SEATTLE-AT&T Wireless Services introduced a prepackaged phone that is available in stores and activated by calling a 1-800 number and receiving credit-card verification.The telephone costs about $40 with an access charge of $20. The monthly charge includes two hours of free off-peak calling per...
American Portable Telecom Inc. has selected PCS-1900-the 1900 MHz version of the Global System for Mobile communications digital technology standard-for its personal communications services network.The company's choice of GSM boosts that technology standard to potential coverage of half of the nation's population, APT said,...
Several companies are moving into the network planning business, ready to offer computer-based design expertise to new wireless operators and existing operators faced with increasing competition in the cellular and personal communications services markets.Most of these firms use computer software programs to merge radio...
Motorola Inc.'s North Asia Cellular Infrastructure Division has signed an agreement with the China Directorate General of Telecommunications and L.M. Ericsson to interconnect the nationwide cellular network in China. Motorola and Ericsson will provide more than 3 million Chinese subscribers with automatic roaming services...
WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court has paved the way for the PCS entrepreneur block auction to begin Dec. 11, but bidding for 493 next-generation pocket telephone licenses could be postponed once again if the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati strikes down...
Cellular One said it introduced FreedomLink Personal Communications System to businesses in western New York. The system operates as an extension to an existing office phone system by using very low power cellular frequencies to communicate with the office's existing phone system. This enables...
Two Motorola Inc. wireless communicators, Marco and Envoy, will be offered from now until Dec. 29 at a reduced cost through a holiday-season marketing promotion by Motorola's Wireless Data Group and the Ardis wireless data network.Motorola said it is working with resellers to offer...
DALLAS-PCS PrimeCo L.P. announced it has made the world's first wireless phone call on a carrier-based personal communications services system using Code Division Multiple Access digital technology at 1900 MHz.The company said the calls, which were made in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, are technologically...
Tender documents for two new cellular licenses in Poland should hit the table this week, unlocking the door to telecom competition, but an American company is protesting the government's decision.Ameritech Corp. is urging the Polish Communications Ministry to uphold a letter of intent signed...
IFR Systems Inc. has named Dr. Samual Kyehung Lee director of business development for the Pacific Rim. He will also be the management contact for all IFR distributors in mainland Asia, Southeast Asia, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.Dr. Lee joined IFR in 1987 as...
AT&T Wireless Services has unveiled personal Air Communications Technology, a new open standards-based architecture for two-way messaging that the company expects will become an industry standard for narrowband personal communications services.Armed with pACT, AT&T is first to challenge Motorola Inc.'s FLEX technology in the...
WASHINGTON-The Republican revolution two years ago that forced Democrats to relinquish control of Congress for the first time in 40 years may have produced one of the next top telecommunications policymakers on Capitol Hill.Rick White is a 42-year-old freshman from Washington's 1st District, home...
The nation's major cellular handset manufacturers caused a little commotion on Wall Street recently when they noted handset sales hadn't grown at the phenomenal rate that analysts and industry execs are used to seeing.Does this mean the cellular marketplace is finally slowing down? Should...
While the personal communications services industry in general remains locked in a three-way split over an airlink standard for systems deployment, cable TV operators in the PCS business so far have pitched their tents in the Code Division Multiple Access camp.CDMA got a large...
As the entrepreneurial block auctions for broadband personal communications services get underway this December, the first broadband PCS services also are scheduled to become reality. But a later rollout schedule is par for the course among major PCS license holders, resulting in part from...
Standard Telecom America Inc. introduced a line-up of Nixxo pagers including Nixxo Tutti, Nixxo AirFly and the alphanumeric Nixxo, to American and Latin American markets. The company is a new player in the U.S. paging market but is a leading manufacturer in South Korea...
Brad Busse is now the chief operating officer at Daniels & Associates. Prior to his appointment, Busse served as executive vice president of Daniels' Mobile & Telephony division. Busse will continue to manage the mobile group, address the day-to-day operational issues of the firm...
WASHINGTON-The regulatory environment for personal communications services is still evolving as policymakers try to determine how next-generation pocket telephone systems fit into a telecommunications industry undergoing historic change and evaluate what that means to society.The issues are complex, with advocacy groups on all sides...
LEXINGTON, Mass.-Wildfire Communications Inc., which introduced the Wildfire Electronic Assistant product one year ago, signed on AT&T Wireless Services and Pacific Bell Mobile Services to develop Wildfire as a network-based system.Valued at $3 million each, the contracts with AT&T and Pac Bell are non-exclusive...
Stung by a Sept. 22 lawsuit from its erstwhile strategic partner U S West Inc., Time Warner Inc. shot back with its own bitter accusations in a countersuit filed Oct. 11 with the Delaware Chancery Court.The month-long legal battle involves Time Warner's proposed merger...
Wireless operators continue to line up behind one of the seven technologies that will be used for personal communications services, solidifying the formation of PCS technology camps and leading to several arms-length partnerships.The most recent protocol announcement came from Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems Inc.,...
Wireless technologies are critical to introducing true competition into the country's last bastion of telecommunications monopoly, according to market research by Action Information Services. Unlike today's analog cellular services that merely supplement traditional wireline service, new digital cellular and personal communications services will begin...
JAKARTA, Indonesia-Wireless activity in Indonesia is heating up as two more telecommunications giants jump into the market.L. M. Ericsson and Indonesian partner PT Erindo Utama received a contract from Indonesian operator PT Telkom to deliver a Digital European Cordless Telephone radio access system to...
WASHINGTON-The wireless telecommunications industry told the Federal Communications Commission it will work with the hearing-impaired community, hearing aid manufacturers and audiologists during the next six months to develop short-term and long-term solutions to hearing aid interference and compatibility problems posed by digital pocket telephones."We...
