DSP Communications Inc. expects to see continued growth in 1997 and 1998, when the company may reap rewards from its new product, a wireless branch exchange system.The company reported revenues of $88.9 million for the 12-month period ended Dec. 31, an 118 percent increase...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and GTE Corp. have been awarded nationwide mobile phone licenses in Taiwan, beating competitors such as Sprint Corp. and France Telecom Group out of the prize.Also, a regional license covering southern Taiwan was won by a consortium that includes U.S.-based...
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 was that it was not commercially available. That changed in 1996 as both cellular and...
The end of the Cold War six years ago signaled the end of defense as a driver of technology creation. Engineers have since sought ways to apply defense designs to commercial services."There's a lot of novelty going on around wireless base stations," said Dr....
NEW YORK-Horizon Cellular Group, a Malvern, Pa., wireless carrier, is getting out of the cellular business, but its top management is seeking a new play in personal communications services.Backed by many of the same investors who cashed out of Horizon through staged liquidation this...
Only weeks since the tender deadline, the recipients of three nationwide personal communications services licenses in Chile are almost certain, based on preliminary ratings by government telecom authority Subtel, said International Technology Consultants Inc.Of four bids submitted, the leaders in rank order are Entel...
WASHINGTON-With China potentially becoming the biggest wireless export market in the world, the Clinton administration is challenged with keeping disputes over human rights, arms sales and Taiwan separate from its economic interests in the booming Asian nation of 1.5 billion people.Clinton was expected to...
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.- Abacus Communications L.P. has won the competitive bid to provide operator-assisted text messaging services to BellSouth Mobility DCS, the personal communications services arm of BellSouth Corp.Abacus, which has operated telemessaging and other call center services for a decade, will handle BellSouth...
The new telecommunications arm of Black & Veatch is the fastest growing segment of the Kansas City, Mo.-based engineering company, and is expected to bring in 20 percent of the firm's annual $1.1 billion in revenue this year."We believe we'll be extremely busy doing...
Deutsche Telekom AG said it made its mobile arm an economically independent subsidiary three years ago in anticipation of the upcoming public offering of the Deutsche Telekom Group's stock.As one of the world's largest telecommunications companies moves slowly from government to public ownership, the...
Editor: Quentin Hardy's article, "Jacobs' Patter," in the Sept. 6 edition of The Wall Street Journal claims that "some of the biggest names in telecommunications" have invested perhaps $20 billion based on my promises about Code Division Multiple Access technology. This might be flattering if...
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 range of communications, computing and entertainment products, including those for wireless networks."We think this...
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 range of communications, computing and entertainment products, including those for wireless networks."We think this...
Judging from information provided in Form 175s submitted prior to the Federal Communications Commission's auction of D-, E- and F-block personal communications services licenses, small rural telephone companies-backed by established telecom heavy hitters-are taking advantage of this last big sale of spectrum. Even though...
WASHINGTON-U.S. manufacturers have begun mounting a counter offensive to what they see as a European-led, anticompetitive effort to restrict global wireless standards for third generation pocket phones.The controversy surfaced as International Telecommunication Union members developed recommendations on which technology or technologies should drive wireless...
Italy plans to issue a tender for a third mobile phone operator this fall, announced the government, which recently passed a bill establishing the guidelines for the tender.A license is expected to be issued by the end of the year to a company or...
Yet another top executive has decided to sow his wireless oats.David Twyver has left his post as president of Northern Telecom Ltd.'s Wireless Networks division to head a satellite communications company backed by Seattle billionaires Bill Gates and Craig McCaw. Twyver will be the...
The equipment arm of Geotek Communications Inc. has signed a supply contract with Hyundai Electronics Industries Co. Ltd. designed to strengthen the New Jersey-based company's position in Korea.Hyundai will build infrastructure equipment based on Geotek's proprietary Frequency Hopping Multiple Access technology. The agreement is...
There is a plus side to targeted marketing, where companies and conservative groups have created win/win situations-where nobody gets hurt and nothing is compromised.Case in point: Vienna, Va.-based Cable & Wireless Inc., the U.S. arm of Britain's Cable & Wireless plc, recently struck a deal...
NEW YORK-A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni has determined that wireless handsets need a certain aura about them in order to be conveniently hands-free when used.Two years in development, their proprietary chip technology employing a weak magnetic induction field, is the reason...
Cellular phones seem to have pervaded the lives of Americans just like baseball, hot dogs and apple pie.The Cellular One Group said it set out several months ago to find intriguing and funny stories involving cellular phones by sponsoring a contest called "Cellular One's...
WASHINGTON-In a highly unusual case involving improper lobbying by the lawmaker who may oversee the telecommunications industry one day, the Federal Communications Commission threw out two Louisiana rural cellular licenses after ruling that a firm's reliance on wireless technology to provide fixed telephone service...
AirNet Communications Corp. named Dr. Lee Hamilton vice president of product engineering. Hamilton will be responsible for developing and implementing AirNet's wireless broadband base station and related infrastructure equipment products. Hamilton previously served as general manager of system transmission products at Motorola Inc.'s Information...
Germany, one of Western Europe's most developed mobile telephone markets, is preparing to license a fourth operator to further stimulate competition.Parties interested in the E-2 nationwide 1800 MHz digital personal communications network license must submit bids by Oct. 15, said Volker Wirsdorf, commercial specialist...
