Paging Partners Corp. announced it was honored as New Jersey’s eighth fastest growing technology company at The New Jersey Technology Fast 50 Awards, held at Newark’s Gateway Hilton. Paging Partners said it posted revenue growth of 1,138 percent from 1991 to 1995.
Illinois Superconductor Corp. announced initial results from a field trial of the SpectrumMaster filter for cellular base stations. The test was conducted at a Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems commercial cell site in Dallas on the company’s Time Division Multiple Access digital cellular network. Illinois Superconductor said initial results of the trial indicated that the filters improved cellular call quality, reduced dropped calls, extended cell range and expanded call carrying capacity on the digital network. Southwestern Bell has scheduled trials in three additional cities in both A- and B-band cellular networks across the country, said Illinois Superconductor.
Liberty Lake, Wash.-based Northern Technologies Inc., which supplies power protection solutions to the wireless industry, announced it has formalized an exclusive agreement with Sprint Spectrum. Northern Technologies said it will supply Sprint Spectrum with a product and service package that facilitates a protection and grounding system for personal communications services site applications. The equipment was designed to integrate with base transceiver station units supplied to Sprint Spectrum by Lucent Technologies Inc. and Northern Telecom Inc., said Northern Technologies.
Palmer Wireless Inc., operating under the name Cellular One in Fort Meyers, Fla., announced it will install the ClassLink system in a school for blind children. Palmer has selected the Georgia Academy for the Blind in Macon, Ga., as its third ClassLink school after launching the initiative in Alabama and Florida. The ClassLink project will include donated cellular telephones with accessories, free airtime for the 1996-97 school year, wireless modems and voice-activated dialers to the school. Teachers and support staff also will have their own cellular voice mail boxes for homework and other class information and for communicating with parents and students, said Palmer Wireless. The company also will provide Hatis devices for students who are hearing impaired.
Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc. announced its AH-129 analog portable cellular phones have passed the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association’s newly created authentication program requirements. The program, which began in February, calls for testing of CTIA certified mobile stations employing analog control channels against the authentication requirements described by industry standards, said Mitsubishi. Testing for authentication on IS-136 compatible phones will begin later this summer.
