Wynd Communications Corp. is pursuing the wireless data market with an integrated messaging and information service for the mobile professional called WyndMail.San Luis Obispo, Calif.-based Wynd is a subsidiary of Call America. The 13-year-old firm provides telecommunications services including paging, Integrated Services Digital Networks,...
Well, it's finally here. American Personal Communications, doing business under the Sprint name, has introduced personal communications services in the Washington, D.C., market.Broadband PCS is a reality.One small step for wireless, one giant leap for the future?We'll see. It sounds like the company has...
About 370 short-form applications were filed by deadline for the C-block personal communications services auction set to begin Dec. 11, but the federal government shutdown, which has rendered the Federal Communications Commission inactive since early last week, leaves it a mystery as to who...
Two kinds of private, in-building wireless systems are seeking the attention of today's large business customers-stand-alone systems that provide portable extensions of employee desk phones, and stand-alone systems that provide portable extensions but also can hand off calls to the external, macro wireless network.Both...
While neophytes view the commercial vehicle industry as a homogeneous market, Norcom Networks Corp. sees a way to provide a high-speed, packet-data communications network to transportation companies in a way that treats each segment as unique."We are pioneering a new generation of wireless mobile...
Two Motorola Inc. wireless communicators, Marco and Envoy, will be offered from now until Dec. 29 at a reduced cost through a holiday-season marketing promotion by Motorola's Wireless Data Group and the Ardis wireless data network.Motorola said it is working with resellers to offer...
ST. LOUIS-Ameritech Corp. said it has deployed its wireless packet data service, based on the Cellular Digital Packet Data standard, in the St. Louis metropolitan area.Ameritech said the new service is designed specifically for sending and receiving computerized information from remote locations. It enables...
As the entrepreneurial block auctions for broadband personal communications services get underway this December, the first broadband PCS services also are scheduled to become reality. But a later rollout schedule is par for the course among major PCS license holders, resulting in part from...
Personal communications services developers-both veterans and rookies-are preparing to gorge themselves on the mass market for anytime, anywhere communications. It certainly is a time of high hopes, great expectations and crazy energy coming before an eventual and inevitable industry shakeout. Such a shakeout may...
Editor's Note: This letter was sent to several U.S. Congressmen by the owners of Americell Communications.To the Editor: Americell Communications is a medium- to small-sized specialized mobile radio company operating in the 800 MHz frequency spectrum. We started our business on May 25, 1991, with a...
VLSI Technology Inc. is bolstering its modem chipset offerings with a complete reference design solution to enable developers to quickly enter the market for Cellular Digital Packet Data applications.VLSI designs and manufactures semiconductors for the computer, consumer entertainment and communications industries. With nearly $600...
Wireless technologies are critical to introducing true competition into the country's last bastion of telecommunications monopoly, according to market research by Action Information Services. Unlike today's analog cellular services that merely supplement traditional wireline service, new digital cellular and personal communications services will begin...
Fearing fratricide in the sky, Wall Street is losing its ardor for backing risky telecommunications ventures with junk bonds. In recent weeks, mobile satellite service developers Iridium Inc. and Globalstar L.P. have had to scrap high-yield, high-risk debt offerings after meeting resistance from the...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Brookline Minerals Inc. announced it has funded Denver-based American Digital Communications Inc. for the construction of about 20 specialized mobile radio systems on the 220 MHz spectrum.The buildout includes systems in St. Louis, San Antonio, Portland, Ore., Washington, D.C., Tampa, Fla., Detroit...
As a native Washingtonian, I always become suspicious when Democrats and Republicans jointly embrace anything. My suspicions heighten when the executive and legislative branches-and the "independent" Federal Communications Commission-all rush to claim credit for their particular contributions to the field of communications. In this...
WASHINGTON-Clinton Watson, the alleged inventor of a software program that created the counterfeit "lifetime" phone, was convicted on three counts of cellular telephone fraud by a U.S. District Court trial jury in San Jose, Calif.The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association called the conviction "a significant...
A new industry association has been formed to promote and advance the Personal Access Communications System standard as the preferred solution for the emerging 1.9 GHz personal communications services market in the United States.The PACS standard is based on Time Division Multiple Access digital...
The success of wireless communications presents a double-edged blade for mobile satellite service. On one hand, the continued acceptance of wireless communications and the development of wider applications represents large potential demand. On the other hand, the growth of terrestrial cellular systems reduces the...
Metrocall Inc. has commenced a public offering of four million shares of its common stock at a price of $28.25 per share.The company expects to receive net proceeds from the offering of about $107 million and is concurrently offering $110 million principal amount of...
WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee lawmakers say microwave relocation rules may have to be revisited by Congress or the Federal Communications Commission if it is determined microwave users are demanding excessive payments from personal communications services licensees in exchange for being relocated from the 2 GHz...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Switch manufacturer Summa Four Inc. is collaborating with software designer Engineering and Business Systems Inc. to create and market a mini mobile switching center for the personal communications services market.The miniMSC will use Summa Four's Virtual Central Office open, programmable switch and EBS'...
The two-way paging system recently launched by SkyTel Corp. is reasonably priced and clearly takes the paging industry across the threshold into next-century applications, say wireless analysts."The market is going to be very competitive on price," said Heidi Bomengen, associate director for the telecommunications...
Precision Systems Inc.'s latest innovation is Atlas, a network-based personal telecommunications assistant that will wake you up in the morning, remind you to call your mother and if you desire, answer and store faxes in Japanese or a number of other languages.Atlas is interactive...
The world cellular equipment market, including both switching and base station equipment, totaled $14.4 billion in 1994 with plenty of growth still ahead, according to a new study from Northern Business Information.In "World Cellular Network Equipment Markets: 1994 Edition," NBI projected a compound average growth...
