ProNet Inc. signed letters of intent to acquire four paging operations for a combined purchase price of $20.2 million. ProNet said it plans to acquire Williams Metro Communications Corp. and affiliates of Tallahassee, Fla., Reisenweaver Communications Inc. of Winston/Salem, N.C., Total Communications Inc. of...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Pilipino Telephone Corp. awarded Motorola Inc.'s International Cellular Infrastructure Division a $270 million contract to expand and enhance its Mobiline cellular phone system, said Motorola.The initial phase of the multi-year contract will replace metropolitan Manila's current Advanced Mobile Phone System and U.S....
Reflection Technology Inc. said it has increased staffing in its engineering, marketing, finance and sales departments by 25 percent in anticipation of shipping its FaxView personal facsimile reader in this year's third quarter. "With Reflection's involvement in competitive markets such as interactive entertainment and...
Fueled by increasing safety concerns and customer demand, the cellular market has become the fastest-growing segment for speech-recognition use in the United States, according to industry analysts.Being able to command a cellular phone to "call office"-instead of requiring users to fumble for their handsets...
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Secret Service arrested six alleged computer hackers and seized more than 20 computer systems during an undercover fraud investigation that encompassed seven states.Agents targeted people using the Internet and a private bulletin board system to allegedly deal in stolen cellular phone and...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Western Wireless Corp. has selected California Microwave Inc. as a contractor of microwave radio and engineering services for its personal communications services network.California Microwave will provide network design, transmission engineering and equipment installation. California Microwave also will provide engineering re-design assistance to companies...
Leon Hensen has been named senior vice president and general manager of Palmer Wireless Inc. of Fort Myers, Fla. Hensen will be responsible for the overall operation of the company. Hensen joined Palmer Communications Inc., the former parent company of Palmer Wireless, in 1987....
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile is using the INReach wireless, in-building communications system developed by Motorola Inc. in its Wallingford, Conn., office.INReach is an interior wireless solution that connects digitally with private branch exchange or Centrex systems. The system uses a base station...
Cellular operators may have to continue to price digital service lower than analog to capture and keep customers until digital service matures and can offer advanced features, said cellular phone analyst Herschel Shosteck. But digital service has been accepted by users more quickly than...
M.W.M. announced the Wave Shadow 1000, a product that automatically mutes or shuts down any vehicle radio when a portable or fixed cellular phone rings, or when outgoing calls are placed. The units require no physical connection to the cellular phone, according to the...
DALLAS-Cellular users increasingly are picking up their phones for personal use as opposed to just for business, according to a recent survey from Cellular One of Dallas. The national survey questioned cellular users about their cellular habits.The "Look Who's Talking" Survey showed that 70...
DALLAS-CellStar Corp. has signed an agreement with Usha Martin Telekom Ltd. that will allow a CellStar joint venture company to sell cellular phone service in Calcutta, India. Usha Martin holds a Global System for Mobile communications cellular license for the area.The joint venture, HCL...
Oops!Someone told the National Association of Counties, the National League of Cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors about language included in the House's version of the telecom reform bill that could take away some local authority over where antenna towers are placed.The associations...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson has won a contract with Korea Telecom to provide the first phase of a mobile data network based on Mobitex technology.Korea Telecom, a government-run telecommunications company, intends to launch its wireless data service early in 1996, initially in the Seoul metropolitan...
Korea Electric Power Corp. added eight sites to the existing four sites of its L.M. Ericsson Ltd. trunked system, which uses Enhanced Digital Access Communications System technology. Korea Electric hopes to expand the system by the end of the year to cover all of...
PITTSBURGH-Communications pioneer Jack N. Berkman, founder and chairman of The Associated Group Inc., died Aug. 3 at his New York City home. He was 90.Berkman led Associated Communications Corp. in 1983 to build and operate one of the first cellular phone systems in the...
DUARTE, Calif.-Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. has awarded more than $1.5 million to the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, Calif., to conduct initial research on human exposure to the radio waves of cellular telephony.WTR, formerly the Scientific Advisory Group, is funded by...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt said the agency will not halt the licensing of personal communications services systems that use the Global System for Mobile communications standard because "we don't believe there is a serious risk of interference to hearing aids" from the...
Arch Communication Group Inc. said it has acquired Professiona Paging & Radio Inc., a privately owned paging business with operations in Florida, for $3 million in cash. PoePage's operations will become a part of Arch Southeast Communications Inc. TEh acquisition incresases Arch's total cousomer...
An international cellular operator and a U.S. paging equipment provider have cellular and paging service up and running in Bulgaria, despite the former Eastern bloc government's sluggish efforts to privatize business.A Bulgarian joint venture led by Cable & Wireless plc purchased a cellular license...
Time Warner Telecommunications announced it will begin offering cellular phone service in Rochester, N.Y.-the company's largest cable television market-by reselling service from the city's B-side carrier, Rochester Telephone Mobile Communications.This will be the company's first move into the wireless market. Time Warner has conducted...
Nintendo, a name most familiar in exclusive circles-the young teens market-has made its first U.S. investment in a small company with an "expanding" technology.Waltham, Mass.-based Reflection Technology Inc. has designed the Virtual Boy game device for Nintendo Co. Ltd., using its patented Scanned Linear...
Microwave Networks Inc. said it has formed a joint marketing agreement with United Kingdom-based Westinghouse Electronics Ltd. The agreement positions the companies to respond jointly to proposals for large communications projects in the United Kingdom, Africa and the Middle East, MNI said. Westinghouse will...
Qualcomm Inc. agreed to pay InterDigital Technology Corp. $5.5 million in an out-of-court settlement of the companies' Code Division Multiple Access patent dispute.In return for the one-time payment, Qualcomm will receive a royalty-free, worldwide license to use and sublicense ITC's CDMA patents and certain...
