GENEVA-Globalstar officially announced at Telecom '99 a phased launch of its mobile satellite service. The phased launch begins with user trials, followed by a soft launch that will allow the company to work out quality issues. Commercial service should begin in early 2000.User trials...
The Big Three handset manufacturers-Nokia Corp., L.M. Ericsson and Motorola Inc.-continue their reign over the global wireless handset arena, together controlling more than two-thirds of the market.Nokia has emerged as the clear leader of the three. Analyst firm Herschel Shosteck Associates Ltd. estimates Nokia...
Qualcomm Inc. said it tried to purchase Interim Standard-661 handsets from Omnipoint Corp.'s stores in New York, but was told the carrier only offered Global System for Mobile communications service phones.This evidence should show the Federal Communications Commission that Omnipoint has not substantially deployed...
WASHINGTON-With only eight months before the World Radiocommunication Conference in Turkey, U.S. spectrum policy for third-generation wireless systems is on the verge of meltdown as the Clinton administration and industry continue to clash without a resolution in sight."The interests of the U.S government and...
The popularity of wireless may be contributing to an industrywide shortage of some components used in mobile devices, although device manufacturers may not be feeling the effects just yet.After suffering through a slump during the last several years that was characterized by an oversupply...
SAN DIEGO-Sprint PCS said it selected Qualcomm CDMA Technologies to provide infrastructure for trials of third-generation wireless technology based on the 3G Code Division Multiple Access 1x multicarrier mode of the IS-2000 Release 0 published standard.The technical trials, scheduled to begin during the first...
The Federal Communications Commission once again must address rules surrounding the now-defunct pioneer's preference process, a program riddled with controversy throughout this decade.Omnipoint Corp. and VoiceStream Wireless Corp. last week filed an opposition to Qualcomm Inc.'s petition that the FCC deny the carrier's request...
SAN DIEGO-Leap Wireless International Inc. said it ceased support of two Russian operations in which it holds noncontrolling minority interests.According to Leap, the boards of directors of Transworld Companies, a group of companies that have been trying to establish a domestic long-distance business in...
After months of denying any plans to sell its wireless handset division, Qualcomm is publicly relenting to the pressures of severe competition from Asia and the likes of Nokia and Motorola."With increased competition, parts shortages and industry consolidation reducing margins in consumer products, Qualcomm...
NMT 450 operators are to decide by early October whether to push forward with three digital mobile-phone standards that include CDMA technology, which could give cdmaOne technology its first entrance into Europe.The NMT MOU Digital Interest Group (DIG)-an assembly of operators tasked with evaluating...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Qualcomm Inc. selected American Wireless to distribute a broad line Qualcomm's consumer products, American Wireless announced. Carriers, retailers, resellers, dealers and independent agents can order Qualcomm Code Division Multiple Access phones, batteries, cases, chargers, cigarette lighter adapters and data-related accessories directly from...
After months of denying any plans to sell its wireless handset division, Qualcomm Inc. is publicly relenting to the pressures of severe competition from Asia and the likes of Nokia Mobile Phones and Motorola Inc."With increased competition, parts shortages and industry consolidation reducing margins...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Symmetricom Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. announced they successfully demonstrated the ability to synchronize and maintain time and frequency between Code Division Multiple Access base stations using handset message traffic and span line inputs independent of global positioning system inputs.Using software specifically developed...
Qualcomm Inc. last week asked the Federal Communications Commission to deny Omnipoint Corp.'s request to transfer its New York personal communications services license to VoiceStream Wireless Corp., a move that clouds the companies' efforts to complete their $1.7 billion merger agreement by this year.Qualcomm,...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. made available the pdQsuite package of advanced Internet applications designed for use with all Palm Computing platform-based devices.The pdQsuite package includes the pdQbrowser application, an Internet-standard Web browser; and Eudora for the Palm Computing Platform application, which allows users to synchronize...
Leap Wireless International Inc. said it will purchase the Dayton, Ohio, personal communications services license from PCSDevCo Inc.Leap said the acquisition, pending Federal Communications Commission approval, will add more than 1 million potential subscribers to its holdings.The Qualcomm Inc. spinoff plans to offer a...
The U.S. cellular adoption level is fast approaching 30 percent-not bad. However, it's also a long way from the penetration rates we see in Europe, particularly in the benchmark countries of Scandinavia.Will the United States match Finland with a 69-percent penetration rate any time...
In 1989, I started my career in wireless as an outside sales rep for Metro Mobile (which would later become part of Bell Atlantic Corp.) in my hometown of Columbia, S.C. Those were the heady days of thousand-dollar telephones, $3 per-day roaming fees, 3-watt...
Cupertino, Calif.-based chip manufacturer DSP Communications Inc. today plans to introduce two new products for current and future Code Division Multiple Access handsets.Immediately available is DSPC's new CDMA Manufacturers Development Kit for wireless handsets, which will enable handset manufacturers to reduce development cycles, said...
Wireless carriers could deploy commercial location services in advance of the phase II enhanced 911 services deadlines mandated by the Federal Communications Commission.Gary Ritter, wireless offer manager, location services, for Lucent Technologies Inc., said many commercial services could be deployed today because they don't...
Nordic Mobile Telephone 450 MHz operators will decide by early October whether to push forward with three digital mobile-phone standards that include Code Division Multiple Access technology, which could give Interim Standard 95 technology its first entrance into Europe.The NMT MOU Digital Interest Group-an...
U.S. TDMA operators must make some critical decisions about competing in the wireless data market during the next year as they witness their CDMA counterparts begin to launch circuit-switched data services in large scale.Time Division Multiple Access operators-which in the late 1980s banked on...
An article in the Aug. 16 issue of RCR incorrectly stated Qualcomm Inc.'s involvement in Korean Telecom Freetel's high-speed packet data trials. Qualcomm's MSM3000 chipsets were used in the test.
WASHINGTON-A Canadian press report identifying a mobile phone as the cause of a gas-station explosion cannot be confirmed by Canadian authorities, but federal officials in British Columbia and some in the United States are treating phones as potential dangers.Richard Melnyk, a spokesman for Regional...
