BOSTON—According to a new report from Strategy Analytics, Samsung will fall below Siemens in 2002 global cellular market share results, and Sony Ericsson may push Samsung down even further. Analysts from Strategy Analytics' Global Wireless Practice believe Nokia will lead market share in 2002,...
GENEVA—Europe’s mobile users will likely wait much longer than expected for next-generation cellular, as the daunting implications of full-scale third-generation (3G) deployment are finally brought home to the region’s 60-plus operators.With many players already having committed hundreds of millions of euros to securing national...
TORONTO—Canada's Bell Mobility launched the country's first 1x wireless network in the greater Toronto area, with plans to extend the coverage throughout the year to cover most of the country.Bell Mobility said the new network will deliver "cruising speeds" of up to 86 kilobits...
TOKYO—Matsushita Electric Industrial, a leading consumer electronics manufacturer, on 28 January announced it filed a lawsuit against Samsung Electronics, claiming that the Korean company and three U.S. subsidiaries of Samsung infringed Matsushita's patents covering dynamic RAM (DRAM) and related technologies.The file was actually brought...
ATLANTA, United States—Samsung Networks said it has renewed its data network contract with Equant to interconnect 50 cites in Europe, Middle East and Africa."Under the agreement, sites in Korea are linked with the U.K.-based hub of Samsung Group's European operations via an Equant Frame...
NEW YORK—Emblaze Systems said it has concluded successfully an MPEG4 compliance interoperability test with Samsung Electronics.The companies conducted the trial to determine whether Emblaze's wireless media platform is interoperable with Samsung's cdma2000 1x network, thereby allowing it to transmit multimedia content.Emblaze said it supplied...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson said it has signed an agreement to license its mobile technology to Samsung in return for a royalty payment and reciprocal license to Ericsson.The deal covers Ericsson's portfolio for GSM, TDMA, General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Ericsson said it has signed an agreement to license its mobile technology to Samsung in return for a royalty payment and reciprocal license to Ericsson.The deal covers Ericsson's portfolio for GSM, TDMA, GPRS, EDGE and W-CDMA.
SEOUL, South Korea—Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said it will sell its 2.5-generation handsets to Sprint Corp. if its current talks with the carrier succeed.The Korea Economic Daily had earlier reported that the vendor planned to sell 3 million cdma2000 1x phones to Sprint.
DALLAS—Samsung Telecommunications America said it has unveiled a branding campaign to make it a top three wireless phone manufacturer by 2003."STA's brand positioning centers around what consumers indicate as the most important and appealing aspects of their wireless phones: innovative technology, intuitive navigation and...
SEOUL, South Korea—Samsung SDI said it has developed the world's thinnest lithium-ion rechargeable cell phone batteries, which can store 355-watt hours in a space of a 2.8mm-thin, 34mm-wide and 58mm-high pack."With continued development, we will put these ultra-thin lithium ion batteries on the market...
While wireless handset sales worldwide are expected to continue to climb during the next several years, those sales are expected to be driven more by replacement handsets purchased by current wireless customers than handsets purchased by new wireless customers, according to a report from...
TEWKSBURY, Massachusetts, United States—Hoping to take advantage of the growth potential in China, U.S.-based Starent Networks signed a deal with Eastern Communications Company to provide its next-generation wireless infrastructure equipment for customers in China."This is a great opportunity for Starent to step into the...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Finnish company Nokia decided to manage its South American business from its office in the United States, therefore moving Paul Murdock, regional manager, from Buenos Aires to Dallas and letting go of 25 percent of its staff in Argentina, mainly in the...
BEIJING and TOKYO — China's fixed-line operator China Telecom has started offering a CDMA service in Shenzhen, a prosperous city adjacent to Hong Kong.The service, called "Shihua Tong," will not offer roaming. Samsung Electronics is supplying handsets. However, the CDMA service may be squashed...
BEIJING—China Unicom expects nine out of the 19 firms licensed to produce CDMA handsets to be able to start production by the end of this year and be able to ship 19 million phones next year.Unicom hopes to recoup the investment in its CDMA...
DALLAS—Samsung Telecommunications America announced it will sponsor the Gadget Bar at "Fashion For Freedom," a fashion show scheduled for December 6, 2001, in Hollywood, Calif., to benefit the U.S. Fund for UNICEF and the World Trade Center Relief Fund.The Gadget Bar will offer various...
BEIJING-Samsung Electronics said it formed a joint venture with Shanghai Bell to develop, produce and market CDMA systems in China. The Chinese government approved the new company, named Shanghai Bell Samsung Mobile Communications, which has a total investment of US$29 million.Ownership will be 51...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—As speculation continues about what Siemens will do with its mobile-phone business, the research firm Gartner said that its latest study into cell-phone manufacturer rankings has seen Siemens slip back to fifth place, falling behind Samsung Electronics in terms of the number...
TEWKSBURY, Mass.-Starent Network Corp., a provider of next-generation mobile infrastructure solutions, reported its ST16 Intelligent Mobile Gateway platform was selected by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to be incorporated into Samsung's cdma2000 infrastructure offerings.Starent said the ST16 platform connects mobile operators radio networks with IP...
SEOUL, South Korea—Samsung said it increased its involvement in China Unicom's CDMA network and will provide a test 1x network for the operator, which plans to launch CDMA services next year. The 1x networks will be set up separately from the current-generation networks now...
TOKYO—Mitsubishi Electric and Samsung Electronics announced they have standardized specifications for random access memory modules (RAMs) for use in mobile devices to provide higher density, smaller packaging and lower prices.The companies have decided on two specifications for RAMS (which Mitsubishi refers to as "Mobile...
A new study by marketing research firm BWCS claimed that more than 90 percent of U.K. business travelers with laptops are interested in using wireless local area network (WLAN) services at airports, while 40 percent of those surveyed said they have no interest in...
Once upon a time, a technology called pACT had a life, savored some love and then disappeared into oblivion. Another one called B-CDMA rocked the eaves of wireless, had an echo and became silent.Like a wordsmith, the wireless industry had lots of acronyms-B-CDMA,...
