WASHINGTON-NextWave Personal Communications Inc. has responded to detailed questions put forth by the Federal Communications Commission Nov. 15 regarding that agency's investigation of the C-block winner's fitness to be a personal communications services licensee.The commission also sent a letter of inquiry to GWI PCS...
"The debate on CDMA is over, folks," declared Jerry Butters, an executive with Lucent Technologies Inc., last week when PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. launched 1900 MHz service in 11 major trading areas.It was the most comprehensive launch of both personal communications services and Code...
SAN JUAN, P.R.-In a move that could become a role model for other pocket phone carriers struggling to activate their cell sites, Centennial Cellular Corp. has executed an end-run around the state-run Puerto Rico Telephone Co. monopoly in its bid to deploy personal communications...
Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group licensed its FLEX technology to paging infrastructure manufacturers EcoSoft GTCO and Tecnomen Oy. EcoSoft said it will use the technology to make inexpensive paging terminal equipment for Russian and Commonwealth of Independent States markets. Tecnomen Oy plans to...
ATLANTA-GTE Mobilnet has launched its first commercial Code Division Multiple Access cellular service in Austin, Texas.The company is offering a dual-mode Sony-branded handset, the CM-D500, manufactured by Qualcomm Personal Electronics through its retail stores and direct sales. GTE said it eventually plans to expand...
Hughes Network Systems Inc. aspires to accomplish a great deal more than just to supply $1 billion of network equipment to NextWave Telecom Inc."This goes beyond equipment supply. That's why we took the equity position," said Pradeep Kaul, executive vice president of Hughes Networks...
CINCINNATI-GTE Mobilnet Inc. initiated the first call on its personal communications services network to Cincinnati Mayor Roxanne Qualls in her office at Cincinnati City Hall.The inaugural call represented the first use of Code Division Multiple Access technology in the Cincinnati market, said GTE. The...
When Pacific Bell Mobile Services launches commercial GSM-based personal communications services this Friday in San Diego, it will do so alongside a quiet competitor. AirTouch Communications Inc. said it will launch its Code Division Multiple Access cellular network on the same day and in...
WASHINGTON-A conservative watchdog group convinced a federal judge to force the Commerce Department to turn over documents of former Secretary Ron Brown in connection with allegations that trade missions-some with telecom executives along-were designed to cultivate Democratic Party fund raising.The Oct. 18 court order,...
J.D. Power and Associates appointed Joanne Codella its new manager of wireless services. Her responsibilities will include managing syndicated and proprietary customer satisfaction studies in the wireless industry. Codella worked for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Panasonic Cellular before joining the company.360
Korean telephone service provider Shinsegi Telecomm Inc. awarded Lucent Technologies Inc. a contract to supply and install a Code Division Multiple Access-technology based cellular network in the southern cities of Pusan and Kyungnam. Lucent said it immediately will begin installing its 5ESS-2000 switch-based mobile...
Uniden Corp. said its San Diego Research and Development Center entered into a licensing agreement to use Unwired Planet Inc.'s wireless communications software platform that includes an Internet/intranet browser, server and mark-up language. Uniden said it plans to debut its first Unwired Planet-based product...
Editor: Quentin Hardy's article, "Jacobs' Patter," in the Sept. 6 edition of The Wall Street Journal claims that "some of the biggest names in telecommunications" have invested perhaps $20 billion based on my promises about Code Division Multiple Access technology. This might be flattering if...
The Micro Digital M75 is a Time Division Multiple Access digital phone from Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Subscriber Group. The Flip Phone meets the Telecommunications Industry Association IS-136 standard for North American TDMA digital cellular service. The dual mode phone automatically will access a TDMA...
Qualcomm Personal Electronics says it is meeting the handset manufacturing contract requirements of Sprint PCS, which intends to launch service in 15 to 20 major markets by year's end.
Even though Sprint recently signed a handset contract with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung isn't scheduled...
Ameritech Cellular Services announced it has successfully completed a 15-month test of its Code Division Multiple Access network in Illinois. ClearPath, the new name for the system, was tested in a seven-cell test bed reaching from the company's headquarters in Hoffman Estates to Woodstock,...
WASHINGTON-U.S. manufacturers have begun mounting a counter offensive to what they see as a European-led, anticompetitive effort to restrict global wireless standards for third generation pocket phones.The controversy surfaced as International Telecommunication Union members developed recommendations on which technology or technologies should drive wireless...
NEW YORK-When it comes to bundling wireless and landline telephone services, AirTouch Communications Inc. will pursue two different strategies, one domestic and one European, key executives said at a Sept. 11 meeting with the Wall Street investment community.On the home front, "we plan to...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Following successful completion of field trials of Northern Telecom Ltd.'s 800 MHz Code Division Multiple Access network, BC Tel Mobility has committed to move forward with full commercial rollout of its CDMA digital cellular service in British Columbia, Canada."Our trials and controlled...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton-Gore ticket is picking up endorsements from the high-tech community, despite policy differences earlier this year that threatened that support.A total of 75 high-tech firms from the Silicon Valley and elsewhere in California, including Qualcomm Corp. and General Magic, this month announced backing...
OTTAWA, Quebec, Canada-Northern Telecom Ltd. announced its vocoder tests conducted at its Subjective Assessment Laboratory in Ottawa, Quebec, Canada, showed Code Division Multiple Access speech vocoders offer voice quality equivalent to wireline telephones.The tests, carried out on behalf of the CDMA Development Group, were...
SAN DIEGO-NextWave Telecom Inc. unveiled its personal communications services demonstration system based on Code Division Multiple Access technology during the Republican National Convention in San Diego.Rep. Thomas Bliley (R-Va.) and Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D) were among the first callers on the system.NextWave said it...
DENVER-Sprint Spectrum demonstrated its 1900 MHz phones last week during the Sprint International golf tournament at Castle Pines.The company provided free personal communications services calls to tournament spectators with pre-production handsets labeled Sprint on the front, with a Qualcomm Inc. pop-up earpiece.
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. signed a license agreement for VLSI Technology to develop, manufacture and sell Application Specific Integrated Circuits to Qualcomm's subscriber equipment licensees.VLSI is the third announced supplier of ASICs using Qualcomm's Interim Standard 95 Code Division Multiple Access technology. The San Jose,...
