SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Superconductor Technologies Inc. introduced its SuperFilter family of receiver filter subsystems.The SuperFilter offers advantages over conventional filter technologies in the areas of interference protection, range extension and subsystem size for cellular and personal communications services networks, said STI."Wireless customers have identified the...
MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill.-Illinois Superconductor Corp. completed customer tests of its personal communications services receiver front-end. The company said the goal of the test was to demonstrate the product's ability to extend PCS cell site range."The measurements obtained in initial testing at our customer's test...
NEW YORK-Stephen Katz, chief executive officer of Cellular Technical Services Co. Inc., has assumed day-to-day direction of operations for the Seattle-based provider of cellular fraud prevention systems.CTS saw its stock take a beating in February after announcing year-end 1996 results that deferred into the...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications Inc. installed its PhonePrint cellular fraud prevention system in Celulares Telefonica's Puerto Rico network. Corsair said the radio frequency fingerprinting system was installed throughout the island during December and January.Corsair executives noted the deployment is one of the first outside...
NEW YORK-Honesty may not have been the best policy for Cellular Technical Services Co., a Seattle-based provider of cellular fraud prevention systems.If the securities analyst community has a mantra for the wireless sector, it might go something like this: "Don't paint an overly rosy picture...
NEW YORK-"There's gold in them thar hills," according to Justin Dudley, vice president of engineering for Telecel International Ltd., which has staked its claim to cellular service provision in Sub-Saharan Africa.The mining industry is the mother lode in these countries, which are better known...
WASHINGTON-Sprint Spectrum L.P., which began offering personal communications service in Washington a year ago through partner American Personal Communications, has converted its marketing from a big-bang effort to one resembling a continuous rumble.During the last 13 months, the carrier has attracted more than 100,000...
AML Communications Inc. has introduced what is says is the highest power multicarrier amplifier available to the cellular industry.The amplifier operates at 140 watts, compared to the 100 watts other manufacturers may offer, the company said. AML designs and manufactures amplifiers, repeaters and related...
Picture this. Down at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., the space shuttle Columbia sits on the launch pad. The astronauts have run tests for months in preparation for the big day. Now they are strapped into their seats in the command...
CHICAGO-American Portable Telecom Inc. has selected Aerial as the brand name it will use when it launches wireless service in six major trading areas early next year.APT also will change its name to Aerial Communications Inc. by the end of the year."Our research shows...
NEW YORK-Omnipoint Communications Inc. opened for business Nov. 14, but a full-scale promotional campaign for its first personal communications services network-in the New York City metropolitan area-won't start for another week or so.By then, roaming will be possible in portions of Southern California, the...
Cylink Corp. introduced the AirLink E1/T1 microwave radio, an infrastructure component designed to provide dependable, cost-effective wireless connections for personal communications services providers to their cell switching centers. AirLink E1/T1 also can provide temporary cell sites to promote carrier services or provide an extra...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS opened its Technology and Network Management Center in Lenexa, Kan. The center is home to 120 Sprint PCS employees and will serve as the nerve center for Sprint PCS' personal communications services network."We believe our Technology and Network Management Center...
The fervent growth of the wireless industry has turned into a gold mine of opportunities for Safco Technologies Inc.The Chicago-based company develops and provides automated signal strength testing products and has seen its business grow at a rate of 42 percent for the last...
HOUSTON-Castle Tower Corp. said it now owns 15 tower sites in the center ridge of Puerto Rico after acquiring the assets of Motorola Inc.'s Puerto Rico network services operations.The acquisition was completed by Castle's newly created International Acquisitions and Development division. Castle estimates Puerto...
NEW YORK-American Portable Telecom Inc., Chicago, reported disappointing third quarter financial results last week, but said it is on track for the early 1997 launch of its personal communications service in six major trading areas.APT, whose majority owner is Telephone and Data Systems Inc.,...
WASHINGTON-The wireless telecommunications industry said many carriers will not meet the Jan. 1 deadline when new radio frequency radiation safety guidelines go into effect.The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week joined the Personal Communications Industry Association and a host of wireless carriers in seeking...
The Micro Digital M75 is a Time Division Multiple Access digital phone from Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Subscriber Group. The Flip Phone meets the Telecommunications Industry Association IS-136 standard for North American TDMA digital cellular service. The dual mode phone automatically will access a TDMA...
Ameritech Cellular Services announced it has successfully completed a 15-month test of its Code Division Multiple Access network in Illinois. ClearPath, the new name for the system, was tested in a seven-cell test bed reaching from the company's headquarters in Hoffman Estates to Woodstock,...
TRENTON, N.J.-To paraphrase an old Barbra Streisand song, "On a rainy day, you can hear forever," even when making a call to Colorado from a car parked beneath a water tower in the state capital of New Jersey.That's the sound quality of a brief...
Digital wireless technologies were designed to answer issues of quality, capacity and cost. But by releasing huge swaths of new spectrum, the Federal Communications Commission has changed the rules, and capacity is now much less important than cost-but not everybody in the industry has...
NEW YORK-Metricom Inc. will mark its second commercial launch within a month when it begins offering its data-only wireless Internet access services in late September in the Washington, D.C., area.The company, headquartered in Los Gatos, Calif., has provided wireless data applications to the utilities...
This paper will show that wireless local loop systems provide more capacity than mobile cellular systems. Code Division Multiple Access technology has proven to have higher capacity than other multiple access schemes.Industrial countries require quality and service features from their mobile networks, while developing...
Allen Telecom Group's Telecom Systems Division introduced NanoLite, a fiber optic microcell system the company said allows service providers to select locations for optimum cell site coverage while reducing site-related costs. The NanoLite remote unit can be mounted on utility poles, billboards, buildings and...
