ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s International Cellular Infrastructure Division will expand and upgrade cellular phone service in Thailand under a contract valued at $160 million.Total Access Communications Public Co. Ltd. ordered the expansion to increase overall network capacity and extend geographic coverage in the capital...
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...
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...
In the Oct. 9 issue of RCR, a story about Hutchison Telephone Co. Ltd. introducing commercial digital phone service based on Code Division Multiple Access technology in Hong Kong stated the incorrect number of cell sites and switch es. Those numbers are confidential. Motorola...
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....
SNET Cellular Inc. awarded AT&T Network Systems Inc. a contract valued at $35 million to supply and install an Autoplex System 1000 for SNET in its Rhode Island and the Bristol, Mass., area markets, which operate under the Cellular One brand name.Autoplex provides customers...
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...
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...
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....
With the dramatic changes that are occurring in every sector of the telecommunications industry, analysts and investors on Wall Street and elsewhere are re-evaluating the industry, its sectors and its participants. Their conclusions will determine the capital available to your company. Exactly how will...
ierre Dogan, David Patton and Ray Nettleton Two observations can be drawn from the recent personal communications services license auctions. First, PCS participants are willing to assume enormous financial risk, on the order of tens of billions of dollars-an unprecedented level of risk-taking by...
The road to launching the first commercial personal communications services network in the United States, which American Personal Communications plans to do this fall, began at the Personal Communications Industry Association (then called Telocator) annual convention in Washington, D.C., in 1989. It is fitting...
The latest step in the continuing march toward ever higher radio frequencies, 38 GHz point-to-point digital services, is providing a set of interesting, unique products.The 38 GHz technology has been proven in Europe and now a few American companies are introducing it and a...
WASHINGTON-Commercial wireless carriers last week fought off a challenge by two Virginia congressmen and local government officials to kill the antenna siting amendment in the House telecommunications reform bill.The legislation, significantly revised at the request of House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., on behalf of...
As a continuing national success story, the cellular telecommunications industry for 12 years has enjoyed phenomenal growth in a duopoly market-highlighted in 1994 by 50 percent growth, 24 million subscribers and record revenues totaling more than $14 billion.Now the cellular industry stands poised to...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Go Communications Corp. entered into a long-term agreement to purchase radio site acquisition and planning software from Biby Telecommunications Inc.Go said the engineering support tool will help it design, acquire, build and test thousands of radio cell sites in the 30 megahertz of...
InterDigital Communictaions Corp. said it received an order for UltraPhone digital wireless local loop equipment valued at $17.6 million from the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. Installation in metropolitan Manila is scheduled to begin the second half of this year. The Myanma Posts and...
Cellular telephones improved communications at the Oklahoma City tragedy when public-safety groups' two-way radios-all on different frequencies-couldn't connect."At the site of a disaster, radio channels max out immediately with just tactical communication," said Ron Baker, director of wireless services for McCaw Cellular Communications Inc.'s...
Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group has been awarded a contract for more than $10 million to expand the narrowband advanced mobile phone service in the Dominican Republic. The contract with the private telephone company, Tricom Inc., will expand that company's cell sites to a...
BOULDER, Colo.-Engineers have completed a month-long test of the Global System for Mobile communications standard at 1.8 GHz as part of an assessment for the U.S. wireless industry entering the personal communications services market.Field tests took place at U S West Inc.'s Boulder Industry...
Timing is everything.Ask Thomas Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, who took advantage of auction frenzy to send Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt a somber message.On the day before the Oct. 28 application filing deadline for the Dec. 5 broadband personal...
The Southern Co., a registered holding company for five Southeastern utilities, plans to have the first domestic digital specialized mobile radio network operated by an end-user organization on the air early next year.The network under construction includes 270 towers and provides coverage of Southern's...
Currently, massive investments are being planned for the next boom in wireless communications. Spurred by the prospect of personal communications services, the race is on to secure a position of leadership.More wireless sites will be built in the next few years than were built...
