WASHINGTON—The Senate Commerce Committee passed its sweeping telecommunications-reform bill, including in it two critical bits for the wireless industry: wireless pre-emption with a small caveat and a moratorium on cell-phone taxes. The bill is now headed to the Senate floor. However, Sen. Ron Wyden...
WASHINGTON-States will no longer be able to regulate the wireless industry under language included in the latest draft of the Senate telecommunications-reform bill. The question now for the wireless industry is whether the decision will remain as the Senate Commerce Committee continues marking up...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry continued to press for pre-emption as telecom reform plods along in the Senate. But the industry could be making some headway on universal service provisions that are more favorable to wireless carriers. At a Senate Commerce Committee hearing, CTIA President Steve...
WASHINGTON—The wireless industry continued to push for pre-emption, Sprint Nextel Corp. urged inclusion of special-access reform and Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, floated a network-neutrality compromise Tuesday as the Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing on the latest version...
ORLAND PARK, Ill.-Andrew Corp. announced a patent license agreement with Qualcomm Inc. to develop, manufacture and sell W-CDMA picocell and microcell base-station systems. Andrew said the agreement includes the use of certain Qualcomm intellectual property in the Andrew OneBase Pico, which is a single-carrier...
TelASIC Communications Inc. raised $26 million in a series D round of financing. The company, which develops analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits and sub-systems for the third-generation wireless infrastructure market, said ComVentures led the round. "ComVentures believes wireless base station technology is undergoing significant...
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.-TelASIC Communications Inc. said it has raised $26 million in a series D round of financing.The company, which develops analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits and sub-systems for the third-generation wireless infrastructure market, said ComVentures led the round."ComVentures believes wireless base station technology...
Global Signal Inc. said its board of directors has increased its cash dividend for the fourth quarter to 40 cents per share of common stock from 37 cents in the third quarter of 2004. The dividend is payable Jan. 20. The tower player owns...
TEL AVIV, Israel-Wireless broadband company Alvarion Ltd. announced it completed its $40 million acquisition of wireless base station company InterWAVE Communications International Ltd. The closing ends a somewhat tenuous relationship between the two companies.Alvarion announced its intent to acquire InterWAVE in July, but then...
IRVINE, Calif.-Military Communications Technologies Inc. said its Australian affiliate, Military SDR Technologies Pty Ltd., has released details about a new wireless product application of its SpectruCell SDR technology. The product follows the company's recent demonstration of Voice over Internet Protocol at a wireless base...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-Investors last week cheered AirNet Communications Corp.'s elevated fourth-quarter earnings forecast, sending its stock price up 80 percent.The wireless base station maker previously expected fourth-quarter revenues of between $3 million and $4.5 million, but now expects revenues above $4.5 million. AirNet reported just...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-Investors cheered AirNet Communications Corp.'s elevated fourth-quarter earnings forecast, sending the wireless base station maker's stock up almost 80 percent to $1.70 per share.AirNet previously expected fourth-quarter revenues of between $3 million and $4.5 million, but now expects revenues above $4.5 million. The...
Qualcomm Inc. announced it signed memoranda of understanding to provide its Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless technology to several wireless operators around the world. BellSouth in Guatemala, Telcel-BellSouth in Venezuela and Vesper in Brazil will now receive products and services based on Qualcomm's BREW...
BURNABY, British Columbia—PMC-Sierra has released its PM2360-KIT Gandalf reference design kit, a reference platform for third-generation wireless base station designs.PMC-Sierra said the new design kit allows developers to design efficient and low-cost digital multi-carrier base station designs. It integrates PMC-Sierra's PM7815 PALADIN-15 chip, to...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it will enhance its third-generation wireless base station platform, the Flexent One BTSTM, boosting performance and capacity and providing customers with long-term investment protection.Lucent will incorporate an "Intelligent Antenna and BLAST" technology, which allows integration of multiple antenna...
ALLENTOWN, Pa.-Agere Systems, the former microelectronics group of Lucent Technologies Inc., has released a chip that switches voice and data signals, doubling the channel capacity of other products for wireless base station controllers and voice over Internet protocol networks.The chip will be demonstrated at...
TORONTO-Now that the C$6.6 billion (US$4.3 billion) Telus deal to acquire Clearnet Communications has been finalized, engineering issues are starting to surface.The challenge? How to combine the wireless operations of Telus and Clearnet and determine the best path for third-generation (3G) services. The new...
PathnetPathnet Telecommunications named Ken Rowen vice president of sales, focusing on competitive local access carriers. Rowen will lead a team responsible for integrating CLECs, regional bell operating companies and independent telephone companies into the Pathnet network in under-served regions of the country. Rowen developed...
The enthusiasm surrounding the emerging broadband wireless access industry is creating an opportunity for a variety of new and established equipment vendors hoping to cash in on what is expected to be a lucrative market.Vendors are scrambling to get systems ready for BWA deployments....
CLEVELAND-Reltec Corp. said it plans to acquire Italtel Tecnomeccanica S.p.A., a subsidiary of Italtel S.p.A., which is a joint venture of Siemens AG and Telecom Italia S.p.A. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Italtel Tecnomeccanica makes switching frames for central offices, Siemens indoor wireless...
Becker/Jani Inc.A log periodic dipole antenna, the Celwave Maximizer model APL 926513, was introduced for Global System for Mobile communications and Total Access Communications systems. The antenna offers a 45 dB minimum front-to-back ratio. The Maximizer operates at 870 to 960 MHz, has a...
Superconducting Core Technologies Inc. has ended commercial distribution of its cryoelectronic receiver front-end products for the mobile wireless base station market, igniting questions of whether superconductor companies targeting the wireless industry can raise enough capital to operate.Robert Paige, chief operating officer of Golden, Colo.-based...
SAN FRANCISCO-Superconducting Core Technologies Inc. announced its REACH Receiver Front End System has been sold domestically and internationally as a result of its field tests. The system uses cryoelectronic filters and low-noise amplifiers to improve call quality and extend the coverage area of wireless...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp. announced a strategic alliance with Comsyst Pty Ltd. of Sydney, Australia, to distribute and support AirNet's software-based, broadband wireless infrastructure equipment products and systems in the Australian and Southeast Asian markets.The company said the alliance is part of AirNet's strategy...
