AlcatelCameroon. With Societe Camerounaise de Mobiles (SCM) for a GSM network for the area between the cities of Yaounde, Douala and Bafoussam.Value: US$21.15 millionChina. With Post and Telecommunications Administration of Hubei province for DECT wireless local loop systems.Value: US$20 millionMozambique. With Telecomunicacoes Moeis de Mocambique for...
Tritel Inc., a Jackson, Miss., personal communications services affiliate of AT&T Wireless Services Inc., raised $168.75 million Dec. 14 in an initial public offering of 9.375 million shares. Tritel registered Nov. 18 for the IPO with an expected price range of $15-$17 per share....
SEATTLE-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium announced there were 30 million worldwide Time Division Multiple Access subscribers as of the end of the third quarter."We are on track to exceed 35 million subscribers before the end of the millennium," said Sheila Mickool, UWCC president. "The...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. has taken a page from Ericsson Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc., each of which now dominate in certain areas of telecommunications infrastructure provision, said Richard A. McGinn, Lucent's chairman and chief executive officer."In the communications networking market for service...
Nextel Communications Inc. finally found another vendor willing to manufacture handsets incorporating Motorola Inc.'s proprietary iDEN technology.Nextel and Kyocera Corp. signed a letter of intent last week calling for the Japanese vendor to produce a small high-end integrated Digital Enhanced Network phone by late...
SAN FRANCISCO-North American Global System for Mobile communications operators had an upbeat story to tell international GSM carriers this year at the GSM in North America conference last week.Last year's conference saw frustrated European and other international GSM operators that had hoped GSM technology...
It could have been an isolated path for TDMA operators going forward as they struggled for economies of scale in their businesses, but with a new agreement with the GSM Association, the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium hopes to gain access to the worldwide equipment...
NEW YORK-Landline replacement, the Holy Grail of wireless telephony, received a boost from an array of forces unleashed simultaneously into the communications environment.This is not a high-stakes game of winner takes all, however. Telecommunications providers are learning more about how best to exploit the...
Some confusion exists in the wireless industry over whether mobile-phone-component shortages are affecting the handset supply in the United States.Major handset suppliers say they aren't struggling with component shortages, but one major carrier said its lower subscriber additions in the third quarter were caused...
BUCHAREST, Romania-The recent licensing of a third mobile operator in the Czech Republic has established more competition in the country's wireless market than in the wireline arena. In addition to three cellular licenses, the country has one RDS and two ERMES paging operators, the...
AlcatelPoland. With Formus Polska to supply and implement its broadband wireless access network in Poland.Value: US$126 millionEricssonCanada. With Rogers Cantel to build a third-generation network as an evolution to the carrier's existing TDMA network.Value: US$340 millionChina. With China Unicom for the third phase of its GSM...
The GSM Association and the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium (UWCC) announced they signed a memorandum of understanding to work toward worldwide interoperability between GSM andTDMA technologies.The nearly 490 GSM and TDMA carriers currently have 290 million subscribers worldwide.Member companies of the two associations will...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it proposed unified Time Division Multiple Access technology guidelines that would allow interoperability and easier migration between TDMA technology and the Frequency Division Multiple Access technology already approved for Project 25 Phase II two-way radio standards.Motorola's guidelines for the TDMA...
Tired of listening to the same dry quarterly conference calls? Try listening to Bob Price, chief executive officer of rural cellular operator Price Communications Corp. He's sure to add some color to your life.Last week, the fiery CEO hammered a stock downgrade from Dillon...
Dear Editor: We are greatly disappointed in RCR's Oct. 11 article, "AT&T Explores 1XRTT Technology," by Lynnette Luna. There is no truth to the suggestion that AT&T may utilize cdma2000/1XRTT technology. Ms. Luna's sources are unofficial and wrong.As we stated on-the-record in the article, AT&T...
NEW YORK-Despite its investments in the troubled Iridium L.L.C. satellite carrier, Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, Ill., reported strong third-quarter results Oct. 12 that reflected growth in its wireless handset business.Including one-time charges, the company earned $91 million, or 14 cents per share, up from $27...
News that the world's largest chip maker, Intel Corp., plans to purchase mobile-phone chipset maker DSP Communications Inc. for $1.6 billion in cash left some analysts concerned last week that CDMA innovator Qualcomm Inc. may wreak havoc on the benefits.DSPC licenses Code Division Multiple...
While carriers publicly push ahead with their third-generation technology migration plans, behind the scenes, some may be evaluating technology conversions that could be more cost effective in the long run.Sources close to AT&T Corp. say the nationwide telecommunications carrier is technically studying Code Division...
Ericsson said its displacement from AT&T Wireless Services as the majority vendor hurt the company and conceded part of the reason it lost AT&T Wireless contracts was because of problems supplying equipment throughout the year."It hurts," said Gary Pinkham, vice president of investor relations...
The fundamental shift in the wireless industry from technology to applications in the four years since Telecom '95 is evident in Nortel Networks' changed theme for its exhibition. In 1995, it was "Nortel-A World of Networks," which Peter MacLaren explained was designed to address...
CDMA handsets were the No. 1 selling handset in the United States during the first quarter of this year, with sales of 3.2 million units, according to Dataquest Inc., a unit of Gartner Group Inc. TDMA handset sales were at 2.8 million units in...
The biggest challenge for wireless operators during the next four years most likely will be obtaining additional spectrum, according to Keith Radousky, director of engineering, BellSouth Cellular Corp. "(Wireless) data is going to take off similar to how it took off in the wireline...
U.S. TDMA operators must make some critical decisions about competing in the wireless data market during the next year as they witness their CDMA counterparts begin to launch circuit-switched data services on a large scale.TDMA operators-which in the late 1980s banked on Cellular Digital...
