PHOENIX, United States—ArrayComm announced a licensing partnership with Kyocera to commercialize, manufacture and sell its i-Burst system worldwide.I-Burst is built on ArrayComm's IntelliCell spatial processing smart antenna technology, which establishes a unique spatial signature for each device in a service area, allowing for greater...
REDMOND, Washington, United States—Metawave Communications said the results of its GSM smart antenna cluster deployment in Guangzhou, China, were successful.Metawave was employed by Guangzhou Unicom to deploy its SpotLight GSM smart antenna system to improve antenna site quality and to accommodate additional subscribers. Since...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom—Smart antenna developer Antenova and Cambridge Consultants signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly market advanced antenna solutions.Under the terms of the agreement, Cambridge Consultants will have access to Antenova's directional and steerable antennas to support its product design work for wireless...
CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom—Smart antenna developer Antenova and Cambridge Consultants Ltd. signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly market advanced antenna solutions.Under the terms of the agreement, Cambridge Consultants will have access to Antenova's directional and steerable antenna to support its product design work for...
REDMOND, Wash.-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Metawave Communications Corp. announced an alliance to increase the capacity of CDMA and CDMA2000 wireless networks.The joint solution, designed for the 850 MHz frequency band, will integrate the Lucent Flexent CDMA modular cell base station with the Metawave SpotLight...
OTTOWA—Spotwave Wireless unveiled its new SpotCell 100, an in-building coverage product that it said provides "always-on" cell phone coverage. According to Spotwave, the SpotCell 100, which is based on smart antenna technology, features extended coverage up to 20,000 square feet."Even though the much-anticipated new...
REDMOND, Wash.-Metawave Communications Corp. and Verizon Wireless are joining to supply smart antenna products.The agreement, which consolidates previous arrangements Metawave had with Bell Atlantic, AirTouch and GTE, calls for Metawave to supply Verizon with a suite of smart antenna systems that will increase the...
REDMOND, Wash.-Metawave Communications Corp., a provider of smart antenna solutions, has completed its SpotLight GSM smart antenna system field trial in Guangdong, China, with Guangdong Mobile, a subsidiary of China Mobile Ltd.The trial, which took place in two sites in the urban core of...
REDMOND, Washington, United States-Metawave Communications said it received an estimated $22 million order from Grupo Iusacell, Mexico's second-largest mobile carrier.Under the terms of the agreement, Metawave will supply Iusacell with additional CDMA smart antenna systems, including installation and optimization, to increase the capacity and...
Marconi Corp. plc and ArrayComm Inc. announced a deal under which Marconi will embed ArrayComm's Intellicell smart antenna technology in its third-generation wideband-CDMA base stations.The open-ended deal is expected to generate more than $300 million in revenues during the next five years, ArrayComm said."The...
NEW YORK-Borrowing the vernacular of a traffic engineer, a financier compared the current capital market conditions for telecommunications companies to rush-hour congestion, but observed that the tie-up looks like it is slowly beginning to clear.Investors still are sorting out a host of concerns that...
REDMOND, Wash.-Metawave Communications Corp. announced its smart antenna technology has been deployed in 13 of the top 20 wireless markets, as ranked by RCR Wireless News.To date, the company said, it has deployed more than 300 of its SpotLight 2000 CDMA smart antenna systems...
REDMOND, Wash.-Metawave Communications Corp. announced the successful completion of its GSM smart antenna system field trial in the urban core of Shanghai, China.China Unicom conducted the field trial of Metawave's SpotLight GSM smart antenna system, which commenced last October, Metawave said.
NEW YORK-Some 27 years after he placed the first "public portable cellular call," from Midtown Manhattan to Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, Martin Cooper said he is unsure "if we, as an industry, have grown up yet."Introduced at "Wireless World 2000" as the inventor...
REDMOND, Washington, United States-Metawave Communications, a smart antenna manufacturer, is acquiring Adaptive Telecom for 5.5 million shares of Metawave common stock.The deal gives Metawave additional smart antenna technology that will allow its carrier customers to enhance the capacity and ease the migration of their...
NEW YORK-AT&T Labs, Florham Park, N.J., is peering into the future of wireless communications and working on ways to enhance the next generation of services, researchers said at a recent media and analyst briefing.Closest to fruition is the Location-Aware Information Services research project. The...
REDMOND, Wash.-Metawave Communications Corp., a smart antenna manufacturer, is acquiring Adaptive Telecom Inc. for 5.5 million shares of Metawave common stock.The deal gives Metawave additional smart antenna technology that will allow its carrier customers to enhance the capacity and ease the migration of their...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-The continued growth of wireless users worldwide and the increasing integration of global positioning system applications into everyday life are expected to raise the value of the antenna market over the next five years, according to an Allied Business Intelligence report, "Antennas...
NEW YORK-In a perfect world, top executives would not implement a new promotion plan until they received assurances from the engineering department that the system could handle increased use.Instead, demands for quick fixes after the fact are typical in an environment where increasing numbers...
REDMOND, Wash.-Metawave Communications Corp., a provider of smart antenna systems, filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of its common stock.Merrill Lynch & Co., Salomon Smith Barney, and U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray are managing underwriters for...
HandsetsNokiaNokia announced a new NMT 450 analog handset, to be available in the third quarter, that features true 3-volt technology and the Nokia NaviKey concept. The Nokia 640 weighs 195 grams and has a standby time of up to 80 hours and talk time...
AerisAeris Communications Inc. added to its senior management team, naming Peter F. Stone chief financial officer and Patricia E. Hart vice president and general counsel.Aeris also announced Douglas M. Pavicich is its new director of operations. Pavicich will oversee all the day-to-day operations and...
ELite Logistic ServicesElite Logistic Services Inc. introduced its PageTrack control module, a wireless automotive security, control and monitoring solution. The system uses SkyTel Communications Inc.'s two-way ReFLEX network, the ReFLEX CreataLink 2 XT two-way data transceiver from Motorola Inc. and global positioning system technology....
REDMOND, Wash.-Metawave Communications Corp. closed a $91 million round of private equity financing, the largest private equity amount raised by an equipment manufacturer during first-quarter 1999, according to the MoneyTree survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, said Metawave.Proceeds from the financing will be used to accelerate...
