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News Release from: Cambridge Positioning Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 May 2002
US demand leads to Cambridge expansion
The world's first facility for integrating high-accuracy location software into mobile phones is expanding to meet surging demand from global handset manufacturers.
The world's first facility for integrating high-accuracy location software into mobile phones is expanding to meet surging demand from global handset manufacturers planning to launch product into the US market CPS opened the facility just six months ago offering testing and integration services for its pioneering E-OTD technology - accepted by US GSM operators as the standard location solution
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Jul 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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E-OTD offers a key benefit to handset developers in so far as it requires only a small software change.
Other location solutions, by contrast, require costly hardware changes as well.
Today, upwards of 20 leading handset and chipset vendors are moving through the integration process as they target Fall 2002 for the rollout of E-OTD enabled devices.
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Location assistance for GSM networks
Cambridge Positioning Systems (CPS) has a new range of products to improve the performance of satellite-based high accuracy location technologies for GSM networks.
It is understood that these will include a range of both handsets and PDAs from established brand leaders.
CPS is expecting a number of significant announcements to be made by manufacturers during the next quarter as market launch nears.
Recent FCC filings by operators identified a number of vendors working towards E-OTD integration.
The FCC also predicted recently that by 2005 up to 150 million handsets will be location enabled - around 95% of all handsets in use - indicating the size of the available market.
CPS Chief Executive Officer Chris Wade said: "There is significant momentum building.
We are seeing consistent, long term demand developing for our integration services from manufacturers.
The throughput we are experiencing in our facility underlines the fact that major global players see E-OTD as the low cost high accuracy technology".
The company is now recruiting additional engineers to meet the growth in demand.
The integration facility provides a standard laboratory integration and test environment for mobile terminals incorporating E-OTD technology.
It enables all GSM terminal manufacturers to test the performance of CPS' positioning software within their products before being released to manufacturing for commercial rollout.
Until the opening of the facility, it was impossible for terminal manufacturers to provide laboratory test results to the mobile network operators that are launching location-based services using E-OTD.
This latest news follows a series of important contract wins for CPS from network equipment vendors for its network/handset based E-OTD solution.
Earlier this year, CPS announced that Nortel Networks and Siemens are to adopt its solution, following similar success with Ericsson late the previous year.
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