
Verizon Wireless is considering either using wideband-CDMA technology as its third-generation network standard or adding the technology to its CDMA-based network. Company spokespeople assert the move is not new-or news-but it is nonetheless representative of the murky realm of 3G wireless issues and carriers'...
WASHINGTON-The White House, in the first official expression of wireless trade policy, said it supports technology neutrality but did not signal it planned to take as aggressive a stance as the previous administration in responding to the Korean government's manipulation of the licensing process...
HONG KONG-Not even torrential rains around portions of Hong Kong could dampen the spirits of CDMA supporters at the 3G World Congress. Even with the lack of sunshine outside, to go along with the lack of CDMA coverage for roaming, most attendees seemed bright...
Move over, Neville Chamberlain.Mobile-phone carriers in Great Britain and Germany last week struck a deal out of desperation, an arrangement with obvious policy implications that may or may not do the trick for third-generation wireless deployment in Europe.Indeed, the British Telecommunications plc-Deutsche Telekom arrangement...
BlackstoneBlackstone announced Elaine Moncayo has joined its marketing department as marketing coordinator. In her new position, she will be responsible for internal marketing, including newsletter, brochures, Web site updates and presentations. She will work with both Blackstone employees and distributors in Miami and across...
WASHINGTON-With Korea moving closer to awarding a controversial third-generation mobile-phone license that was set aside for cdma2000 technology last year, the White House is being urged to address an overseas government action that was firmly rejected by the previous administration.So far, the Bush administration...
Smart-phone company NeoPoint Inc. quietly closed its doors late last month, apparently exiting the industry it lit up only a few short years ago with its advanced phone/personal digital assistant offering.While the company hadn't yet filed as of Friday in the bankruptcy court that...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. says it has settled three lawsuits filed against it by former employees.The company said the California Superior Court ruled in its favor in the Hanig vs. Qualcomm case filed by 69 former employees, saying that the plaintiffs' agreement not to sue...
As it stands today, developers of wireless applications have to write those applications in a unique code-whether that be cHTML, VoXML, WML or XML-to make those applications recognizable to the wireless device. But if we look into the future, some unknown years ahead, we...
Trying to pin down Nextel Communications Inc. into a specific category is not an easy chore. By definition, Nextel is a specialized mobile radio operator, yet most analysts compare it with the other nationwide carriers when looking at its quarterly results and spectrum holdings.When...
INDONESIALucent Technologies Inc. has signed two contracts with PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk to build its nationwide intelligent network and multimedia access infrastructure valued at $17.5 million. "We are pleased to have new supply agreements with Lucent Technologies," said Muhammad Nazif, president director, PT Telkom.CANADATelus...
Since technology is almost meaningless without the phones, it also can be lonely to be a phone maker in a market where securing a cutting edge is the only pathway to success.Recently, Sony Corp. and L.M. Ericsson teamed up to produce the Sony Ericsson...
NEW YORK-With up to seven competitors in some large markets, price wars have begun that are not sustainable as a long-term business case for carriers, telecommunications executives said last week at the "Kagan Wireless Telecom Summit.""Verizon missed its additions significantly. When the big guys...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The announcement by NTT DoCoMo of a five-month delay to its wideband-CDMA (W-CDMA) launch must have been music to the ears of Irwin Jacobs, the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Qualcomm. While the major wireless operators in Europe have remained...
MOSCOW-CDMA carriers continue to operate in Russia, working to recoup costs and hoping for a possible replacement of Communications Minister Leonid Reiman, who warned last year that the U.S.-developed IS-95 standard is doomed in the country."I continue to believe that the standard has absolutely...
Siemens AG is eliminating 6,100 jobs from its mobile handset and network operations. The German telecom equipment and handset company, which shied away from offering its earnings picture for the second half of the year, said 2,600 jobs would be cut from the mobile-handset...
Lucent Technologies Inc. posted a loss, while both Qualcomm Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. recorded profits in their quarterly reports last week.In spite of Lucent's loss, the company rebounded in modest market confidence as its liquidity problems were replaced by a sense that the...
The alliance between Sony Corp. of Japan and L.M. Ericsson of Sweden is giving the two companies hope they have a chance to trump Nokia Corp. as the supreme player in the mobile- phone market. But similar alliances in the past have been failures.After...
