LONDON-By the year 2005 there will be nearly 120 million cellular subscribers in Asia and the Pacific, according to a new study from CIT Research Ltd.In "Mobile Communications in Asia & the Pacific 1996," CIT notes the region today has fewer than 22 million...
In efforts to capture a broad range of consumer users, cellular carriers and equipment providers are stepping up marketing and advertising efforts to include glossy paper and primetime TV.The advertising boon arises from a climate of intensifying competition among cellular and personal communications service...
If a 911 Public Safety Answering Point agrees to receive 911 calls from phones that have never been activated on a cellular network, wireless operators are obligated to pass the call, according to new government rules.Cellular operators who are not happy about that say...
Cellular Technical Services Co. Inc. said its board of directors has declared a two-for-one stock split of its common stock. The stock's $.001 par value per share will be affected by a 100 percent stock dividend whereby each holder of common stock on June...
Paging Partners Corp. announced it was honored as New Jersey's eighth fastest growing technology company at The New Jersey Technology Fast 50 Awards, held at Newark's Gateway Hilton. Paging Partners said it posted revenue growth of 1,138 percent from 1991 to 1995.Illinois Superconductor Corp....
WASHINGTON-According to figures released by the Consumer Electronic Manufacturers Association, a sector of the Electronics Industry Association, sales of cellular phones rose nearly 20 percent, from 4.7 million units in 1994 to 5.7 million units in 1995. CEMA attributes this upward trend to improved...
Andrew Corp. announced it has opened a sales office in Miami to process quotations and customer inquiries for the Caribbean, Central America, Venezuela, Colombia and for U.S.-based companies that export into those regions. Customer services in all other areas of South America are handled...
The groundwork for a head-to-head duel between factories is being laid in Brazil, where Nokia Group and Motorola Inc. both are establishing handset manufacturing plants.Brazil has 1.2 million cellular subscribers, making it the most prolific cellular market in Latin America. An annual growth rate...
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill.-A new Cellular Impact Survey commissioned by Motorola Inc. and conducted by the Gallup Organization found differences and similarities between cellular phone users in Canada, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Mexico and the United States.Most owners surveyed in all those countries agree that flexibility...
Pocket Communications Inc. (formerly DCR Communications Inc.) said it submitted a $1.3 million deposit to the Federal Communications Commission Friday to bid on the C-block personal communications service licenses scheduled for re-auction July 3."Our primary targets are the Phoenix and Tucson licenses," stated Daniel...
WASHINGTON-In a Motorola Inc.-sponsored study producing mixed signals for the wireless telecommunications industry, Dr. W. Ross Adey found that 800 MHz digital cellular emissions failed to promote brain cancer in rats but did produce a bioeffect.The bioeffect, which Adey did not test for and...
WASHINGTON-According to a new order adopted last week by the Federal Communications Commission, public safety answering points (PSAPs) have the next year to develop a system that accepts 911 emergency calls from cellular, broadband personal communications services and wide-area specialized mobile radio users-without delays...
NEW YORK-Rodney J. Olsen said he will step down July 1 as acting chief executive officer of Cable & Wireless plc, the British multinational telecommunications conglomerate.With wireless telecommunications operations covering more than 90 million equity-adjusted population equivalents, the company ranks itself among the top...
effrey Si;va Grumbling in private wireless land. The word is the refarming item that was anticipated for vote this month is being pushed back until fall, which could delay further the reconfiguration of private networks and orders for narrower band equipment.... John Windhausen, senior...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said AT&T Wireless Services Inc. ordered more than one million of Lucent's Time Division Multiple Access digital cellular phones to be supplied during the next two years. The companies said the contract is valued at more than $300 million....
BALA CYNWYD, Pa.-The Associated Group Inc. and Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. announced they will launch a trial this summer in New Jersey of the TruePosition Cellular Location System.The service trial will span a 50-mile stretch of the New Jersey Turnpike, including Burlington, Camden, Gloucester...
One mission of the CTIA Foundation for Wireless Communications is to undertake innovative wireless projects, like the one beginning today in Minnesota.The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association Foundation is giving 40 phones to a task force for battered women that covers nine counties in the...
MCI Communications Corp. is breaking out as an early favorite in the race to market with a one-bill offering.Washington, D.C.-based MCI has launched a one-number, follow-me service that includes cellular phones and pagers. It is branded MCI One and is being advertised nationwide."Americans feel...
DENVER-U S West Communications Inc. received government permission to offer cellular vouchers to customers facing a lengthy wait for a landline phone.U S West has experienced a dramatic number of "held orders" in recent years, mostly in Colorado and Arizona.Customers who have to wait...
NEW YORK-As the 1996 campaign season gets into high gear, wireless providers might do well to consider this profile when looking for loyal customers most likely to vote early and often for communications services: they are young, religious, affluent, well-read and tuned-in.These characteristics represent snippets...
SEOUL, South Korea-Samsung Electronics Co. announced an agreement with Sprint Spectrum L.P. to provide 1.3 million Code Division Multiple Access personal communications services terminals for the U.S. market. Value of the transaction was not disclosed.Samsung said it will begin mass producing PCS terminals at...
NEW YORK-Fast on the heels of resignations by two chief financial officers and a director this year, CellStar Corp. recently braced the investment community for a first-quarter earnings report "significantly lower than analysts' estimates."Securities analysts had estimated that first quarter net income for the...
Repairing, remanufacturing, refurbishing and recycling cellular phones is the business of ReCellular Inc.The company brings phones sent in by carriers, dealers and other clients back to new condition. And while some phones are serviced for return to the owners, ReCellular's livelihood is derived from...
Prepaid cellular represents a huge opportunity for carriers, as demonstrated by the flood of prepaid services inundating the marketplace. More significantly, however, prepaid cellular may prove in itself a new paradigm for conducting consumer business in wireless.Industry estimates show between 20 percent and 30...
