NEW YORK-“There’s gold in them thar hills,” according to Justin Dudley, vice president of engineering for Telecel International Ltd., which has staked its claim to cellular service provision in Sub-Saharan …
NEW YORK-As 1996 drew to a close, the impact of the Internet on wireless communications manifested itself in a flurry of announcements from an array of providers. “It’s all about …
Ericsson Private Radio Systems ordered 150 PCMobile units from XL Computing Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cycomm International Inc. XL Computing values the order at more than $1 million. …
WASHINGTON-In his agenda for 1997, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt reiterated his commitment to deregulate telecommunications and to push competition in the marketplace for all communications players. Hundt also …
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Cellular operators need to “get their heads together” if they want to offer cellular as a primary solution for telemetry, said a Houston-based company that manages that service for large …
Pocket Communications Inc. named three new executives to its corporate management team. John A. Hoffman is the new chief operating officer. He has been given responsibility for the day-to-day activities …
LONDON-Orange plc of Great Britain has introduced integrated services dispatch network technology on its personal communications 1800 MHz network. Called ISDN Access, the service allows Orange’s fax and data customers …
TORONTO-Northern Telecom Ltd. signed an agreement with Bell Mobility to supply equipment for Bell Mobility’s cellular and personal communications services networks. Nortel values the agreement at around $293 million. The …
NEW YORK-Envision this scenario-for the price of a local phone call, mobile workers use personal digital assistants run by off-the-shelf software to routinely access their own computers wirelessly via the …
DALLAS-General Wireless Inc. has signed a five-year vendor financing equipment contract with Lucent Technologies Inc. to build GWI’s personal communications service networks. GWI PCS Inc., a subsidiary of Dallas-based General …
Wireless industry, watch out! Geniuses are at work in Washington. This is the baby-the Overseas Private Investment Corp., a federal agency that operates at no net cost to U.S. taxpayers. …
Editor’s Note: No other debate has ignited the wireless telecommunications industry like the one that rages between TDMA and CDMA technology. For several years, the greatest argument against CDMA technology …
Bell Atlantic Corp. has increased its ownership in Italian carrier Omnitel Pronto Italia, nullifying Mannesmann AG’s agreement with Olivetti SpA to purchase an additional 5.8 percent stake in the operator. …
CHARLOTTE, N.C-Glenayre Technologies Inc. has formed three strategic market units as part of organizational changes being made to maintain responsiveness to expanding global markets, the company said. The wireless messaging …
MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Technologies Inc. completed an agreement with Hyundai Electronics Industries Company Ltd. to manufacture and supply Frequency Hopping Multiple Access-related equipment to the Korean market. According to the agreement, …
“And so this is Christmas, and what have you done? Another year over, and a new one just begun.” This old John Lennon song looped through my head as I …
A Dec. 16 article regarding Motorola Inc.’s testing of the 8 kilobit-per-second enhanced variable rate vocoder should have stated that AirTouch Communications Inc. uses an 8 kbps vocoder in Los …
NEW YORK-CommNet Cellular Inc., a Colorado-based rural cellular provider, has terminated plans announced early this year for a nationwide paging alliance with MobileMedia Corp., but it is close to reaching …
Cellexis International Inc. said it has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Communications Commission against Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile after it notified the prepaid cellular reseller of its intention …
