MURRAY HILL, N.J.—Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it is the first in North America and one of the first worldwide to roll out third-generation cdma2000 data software to enable operators convey data at speeds of up to 153 kilobits per second."Mobile operators that evolve their...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, United States—In an effort to offer businesses a seamless messaging and billing service, MobileSys is adding TSI Telecommunication Services' short message service (SMS) manager technology to its data platform. The companies said the platform will allow business users to send SMS...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia Corp. says it has signed an agreement with Indonesian carrier Telkomsel to supply radio-access network equipment and services to expand its GSM dual band network.Under the pact, Nokia will deliver GSM 900 and 1800 base stations and cellular transmission for Telkomsel's network...
HELSINKI, Finland—Nokia said it signed an agreement with Indonesian carrier Telkomsel to supply radio access network equipment and services to expand its GSM dual-band network.Under the pact, Nokia will deliver GSM 900 MHz and 1800 MHz base stations and cellular transmission for Telkomsel's network...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo, the leading mobile carrier in Japan, and IBM Japan have jointly developed key technologies for streaming service over mobile phones, both firms announced on 18 September. According to the firms, users of the technologies will be able to see video content and...
TUCSON, Ariz.-Texas Instruments said it has unveiled converters with the lowest noise for wireless devices such as cell phones, personal digital assistants, and 802.11 PCMCIA cards."By reducing power supply noise, the TPS6024x series of switched-cap converters suppresses sideband interference and boosts channel locking, which...
TOKYO—NTT DoCoMo plans to triple the data transmission speed (for downlinks) of i-mode service from current 9.6 kbps to 28.8 kbps in the spring of 2002, NTT DoCoMo announced on 11 September. At the same time, it will increase the memory capacity for iAppli...
Even as vendors grab news pages with reports of successful live calls over their third-generation networks, one piece is often left out: behind every live call is a test. And tests are not always pretty.Major phone makers and builders of networks like Nokia Corp.,...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Despite evidence that cell-phone users are two-and-a-half times more likely to suffer from a temporal brain tumor, medical researchers in Sweden claim that several more years of fact finding are required before they can accurately establish the health effects of mobile phones.The...
LONDON-Wireless technology battles for the potentially lucrative home broadband market are heating up.Broadband in the home will dramatically change online consumption patterns and expectations of Internet access. With high-speed access and flat-rate pricing, always-on bandwidth becomes a domestic resource akin to electricity or water....
BUCHAREST, Romania-Most countries in Western Europe have awarded third-generation (3G) licenses at high fees to a few operators. Companies are expecting revenue from the services within a decade, according to consulting companies.A report from the UMTS Forum released in April said users of 3G...
TOKYO-NTT Group is performing a field test for a very high-speed wireless system based on NTT's proprietary advanced wireless access (AWA) technology. Unlike conventional wireless LAN systems, NTT's Biportable 5 GHz system provides up to 36 Mbps data rates. NTT Corp., the holding company...
OXFORD, United Kingdom—Germany's E-Plus, KPN Mobile of the Netherlands and Belgium's KPN Orange have each reached agreements with NTT DoCoMo to adopt the Japanese operator's multimedia messaging protocol. This move is the first time that DoCoMo has licensed technology to foreign companies, as it...
TOKYO—Japan Communications Inc. said it will launch data communications services for corporate users in November using DDI Pocket's Personal Handyphone System (PHS) networks, the firm announced 22 August. It will be Japan's first mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) service. DDI Pocket, the largest PHS...
One man's asset recovery is another man's poison.Like a stylized garage sale, wireless equipment manufacturers are auctioning off excess inventories, which are being shipped to needy markets in the United States and developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.Industry sources estimate the business...
According to new reports from two major analyst firms, wireless data will be a huge business in the future, but not before software vendors, systems integrators and-especially-wireless carriers get in gear and make the tough decisions to take advantage of the situation.The mobile Internet...
Just like the beginnings of the wired Internet, content on the wireless Internet is growing by leaps and bounds. Wireless Internet users now can schedule a flight out of Denver, challenge a stranger to a game of chess, check their stocks and access all...
WARSAW, Poland—Lucent Technologies Inc. said it has signed a contract to allow Polish telecom operator Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. to purchase products and services from across the entire Lucent Integrated Network Solution portfolio.The products include access, switching and data transmission solutions while the services are...
BEIJING—The Shanghai municipal government has issued the Construction Law of Shanghai Mobile Communications' Base Station, which came into force on 1 August. The law aims to streamline administrative procedures for base station construction. Six municipal bureaus together drafted the law, the first of its...
NEW YORK-Telecommunications reflected the dramatic drop in the number and size of mergers and acquisitions involving U.S. companies last quarter, Los Angeles-based Mergerstat reported.Across industry sectors, these transactions numbered 1,954, down from 2,539 during the year-ago quarter. Communications companies announced 86 combinations this spring,...
SAN DIEGO-Now that wireless multimedia company PacketVideo Corp. has set up deals with many of the world's major chipset makers, mobile-phone manufacturers and carriers-and is a technology standard for the Third Generation Partnership Project-the company is turning its eyes toward a new link in...
TERRY, Mont.-Western Wireless Corp. took a substantial step towards third-generation technology by launching 1xRTT high-speed wireless data service in rural Terry, Mont., last week.Western Wireless, which normally operates under the Cellular One name, said that upon availability of 1x handsets, theirs will be the...
AustraliaTelstra Wholesale and Vodafone Australia announced a new three-year generic access agreement deal that they said will replace previous agreements and further enhance the ongoing relationship between the two companies. The new agreement, which takes effect immediately, is for transmission and interconnect products.CanadaSiGEM Inc.,...
While voice is still the key application for wireless carriers going into the 21st century, a variety of other data-centric applications are becoming more important. Carriers and the rest of the industry are looking toward mobile gaming, banking, messaging and other, more advanced wireless...
