Qualcomm Home Page. See the history of Qualcomm and where cdmaOne came from.
qualcomm.com
CDMA Development Group Home Page. You can read all about cdmaOne and what it means as the world's new wireless technology.
cdg.org
sat-net.com
is a very good source. It gives details on all the satellite systems. The guy running it is an Iridium fan because of their space switching = networks being his specialty. So most of the info is about Iridium. He also worked in constellation topology and he has got a neat coverage map for the various systems. Actually, Globalstar footprints are elliptical rather than circular, with the long axis aligned with the direction of travel to give longer times between handoffs to the next satellite. Go to "Overview" for the Globalstar section.
globalstar.com
Thanks to Philip Merryman who finds so much material, here are some
photos of Globalstar satellites under production and testing at the Alenia production facility in Rome. They are great looking little satellites!
And here are some photos of the earth stations under construction.
globalstar.com
techstocks.com
This is an url to the Loral thread leading to a discussion about Globalstar prospects.
And some earlier discussion about Loral, Globalstar etc from the Loral
thread, taken from a contributor to AOL:
techstocks.com
Bill Gates on India, which will be a big cdmaOne market.
pathfinder.com@@KQOBRgcA4ftjupPn/fortune/1997/970818/fea.html
wp.com
Lots and lots and LOTS of background information and hundreds of
weblinks on Mobile Satellite Telecommunications.
sss-mag.com
More links - spread spectrum etc.
iftf.org
Just something impressive for future constellations of Globalstar to link up with. The future is still to come. Microengineering.
techstocks.com
From the Loral Stream. Estimates of numbers of subscribers, minutes of use, revenue, net profit etc. Because Globalstar Telecommunications Limited only owns 22% of Globalstar LP you need to adjust the projected net profit accordingly.
Yahoo! Summary of Globalstar's Senior Notes offering. Moody's rates
Globalstar notes B3. Gives some comments about the system and summarizes financing.
biz.yahoo.com
Iridium handphones to cost US$2,000-3,000. Ouch!!!
biz.yahoo.com
And a bit about the Iridium IPO. Iridium World represents about an
eight percent stake in Iridium LLC, a consortium including Motorola Inc (MOT), Sprint Corp (FON), Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT) and Raytheon Co (RTN).
biz.yahoo.com
biz.yahoo.com
teledotcom.com
From a LEO subscriber's point of view. The home page of this service is also a good source of information on telecom in general, W-CDMA developments and so on.
teledotcom.com
George Gilder's articles. The word on the wireless world:
gildertech.com
Into the lion's lair! Motorola Website:
mot.com
The Silicon Investor history of Qualcomm and CDMA:
Subject 3188
And more recent days of Qualcomm and CDMA in SI:
Subject 8007
NextWave Telecom according to SI:
Subject 7407
NextWave Telecom according to NextWave Telecom:
nextwavetel.com
Frezza's Forum for CDMA versus Ericsson/GSM debate:
cmp-pub1.web.cerf.net@^28486@.ee6b2b2
specialty.com
High bandwidth Web page. Satellites and Internet access.
Some information about Motorola, but get the latest from their site.
mot.com
Motorola Quarterly report to 31 March 1997.
mot.com
mot.com
techweb.com
That is a better and direct link to the article about Frontiers in
Space which discussed the various satellite schemes and how they can fit into corporate user plans.
And here is one for an article about Qualcomm getting a $600 million
contract for gateway production. Initial payment of $275 million for the first 3 or 4 has been made. These will be installed at: Aussaguel, France; Yeoju, South Korea; and Clifton, Texas. No mention of Dubbo, Australia, though it is nearing completion.
techweb.com
Incidentally, Iridium is the most dense element of all, and one of the most expensive. More dense than lead, gold and all those heavy metals. Now they have changed to Dysprosium, atomic number 66 because the initial 77 planned didn't work out right. But they didn't change the name.
wcom.com
Telecom words and what they mean.
More general information
c2corp.com
San Diego newspaper and general information about San Diego
uniontrib.com
uniontrib.com
Yahoo quotes and finance
quote.yahoo.com
Computing Korea, including telecom
ckorea.hnc.net
Internet Telephony
internettelephony.com
As it stands now, G* will launch 4 satellites each from Cape Canaveral
on 4 December and 26 February (= 8), 12 satellites each from Zenit-2 (= 36) [the first in May 1998], and 4 satellites from Soyuz (at least one) (8+36+4 = 48). |
