GENEVA-ZTE Corp. said the International Telecommunication Union has chosen it to draft two important international standards for next-generation networks.The company will draft the requirements and framework for end-to-end quality-of-service architecture for NGN and QoS framework for Internet Protocol-based access networks."ZTE plays an active role...
NEW YORK-Carrier consolidation and increasing common standards are forcing wireless equipment makers to cut prices, according to a new report from Heavy Reading, a market research division of Light Reading Inc.The equipment covered in the study includes base stations, controllers, microcells, picocells and more...
CAMBRIDGE, U.K.-Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd. (CPS) said it has raised $9 million from existing investors to drive adoption of its Matrix location technology.The technology provides accuracy within 100 meters and costs less than $1 per handset to deploy, according to CPS. Currently, 10 mobile...
MONTREAL-Wavesat Inc., which develops OFDM broadband wireless access silicon solutions, said it has entered a cooperative agreement with ZTE Corp. of Shenzhen, China.The agreement calls for ZTE to evaluate Wavesat's DM256 chip."We will test and evaluate Wavesat's DM256 chip and we believe the cooperation...
OSLO, Norway-Opera Software continued its advances in the mobile phone market with the signing of a new deal with handset maker Kyocera Wireless Corp. Kyocera said it will sell the ZTE V91 and LU PS-900 mobile phones in China with the Opera Internet browser.Opera,...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-The WiMax Forum, which certifies broadband wireless access product interoperability, said its membership has leaped from 28 to 67 members in five months, including marquee names like Siemens, Covad and ZTE Corp.It also announced new members like Axxelera Broadband Wireless, Beamreach Networks,...
The battle of standards over base stations has heated up with the Common Public Radio Interface initiative announcing the launching of its specification.CPRI, which is led by L.M. Ericsson, faces rival Open Base Station Architecture Initiative led by Nokia Corp. CPRI said it completed...
BEIJING-In a simultaneous score for China's stride to third-generation technology, Nortel Networks Ltd. announced a carrier contract and a research and development investment, while Lucent Technologies Inc. announced successful interoperability testing.Nortel said it has invested $200 million in R&D in China during the past...
In a simultaneous score for China's stride to third-generation technology, Nortel Networks Ltd. announced a carrier contract and a research and development investment, while Lucent Technologies Inc. announced successful interoperability testing.Nortel said it has invested $200 million in R&D in China during the past...
One of the big riddles with open standards is that not all of those who swear by the principle believe in it. Unless, of course, it works in their favor.With a myriad of technologies in the market, vendors and carriers all see their technologies...
Barely nine months after Nokia Corp. led a base-station interoperability initiative, L.M. Ericsson and other major infrastructure vendors have countered with a new one, indicating a tension in that sector.The new initiative, known as the Common Public Radio Interface, also includes Siemens AG, Huawei...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—Colombia and Ecuador took several measures to accelerate the personal communications services (PCS) licenses auction that they plan to hold in the third quarter of 2002. Colombia's Ministry of Communications rejected the complaint appeal presented by BellSouth in October 2001, while Ecuador...
HONG KONG-Not even torrential rains around portions of Hong Kong could dampen the spirits of CDMA supporters at the 3G World Congress. Even with the lack of sunshine outside, to go along with the lack of CDMA coverage for roaming, most attendees seemed bright...
INDONESIALucent Technologies Inc. has signed two contracts with PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk to build its nationwide intelligent network and multimedia access infrastructure valued at $17.5 million. "We are pleased to have new supply agreements with Lucent Technologies," said Muhammad Nazif, president director, PT Telkom.CANADATelus...
HONG KONG-"This time it's for real," stated Robert Mao, president of Nortel Networks China.But Irwin Jacobs, chairman of Qualcomm, was rather more sanguine. "I've gone from being cautiously optimistic," said Jacobs, "to optimistic."The CDMA Development Group (CDG) fielded representatives from Ericsson, Lucent Technologies, Nortel...
BEIJING-Zhang Fan, head of mobile communications at China Unicom, this week said his company would definitely build narrowband networks based on the CDMA standard.After Qualcomm Chairman Irwin Jacobs recently met Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji and China Unicom Chairman Yang Xianzu in Beijing, China's second...
