Motorola Inc. and Qatar Public Telecommunications Corp. announced the introduction of a high-speed, high-capacity paging service based on the FLEX protocol in the Middle Eastern country of Qatar. With the FLEX protocol, Q-Tel said it can expand and enhance its paging service, while continuing to maximize its existing POCSAG-based paging network. Beginning this month, Q-Tel will offer Qatari consumers Motorola Inc.’s Bravo FLEX protocol-based pager.
TMI Communications announced it has transferred all customer lines served through American Mobile Satellite Corp. in the United States to its Canadian MSAT-1 satellite. TMI said the MSAT Network is Canada’s first mobile satellite communications system. The network offers a full range of wireless digital voice and data communications services to Canadians living, working or traveling in the 80 percent of the country currently underserved by the existing telecommunications infrastructure. Full operation of the MSAT-1 satellite marks the culmination of more than 20 years of research and development, initiated and supported by the Communications Research Centre, part of Industry Canada, TMI said.
Nexus Telecommunications Systems Ltd. of Tel Aviv, Israel, announced it has extended its class A warrants until Dec. 31. “From the point of view of the company, we believe that if the class A warrants are exercised, it will be an efficient way to raise additional capital to the company,” said Dr. Amnon Shefi, president and chief executive officer of Nexus. Nexus develops and markets low energy wireless communications and location systems through the application of digital spread spectrum technologies. The company is a 27-percent owned affiliate of BVR Technologies.
NEC Australia announced its largest ever Southeast Asian rural turnkey radio communications project, linking up some of the most remote areas in Indonesia. The $43 million wireless local loop system will use more than 10,000 lines to provide a central village “public phone” to link villages in Indonesia’s remote areas on Kalimantan and rural villages on Java. Australian production of the radio communications equipment for export to Indonesia will begin within months at NEC’s Mulgrave, Victoria, manufacturing plant, the company said.
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada-based Research in Motion Ltd. has completed a special warrant financing for aggregate gross proceeds of about $34 million. The financing was led by Griffiths McBurney & Partners and its syndicate members Midland Walwyn Capital Inc., Marleau, Lemire Securities Inc., TD Securities Inc. and Yorkton Securities Inc. The company said it will use the proceeds of the financing to invest in additional plant and equipment, increase research and development and for working capital.
