LONDON-British Telecommunications plc and Microsoft Corp. announced a wireless Internet trial with about 1,000 mobile phone users in the United Kingdom and Norway. Users will be able to access Microsoft Exchange-based calendaring, address lists, Web content and online information services from their wireless phones.The...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Samsung Telecommunications America and Sprint PCS introduced the Samsung SCH-3500 dual-band Code Division Multiple Access phone and announced an agreement, valued at up to $500 million, in which Samsung will deliver SCH-dual-band/dual-mode series phones to Sprint PCS during the next year.The SCH-3500...
NEW YORK-AAPT Ltd. announced last week it awarded Samsung Electronics of South Korea a $205 million turnkey contract to design, construct, operate, maintain and provide systems integration services for its new Code Division Multiple Access network in Australia.The carrier plans to launch commercial CDMA...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association Foundation announced the winners of its 1999 Leadership Awards, to be held at a reception at PCS '99 in New Orleans in September.The awards recognize individuals and companies that have shown outstanding leadership in helping to improve their...
MINNEAPOLIS-PCS.partners signed a contract with Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. to provide in-warranty repair and refurbishment services on Samsung's Code Division Multiple Access digital mobile phones, said PCS.partners.With this agreement, PCS.partners said it will act as an extension to Samsung's in-house repair facility.
Nine global wireless companies formed a focus group, called 3G.IP, to promote an Internet Protocol-based wireless system for third-generation technology. The group comprises AT&T, British Telecom, Rogers Cantel, Ericsson, Lucent, Nokia, Nortel Networks, Telenor and Telecom Italia Mobile.Motorola signed a 10-year, US$1 billion strategic...
China Unicom, which received the go-ahead from the Chinese government earlier this year to deploy cdmaOne technology, will gain control of four experimental Code Division Multiple Access networks operated by China Telecom Great Wall.Great Wall was a source of concern for the Chinese government...
If there is any hope second-generation CDMA technology will penetrate Europe, it may be through some struggling NMT 450 operators.The NMT MoU group, consisting of NMT 450 operators from Europe and Asia, wants members to vote at its October meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia,...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-Samsung in mid-March opened its first manufacturing operations for cellular handsets outside of South Korea. The company began manufacturing a CDMA handset for the Brazil market in Manaus, in the northern state of Amazonas, where Samsung has manufactured other consumer products such...
TAMPA, Fla.-A group of Code Division Multiple Access carriers, handset vendors and technology providers completed a trial of SnapTrack's handset-based location system on two wireless networks in Tampa, Fla.The companies tested prototype handsets from Motorola Inc. and Samsung that used SnapTrack's enhanced global positioning...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS and Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. announced the SCH-1500 personal communications services handset.The phone is a dual-band, dual-mode handset that combines voice-activated dialing. Sprint PCS will make the phone available in RadioShack stores nationwide this month. The handset will retail for...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-VLSI Technology Inc. announced it received its largest-ever single order, valued at approximately $34 million, from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for VLSI's Global System for Mobile communications chipsets used in Samsung's current and future generations of GSM handsets.The order is expected to...
AO PAULO, Brazil-Samsung in mid-March opened its first manufacturing operations for cellular handsets outside of South Korea. The company began manufacturing a Code Division Multiple Access handset for the Brazil market in Manaus, in the northern state of Amazonas, where Samsung has manufactured other...
With vendors putting their time and energy into the three main U.S. digital standards and into developing standards for third-generation technology, there hardly seems room for commercialization of the more obscure technologies touted years ago."You need volume production and vendor financing behind it," said...
The Wireless Application Protocol effort gained momentum last week at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, with several Global System for Mobile communications carriers and handset manufacturers announcing WAP-compatible products.Nokia Corp. announced both a WAP-compatible handset and an agreement with France Telecom Group...
NEW ORLEANS-Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group introduced a Code Division Multiple Access chip that uses technology with origins in the airline industry to make it easier to understand cellular phone callers in noisy environments, such as airports and restaurants.Called the EVRC+, the chip is...
Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. plans to introduce a new series of Code Division Multiple Access phones this week at Wireless '99 in New Orleans, including the company's first CDMA tri-mode handset.According to Peter Skarzynski, vice president of wireless sales and marketing at STA, the...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. announced it increased its earnings in the fourth quarter, bouncing back from a loss in the same period a year ago.The company reported fourth-quarter earnings of $189 million, or 48 cents per share, compared with a loss of $285 million, or...
SANTA ANA, Calif.-Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and SRS Labs Inc. entered into a licensing partnership that calls for Samsung to use SRS' VIP voice technology in its cellular and wireless handsets worldwide.SRS said VIP increases the clarity and intelligibility of the spoken voice, especially...
OXFORD, United Kingdom-The European paging industry entered 1998 with the loud disclaimer that it had, at long last, found its high-growth niche in mobile communications. With reports they had managed to grow the total user base by more than 50 percent during 1997, European...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. announced its broadband Code Division Multiple Access wireless local loop field trial with Pioneer Holdings L.L.C. and North West Rural Electric Cooperative is now operating in Iowa. The field trial uses radio frequencies for personal communications services to...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc. announced it licensed its FLEX protocol decoder chipset to Korean equipment manufacturer Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.The agreement is expected to speed the transition from POCSAG to FLEX paging technology in the Asian market.Samsung reportedly will combine the FLEX protocol decoder...
Ever since Nokia Mobile Phones Inc. introduced the first in a new class of mobile phones with its Nokia 9000 Communicator, the excitement surrounding the idea of devices that combine wireless voice and data has been growing.Nokia last week manufactured its 100 millionth mobile...
China has been considered a mountain of opportunity for mobile phone infrastructure vendors, but signs today indicate a bleaker outlook as Chinese officials seem to have soured on cdmaOne technology and have banned certain foreign joint ventures in telecommunications projects.Vendors say China presents a...
