SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. pulled out of an agreement that would have resolved a class-action lawsuit filed by former employees resulting from the sale of the assets of the company's infrastructure division to L.M. Ericsson last year.Qualcomm spokeswoman Christine Trimble said a significant number of...
In March 1999, when Ericsson and Qualcomm ended their intellectual-property-rights deadlock over CDMA patents and jointly agreed to support approval in standards bodies of the tri-mode CDMA third-generation standard, industry observers said the technology debate, which had been contentious and heated for years, was...
BUCHAREST, Romania-Due to the analog transmission and the lack of value-added services, NMT 400 systems in Eastern Europe-which enjoyed great success during the last two decades-have suffered in recent years. A great number of NMT 400 customers have evolved to GSM systems, and NMT...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-In early January, by starting operations as a "mirror" company of fixed-line carriers Telefonica and Telemar, Vesper faced a challenge in the Brazilian market. The company planned to compete with operators installed in 17 states, with an objective of ending the first...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Anatel, Brazil's telecommunications regulatory agency, will not divulge the frequency band-either 1.8 GHz or 1.9 GHz-that band C cellular telephony operators will use until after the World Radiocommunication Conference ends in June. Anatel President Renato Guerreiro made the announcement in April just...
Verizon Wireless, now the country's largest operator, said it will begin field trials of cdma2000 1XRTT technology with Lucent Technologies Inc. in June, and follow with a rollout of the technology next year.Verizon is the second U.S. Code Division Multiple Access operator to announce...
Third-generation technology has become a sensitive issue in Japan as the U.S. government pushes for free technology choices there and Qualcomm Inc. possibly ponders applying for a Japanese 3G license.The sensitivity stems from a plethora of Japanese newspaper reports indicating that all three companies...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. reported company revenue fell slightly in the second quarter, to $727.7 million, compared with $932.4 million for the same period in 1999.Even with the loss of revenue, Qualcomm reported company net income increased from a loss of $42.6 million during the...
Integrating satellite communication technology with the Internet became somewhat of a theme among mobile satellite services carriers last week, following a Datacomm Research Co. report suggesting satellite voice services aren't all they're cracked up to be.Globalstar L.P., traditionally a satellite voice carrier, publicly tested...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration is expected to announce as early as next month a dramatic improvement to global positioning system accuracy, a move with enormous public safety and commercial implications for the wireless telecom industry.The administration on Friday declined to confirm that such a policy...
Code Division Multiple Access technology is gaining some momentum in Europe.Lucent Technologies Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. announced they will cooperate with Hungarian Nordic Mobile Telephone operator Westel Radiotelephone Ltd. to trial CDMA 450 technology this fall in Budapest, Hungary. Lucent also announced a cooperation...
WASHINGTON-With prospects uncertain for securing third-generation mobile-phone spectrum at the World Radiocommunication Conference next month in Turkey and apparent concerns about the Clinton administration's commitment on that score, U.S. wireless firms have turned to Congress for support.A group calling itself the Wireless Spectrum Coalition...
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute agreed last week to standardize all technologies the International Telecommunication Union has accepted for the third-generation market.RCR reported last week the European Commission planned to officially ask the European standards body to take up this work. The ETSI board...
Sprint PCS last week announced its first voice call over 1XRTT technology, a third-generation solution for Code Division Multiple Access technology operators.The call is the first phase of a test between Sprint PCS, Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. to evaluate 1X technology...
Led by an executive team that includes a lawyer, a doctor, an analyst and an engineer, GroupServe Inc. offers software applications that allow business customers the ability to organize, collaborate and communicate in an electronic group environment.Based in Washington, D.C., GroupServe introduced its GroupVine...
It's only been two weeks since Iridium L.L.C. shut off its network in disgrace, and already Globalstar L.P. is feeling the skepticism analysts and the media have heaped upon it as a result.The company's stock, which has fallen 75 percent so far this year,...
American wireless firms and the U.S. government are cautiously optimistic about a move the European Commission plans to make to open Europe to competing third-generation wireless standards.The EC early this month plans to officially ask the European Telecommunications Standards Institute to standardize all technologies-including...
Qualcomm Inc. and Motorola Inc. ended their longstanding patent disputes last week, agreeing to extend their Code Division Multiple Access cross licenses.The new settlement calls for Motorola and Qualcomm to leave unmodified the financial terms of their original 1990 royalty-bearing license agreement for CDMA...
China Unicom's planned deployment of Code Division Multiple Access technology remains delayed as Unicom works on sorting out the paper work with both the Ministry of Information Industry and the State Development Planning Commission, vendors in China say.Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji recently told reporters...
The Personal Communications Industry Association announced another initiative last week to turn the association around in the midst of dwindling membership and public-relations problems surrounding its annual trade show.PCIA said it is repositioning and renaming its annual conference and trade show PCIA GlobalXChange to...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and Hitachi have amended Hitachi's existing Code Division Multiple Access licensing agreement.With the amendment, Hitachi's CDMA agreement has been expanded to grant the company a license under Qualcomm's essential CDMA patent portfolio to develop, manufacture and sell infrastructure and subscriber equipment...
The Personal Communications Industry Association stands at a huge crossroads, once again trying to reinvent itself. Though it may have had its best fiscal year in history in 1999, PCIA has structural problems. It's a painful time for the association, which recently eliminated 10...
One press article after another has asserted that the European Union's single standards regime for wireless services has given Europe an enormous "lead" over the United States. These stories, however, do not present a complete picture regarding the global leadership of the U.S. wireless...
Nokia threw its support behind Motorola Inc.'s 1X Plus proposal last week and said it is evaluating making cdmaOne-based infrastructure equipment.Motorola announced earlier this month plans to challenge Qualcomm Inc.'s proprietary High Data Rate technology, introducing its own 1XRTT enhancement for cdmaOne carriers to...
