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...
ATLANTA- GTE Mobilnet said it signed an agreement with Bell Mobility to license its Tele-Go integrated wireless technology to Bell Mobility. The technology will be introduced in Canada this month for a three-month trial in Toronto.Targeted to the residential market, Tele-Go customers will be...
Marking the first phase in licensing personal communications services in Canada, 18 consortia said they are interested in offering next-generation wireless services.Parties that wanted to participate in the licensing process were required to file expressions of interest with Industry Canada last month. One surprise...
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ordered Bell Mobile Communications Inc. to "cease discriminating unjustly" against Invoice Reduction Services Ltd.-a company that wants to offer discounted cellular service to a group of unrelated small businesses.Bell Mobility operates cellular systems in the Canadian provinces of...
TORONTO-Bell Mobility said Hughes Network Systems Inc. agreed to provide equipment for a test of Personal Access Communications technology in Toronto and Montreal.The Canadian operator is testing three proposed personal communications services technologies to prepare for the release of new spectrum at 2 GHz...
AirTouch Communications, a partner in Globalstar L.P. - one of three low-earth-orbit statellites recently licensed by the government is pursuing satellite-based mobile communications in Japan through a joint venture with Japanese trading company, Itochu Corp. AirTouch has globalstar service provider rights in several countries...
A Boulder, Colo.-based company has teamed up with several North American cellular operators to develop standards that could lead to the development of so-called intelligent vehicle products.CellPort Labs Inc. plans to create, develop and license technology and products to expand wireless voice and data...
