SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and Superconducting Core Technologies Inc. have completed the first field test of a cryoelectronic base station receiver for personal communications services.The station is designed to enable higher system performance, which could allow carriers to deploy fewer cell sites in their PCS...
SAN DIEGO- Qualcomm Inc. announced that Amtrak signed a contract to purchase 80 OmniTracs mobile satellite communications units. The systems will be used aboard about half of the rail company's diesel locomotive fleet.Qualcomm said the OmniTracs system will allow Amtrak to have two-way communications...
PCS PrimeCo L.P. has chosen AT&T Network Systems Inc. and Motorola Inc. to be equipment manufacturers for its nationwide personal communications services network.AT&T and Motorola will split the contract equally, with Motorola primarily supplying radio transmitters and receivers. The total contract is valued at...
Reversing an earlier stance, South Korea is trying to deter infighting among some of its industrial heavyweights by awarding a single personal communications services license to a consortium that includes everybody but gives control to nobody.In early August, the Korean Ministry of Information and...
BRUSSELS-The European Commission is investigating three consortia building mobile satellite systems to guage the effect those global systems will have on future competition in European Union nations.Globalstar L.P., Iridium Inc. and Inmarsat-P have been asked by Karel Van Miert, EC commissioner in charge of...
A new company led by industry veteran Allen Salmasi is poised to bid in the entrepreneurial auction for personal communications services licenses, with plans to build a network based on Code Division Multiple Access technology.NextWave Telecom Inc. is headed by Salmasi, who recently resigned...
Convergence shows its colors as cable TV provider Cox Communications Inc. charts its course into next-generation wireless telephony, underscored by its announcement last month of plans to use Code Division Multiple Access technology on its personal communications services networks.The company is a PCS pioneer's...
Sprint Telecommunications Venture-which plans to operate next-generation mobile phone service across much of the nation-is keeping to its cable roots by selecting Code Division Multiple Access technology as the foundation for its network.The Sprint-cable TV consortium last month announced it would use CDMA technology...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. signed a license agreement allowing Comarco Wireless Technologies Inc. to manufacture and sell test equipment using Qualcomm's Code Division Multiple Access digital cellular technology.The worldwide, royalty-bearing license will allow Comarco to develop CDMA product extensions for its NES generation II and...
Following partnership agreements established last December, Northern Telecom Ltd. has issued its first purchase order, valued at $2 million, to Qualcomm Inc. for Code Division Multiple Access-based cellular and personal communications services infrastructure and subscriber equipment, Qualcomm said. Northern Telecom is supplying BC TEL...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. pushed back its previously announced mid-1995 availability schedule for Code Division Multiple Access technology-based equipment.Qualcomm said its cellular infrastructure equipment will be available during the last quarter of this year and in early 1996 for large-market deployment. The company's second-generation cell...
TORONTO-Bell Mobility said Hughes Network Systems Inc. agreed to provide equipment for a test of Personal Access Communications technology in Toronto and Montreal.The Canadian operator is testing three proposed personal communications services technologies to prepare for the release of new spectrum at 2 GHz...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it agreement with Orbcomm US, an affiliate of Orbital Sciences Corp., giving Qualcomm the right to resell Orbcomm's new mobile satellite communication services with Qualcomm's OmniTracs trailer tracking and cargo monitoring applications.Orbcomm said it successfully launched its first two satellites...
Arch Communication Group Inc. said it has acquired Professiona Paging & Radio Inc., a privately owned paging business with operations in Florida, for $3 million in cash. PoePage's operations will become a part of Arch Southeast Communications Inc. TEh acquisition incresases Arch's total cousomer...
AirTouch Communications, a partner in Globalstar L.P. - one of three low-earth-orbit statellites recently licensed by the government is pursuing satellite-based mobile communications in Japan through a joint venture with Japanese trading company, Itochu Corp. AirTouch has globalstar service provider rights in several countries...
NEW YORK-Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to make an initial public offering of 12 million shares of common stock, priced between $24 and $26 a share.Proceeds from the offering will be used to purchase a 25 percent general...
An Oregon test and measurement equipment company with international alliances is poised for what it hopes is a wave of demand from companies building personal communications services networks."Test equipment is an integral part of installing a PCS system. And we think testing will be...
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BOULDER, Colo.-Engineers have completed a month-long test of the Global System for Mobile communications standard at 1.8 GHz as part of an assessment for the U.S. wireless industry entering the personal communications services market.Field tests took place at U S West Inc.'s Boulder Industry...
Qualcomm Inc. agreed to pay InterDigital Technology Corp. $5.5 million in an out-of-court settlement of the companies' Code Division Multiple Access patent dispute.In return for the one-time payment, Qualcomm will receive a royalty-free, worldwide license to use and sublicense ITC's CDMA patents and certain...
Gearing up for upcoming personal communications services auctions, Qualcomm Inc. has introduced several products based on its Code Division Multiple Access digital technology, including the company's first portable phone for the PCS market.Qualcomm's eight ounce QCP-1900 transmits radio frequency power at extremely low levels,...
Hark Systems Inc. has installed a wireless switch in South Dakota that uses specialized mobile radio frequencies to connect inbound and outbound calls. Hark's Mega Switch provides one-number following, one-number calling and features call screening, call forwarding, voice mail and message notification characteristics. The...
