ATLANTA-Teledata World Services Inc. said it is in final negotiations with Lantana Merchants Solutions Corp., which provides prepaid cellular cards, to offer Teledata cellular phones and services to Lantana's contract locations in more than 10,000 convenience stores."The Hispanic market has been traditionally a large...
Conxus Communications Inc. will begin offering its Pocketalk portable answering machine service in the Boston metropolitan area beginning Sept. 7. The launch of Boston will extend Pocketalk's reach to 12 U.S. markets covering more than 80 million people. Bill deKay, president of the company,...
I saw two stories over the news wire this week that made me wonder if wireless is heading the way of smoking as far as being labeled a public nuisance.The first story was about how British Railways is planning to install a special metal-coating...
NEW YORK-To get a better idea of the impact of cellular phone use while driving, tap the World Wide Web, but please don't do it while your vehicle is in motion, even if you do have Internet access via your mobile handset."To see how...
NEW YORK-Proceeding toward its vision of the network as the computer, Sun Microsystems Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., is expected to introduce formally this week the successor to its Java programming language.Spelled J-i-n-i, and pronounced "genie," the new software allows Java to enable devices like...
CITELCitel Inc. unveiled a new line of coaxial surge protectors that provide protection against lightning surges and electrical transients. They use gas tube technology, making them suitable for broadband applications. The new line includes: N, BNC, TNC, SMA and 7/16. P8AX coaxial protectors are available...
TOKYO-DDI Cellular Group is set to kick off its cdmaOne IS-95 service in mid-July in western Japan. The service gradually will spread across the nation. Once IDO Corp. kicks off the same service next year, the service will become nationwide. IDO offers cellular in...
WASHINGTON-They announced it, delayed it, set deadlines and then extended them-each one of these at least once and often amid accusations of scandal and preferential treatment. Currently, the tender process for two 1.9 GHz PCS (Personal Communications Services) licenses to serve a 100-kilometer area...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. acquired the remaining interest in GE Mobile Communications, a joint venture of Ericsson and General Electric Co.The companies formed the joint venture in 1989 to manufacture and distribute cellular phones and equipment primarily in the United States and Canada. GE originally...
Motorola Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. have formed an alliance to jointly develop next-generation digital signal processing technology, a move that is expected to jump-start third-generation mobile phone technology.Motorola's semiconductor segment and Lucent's Microelectronics Group next quarter plan to create a joint design center,...
WASHINGTON-While lawmakers and industry executives toiled last week through the minutia of competing third-generation wireless technologies, Qualcomm Inc. was laying the foundation to parlay an esoteric standards dispute into a major trade debate that would pit the United States against Europe in the not-too-distant...
Topp Telecom Inc.'s TracFone prepaid cellular phones now can be purchased in 7-Eleven stores in Phila-delphia and southern New Jersey.Charles Fortner, president of Island Page, was recognized last week by Vice President Al Gore as the National SBA Young Entrepreneur of the Year, said...
WASHINGTON-The federal government is "poised and waiting to begin a pilot program" of cellular priority access for emergency personnel, the Clinton administration's senior telecom official recently told the Federal Communications Commission.The FCC should not delay further approving the Cellular Priority Access Service, or CPAS,...
WASHINGTON-In the midst of such weighty issues as antenna siting, taxes and digital wiretap implementation, the cellular lobby has chosen to lock onto a lesser-known-albeit important-matter involving a proposal to steer 911 calls from analog phones to the strongest signal.The cellular industry, backed by...
A manufacturer of mobile phone shield devices said business has been booming following the release of a Swedish study that linked mobile phone use with headaches, fatigue and tingling and heat sensations on the ear and skin."We've been inundated with calls. Our switchboard has...
NEW YORK-Targeting the growing wireless device marketplace, Ultralife Batteries Inc., Newark, N.J., and Lithium Technology Corp., Plymouth Meeting, Pa., are gearing up for commercial production of rechargeable batteries using next-generation, solid state, lithium polymer technology.Both companies promised their products will be cost-competitive, in addition...
Vivox USA Inc.Vivox USA Inc. plans to begin shipping its patented hands-free car kit, the VL-1E7 for GE/Ericsson 6xx/7xx series cellular phones this month. The system uses a vehicle's cassette player to amplify the sound from the cellular phone through the existing speakers. The...
NEW YORK-France Telecom Inc. is putting the finishing touches on elaborate preparations that began three years ago for France 98, the month-long World Cup soccer tournament coming up this summer.Some 2.5 million people are expected to attend the World Cup, of which about 800,000...
This piece was excerpted from a speech presented at CeBIT `98.Last year the cellular-terminal market reached around 100 million units. The figure is expected to grow significantly this year, and will be larger than the combined sales of personal computers and passenger cars, currently...
TOKYO-The number of Personal Handy Phone System (PHS) subscribers in Japan has decreased for six straight months since last October. Suffering from a total of 590 billion yen (US$4.42 billion) in accumulated deficit, the PHS industry is being required to take drastic restructuring measures.Top...
CASABLANCA, Morocco-For Morocco, 29 June 1997 marked a point of no return for the country's telecommunications industry-a turning point that changed forever the way telephony is looked at in the country. Morocco's lower house that day approved a bill liberalizing the telecom industry.The bill...
RogersRogers Corp. introduced thin versions of its Poron urethane foam designed for making thin gaskets and pads used in pagers, personal organizers, cellular phones and global positioning systems. The Poron 4701-50 materials are cast in thicknesses down to 0.017 inch (0.43 mm), which produces...
To the editor: In response to Kristen Beckman's story "Pilots break no cell phone use" in RCR, March 16, 1998: I wonder if the fears of reduced revenue for cellular providers who have air phones installed in commercial airlines is perhaps another reason the FCC prohibits...
IRVING, Texas-NEC America Inc. said its Wireless Voice Terminals Division developed a new merchandising program to support GTE Corp.'s FamilyNet, a wireless service that allows up to four family members to stay in touch using cellular phones and pagers."NEC is in a unique position...
