LE MANS, France-Philips Electronics North America Corp. has appointed Osmo Hautanen president of Philips Consumer Communications Co., a seven-month-old Le Mans, France-based subsidiary of Philips Electronics. Hautanen will oversee Philips’ …
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-U.S. Olympic athletes in Atlanta communicated with their coaches, teammates, friends, family and press using OlymPagers, alphanumeric pagers that Motorola Inc. provided to each Team USA athlete. The …
Next to the bad guys, perhaps the biggest danger to America last week was the government as Congress and President Clinton worked frantically to craft an anti-terrorism bill before lawmakers …
AVON, Colo.-NSN Network Services introduced Broadcast TNPP for paging networking, technology that combines Telocator Network Paging Protocol sources from a number of locations into one data stream, enabling point-to-multipoint communications …
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Mobile Phones K.K. (Japan) has introduced the Nokia Digital Data/Fax Card to the Japanese digital cellular networks. The card enables wireless data transmission linking Nokia’s digital mobile phones …
NEW YORK-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp., a 38 GHz provider of wireless local loop service, announced Aug. 1 it had pulled a planned initial public offering of common stock and a …
JACKSON, Miss.-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. said it successfully completed a consent solicitation approving certain amendments to the indenture of its 13.5 percent Senior Notes, due 2002. Under the amended terms, …
FORT WORTH-Motorola Inc.’s Messaging Systems Products Group has released an enhanced version of its FLEX high-speed, one-way paging protocol. Version 1.8 of the FLEX protocol offers backwards compatibility with previous …
CHICAGO-MobiLink, a service development company owned by an alliance of North America’s leading B-side wireless service providers, has unveiled a new logo design. MobiLink, founded in 1993 by a group …
Wireless analysts say cellular carriers have two distinct goals in releasing a barrage of pricing plans at this time. Get as many customers on contract as possible, and confuse the …
WASHINGTON-President Clinton last week nominated former wireless regulator Regina Keeney to the Federal Communications Commission, an appointment that while popular could run into delays in the Senate because of the …
WASHINGTON-The job of exporting the information revolution appears increasingly better suited to National Telecommunications and Information Administration chief Larry Irving than to Mickey Kantor, who was named Commerce Secretary four …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission’s adoption last week of a sweeping local-competition docket at best opens the door for some wireless carriers to become true head-to-head competitors with local exchange carriers, …
Hong Kong’s dominant cellular operator Hongkong Telecom said it deeply regrets that the government failed to award it one of six new wireless licenses, and intends to discuss the matter …
The telecommunications landscape has been changing so fast lately that it has been hard to keep up with all the new technologies, the new regulations and the new spectrum allocations. …
BELMONT, Calif.-Western Multiplex Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Glenayre Technologies Inc., has received a waiver extension from the Federal Communications Commission. The waiver permits users of WMC spread spectrum …
CHARLOTTE, N.C.- Glenayre Technologies Inc. said it is working with the Chinese Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, various MPT design institutes, the Research Institute of Telecommunications Transmission and the Mobile …
NEW YORK-Moody’s Investors Service Inc., New York, assigned a Caa long-term rating to two outstanding debt issues of Geotek Communications Inc., Montvale, N.J. The speculative grade rating, with a stable …
WASHINGTON-Following July 30 rulings by two different U.S. appeals courts, the Federal Communications Commission’s D-, E- and F-block broadband personal communications services auctions will start Aug. 26. The application date …
Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile was the first U.S. company to roll out Code Division Multiple Access service, which was incorrectly reported in the July 22 issue of RCR.
