The cellular industry's major handset manufacturers reported lower growth figures in third quarter reports, a sign that the wireless phone industry could be slowing down in the United States.Low cellular phone prices were one of the contributing factors that led to the slower growth...
These days cellular phones are sold just about everywhere you turn, even the drug store. However, it may not be so easy to buy one. One company said it has designed a solution for people whose credit history has inhibited them from buying a...
Datum Inc.'s Timing Division announced the release of a small high-performance Global Positioning Satellite system receiver. Datum said the StarTime GPS Clock is designed for applications that require not only high performance but small physical size and low price. The clock consists of an...
WASHINGTON-Every time a paging or cellular phone signal is sent over the airwaves what happens with the transactional information-the subscriber's name, address, billing information and eventual usage patterns-collected by the carrier?Truth is, the customer typically doesn't know. One thing is for sure, companies are...
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...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s International Cellular Infrastructure Division will expand and upgrade cellular phone service in Thailand under a contract valued at $160 million.Total Access Communications Public Co. Ltd. ordered the expansion to increase overall network capacity and extend geographic coverage in the capital...
WASHINGTON-A broad-based public interest coalition has asked federal regulators to require that mobile telephones provide unrestricted access to emergency 911 service.The Ad Hoc Alliance for Public Access to 911 asserted that cellular emergency calls may be blocked if made outside of the area served...
WASHINGTON-The Republican revolution two years ago that forced Democrats to relinquish control of Congress for the first time in 40 years may have produced one of the next top telecommunications policymakers on Capitol Hill.Rick White is a 42-year-old freshman from Washington's 1st District, home...
The nation's major cellular handset manufacturers caused a little commotion on Wall Street recently when they noted handset sales hadn't grown at the phenomenal rate that analysts and industry execs are used to seeing.Does this mean the cellular marketplace is finally slowing down? Should...
DENVER-Regional Bell operating company U S West Inc. has been ordered by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission to give $150 monthly cellular-phone credit to Colorado residential and business customers who have waited more than 30 days for landline telephone installation.Some 1,850 customers were waiting...
Brad Busse is now the chief operating officer at Daniels & Associates. Prior to his appointment, Busse served as executive vice president of Daniels' Mobile & Telephony division. Busse will continue to manage the mobile group, address the day-to-day operational issues of the firm...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments has introduced a new digital signal processing solution designed to give cellular telephone users the safety of hands-free operation in the car along with the audio quality associated with handheld phone use.TI said its TMS320WP010 enhances hands-free cellular communications with a combination...
If the Federal Communications Commission were eliminated, as some self-proclaimed know-it-alls advocate, who would figure out how the nation's 4 million hearing aid wearers and the wireless telecommunications industry coexist?Two separate issues, you say? Not really.FCC Chairman Reed Hundt's recent focus on potential interference...
WASHINGTON-The wireless telecommunications industry told the Federal Communications Commission it will work with the hearing-impaired community, hearing aid manufacturers and audiologists during the next six months to develop short-term and long-term solutions to hearing aid interference and compatibility problems posed by digital pocket telephones."We...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Hutchison Telephone Co. Ltd. launched what it says is the world's first commercial Code Division Multiple Access digital cellular phone system in Hong Kong.Hutchison plans to migrate customers from cellular analog Advanced Mobile Phone Service to CDMA digital throughout 1996 and 1997....
Before 1995, people with a moderate to total hearing loss couldn't carry on an ordinary phone conversation, according to Jo Waldron, co-inventor of the Hearing Aid Telephone Interconnect System. Today, using the HATIS device, it is possible for people with up to 99 percent...
AT&T Network Systems Inc. installed a digital wireless data communications system on Tele2000's wireless network in Lima, Peru. Tele2000 said it was the first to bring cellular telephone service to Peru. AT&T's Cellular Digital Packet Data system allows subscribers on the network to send...
The recent scuffle between Time Warner Inc. and U S West Inc. over the former's proposed acquisition of Turner Broadcasting System Inc. may terminate yet another much-ballyhooed telecommunications partnership that couldn't survive changing industry conditions.On Sept. 22, U S West filed a lawsuit asking...
ORLANDO, Fla.-A cellular phone battery with a built-in numeric pager has been introduced by Motorola Inc.'s Paging Products Group, in what the company says is a response to market demand.The battery slides onto the back of any Motorola MicroTac or retail pocket personal cellular...
Notable Technologies Inc. of Bellevue, Wash., has partnered with the National Dispatch Center Inc. to develop and deliver information services for paging, Cellular Digital Packet Data and personal communications services networks. Notable will serve as NDC's preferred provider of personal information services to be...
WASHINGTON - Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, chairman of the House Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations, said he may offer a switched wireless resale bill next year unless this week's hearing on cellular telephone competition and subsequent industry developments convince him otherwise."If it can...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-The U.S. mobile communications services market is projected to more than triple from $26.3 billion in 1994 to $92.5 billion by the year 2001, according to a new study from Frost & Sullivan Inc.The share of total mobile market revenues going to...
On a recent trip across Europe to visit some of the major operators and manufacturers of the blossoming cellular industry there, I was asked to describe the state of the industry in the United States. Of course I spoke of the great advancements we...
Riding the "third wave" of the cellular industry, Memphis, Tenn.-based Cellcore is gaining ground as a wireless supplier, focusing on three key areas: cellular and personal communications services networks, microcellular networks and integrated communications offerings.Distributed network architecture distinguishes Celcore's cellular system design from traditional cellular...
