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(updated Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2 p.m. EST)
Compiled from staff reports, press releases and wire services.
Top of the News
• Citing recent contract wins in Brazil and other regions in South America and Central America, the CDMA Development
Group declared that cdmaOne has emerged as a leading wireless technology in the Americas.
The CDG also said the specification known as 1XRTT is near completion in the standards process. 1XRTT will allow existing
cdmaOne networks to provide enhanced third generation-like services, including high speed data capabilities, e-mail, fax and
Internet access.
The announcements were made at the 1998 CDMA Americas Congress in Los Angeles. The conference continues through
Friday.
Cellular/PCS
• Qualcomm Inc. announced its first venture into electronic commerce with the establishment of The Qualcomm Store, an
Internet-based retail shop at qualcomm.com.
Paging
• Iridium LLC activated its global paging and messaging network featuring pagers from Motorola Inc. and Kyocera.
SMR/Private Radio
• BearCom Group Inc. in Dallas formed a joint venture with Cellhire Plc., a GSM rental provider in the United Kingdom. The
venture will focus on delivering domestic and international phone rentals to the U.S. market with an emphasis on GSM, Nextel
Communications Inc. and Iridium LLC handsets.
Data
• Qualcomm Inc. announced the establishment of the pdQ smart phone Software Developer's Program. The new program will
provide developers with resources and tools to create new applications for the pdQ smart phone, an all-in-one CDMA phone
and Palm Computing platform-based organizer.
• Nortel Networks is conducting live trials of IS-95 CDMA circuit-switched data services with Bell Mobility and other
selected customers. Nortel also is conducting related work in the Nortel Networks Wireless Internet Lab in Dallas.
• Inet Technologies Inc. in Plano, Texas, unveiled its Spider II, a Type II CDPD modem for Windows CE, at Comdex Fall '98
in Las Vegas this week. The new modem is used in conjunction with Casio's pen-based handheld PC, offering users a
complete solution for wireless access to information via CDPD.
Technology
• Intek Global Corp. in Princeton, N.J., announced a $5 million commitment for its proprietary linear modulation-based radio
and base station equipment from the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative. NRTC is a national organization with
plans to develop affordable telecommunications for its 900 rural utility members.
International
• P-Com Inc. in Campbell, Calif., received more than $1.3 million in purchase orders from an unnamed service provider in
Brazil for the supply of radio systems. P-Com provides point-to-point, spread spectrum and point-to-multipoint radio links.
Business
• Qualcomm Inc. was named to Deloitte & Touche's "Fast 500" Program, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology
companies in the United States.
Other News
• No significant problems had been reported as of this morning as a result of the Leonid meteor showers. While the showers
produced a dazzling show for observers, concerns had mounted that they would wreak havoc on the more than 500 satellites
that provide paging, broadcast, messaging, voice and other services.
• Banning wireless phones inside hospital buildings is akin to "cutting off your nose to spite your face," according to the
University of Oklahoma Center for the Study of Wireless Electromagnetic Compatibility. The center says it is encouraged by
initial reaction to a prototype software tool designed to determine how medical and wireless devices can exist in the same
environments.
• Michael Evans, a former executive at the nonprofit Youth Service America, has been named executive director of the CTIA
Foundation for Wireless Telecommunications.
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