WASHINGTON-The future is here.Vice President Al Gore, father of the information superhighway, christened the broadband personal communications services industry with a call to Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke Nov. 15 on the Sprint Spectrum system operated by American Personal Communications."I'm proud to speak to you...
MORRISTOWN, N.J.-AT&T Network Systems Inc. said it is able to interface its Cellular Digital Packet Data and Code Division Multiple Access systems using a common interface.The company said it can transmit data between its Autoplex 1000 CDPD system and its CDMA-based products using a...
Datum Inc.'s Timing Division announced the release of a small high-performance Global Positioning Satellite system receiver. Datum said the StarTime GPS Clock is designed for applications that require not only high performance but small physical size and low price. The clock consists of an...
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...
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...
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...
Short forms are due today for designated entities, marking a giant and-finally-tangible step toward the Federal Communications Commission's C-block auction of nearly 500 personal communications services licenses set for Dec. 11.About 25 DEs will actually make it to auction, and only a handful will...
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...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. has formed the ASIC Products business unit to provide Application Specific Integrated Circuits for products based on Code Division Multiple Access technology.The unit will be under the direction of Richard Kerr, vice president and general manager, and will be responsible for...
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.,...
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...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Hutchison Telephone Co. Ltd. launched what it says is the world's first commercial Code Division Multiple Access digital cellular phone system in Hong Kong.Hutchison plans to migrate customers from cellular analog Advanced Mobile Phone Service to CDMA digital throughout 1996 and 1997....
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...
BATON ROUGE, La.-Eatelcorp Inc. will partner with Mercury Cellular and Paging of Lake Charles, La., and contract assistance from Louisiana State University to conduct a trial of AT&T Network Systems Inc.'s Code Division Multiple Access wireless technology for a new personal communications systems network.The...
AT&T Network Systems Inc. installed a digital wireless data communications system on Tele2000's wireless network in Lima, Peru. Tele2000 said it was the first to bring cellular telephone service to Peru. AT&T's Cellular Digital Packet Data system allows subscribers on the network to send...
GENEVA-Qualcomm Inc. announced it has signed a worldwide, royalty-bearing infrastructure license agreement with Fujitsu Ltd. to use Qualcomm's Code Division Multiple Access technology.The multimillion dollar agreement follows the recent announcement Fujitsu signed with Qualcomm to be a CDMA subscriber equipment licensee. The additional license...
Nearly half of the 20 companies holding licenses for broadband personal communications services have made firm technology decisions, but others continue the difficult task of weighing options."It is like building 10 years of cellular all at once," said Jack Finlayson, vice president and general...
On a recent trip across Europe to visit some of the major operators and manufacturers of the blossoming cellular industry there, I was asked to describe the state of the industry in the United States. Of course I spoke of the great advancements we...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and Superconducting Core Technologies Inc. have completed the first field test of a cryoelectronic base station receiver for personal communications services.The station is designed to enable higher system performance, which could allow carriers to deploy fewer cell sites in their PCS...
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...
PCS PrimeCo L.P. has chosen AT&T Network Systems Inc. and Motorola Inc. to be equipment manufacturers for its nationwide personal communications services network.AT&T and Motorola will split the contract equally, with Motorola primarily supplying radio transmitters and receivers. The total contract is valued at...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Pilipino Telephone Corp. awarded Motorola Inc.'s International Cellular Infrastructure Division a $270 million contract to expand and enhance its Mobiline cellular phone system, said Motorola.The initial phase of the multi-year contract will replace metropolitan Manila's current Advanced Mobile Phone System and U.S....
