Digital TU-KA Chugoku Co. Ltd. launched commercial service in the Chugoku area of Japan, serving the capital city, major highways and the railway line. AirTouch Communications Inc. owns 4.5 percent of the Chugoku operator, as well as five other Digital TU-KA cellular companies offering...
NEW YORK-Group Communication Services, Canada's second-largest specialized mobile radio operator, plans an initial public offering of common stock to help finance most of a major expansion project to deploy digital technology.Known as CS Group, the Montreal-based company plans to spend $91 million (Canadian) to...
Telecom Finland has contracted with L.M. Ericsson to build a new DCS-1800 system and expand Telecom Finland's existing Global System for Mobile communications network.Ericsson values the contract at $105 million. The company said the contract is an indication of the "ever fiercer competition to...
The Nokia Group is expanding an analog system in Indonesia, in the face of the deployment of digital systems by numerous other operators there.Earlier this year, Indonesia's government gave the state-owned operator the nation's first license for personal communications services. Other PCS licenses are...
It's quicker to list which countries do not use FLEX than to name those that do.That's how Larry Conlee, corporate vice president and director of worldwide markets, Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Division, described FLEX's rapid acceptance worldwide. In the United States, most one-way paging...
Paging operators have different ideas about what will be the killer application that attracts paging customers to two-way service. But they do agree about a few things: Paging customers want small devices, low-cost service and they want to know if the page was received. Operators...
Paging operators have different ideas about what will be the killer application that attracts paging customers to two-way service. But they do agree about a few things: Paging customers want small devices, low-cost service and they want to know if the page was received. Operators...
Another handset manufacturer saw its company stock drop then slowly rise again following the release of a quarterly report with stagnant earnings.It's the continuation of a process that began last year when the drop in handset prices began to noticeably affect percentage growth. Manufacturers...
Code Division Multiple Access has been touted as a success story in Seoul, South Korea and in Hong Kong. Many U.S. personal communications services licensees have based their access technology decision on CDMA's reported superior performance, high capacity and low cost. Many analysts put...
Nexus Telecommunication Systems Ltd. announced it has granted a license to operate its wireless messaging system over 2 MHz in the 900 UHF to Eden, a fully owned subsidiary of Nexus set up to operate the messaging system and provide its services in Israel....
ArrayComm Inc. announced it has closed a private equity placement totaling $12.3 million. The placement, which was oversubscribed, was managed by UBS Securities Inc. and Volpe, Welty & Co. ArrayComm said the placement will fund the completion of its wireless local loop product and...
Nokia profits down in first quarterA 62 percent decrease in operating profit reported by the Nokia Group has been attributed to Nokia Mobile Phones.The Finnish manufacturer's handset division struggled with low phone prices and slow sales during its first quarter. Sales of mobile handsets...
No big surprise, AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s cellular equipment vendors Lucent Technologies Inc. and L.M. Ericsson were named suppliers for the company's Time Division Multiple Access personal communications services networks, marking Lucent's seventh end-to-end U.S. PCS contract and one of Ericsson's largest U.S. contracts.Orders...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-The national wireless alliance of AirTouch Cellular, Bell Atlantic Corp., Nynex Corp., U S West NewVector Group and PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. announced they have signed a contract with Independent Telecommunications Network Inc. to provide Signaling System 7 seamless roaming and enhanced...
Millicom International Cellular S.A. signed a seven-year $200 million credit facility agreement arranged by ABN-AMRO Bank and ING Bank. Millicom said the facility will be used to refinance $125 million of existing short term credit facilities at the parent level and the balance of...
NEW YORK-With the advent of a personal communications services overlay onto the nation's traditional cellular landscape, 1996 also will mark the debut of the dual-mode wireless phone as a consumer product.To Terrence Valeski, vice president of marketing for Pacific Bell Mobile Services, Pleasanton, Calif.,...
The fusion of wireless telecommunications and computer processing power into a device that fits your hand ought to be a slam-dunk proposition. It lets time-critical information go unobtrusively to where it can be most productive-in the field-rather than requiring the user to go where...
Three-sixty Communications Co., in its first earnings announcement as an independent company since its spinoff from Sprint Corp., reported a first quarter net income of $7 million, or 6 cents per share, compared with a loss of $5.9 million, or a loss of 5...
WASHINGTON-Interconnection with the local exchange carrier represents a significant expenditure for the wireless industry, nearly $936 million in 1995, according to a new study from MTA-EMCI Inc.In "Interconnection: Wireless Industry Rates and Trends," the company notes that the burgeoning growth of the cellular industry as...
Safco Corp.'s Electronic Systems Division has opened a third satellite office in Boca Raton, Fla., to serve the Latin American market. David Neumann will lead the new office. Neumann joined Safco in 1991, and previously served as a systems engineer and a national accounts...
NEW YORK-As the Federal Communication Commission's C-block auction for personal communications services draws to a close, a key consideration for systems build-out is the kind of role equipment vendors will play.Although many creative financing ideas are under way or under consideration, two persistent stumbling...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. will supply Omnipoint Corp. equipment for its New York-based personal communications services network, the companies said. The equipment is configured with Omnipoint's Interim Standard-661 and Ericsson's PCS 1900 technologies.Over the next five years Ericsson could supply Omnipoint with up to $350...
Sales of wireless network equipment in the United States grew more than 72 percent in 1995 to $5.44 billion, up from $3.16 billion the previous year, according to a new report from Northern Business Information.In U.S. Wireless Network Equipment Markets: 1995 Edition, NBI said that...
L.M. Ericsson and Motorola Inc. say they don't expect to pull workers out of Lebanon at this time, where two digital wireless phone networks are under construction, despite escalating violence in the area.The Israeli military bombed numerous sites in southern Lebanon last week to...
