The Federal Communications Commission approved the merger of VoiceStream Wireless Corp. and Omnipoint Corp. last week and noted the Department of Justice and the FBI delayed its decision, a problem that may grow as U.S. operators hook up with international carriers.The DOJ and the...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. signed an agreement to license its High Data Rate technology product designs to LG Information and Communications Ltd. of Seoul, South Korea.Under the agreement, LGIC will pay the same royalty rates on HDR products as specified in the existing licensing agreement...
NEW YORK-Leap Wireless International Inc., San Diego, sold $1.245 billion in debt and equity securities Feb. 17, a substantial sum that was more than it expected to raise.Leap, which Qualcomm Inc. spun off in September 1998, launched its Cricket brand Code Division Multiple Access...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Corp. launched a new program and Web site-developer. sprintpcs.com-designed to help Web developers create their own Sprint PCS Wireless Web applications or simply make their own Web site accessible to the service."Sprint developed this Web site to harness the power of...
SAN DIEGO-Wireless Knowledge L.L.C., a joint venture company between Microsoft Corp. and Qualcomm Inc., has been selected by Sprint PCS as a Premier Partner in its recently announced Application Developer's Program.Wireless Knowledge will assist Sprint PCS customers with the development of Web sites and...
NEW YORK-Extraterrestrial wireless received good news when Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. sold a $245 million secondary stock offering Jan. 26.In preparation for Globalstar Telecommunications' secondary offering last week, Bernard L. Schwartz, chairman and chief executive officer, took an unusual step the prior weekend to test...
DENVER-RCR announced seven inductees into its first annual Wireless Hall of Fame, created to recognize the contributions of those people who have made significant contributions to the advancement of the wireless telecommunications industry. The inductees will be honored in May at a ceremony in...
When you're moving at Internet-speed, a lot can happen in a year.Those targeting the wireless remote access market found this out quickly. About a year ago, several companies emerged with the intent to provide solutions that would extend corporate data to wireless handsets. At...
SAN DIEGO-China United Telecommunications Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. announced an agreement outlining guidelines for Chinese manufacturers to license Qualcomm's intellectual property to manufacture and sell Code Division Multiple Access wireless equipment.The deal stipulates that Chinese manufacturers that enter into such licenses with Qualcomm will...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it shipped on time chip samples and system software for the MSM5000 Mobile Station Modem.The company said this product is the world's first third-generation 1x MultiCarrier solution for Code Division Multiple Access handsets that is compliant with the 3G standard...
CANNES, France-Several well-known firms in the Internet and wireless industries have come together to form the Mobile Wireless Internet Forum with the intent to accelerate the deployment of open, Internet-based standards for mobile wireless devices.The group said it hopes to provide a venue for...
Another Swedish company soon will be competing for America's wireless business.Satsafe AB, based in Stockholm, said it plans to expand its mobile data communication and global positioning system-based services beyond Europe and enter the U.S. market this year.Since its inception in the spring of...
Qualcomm Inc. shares dropped 16 percent last Wednesday after the cdmaOne innovator warned of slower chip sales this quarter.This warning eclipsed Qualcomm's higher-than-expected first fiscal quarter earnings. Merrill Lynch cut its near-term rating to "neutral" from "accumulate." Salomon Smith Barney lowered its rating from...
Qualcomm Inc. on Friday officially asked the Federal Communications Commission to grant it spectrum in the upcoming channel 60-69 auctions.Qualcomm wants the commission to quickly award it spectrum to make up for the pioneer's preference license it repeatedly denied Qualcomm in the last decade...
Qualcomm Inc. took a major step last week to expand its patent and technology portfolio to include mobile location-based services and wireless Internet systems, announcing it acquired San Jose, Calif.-based SnapTrack Inc. for $1 billion in stock.SnapTrack will become a wholly owned subsidiary, operating...
NEW YORK-Smart cards must overcome a chicken-and-egg problem before they can expand their use in wireless devices beyond their established role as subscriber identification modules in Global System for Mobile communications products.The vision for smart cards is that they will become the tiny pocket...
Handsets from Nokia Corp. and Code Division Multiple Access technology dominated the U.S. cellular and personal communications services industry in 1999, while international powerhouse L.M. Ericsson struggled to keep its share of the U.S. market, said reports from The Strategis Group and Dataquest.Nokia claimed...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said its MSM3000 chipset and high-speed packet data software solution is featured in handsets developed by several Japanese manufacturers for the 64 kilobits per second, high-speed packet data service launched on Japan's nationwide cdmaOne network.The network, launched on Jan. 7, was...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. will cut hundreds of jobs as a result of selling its mobile-phone division to Japanese vendor Kyocera Corp., the company said.Qualcomm is transferring employees from its consumer products and personal electronics divisions to Kyocera and a Qualcomm subsidiary, newly created to...
This holiday season heralded the beginning of the e-commerce revolution, and wireless operators have the opportunity to cash in on it with the growing proliferation of Internet-enabled wireless phones and handheld computers.Optimism among the analyst community is rampant. Most recently, Strategy Analytics predicted the...
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There is a chink in Nokia Mobile Phones' armor, and it is the vendor's market share in the cdmaOne handset business.While Nokia sells the most popular handsets in the world, holding more than 30 percent of the total business, its share in the cdmaOne...
WASHINGTON-Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association President Thomas Wheeler has close financial and business ties to two top wireless data firms-an arrangement CTIA's top board members are comfortable with while others see it as a potential conflict of interest.Wheeler, according to documents filed with the Securities...
Kyocera Corp. hopes to do what no Japanese handset manufacturer has been able to do to date. It wants to become a dominate global vendor.To do that, Kyocera needs to gain a significant share of the market in North America, analysts say. Kyocera has...
