WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has completed work on a calling-party-pays standard scheduled for presentation to "appropriate industry standards bodies" this month and next in an effort to end the collect-call mentality under which wireless subscribers have had to function in most U.S. markets...
The use of mobile data products by police departments has gained such rapid acceptance across the country this year that it may be emerging as the most popular current application of wireless data technology, according to wireless data carriers and vendors.Cellular Digital Packet Data...
The wireless data industry has long been considered the most optimistic bunch in the world of wireless. Each year, it seemed, was going to be "the year" the technology would rocket into mass acceptance.This upcoming year is again touted as having the potential for...
Business and consumer market customers traditionally have been the focus of the paging industry's marketing and sales efforts. But there is a hidden, some say ignored, segment of the population that has a more unique need for paging technology ... the deaf and hard...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. reached an agreement to carry Philips Consumer Communications' Cobalt numeric pagers.The Cobalt pager has a three-button interface, large backlit display screen with 20-digit message, 12-digit display and 32-message memory. It also features nine silent vibration options, nine user selectable audible alerts,...
Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. introduced its SCH-1011, a personal communications services handset using Code Division Multiple Access technology, and SCH-110, a cellular dual-mode CDMA handset. The products include menu-driven interfaces to access functions like messaging and memory. Other features include caller ID, call timer,...
WASHINGTON-After reaching an exhausting seven rounds per day, the 900 MHz specialized mobile radio auctions finally ended last week, with the predicted big spenders-Paging Network of America, Geotek Communications Inc., FCI 900 Inc., Motorola SMR Inc. and Fleet Talk Inc.-leading the pack. Of the...
"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...
Dear Editor: In her recent letter, Jo Waldron of Phoenix Management misrepresents and simplifies my position on wireless add-on devices by taking a polite corridor discussion out of context.I did try the HATIS at the EMI wireless working group meeting in Oklahoma, and I did...
