The Big Mac of wireless devices has arrived. Shaped like a regular cellular phone, the Nokia 9000 Communicator opens to expose an interactive digital world of voice, data, fax, e-mail, computer, on-line and organizer features to appease the cravings of today's business professionals.Nokia Mobile...
A young company out of Santa Ana, Calif., proclaims its antenna technology increases the range for wireless devices 50 percent to 100 percent and eliminates digital interference with hearing aids and pacemakers.RangeStar Inc. spent several years in research, developing and testing its antenna technology,...
Try this one on for size: You can't pay too much for a good wireless license or a good high-tech executive.This statement, mind you, is totally politically incorrect and goes against the grain of conventional wisdom, what with C-block PCS auction prices and executives' salaries...
L.M. Ericsson said it surpassed the 1 million subscriber milestone in February for its CMS 30 system for Pacific Digital Cellular, making Japan one of the fastest growing markets for cellular telephony. The number of cellular subscribers in Japan has increased rapidly since deregulation,...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it has a $30 million contract to deploy a digital cellular phone network for PT Telkomsel in Indonesia.The Global System for Mobile communications system will be able to serve 50,000 cellular customers in the capital city of Jakarta, the...
SEOUL, South Korea-Samsung Electronics Co. announced a contract with Russian telecommunications company IV Telecom to provide equipment for a digital cellular phone system using Code Division Multiple Access technology.Samsung said the $2 million contract represents the first export of a CDMA system by any...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s North Asia Cellular Infrastructure Division announced it has been awarded contracts to deploy seven Global System for Mobile communications networks in China."With the explosive growth of the Chinese cellular market, Motorola has planted a strong foothold in the country as...
GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. last week introduced FraudForce, a service aimed at blasting today's most threatening cellular phone fraud, roaming fraud.Initial deployment of FraudForce will include FraudInterceptor, a tool that recognizes customers who are roaming in a high-fraud market, and FraudChallenger, an interactive voice...
NEW YORK-Faced with falling cellular phone prices and formidable competition by the four heavyweight handset manufacturers, smaller, Japanese-based players are pursuing other options in the U.S. marketplace."It's going to be a brutal year," said Francis McInerney, a principal of North River Ventures, New York....
A popular reason to carry a cellular phone is personal safety, yet a main complaint from both cellular users and emergency assistance providers is lack of cellular "locatability."When a person dials 911 from a landline phone, emergency services are able to place the call...
The number of mobile phone subscribers is rising quickly in Europe, but an increasing proportion of low-volume users and competition among operators could wrench profits over the next decade, forecasts CIT Research Ltd."For the first time in 12 years, we are sounding a real...
Cellular theft: A cellular phone is stolen from a legitimate customer and used before the theft can be reported.Subscription fraud: This type of counterfeiting occurs when a person signs up for cellular service using fraudulent information or false identification and does not intend to pay for...
PHOENIX-The U.S. District Court in Phoenix ordered One Line Cellular and Cell Phone Extensions to permanently discontinue altering, transferring, emulating or manipulating electronic serial numbers to create extension phones, U S West Cellular announced.U S West filed charges against the two companies in August,...
Motorola Inc.'s Paging Products Group signed a licensing agreement with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute to manufacture and sell Motorola FLEX chip sets. Motorola said it plans to license key semiconductor houses worldwide to manufacture and distribute FLEX chip sets. ITRI is the first...
Omnitel Pronto Italia, Italy's first private Global System for Mobile communications cellular provider, said it has reached a roaming agreement with government-owned Telecom Italia Mobile SpA and announced three additional pricing plans to help it compete with TIM.Omnitel, a consortium comprised of Italy's computer...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s International Cellular Infrastructure Division said it is supplying digital Global System for Mobile communications cellular phone equipment to Tanzania and Lesotho, Africa.Motorola said it recently deployed GSM self-contained compact In-Cell base stations in Tanzania as part of the digital cellular...
New Haven, Conn.-SNET Mobility Inc., under the Cellular One brand, introduced a personal identification number fraud protection program in Rhode Island and Bristol County, Mass.SNET said the program requires the use of a four-digit PIN number, similar to those used at bank automated teller...
The Harris NovAtel Division of Harris Canada Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc. have signed an original equipment manufacturing agreement that will enable Harris NovAtel to incorporate Glenayre's Modular Voice Processing System platform in its cellular equipment networks worldwide, Glenayre announced. The platform will provide...
"Calling party pays" cellular, already a reality in Europe, Japan and Australia, is a growing trend throughout Latin America.In most places in Latin America, the cellular subscriber still pays for the airtime on incoming as well as outgoing calls. But this is changing as...
Pockets of wireless local loop operations and fixed cellular services are emerging throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Small-scale operations and field trials are underway in Argentina, Belize, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay. But many of these areas may...
Taiwan's new telecommunications law will give wireless companies the chance to break into that country's communications market, but a 20 percent ownership limit may disappoint some businesses.Taiwan is making liberalization strides in hopes of becoming an Asia-Pacific regional operations center, as well as fulfilling...
ORANGEBURG, N.Y.-Former Nynex Mobile Communications cellular executive Alfred Boschulte has been named managing director of Excelcomindo, Nynex's joint venture in Indonesia that was formed to provide digital cellular phone service to that region.Boschulte is the former president of Tomcom L.P., a joint venture comprised...
BRUSSELS-Telecom liberalization in Europe was pushed ahead last week when the European Commission adopted a policy requiring member states to begin to abolish phone monopolies and open mobile phone licensing.The deadline set by the European Union for full liberalization is Jan. 1, 1998. The...
Budget talks between the Clinton administration and the GOP-controlled Congress are stalled, the chances that any budget agreement will be worked out by the end of this week-when Shutdown III is set to start-look dismal.The concept of a flat tax is all the rage,...
