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News From the UWCC Global Summit 1998 in Vancouver, British Columbia
Business Wire - April 21, 1998 06:18
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 1998--
Top Industry Analyst Says Economy in Japan will Impede Deployment of CDMA and 3G
Top industry analyst Herschel Shosteck underlined the political and economic forces driving world cellular growth during an April 16 presentation at the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium (UWCC) Global Summit in Vancouver, British Columbia.
"With the continuing deterioration of the Japanese economy, it is apparent that DDI and IDO (the two cellular carriers committed to CDMA/IS-95) will put their CDMA expansion plans on hold. Likewise, NTT DoCoMo, (the dominant Japanese cellular carrier) will be forced to reconsider its development and deployment of Third Generation technology," said Dr. Shosteck, president and CEO of Herschel Shosteck Associates during his Global Wireless Market Forcast presentation.
UWCC Second Annual Global Summit Continues Momentum
During the 1998 Global Summit, the UWCC announced the creation of an international task force and the achievement of TDMA/WIN milestones. The UWCC also demonstrated multi-vendor interoperability and multi-band hand-off capability. The international roaming task force is working to extend coverage around the world by outlining a common set of advanced digital services to ensure consistent service delivery worldwide. UWCC presented SignalSoft Corp. with a commemorative plaque marking the 100th member milestone. Ericsson, Lucent Technologies, Nortel, and Rogers Cantel demonstrated interoperability and multi-band hand-off capability.
"We are riding high on the momentum surrounding TDMA," said Gregory G. Williams, chairman of the UWCC. "We've been busy in the two years since the UWCC started. The UWCC has been advancing the TDMA/WIN standards, developing a migration path to Third Generation, forecasting subscriber-number growth, developing an international roaming task force, enlisting handset manufacturers and signing up new members to the consortium."
The UWCC is riding a wave of momentum following the consortium's two recent announcements; the unveiling of worldwide subscriber numbers projecting a 1,150 percent growth rate of TDMA (IS-136) by the end of 2002; and the debut of UWC-136, the consortium's solution for meeting Third Generation high-speed data application requirements.
UWCC Membership Hits 100
The UWCC announced the addition of its 100th member to the consortium, SignalSoft Corp. Mr. Williams presented Mark Flolid, executive vice president of sales and marketing for SignalSoft Corp., a plaque to commemorate the milestone. "SignalSoft is honored to be the 100th member of the UWCC," Flolid said. "Joining the consortium confirms our commitment to IS-136 and the advancement of WIN standards. We look forward to working with UWCC to bring location-based services to the IS-136 marketplace."
"The strength of the UWCC is in its membership and it's great to see its continued growth," said Chris Pearson director of marketing at the UWCC. The consortium has added 17 new members since the middle of March the carriers include Bakersfield Cellular (USA), Cellular One-Boston (USA), Cellular One-Chicago (USA), Cellular One-Indianapolis (USA), Cellular One-San Francisco (USA), Cellular One-Upstate New York (USA), Cellular One-Washington/Baltimore (USA), Honolulu Cellular (USA), Houston Cellular (USA), LA Cellular (USA) and North American Cellular Network (USA). The vendors include: DSP Communications, G.M. Selby & Associates, Inc., KSI, Inc., Metapath Software Corporation, SignalSoft Corporation and Wildfire Communications, Inc. Rob Mechaley, president and CEO of Wildfire stated "Although Wildfire is platform-independent, the TDMA community is extremely important to us. Being an active member of this consortium is key to Wildfire's goal of becoming the premier supplier of speech-driven enhanced services to the carrier community."
Presidents of the World's Largest Wireless Services Companies Give "State of TDMA/WIN" Address
Executives from the leading companies in the wireless industry presented views of the global wireless marketplace and the programs the UWCC must implement to make TDMA/WIN more competitive and successful in the marketplace. "It was an extremely powerful statement regarding these companies commitment to TDMA (IS-136) and WIN (IS-41) to see the leading executives explain their common view that TDMA and WIN continues the momentum through more subscribers, increased network deployments, additional WIN applications and the UWC-136 third generation program," stated Chris Pearson director of marketing at the UWCC. Top executive presenters included: Dan Hesse of AT&T Wireless Services, Sven-Christer Nilsson of Ericsson, Ed Reynolds of BellSouth Cellular, K.P. Wilska of Nokia, Matt Desche of Nortel, Dave Poticny of Lucent Technologies, Maria Cristina Mejia de Mejia of Celumovil, Shelly Revkin of Hughes Network Systems, Zamani Zakariah of Mobikom, Bob Berner of Rogers Cantel, Kris Rinne of SBC Wireless, and Eric Doggett of Tandem Computers, Inc.
UWCC Showcases Multi-Vendor Interoperability with Four-City Wireless Network
The UWCC put together a TDMA/WIN network that simulated a four-city wireless network to demonstrate seamless international roaming and multi-vendor hand-off capabilities as well as features such as short messaging, abbreviated dialing and caller number I.D. The companies involved in the demonstration at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre included Ericsson, Lucent Technologies, Northern Telecom (Nortel), Nokia, Philips Consumer Communications, Tandem Computers, Aldiscon and Rogers Cantel. The successful demonstration was headed by David Glass of AT&T Wireless Services, who stated, "For the first time we publicly demonstrated a hand off from a Lucent 1900 system to a Nortel 1900 system as well as tied together a four-city wireless intelligent network built inside the convention center."
UWCC Recognizes Members in an Awards Ceremony and Gala
UWCC members were recognized at a gala during a prestigious awards ceremony sponsored by Ericcson and Rogers Cantel Inc. Awards were given to the following UWCC members in the following categories:
UWCC Global Summit Awards
TDMA Forum Award
Presented to: Paul Meche of Nokia Mobile Phones,
Peter Hartmaier of Global Mobility Systems and
Tony DeMarco of BellSouth Cellular Corp.
Regional Carrier Award Oceania
Presented to: Telecom New Zealand
Best TDMA Terminal
Presented to: Ericsson
Regional Carrier Award Middle East/Africa
Presented to: Cellcom Israel
Best TDMA Infrastructure
Presented to: Ericsson
Regional Carrier Award Greater Europe
Presented to: VimpelCom
Best WIN Infrastructure
Presented to: Tandem Computers
Regional Carrier Award South America
Presented to: Celumovil
Best TDMA/WIN Print Ad
Presented to: Ericsson
Regional Carrier Award Asia Pacific
Presented to: Hong Kong Telecom CSL
Best TDMA/WIN Commercial or Video
Presented to: Vanguard Cellular Systems
Regional Carrier Award North America
Presented to: AT&T Wireless Services
UWCC Team Award
Presented to: UWCC Conference Demo Team
Spirit of the UWCC Award
Presented to: David Glass of AT&T Wireless Services
UWCC Leadership Award
Presented to: Rod Nelson of AT&T Wireless Services
UWCC Vendor Carrier Award
Presented to: Lucent Technologies and Comcast Cellular
UWCC Founders Award
Presented to: Mike Buhrmann of UWCC
UWCC Chairman's Award
Presented to: Paul Meche of Nokia Mobile Phones
Presidents Award
Presented to: Sven-Christer Nilsson of Ericsson
Ericsson D-AMPS IS-136 Wireless Office System Makes One Phone, One Number a Reality
Ericsson Inc. has introduced its premise-based D-AMPS IS-136 (TDMA) Wireless Office System that will offer enterprises a one-phone, one-number system that can be used anywhere inside or outside the office. The announcement was made at the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium (UWCC) Global Summit in Vancouver. This product operates on both the 850 MHz and 1900 MHz license frequencies. With the introduction of this product, the days of phone tag, endless voice mail messages and keeping up with a variety of communications devices could soon be numbered.
The feature-rich system is designed to capitalize on the unique advantages of the D-AMPS IS-136 (TDMA) standard and is being marketed together with wireless operators. General availability in North America is scheduled for November. Ericsson has also announced a joint marketing agreement with AT&T Wireless Services to offer the system to its business customers. Other agreements are expected to be announced this year.
The Ericsson system's virtual single cell radio network architecture performs with multiple cell capacity. According to Mikael Nilsson, Product Manager for Ericsson Wireless Office Services, "What sets the Ericsson system apart from similar systems is our radio network architecture. Our product is uniquely designed to ensure excellent voice quality throughout the wireless office. Building on the basic soft-handoff patent that Ericsson received in the mid-1980s, this product uses a technique called macro diversity to enhance voice quality without sacrificing the capacity benefits of TDMA. The radio network automatically allocates frequencies from the public network for use in building and the dynamic channel selection feature always finds the best channel. So there's never an in-building capacity issue."
Watkins-Johnson and TELOS Announce Cost Effective IS-136 Network With First Open IS-634 Base Station to Switch Interface
Watkins-Johnson Company (NYSE:WJ) and TELOS Engineering Ltd. jointly demonstrated today a fully functional WJ Base2(TM) IS-136 Base Station System with a TELOS switch. WJ's Base2 MacroCell Base Station and the TELOS Mobile Switching Center (MSC) communicated via an IS-634 open interface. This is the first implementation of an IS-634 open "A" interface for TDMA applications between an independent radio and switch provider. The demonstration took place at the Universal Wireless Communications (UWC) Global Summit in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Rick Lober, Director of Wireless Infrastructure Sales at Watkins-Johnson's Telecommunications Group pointed out that, "the open IS-634 interface between the base station and the switch brings freedom of choice for service providers to select the best equipment for their network deployment."
According to Michael J. Harris, vice president, business development at TELOS. "The combination of WJ's Base2 software-definable radio with the TELOS scalable distributed MSC architecture offer a highly competitive, affordable solution for wireless networks worldwide."
WJ's patented programmable base station, in conjunction with the scalable, programmable, distributed MSC, offers a low-cost solution to wireless communication. The distributed-switch architecture significantly reduces network equipment and trunking costs compared with the traditional centralized-MSC paradigm, and provides maximum flexibility for network expansion. Remote programmability facilitates the introduction of new network services and features, while modular architecture allows for minimal up-front capital investment and affordable upgrades.
The Base2 is not only technologically advanced, but is also a highly versatile base station. It is capable of supporting Enhanced Full Rate or VSELP vocoding, IS-136 (TDMA) or AMPS, new build or overlay services, wireless local loop (WLL) or full mobility, all from a single platform. Watkins-Johnson and TELOS together offer solutions today for new system deployments as well as AMPS to IS-136/TDMA upgrades. Programmable system architecture allows the system to support UWC-136(3G) through software upgrade alone.
Nortel (Northern Telecom) Reaches Milestone One Million Subscribers in Columbia
Nortel (Northern Telecom) has reached a major milestone -- one million wireless subscribers -- in Columbia, one of the fastest growing, most progressive cellular markets in the world. This announcement includes 800,000 TDMA digital wireless customers with four of Columbia's six cellular operators -- Celumovil, Celumovil de la Costa, OCCEL and COMCEL. More than 80 percent of Columbia's 1.2 million cellular subscribers are served by Nortel wireless networks.
"One million subscribers in Columbia are speaking volumes about the quality and performance of both our analog and TDMA digital networks," said John Vice, vice president and general manager, Wireless Networks, Nortel. A pioneer in the rollout of digital cellular networks, Columbia was home to South America's first TDMA digital cellular call, placed in 1994 using a Nortel network.
"Four years ago, we launched two of the world's first 100 percent TDMA digital networks in Columbia," Vice said, "and we've introduced a number of new features and voice quality enhancements in Columbia before rolling them out to the rest of the world."
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