PageMart Inc. has appointed Richard Nelson president of the company's wholly owned subsidiary, PageMart International. Nelson, formerly vice president of marketing for PageMart, will focus his efforts on extending the company's wireless network throughout North America and then pursue other international markets. Nelson comes...
FREMONT, Calif.-Cirrus Logic Inc. announced a single-chip mobile compute engine targeted for next-generation mobile applications.Cirrus said its CL-PS7110, based on the ARM7100, has the highest MIPs per watt and the lowest system power consumption of any embedded processor available. The processor is ideal for...
BellSouth Mobility DCS Thursday rolled out the nation's first multistate personal communications services network, and the country's fourth PCS system activation.Service was launched in a cluster that involves three states-metropolitan Charlotte, N.C., which borders South Carolina; Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C., southeast of Charlotte; and the Tennessee...
IBM Mobile & Wireless Systems announced the IBM 2488 Model 800, the latest offering in its line of rugged, wireless handheld computing devices. IBM Mobile said the line is integrated with wireless modems from IBM for the Ardis, Cellular Digital Packet Data and RAM...
ROME-Telecom Italia Mobile S.p.A. has taken a 12 percent stake in Stet International, for about $156 million.Telecom Italia Mobile is a telecommunications service provider based in Torino, Italy; it originally was spun off from Telecom Italia S.p.A.Telecom Italia S.p.A., also based in Torino, is...
Samsung Electronics Co. has committed $25.8 million to manufacture prototype Code Division Multiple Access equipment for PCS, illustrating confidence that its PCS partnership will win a license for personal communications services spectrum.The Korean government is expected to award three PCS licenses in mid-June. One...
It was one book in Alighieri Dante's 14th century classic Divine Comedy trilogy that inspired the name for Lucent Technologies Inc.'s new software program, Inferno. The technology behind Inferno will facilitate communications across most all networks, said the company, promising a lot more good...
ArrayComm Inc. announced it has closed a private equity placement totaling $12.3 million. The placement, which was oversubscribed, was managed by UBS Securities Inc. and Volpe, Welty & Co. ArrayComm said the placement will fund the completion of its wireless local loop product and...
WASHINGTON-President Clinton signed appropriations legislation Friday to fund the Federal Communications Commission and scores of other government agencies for the rest of fiscal 1996, ending a bloody budget battle between the White House and the GOP-led Congress that caused two partial government shutdowns and...
WASHINGTON-Public alarm over potential health risks from mobile telephones that reached fever pitch in the United States several years ago may be about to seize Great Britain, following publication in the London Sunday Times of new evidence that radio frequency radiation from handheld communicators...
"The Internet is the killer app!" declared futurist George Gilder at the Wireless Apps '95 show hosted by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last fall in Las Vegas.He was referring to the long-sought application for wireless data-a Holy Grail of sorts-that would be so...
NEW YORK-Geotek Communications Inc. inaugurated commercial service in the New York City metropolitan area March 28, for its wireless communications network geared toward mobile blue collar workers.Earlier this year, Geotek went into commercial operation in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Its next stop is...
Starting a wireless communications company was probably the most ambitious undertaking I have ever initiated in my life. Many people question whether or not a small business can survive in today's ever changing wireless marketplace filled with major retailers and carriers. I suggest that...
DENVER-American Digital Communications Inc. announced it has signed a letter of intent to purchase all stock of Pagers Plus Cellular Inc. of Walnut Creek, Calif.ADC said Pagers Plus is a 220 MHz service provider and network operator with about 21 five-channel systems. The company...
Motorola Inc.'s Paging Products Group signed a licensing agreement with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute to manufacture and sell Motorola FLEX chip sets. Motorola said it plans to license key semiconductor houses worldwide to manufacture and distribute FLEX chip sets. ITRI is the first...
NEW YORK-Premiere Technologies Inc. of Atlanta plans its debut in the public capital markets early next month to finance its expansion as a provider of systems integrating various modes of communications into one device.The company is one player in a larger trend toward communications...
Less than a month after applications were due for two Global System for Mobile communications cellular licenses, the Polish Ministry of Communications announced winners. Both parties are co-piloted by U.S. companies.Polkomtel, an international consortium of which AirTouch International is 19.25 percent owner and the...
BRUSSELS-L.M. Ericsson filed a complaint with the European Union, charging that Austria's award of a GSM license to international consortium Oe-Call is unfair. Oe-Call is lead by Deutsche Telecom AG and Siemens AG Oesterreich, the latter an equipment provider.Ericsson spokeswoman Kathy Egan said that...
Three international consortia met the Jan. 3 deadline to apply for one of two Global System for Mobile communications cellular licenses the Polish Communications Ministry plans to award this spring.One bidding party claims telecom giants U S West Inc. and DeTeMobil-the cellular arm of...
Telecommunications experience, a plan to charge low fees and a promise of $400 million won Oe-Call a Global System for Mobile communications digital cellular license in Austria, according to Waltraud Augesky, commercial specialist for the United States Embassy in Vienna, Austria. Oe-Call is a...
Unless there is court action, a government shutdown or some cataclysmic event, the auction of C-block broadband personal communications services licenses is scheduled to begin today.Thirteen bidders have made double-digit, multimillion dollar upfront payments, indicating the seriousness with which some are approaching the opportunity....
The upcoming chairwoman of the GSM MoU Association is confident that Global System for Mobile communications technology will figure prominently in the U.S. personal communications services market.Gretel Holcomb Hoffman is currently the group's deputy chair, but is scheduled to assume the top job on...
AT&T Corp.'s strategy to become three different companies has evoked positive and adverse reactions, but analysts agree the forecast looks good for the wireless business.Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Robert Allen announced the restructuring following months of discussions and planning among top AT&T executives...
North American Wireless Inc. has yet to announce the name of a U.S. utility company expected to take the place of Cable & Wireless Inc., which recently withdrew from the partnership.Vienna, Va.-based NAWI was formed last fall with the goal of building a nationwide...
