Allgon MobileStockholm, Sweden-based Allgon Mobile Communications AB introduced a dual-band antenna called "Twin," which can be mounted on a car window. The antenna can receive and transmit Global System for Mobile communications-based digital signals at 1800 MHz and 900 MHz frequencies. Holes don't have...
WASHINGTON-In a stunning setback for the Clinton administration that bodes well for the wireless industry, a bipartisan group of top telecom lawmakers last week ordered the Federal Communications Commission to scrap plans to subsidize Internet connections for schools, libraries and rural health-care providers and...
NEW YORK-Texas Instruments, Dallas, announced June 8 the release of its new TRF3040 Modulator/Synthesizer, designed to make it easier and cheaper to manufacture lighter dual-band, dual-mode wireless handsets that use less power while roaming seamlessly throughout North America.The modulator/synthesizer is designed for original equipment...
MANCHESTER, N.H.-Summa Four Inc. announced it will demonstrate Project Sigma this week at the Supercomm show in Atlanta.This new addition to Summa Four's product family is a telco-capable, standards-based programmable switching platform, and is the result of co-development partnership with Dialogic Corp. announced last...
Now that the crisis is over and paging service has been restored, the paging industry is debating exactly what the pre-Memorial Day pager outage means for its future.Carriers that had backup plans felt they handled matters well. But since this was the first incident...
NEW YORK-And now let's have a round of applause for top executives of Arch Communications Group Inc., Paging Network Inc. and SkyTel Corp.These successful emigres from wireless telephony have spearheaded a positive reversal of fortune not only for their paging companies but also for...
NEW YORK-Wall Street and stockholders so far have been the biggest beneficiaries of federal deregulation of the telecommunications services industry, which is intended to benefit consumers by fostering competition."Whatever the government splits up, the market puts back together," said Michael Elling, managing director of...
Some truths are not self evident, but every once in a while, the dawn's early light shines through. Truth has no place in this city of self-serving factoids, where winning and whining make moral relativism king.Here, they are engaged in a folly of a...
NASHUA, N.H.-Spike Technologies Inc. announced that it completed the first phase of a $2 million broadband wireless local loop project in Merida, Venezuela.Spike installed its Prizm broadband delivery system to provide point-to-multipoint, last-mile connectivity covering distances up to 30 miles, as well as a...
WASHINGTON-President Clinton, pointing to the recent satellite failure that disabled millions of pagers, has taken steps to protect against unconventional threats to telecom networks and other critical infrastructure throughout the country."If we fail to take strong action, then terrorists, criminals and hostile regimes could...
They say a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, a lesson paging carriers learned in a painful way last Tuesday evening when an estimated 90 percent of all paging subscribers in the country found themselves without service due to a faulty...
Corsair Communications Inc. said it completed installing its PhonePrint system for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. in its Pittsburgh market. AT&T Wireless already had the fraud-prevention system installed in its New York-New Jersey; Las Vegas; and Santa Barbara, and Oxnard-Ventura, Calif., markets. "Our PhonePrint Roaming...
WASHINGTON-House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) last week said a select committee, patterned after the 1973 Watergate panel, will be formed to investigate alleged satellite technology transfers from U.S. wireless companies to Communist China that may be linked to Clinton-Gore campaign contributions and nuclear proliferation...
Western Wireless International announced it began Global System for Mobile communications cellular service in Iceland through its TAL Ltd. partnership. The initial network covers about 70 percent of the Icelandic population.Nexus Telocation Systems Ltd. said it was selected by a South American communications services...
Several paging carriers recently released their first-quarter earnings results. Five companies showed increased net revenues, while four reported increased net losses from first-quarter 1997 figures.PageMart Wireless Inc. said it added 139,106 domestic subscribers for the quarter, bringing its total domestic subscribers to 2.6 million....
Nth Dimension Corp. this month launched a Web site designed to assist consumers in selecting wireless products and services.The site, Wireless Dimension, provides information for the 25 largest U.S. markets, including rate plans updated each day, said the company.The site offers separate guides for...
UNION CITY, Calif.-Diva Communications Inc. announced it signed a contract with South Park Telephone Co. to supply its Diva-2000 wireless local loop system that will provide basic telephone service to residential subscribers outside Hartsel, Colo.Pending Federal Communications Commission approval, deployment will begin this month....
The number of digital wireless subscribers is expected to increase rapidly this year as more cellular carriers begin to push digital service aggressively.While many cellular carriers last year offered digital service as a way to offer products similar to what their personal communications services...
Once astounding the world with its success in 1995 and 1996, Personal Handyphone System service in Japan now has taken a turn for the worse.The number of PHS subscribers has decreased for six straight months since October, sending top executives at all three PHS...
WASHINGTON-Members of the House Commerce Committee last month urged the Federal Communications Commission to delay or eliminate the requirement that commercial mobile radio service providers implement local number portability (LNP) next year.The letter signed by 22 members supports a petition filed late last year...
Now that paging carriers must make Universal Service Fund contributions, even though they are ineligible to withdraw money from it, many are adding new charges to customer bills to recoup those fees-and the charges are not just for end users.Some carriers have extended this...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. last week introduced an aggressive national rate system that eliminates long-distance and roaming charges.The AT&T Digital One Rate plan includes three pricing options: 600 minutes for $90, 1,000 minutes for $120 and 1,400 minutes for $150. Those rates equate to per-minute...
Creativity is becoming key for wireless carriers trying to build out their networks amidst resistance from local municipalities that in some cases have gone as far as placing moratoria on new tower sites.The wireless industry is facing hundreds of moratoria in communities concerned about...
Are Judge Judy, Judge Koch and Judge Wapner behind this move in the wireless industry to settle disputes in court?Remember, it was Doug Llewelyn of People's Court fame, who spouted the wisdom that if you find yourself at loggerheads with someone else, "don't take...
