March 1997

What began as a Craig McCaw idea became a definitive project for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. last week when the company announced plans to deploy a proprietary fixed wireless technology …

Fear is a powerful emotion. It keeps people behind locked doors. It makes them give up their chance to find the love of their lives. It keeps them from pursuing …

LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.-Ardis extended its nationwide wireless data network to include 13 new cities. The company also extended 19.2 kilobits per second coverage to five new cities and added PowerSave capabilities …

Link Telecommunications of Australia is gearing up to launch a two-way messaging network in Sydney, using technology supplied by Nexus Telecommunications Ltd. of Israel. The system trials began in the …

FORT WORTH, Texas-The Sabre Group is offering a flight paging service, which alerts business and leisure travelers of departure and arrival times, gate changes and delays. Alphanumeric paging subscribers can …

ATLANTA-AvData Systems Inc. announced it has finalized a $17 million contract to supply a very small aperture satellite terminal network infrastructure to PageMart Wireless Inc. The VSAT network infrastructure (VIN) …

The University of Vermont’s Law School Environmental Law Program recently held a conference called “Unplugged” dealing not with MTV, but with the wireless phone revolution-particularly the issue of antennas and …

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. said it will begin international service during the second quarter, allowing subscribers to roam in Canada, Mexico and Central America. International numeric roaming will cost $15 per …

The clear leader in innovation as honored at the third annual Mobile Insights Mobility Awards dinner was Palm Computing Inc.’s Pilot organizer, a diminutive device that currently has no wireless …

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.-Laissez-faire capitalists repeatedly faced off with supporters of de facto or government-mandated high-technology standards during last week’s Mobile Insights ’97 conference on mobile computing. The three-day meeting, held …

Wireless service providers’ uncertainty about wireless intelligent network revenues and their focus on switching and radiofrequency infrastructure means intelligent network spending has taken a back seat to other infrastructure concerns, …

Celcore Inc. introduced a Global System for Mobile communications system, designed specifically for emerging markets around the world-at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France. The system is built around …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-IBM Corp. announced the availability of software that allows access to World Wide Web and Internet applications using wireless radio frequency networks and cellular technology. The ARTour Web …

SPOKANE, Wash.-Itron, a provider of automatic meter reading (AMR) equipment and services to the utility industry, announced the sale of 50,000 Genesis Meter Modules to Sontex S.A., a Swiss distributor …

The Japanese Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications is close to officially introducing Code Division Multiple Access technology as a pocket telephone standard. The indication comes after the Japanese standardization body, …

CAMBRIDGE, England-Simoco International Ltd. will supply radio communications equipment to the 1997 Qantas Australian Grand Prix. The company will provide a radio communications trunking system, which will provide both telephone …

SAN DIEGO-Sony/Qualcomm CDMA Sales, a division of Qualcomm Personal Electronics, will provide Code Division Multiple Access handsets to U S West Communications Inc. Sony/Qualcomm values the contract at $80 million. …

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt’s flexible spectrum policy violates the law, according to a Catholic University communications law review article. Though published a year ago, the article by Tara …

Operators with new 1900 MHz personal communications services networks need add-on services that are meaningful revenue generators and offer something customers repeatedly need, says one such service provider. “The cost …

CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. signed international roaming agreements with 26 Global System for Mobile communications carriers, mainly in Europe and the Pacific Rim. The agreements cover the United Kingdom, …

Four years ago Systems/Link Corp. introduced RoamEx, which “allowed carriers with fraud problems in big cities access to what was going on,” said Diane Sammer, president of Systems/Link. Today RoamEx …

TUSTIN, Calif.-Activator Systems Inc. said its robotics-controlled automated phone programming module now is available. The A-Key uses ASI’s patented programming process, using only encrypted data. Accuracy is ensured and secure. …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Standard Communications Corp.’s Wireless Datacom Division announced it will show its new cellular modem module and cellular radiofrequency module at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association’s Wireless ’97 trade …

After a year of declining prices on paging stocks, market values among the industry’s leaders are starting to stabilize. “The bottom is here, the worst is behind us,” stated Michael …

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Synopsys Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc.’s microelectronics group have agreed to jointly develop hardware and software design tools and services for Global System for Mobile communications cellular telephone …