EUGENE, Ore.-The Eugene City Council voted Sept. 16 to put in place a 120-day moratorium on tower building in the area, but accepted applications for sites submitted before the moratorium …
The futuresque communications previously only envisioned by StarTrek’s writers are reality in the here and now as demonstrated at PCS ’96 by students of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, …
The market for handheld devices may get a shot in the arm now that Microsoft Corp. has introduced Windows CE, a 32-bit operating system platform that can support a broad …
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Alcatel Telecom and Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group will purchase each other’s wireless equipment according to a memorandum of understanding announced Thursday. According to the agreement, Alcatel will …
Editor: I look to RCR for timely and appropriate information on the state of the industry. As senior real estate and construction manager for BellSouth International’s foreign cellular projects, I …
WAKEFIELD, Mass.-Boston Technology Inc. has agreed to provide Escotel Mobile Communications Ltd. with systems and software for voice messaging services for its Global System for Mobile communications network in India. …
Qualcomm Personal Electronics says it is meeting the handset manufacturing contract requirements of Sprint PCS, which intends to launch service in 15 to 20 major markets by year’s end. Even …
Ameritech Cellular Services announced it has successfully completed a 15-month test of its Code Division Multiple Access network in Illinois. ClearPath, the new name for the system, was tested in …
You can’t keep a good man down. The anesthesia had barely worn off before the national news media was in Tom Wheeler’s face. The New York Times and CNN wanted …
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association late last week petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to pre-empt excessive or discriminatory taxation of commercial wireless carriers, calling the growing trend “a profound moral …
In the Sept. 16 issue of RCR, the headline on page 12, “Editor who got free stake in PCS carrier promotes that firm,” was incorrect. While it is unknown how …
TORONTO-Clearnet Communications Inc. has launched its business communications service, a digital wireless telecommunications service that integrates mobile phone, dispatch or group and private call radio, alphanumeric paging and messaging services …
BEIJING-China Telecom, a division of the country’s Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, has selected Motorola Inc.’s Advanced Messaging Group to supply infrastructure equipment to implement China’s FLEX national backbone paging …
NEW YORK-Cellnet Data Systems Inc., which provides wireless monitoring networks to utilities, was expected to go public late last week or early this week. The planned initial public offering of …
Centigram Communications Corp. announced it will sell its MobileManager enhanced services platform to Paging Network Inc. for limited testing this year with possible commercial deployment later. Centigram developed MobileManager in …
NEC America Inc. introduced what it believes to be the first in a new class of pagers: The Beacon data pager. The device is a one-way FLEX pager that uses …
ATLANTA-AvData Systems Inc. and NEC America Inc.’s Satellite Communications Division announced at PCS ’96 the introduction of AvData’s Very Small Aperture Terminal Network Infrastructure system. VNI is a high-speed VSAT …
NEW YORK-Following on the heels of Motorola Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc., AT&T Corp. announced last week it anticipates lower than expected earnings for the third and fourth quarters of …
A California manufacturer is producing a paging repeater that it believes is unique and will appeal to carriers battling high installation costs. The P450 by AML Communications Inc. has a …
SAN FRANCISCO-Allen Telecom Group President Erik van der Kaay announced at PCS ’96 that the company’s recent and pending acquisitions position the company as a leading global provider of a …
