Monthly Archives: March, 1997

MCCAW’S PROJECT ANGEL GIVEN LIFE BY AT&T WIRELESS SERVICES

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...

OVERCOMING DECISION-MAKER FEAR TO EARN ANTENNA SITE APPROVAL

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

ARDIS DATA NETWORK ADDED IN 13 CITIES

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...

LINK READY TO LAUNCH SYDNEY NETWORK

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...

SABRE GROUP OFFERS FLIGHT PAGER SERVICE

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...

AVDATA FINALIZES VSAT SUPPLY DEAL

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...

DEVELOPING NATIONS WILL BE SPARED SIGHT OF UGLY TELEPHONE POLES

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...

PAGEMART WIRELESS STARTS INTL. SERVICE

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...

PALM’S PILOT IS HONORED WITH `PRODUCT OF YEAR’

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...

STANDARDS ISSUE BECOMES FLASHPOINT AT MOBILE COMPUTING SHOW

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...

TMS STUDY CONCLUDES INTELLIGENT NETWORKS TO BE LARGER CONCERN

Wireless service providers' uncertainty about wireless intelligent network revenues and their focus on switching and radiofrequency infrastructure means intelligent network spending has taken a...

WORLD BRIEFS

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,...

INTERNET SOFTWARE AVAILABLE FROM IBM

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...

ITRON SELLS METERS TO SWISS DISTRIBUTOR

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...

JAPAN STRIKES BLOW TO GSM BACKERS BY PICKING CDMA STANDARD

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...

SIMOCO TO SUPPLY GEAR TO GRAND PRIX

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,...

QUALCOMM LANDS U S WEST CONTRACT

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...

LAW REVIEW PAPER CLAIMS FLEXIBLE SPECTRUM POLICY IS NOT LEGAL

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...

SEATTLE FIRM PROMOTES CREATIVE ADD-ON REVENUE SCHEMES FOR CARRIERS

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...

OMNIPOINT SIGNS UP FOR GSM ROAMING

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...

ROAMEX HELPS CARRIERS SAFELY FACILITATE NORTH AMERICAN ROAMING

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...

ROBOTIC MODULE IS AVAILABLE NOW

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...

STANDARD TO SHOW WIRELESS MODEM

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...

PAGING STOCKS STARTING TO STABILIZE, WILL CONSOLIDATION FOLLOW?

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...

SYNOPSYS, LUCENT JOIN FOR GSM TOOLS

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...
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