REDMOND, Washington, United States—The second- and third-largest U.S. wireless operators are in talks to merge their operations according to a report from Bloomberg. While neither AT&T Wireless nor Cingular Wireless would comment on the rumor, the Bloomberg report said the companies are in preliminary...
WASHINGTON—The Grayson Wireless Geometrix Location System for GSM systems meets the enhanced 911 Phase II mandate, confirmed the National Emergency Number Association.Grayson, a division of Allen Telecom Inc., made the GSM Geometrix software available to NENA in February and NENA conducted more than 9,000...
NEW YORK—Celerica Inc., a start-up wireless infrastructure provider based in Morristown, N.J., said it has commenced a beta trial of its technology for rapid cell site deployment with Cellcom, a BellSouth Corp. subsidiary that is Israel's second-largest mobile carrier.The Celerica 500 System provides on-demand...
BEACHWOOD, Ohio-Triton PCS signed an agreement to purchase Grayson Wireless' Geometrix wireless 911 caller location systems for installation on its wireless network.Grayson said its network-based system is compatible with Triton's TDMA network technology and existing customer handsets and can be upgraded to be compatible...
HAMILTON, Bermuda—Nokia said it signed an agreement to build a GSM network for BTC Mobility of Bermuda. BTC Mobility was recently granted a GSM license to offer voice and data products and services.The agreement includes core and radio access network equipment, as well as...
PHOENIX—Verizon Wireless reported it had completed the previously announced acquisition of Dobson Communication Corp.'s 75-percent controlling interest in the Gila River Cellular General Partnership operating in the Arizona #5 RSA for approximately $85 million. The remaining 25-percent partnership interest is held by Gila River...
REDMOND, Wash.—AT&T Wireless updated its guidance for this year following the recently completed acquisition of former affiliate TeleCorp PCS.The nation's third-largest wireless operator said it expects mid-teen-percentage growth in service revenue for the year with TeleCorp, up from its previous guidance of low double-digit...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—The sales projection for mobile terminals in Latin America for 2002 is 54 million units, with an increase of 13 percent compared with last year, according to a report presented by Daniel Torras, Pyramid Research's director. According to the report, the terminals...
LOWELL, Mass.—M/A-Com Inc. has been chosen by Oakland County, Mich., to begin negotiations as the preferred supplier of a new countywide communications system. M/A-COM will deploy its TDMA-based OpenSky network as the county's new communications network upon contract approval. "From the beginning of the...
OKLAHOMA CITY, United States—Dobson Communications said it will follow nationwide roaming partners AT&T Wireless and Cingular Wireless in overlaying its current TDMA network with GSM/General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) technology.Dobson also announced a new 10-year roaming relationship with Cingular, which the company said will...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pennsylvania, United States—InterDigital Technology Corporation (ITC), subsidiary of InterDigital Communications, is expanding its patent license that includes CDMA and third-generation (3G) products.The agreement with Japan Radio expands ITC's patent license coverage to include wireless devices and infrastructure equipment designed for GSM,...
ATLANTA, United States—Cingular Wireless reported it has begun field testing GAIT technology, which would allow customers to roam seamlessly between its TDMA and GSM networks as part of its network transition from TDMA to GSM.Cingular said the testing includes the world's first GAIT-compliant phone...
LAS VEGAS-Audiovox Communications Corp unveiled its dual-band TDMA phone known as T-300, operating on the 800 MHz/1900 MHz TDMA/AMPS frequencies.The phone has a handsfree headset, cigarette lighter charger, desktop charger, a belt clip and a leather carrying case.
DENVER, United States—Nothing demonstrates that the sun will eventually set on TDMA technology as strongly as the decision by its supreme advocates, the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium (UWCC), to dissolve its operations."We have accomplished our objectives," said Chris Pearson, executive vice president of the...
1. Jan. 29Re-auction brings in record $17B to FCCAfter 101 rounds and $16.85 billion, the Federal Communications Commission's auction of 422 personal communications services licenses ended last Friday. The auction, which began Dec. 12, broke the previous record of $9.2 billion for PCS spectrum...
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...
A new organization is being created to represent the views of American GSM and TDMA wireless carriers as they convert to third-generation wireless technologies such as GPRS, EDGE and W-CDMA.The new, as-yet-unnamed organization hopes to launch early next year. The goal of the group...
The next-generation upgrade path battle between GSM and CDMA escalated last week as U.S. Cellular Corp., which serves more than 3 million wireless customers, said it plans to overlay its current TDMA markets, roughly two-thirds of its coverage area, with CDMA 1x technology. The...
More than a year after first making its intentions known, Verizon Wireless finally acquired regional wireless carrier Price Communications for $1.7 billion, including $550 million in net debt that Verizon Wireless said would be assumed or redeemed.The acquisition comes months after both companies announced...
ROSH HAAYIN, Israel-Israel's Ministry of Communications has awarded third-generation spectrum to the country's three incumbent mobile operators and second-generation spectrum in the 1800 MHz band to Partner Communications Co. and Cellcom. Israel is the first country in the Middle East to award 3G spectrum.Partner...
CHICAGO, United States—U.S. Cellular said it intends to deploy CDMA 1x technology in all its markets beginning early next year. The carrier currently uses CDMA in approximately one-third of its markets and TDMA in the remaining two-thirds."After reviewing all other technologies currently available, we...
A new organization is being created to represent the views of American GSM and TDMA wireless carriers as they convert to third-generation wireless technologies such as GPRS, EDGE and WCDMA.The new, as-yet-unnamed organization hopes to launch early next year.The goal of the group "will...
NEW YORK—Cingular Wireless completed the sale of $2 billion of global bonds, which the carrier said it would use to pay down short-term debt, finance licenses and construction related to the possible acquisition of NextWave Telecom Inc.'s licenses and to fund its network sharing...
