FORT LEE, N.J.-Tri-State Radio Co. announced deployment of Motorola Inc.'s FLEX high speed paging protocol on its East Coast and West Coast regional paging networks."The rapid growth of our markets necessitated an advanced protocol solution. We chose the FLEX protocol because it is the...
InterDigital Communictaions Corp. said it received an order for UltraPhone digital wireless local loop equipment valued at $17.6 million from the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. Installation in metropolitan Manila is scheduled to begin the second half of this year. The Myanma Posts and...
True, America views the nation's capital with a jaundiced eye. And well it should. The system is broke and needs fixing. Lobbyists, special interest money and lawmakers-for-life control the ways and means by which business-as-usual is carried out on Capitol Hill. It is pronounced...
Recent research on cellular subscriber churn conducted by customer satisfaction powerhouse J.D. Power and Associates calls into question the industry's "more-is-better" approach to retail distribution of service.J.D. Power for years has conducted customer satisfaction studies for a broad range of consumer products and services,...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-The ability to transmit video over cellular will give two U.S. television stations the edge in receiving breaking news from remote sites, according to two cellular carriers.Bell Atlantic Mobile said it has teamed up with cable station Newschannel 8 in the Washington, D.C.,...
Superconducting Core Technologies of Golden, Colo., believes it has developed an industry first-a superconductor that is automatically tuned by microprocessors to allocate frequencies and improve channel re-use."We are committed to demonstrating that so-called virtual manufacturing companies can efficiently work with the public laboratory system...
As the dust settles from the recent double-header, pre-auction alliance ballgame, another Mighty Casey is in position to crack the bat at December's auction of broadband personal communications services licenses.Sprint Corp. recently announced a grand slam alliance with three cable companies-Tele-Communications Inc., Comcast Corp....
The price GTE Corp. is offering for publicly held Contel Cellular Inc. shares was set arbitrarily, does not take into account that the company's profits are expected to increase and places an artificial lid on the market price for the stock, enabling GTE to...
Cellular carriers and manufacturers need to appreciate the value of analog technology well into the future if they want to succeed, said industry consultants at an annual strategic cellular and wireless radio seminar.For the first time in the seven-year history of the seminar, presented...
