VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Ericsson Inc. last week introduced its Wireless Office System at the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium Global Summit in Vancouver, British Columbia.The premise-based system, designed to capitalize on advantages of the Time Division Multiple Access standard, offers companies a single-phone, single-number system that...
Northern Telecom Ltd. and Matra Communication launched a joint-venture subsidiary in France. Matra Nortel Communications will provide French customers with one-stop access to a range of integrated solutions, including multimedia products, said the companies. The company is expected to begin operations in May once...
The annual growth rate of worldwide subscribers using Time Division Multiple Access technology is expected to increase more than 100 percent this year, according to figures released last week by the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium.UWCC estimates there were 9.2 million TDMA subscribers worldwide last...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-The pace of liberalization in the Brazilian wireless markets has taken on new speed in the past two weeks following a judicial ruling grant-ing the region 2 B-band license to the Telia-led Tess consortium and swift movement by the Ministry of Communications...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Technology Corp. will keep its patent on the Time Division Multiple Access wireless radio communications system used in Germany, said the company, after an appeal before the German Supreme Court challenging its validity was withdrawn by the appellants.As a result,...
DALLAS-United States Cellular Corp. selected Northern Telecom Inc. to build new Code Division Multiple Access and Time Division Multiple Access networks in its markets, said Nortel.Milwaukee will be the first market to be implemented, with commercial service scheduled to be available later this year,...
Cellnet, a United Kingdom-based cellular operator, selected Brite technology to deliver its traffic information services to its subscribers. Cellnet's Traffic Line provides in-car traffic reports on a digital network direct to a mobile phone. A small receiver placed in the car notifies customers of...
ATLANTA-Northern Telecom Inc. received its first order for a 1900 MHz Time Division Multiple Access-based personal communications services network from Century Telephone Enterprises, said Nortel.Nortel's TDMA networks provide enhanced services including mobile sleep mode, short message service, authentication and one-button callback through Interim Standard-136...
PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. awarded Lucent Technologies Inc. a $500 million three-year exclusive contract to supply personal communications services equipment and services for the next phase of its network development.The announcement is a blow to Motorola Inc., which was in discussions with PrimeCo in...
NEW YORK-It has been said that where you stand depends on where you sit. And so it was earlier this month when representatives of four wireless carriers and four equipment vendors offered their views at a BT Alex. Brown forum on the interplay between...
Vendors and carriers have renewed hope that the world could have one standard in place for third-generation systems, but Europe holds one of the keys in making it a reality.The situation is as political as ever as vendors, carriers and interest groups work within...
Worldwide mobile telephony subscriber numbers will climb at triple the compound annual growth rate expected from the landline side between 1996 and 2002, according to a recently published report from the Yankee Group, "Global Trends of Cellular/PCS Markets."In 1995, global mobile telephony subscribers stood...
ATLANTA-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium, a group made up of Time Division Multiple Access technology supporters including AT&T Wireless Services Inc., announced a migratable solution to IMT-2000 technology called UWC-136. UWCC said the solution meets the high-speed data application requirements the International Telecommunications Union,...
The new GSM licensee in Israel, Partner Communications Co., signed a letter of intent with L.M. Ericsson for the supply of equipment for the operator, a joint venture between Hutchison Telecommunications, Matav Cable Systems Media and Elbit, reported The Financial Times. The newspaper quoted...
JOHANNESBURG-Telkom SA, the national telecommunications provider in South Africa, formally has launched the nation's first commercial digital enhanced cordless telecommunications (DECT) system at Sandfontein, a village near Rustenburg in the North West Province. It is the first step in providing 145,000 rural South Africans...
1998 may be the year for introductions of next-generation wireless office systems that allow for seamless handoffs between the office system and a carrier's macrocellular system.Hughes Network Systems Inc. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced a strategic marketing agreement last week calling for AT&T...
NEW YORK-A wide and growing array of handset choices has caused some carriers to evaluate whether to winnow down the number of makes and models sold at their own retail stores.Is this a case of product oversupply? No, it's only half the story.Telecommunications equipment...
Despite protests from the country's current cellular operators, the Colombian Ministry of Communications is working on plans to auction personal communications services licenses by this spring.Fabiola Montealegre, analyst with ATC ConsulTel Americas in Cali, Colombia, said the ministry is reviewing a working document that...
CUSHCRAFTCushcraft Corp. introduced the FRX450 UHF fiberglass omnidirectional antenna, which provides for transmission and reception of vertically polarized signals in the 450 MHz to 470 MHz frequency band. The antenna has a 5 dBi gain with an E-plane of 24 degrees. The FRX450 has...
NEW YORK-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Cincinnati Bell Wireless plan to team up to provide personal communications services in two urban Ohio markets, according to a joint venture between their parent companies.The agreement, subject to Federal Communications Commission approval, provides that Cincinnati Bell Wireless...
NEW YORK-While Asian troubles may obscure the big picture for awhile, international growth and the integration of wireless and wireline telephony will mean plenty of opportunities for wireless manufacturers, according to one analyst who tracks those stocks."Mobile is great, but it's getting hard to...
LAS VEGAS-Motorola Inc. introduced two dual-band phones at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a Global System for Mobile communications phone and a Time Division Multiple Access phone, as well as custom leather cases for its analog StarTAC wearable phones.The cd160, Motorola's new...
The Institute for Wireless Education, a nonprofit corporation that has been training wireless engineers and technicians for about a year, recently added a segment dedicated to Code Division Multiple Access technology to its two-week course, "Basic Wireless Telephony.""We cut our teeth on Time Division...
WARREN, N.J.-Dobson Communications plans to launch more than a dozen digital networks in its Arizona, California and Texas markets, using some $80 million in Lucent Technologies Inc.'s infrastructure equipment, the companies announced.With Lucent's wireless systems, Dobson can use the same network architecture to support...
