PacketVideo Corp. and Warner Bros. New Media unveiled plans to deliver Warner Bros.-created original animated content to wireless devices, including wireless phones and personal digital assistants, using PacketVideo's MPEG-4 streaming video software.Appropriately, Warner Bros. said it will use its Marvin the Martian cartoon character,...
GENEVA-Second-ranked Spanish carrier, Retevision, is taking to the air waves with plans to build one of the world's largest networks based on point-to-point and point-to-multipoint fixed wireless access technology.The company, which became Spain's first new market entrant following the liberalization of the Spanish market...
InterWaveWireless networking provider InterWave Communications International Ltd. introduced TurboMax, a macro network product offering wireless community network service providers extended coverage capabilities to meet the needs of community networks with dispersed populations. The company said the solution is ideally suited for network expansion where...
MINNEAPOLIS-Broadband network equipment supplier ADC Telecommunications Inc. and Australian pay television operator Austar United Communications announced a strategic program to develop and deploy a multichannel multipoint distribution service broadband wireless system.The deployment, planned for later this year, will include two-way transmission facilities providing high-speed...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. successfully completed third-generation wireless packet data calls using a commercial Lucent-supplied 3G 1X Radio Transmission Technology network with both Verizon Wireless and Sprint PCS.The demonstration over each carrier's Code Division Multiple Access network performed Web page downloads at up...
ChinaMotorola Inc.'s Network Solutions Sector signed two contracts to provide its Global System for Mobile communications network infrastructure in China. The first contract, with Tianjin Mobile Communications Corp., calls for Motorola to install a GSM 1800 network by the first quarter of next year,...
LONDON-British digital radio provider Switchdigital and Crown Castle UK Ltd., a subsidiary of Crown Castle International Corp., launched a digital radio multiplex in London.The digital service is expected to provide the London audience with interference-free reception, near-CD quality sound, easy-to-use radios plus a wider...
TOKYO-The Japanese government on 30 June granted third-generation (3G) licenses to three carrier groups: NTT DoCoMo, J-Phone Group and DDI Group.NTT DoCoMo is scheduled to launch its 3G services based on wideband Code Division Multiple Access in May 2001. J-Phone will launch its 3G service...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. agreed to jointly develop and test enhancements to Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution technology (EDGE) enabling simultaneous delivery of voice and data, as well as multimedia applications."Nokia's commitment to jointly test 3G enhancements further bolsters...
BOULDER, Colo.-SCC Communications Corp. reported positive results from the first test of its Automatic Crash Notification system designed to alert Emergency 911 services in the event of an automobile accident.The test involved crashing two vehicles equipped with the ACN devices at an air force...
Remarkably, protagonists of the ongoing debate over third-generation (3G) spectrum auctions assume operator licensing is an issue to be considered in isolation. It is deemed unnecessary to consider the exercise anything other than a bureaucratic and self-contained procedure.Equally remarkable is users' needs hardly ever...
GermanyWorldCom, Vivendi and Talkline, an SBC Communications and Tele Danmark joint venture, formally pulled out of the German auction for third-generation licenses, scheduled to begin 31 July. U.K. operator Orange also backed out of the Group 3G consortium, which also includes Telefonica and Sonera,...
LONDON-The fixed wireless market in Israel is set for a period of heightened activity. The Communications Ministry submitted regulations to the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in early May that will pave the way for a number of fixed wireless licenses to be issued.The regulations allowing...
TOKYO-Since NTT DoCoMo launched its iMode wireless data service in February 1999, the number of mobile Internet users in Japan-more than 10 million as of the end of May-has taken off. As more users acquire browser phones, more content providers have entered the new...
TORONTO-The major Canadian carriers are cautiously laying the groundwork for third-generation (3G) wireless networks. But true, full-blown 3G in Canada is at least three to four years away."Canadian mobile operators are unlikely to reach the promised land of mobile data services in one single...
WASHINGTON-Andrew Sukawaty, president and chief operating officer of Sprint PCS and recently installed chairman of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, said Friday he is leaving the nationwide mobile-phone carrier to pursue a new, unnamed opportunity."This is the fourth start-up venture in which I've been...
HONG KONG-The CDMA Development Group last week announced support for Qualcomm Inc.'s High Data Rate technology as a third-generation technology, but agreed to leave room open for other competing technologies such as Motorola Inc.'s and Nokia Corp.'s 1xtreme technology.The CDG has submitted the proposal...
NEW YORK-Teligent Inc., Vienna, Va., has found a way to bend radio signals around buildings, dramatically enlarging its actual footprint without much additional network infrastructure.The fixed wireless carrier has nine months left on an exclusive one-year contract with Remec, a San Diego company that...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Adaptive Broadband Corp. entered an agreement with Mosley Associates Inc., a privately held manufacturer of digital transmission systems for the telecommunications industry, to sell its Microwave Data Systems division for $42 million in cash.The agreement comes on the heels of Adaptive Broadband's recently...
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. said Telinor Television S.A. de C.V., a Mexican wireless pay-TV company, will begin field trials of new technology for business data transmission services.ADC will integrate its Axity broadband wireless access system into Telinor's network to enable delivery of two-way data to...
TektronixTektronix Inc. launched a new Global System for Mobile communications cell analysis product, the Cell Analyzer, which combines the key functions of the Actix Abis Analyzer with Tektronix's K1205 Signaling Protocol Analyzer. Available as an add-on software package for the K1205, the new analyzer...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday set aside 14 megahertz of radio-frequency spectrum as the Wireless Medical Telemetry Service to help protect wireless health devices from interference, the transition to digital TV transmission and private wireless refarming."Today's action will enhance the ability of health...
NEW YORK-ThinAirApps L.L.C. released its ThinAirServer 1.1, which permits two-way, real-time information access to a range of out-of-the-box applications from a variety of wireless devices.The new platform is compatible with any Palm VII handheld, any Palm III or Palm V with Transmission Control Protocol/Internet...
MELVILLE, N.Y.-Comtech Telecommunications Corp. said it entered an agreement to acquire EFData, the satellite communications division of Adaptive Broadband Corp., for $61.5 million in cash.Shortly following the acquisition announcement last Tuesday, shares of Adaptive Broadband rose approximately 21 percent, from $18.43 per share to...
