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The campaigning efforts in Washington, D.C., are set to heat up within the next few months as the International Telecommunication Union enters the decision-making process for third-generation technology. The CDMA …

For months now, my buddy Mike Houghton and the North American GSM Alliance have been scratching their heads trying to figure out how Qualcomm, Lucent and the CDMA crowd have …

WASHINGTON-Pekka Tarjanne, outgoing secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union, predicted last week a family of third-generation wireless standards will emerge by year’s end and that family will include a …

ORLANDO, Fla.-Qualcomm last week at PCS ’98 announced it now is offering its cdmaOne Interim Standard-95 network with an open system radio-switch interface, meaning carriers using Qualcomm equipment can use …

INTERDIGITAL Gerard Pepenella was hired by InterDigital Communications Corp. as vice president and general manager of broadband Code Division Multiple Access technology. He will collaborate with Gary Lomp, chief technology …

ORLANDO, Fla.-Qualcomm Inc. announced plans to begin market trials of its pdQ smart phone, which integrates 3Com’s Palm Computing platform with its Interim Standard-95 Code Division Multiple Access technology to …

ORLANDO, Fla.-The North American GSM Alliance L.L.C. and the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium last week said they will join forces to collaborate on next-generation technology and to provide a unified …

ORLANDO-Economic problems elsewhere in the world have hit home in Mexico’s new personal communications services market. Two of the PCS license winners there-Midicel and the SPC consortium-have announced they are …

Determined not to miss out on market opportunities provided by third-generation technology, NEC Corp. has taken early steps into the 3G arena. The Japanese manufacturer has begun operation of a …

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS added Qualcomm Inc.’s QCP-1920 Code Division Multiple Access phone to its product lineup. The single-branded personal communications services phone comes with a standard lithium ion battery. …

Qualcomm Inc. said it expects to distribute common shares of Leap Wireless International Inc.-Qualcomm’s spun-off wireless communications carrier-Sept. 23 after the close of marketing trading. The Securities and Exchange Commission …

In preparation for PCS ’98, RCR sat down last month with Jay Kitchen, president of the Personal Communications Industry Association to talk about the trade show, the wireless industry in …

Recent developments in Japan suggest standards leaders there realize they must deal with the cdma2000 third-generation proposal. Japan’s standards body, the Association of Radio Businesses (ARIB), recently concluded that both …

EAST LANSING, Mich.-Zsigo Wireless Data Consultants Inc. said it is launching a new workshop aimed at bringing software developers into the wireless industry in the form of “feeder” events, designed …

When controversy comes calling, policy makers and wireless telecom firms turn to a high-tech sounding board whose work is based more on reality than on rhetoric: the Telecommunications Industry Association. …

News that Globalstar L.L.P. lost 12 satellites late last week in a failed rocket launch left mobile satellite service investors uneasy. An announcement from Iridium L.L.C. indicating it plans to …

Sorry Microsoft Corp., but analyst firm Strategy Analytics predicts the handheld device market in the future will not be dominated by any single standard. “Microsoft will not dominate this category …

WASHINGTON-A powerful Senate resolution that was to promote third-generation wireless harmonization was thoroughly diluted by U.S. backers of European-based mobile phone technology last week, a bizarre turnabout that drew a …

Sweden-based L.M. Ericsson said it has found no reason to believe the current W-CDMA 3G standard chosen by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute would infringe on any valid intellectual property …

I need your help. The next few weeks at RCR and everywhere else in the wireless industry are going to be crazy. It’s too late to try to clean off …

WASHINGTON-The Mexican government will auction new frequencies for paging, narrowband PCS (two-way paging), trunking and point-to-point microwave. The auctions are scheduled for late 1998 and early 1999, depending on the …

Chances are slim to none that U.S. mobile phone operators will agree on one standard for the next generation of mobile phone services. Already fragmented with three different digital standards-cdmaOne, …

WASHINGTON-Almost 500 years after Columbus visited, Portugal and Spain are back on Latin American shores; this time, it isn’t sugar cane or gold they are after, but rather the potentially …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-The licensing of two additional cellular carriers in South Africa will represent the biggest opportunity for black empowerment in Africa-and for some, the last chance to become involved …

WASHINGTON-The third-generation wireless debate took a dramatic turn last week as a key Clinton administration official questioned whether the United States should follow Europe’s lead in allocating massive 3G spectrum, …