SAN JOSE, Calif.-Digital Microwave Corp. said it has signed a two-year agreement with BellSouth Corp. to supply digital microwave radios. Digital Microwave's products will be used to connect the cell sites in BellSouth's personal communications services network to be built in North Carolina, South...
Reflection Technology Inc. has opened two new sales offices in San Jose, Calif., and Sciota, Pa., to accommodate the increasing demand for FaxView personal fax readers, the company said. The offices will position the company for national market distribution of FaxView, a small, portable...
WASHINGTON-The 900 MHz specialized mobile radio auction that begins tomorrow is expected to be characterized by a mixture of bidding by big companies like Geotek Communications Inc. and Ram Mobile Data USA L.P., which want to expand existing systems into national networks, and more...
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...
In an initial study of customer satisfaction among cellular telephone service consumers, J.D. Power and Associates found that local Bell telephone companies achieved higher satisfaction rankings than their nonwireline rivals in most of the eight markets covered in the study.The "1995 J.D. Power and...
SBC Communications Inc. intends to offer wireline telephone service in the five cellular markets it owns in New York, but is keeping quiet about how it plans to deliver the service.The company said it will reveal more specific details within the next three months....
About 370 short-form applications were filed by deadline for the C-block personal communications services auction set to begin Dec. 11, but the federal government shutdown, which has rendered the Federal Communications Commission inactive since early last week, leaves it a mystery as to who...
BellSouth Wireless Inc. is prodding other cellular carriers to adopt its Cellemetry wireless telemetry solution by announcing it will only license the technology to one carrier per market-first come, first served."We don't want to get into the `wait-and-see game' that other wireless data technologies...
Two kinds of private, in-building wireless systems are seeking the attention of today's large business customers-stand-alone systems that provide portable extensions of employee desk phones, and stand-alone systems that provide portable extensions but also can hand off calls to the external, macro wireless network.Both...
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...
Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced it will supply equipment for narrowband personal communications services to Paging Network Inc. under a contract agreement. PageNet will use the equipment to beta test its VoiceNow service in San Francisco. The contract order, valued at $4.5 million, calls for...
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...
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.,...
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...
Specialty Teleconstructors Inc. announced its purchase of Orlando Tower Service Inc., an Orlando, Fla.-based builder of transmitting and receiving facilities for wireless telecommunications providers. Consideration for the transaction totaled $135,000 in cash, consisting of two semiannual payments of $65,000 during a 12-month period. Specialty,...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt directed the wireless telecommunications industry to develop a plan by next week to address interference from European-designed digital pocket telephones to hearing aids.Hundt, according to sources, met last Monday with representatives from the Personal Communications Industry Association, the...
RIDGELAND, Miss.-MobileComm said it completed the conversion of its Mississippi system to the company's new 900 MHz nationwide network, which uses direct satellite control and Motorola Inc.'s FLEX technology.The concept was developed by MobileComm engineers with equipment from multiple manufacturers, including Glenayre Electronics Inc.,...
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...
Accelerating consolidation in the wireless industry engulfs yet another prominent company as MobileMedia Corp. agrees to acquire BellSouth Corp.'s MobileComm paging subsidiary and its two-way nationwide narrowband personal communications services license for a total of $945 million, the largest acquisition ever in the paging...
udith St. Ledger-Roty and Lee Rau Inherent in the co-carrier status the Federal Communications Commission has expressly granted the wireless industry, including paging, cellular and personal communications services, is the right to fair and reasonable interconnection with the local exchange carriers.Among other things, this...
RIDGELAND, Miss.-MobileComm, the paging subsidiary of BellSouth Corp., and ReadyCom Inc. have entered an agreement whereby MobileComm plans to offer ReadyTalk service in its markets.ReadyTalk, conceived by Chapel Hill, N.C.-based ReadyCom, offers two-way messaging based on patented store-and-forward technology and transmits over the spare...
The wireless industry is certainly capturing a few people's attention these days.The House has designed legislation that would supersede arguments on the legalities of an entrepreneur auction. If the bill is passed-and it obviously would have to pass both Houses and receive the president's...
Mobistar, a partnership of Belgian telecommunications manufacturer Telinfo and France Telecom Mobile International, won the second license to operate a Global System for Mobile communications network in Belgium. Mobistar will pay $296 million for the license.Mobistar will compete against current cellular operator Belgacom Mobile,...