WASHINGTON-Stores are crowded. Literature is disappearing. Customer service is forced to beef up. Product is in short supply. The holidays are around the corner. Overwhelming success is a double-edged sword.But it is this sword that Sprint Spectrum, the personal communications service joint venture between...
Zues Phonstuff has introduced its Always-in-Touch unit, a device that plugs into a home or office phone line and notifies a pager of a call when the phone user is away. The pager displays the caller's phone number and indicates when there is a...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Equipment manufacturer L.M. Ericsson and Omnipoint Corp. have signed an agreement valued at $250 million for Ericsson to supply Omnipoint with Interim Standard-661 and PCS 1900 network equipment and services.The memorandum of understanding includes $40 million for IS-661 and PCS 1900 phones and...
It's hard to tell whether the first session of the 104th Congress is winding down or whether Washington is just all wound up.The GOP-led Congress was scrambling to pass the remaining appropriations bills, arguing with itself and the Clinton administration about approving another stop-gap...
Large markets in Latin America are serving as test beds for a range of digital cellular and personal communications services standards, according to a study from Pyramid Research Inc.The report outlines the astounding cellular growth in Mexico, Central and South America, a trend that...
Comsearch announced it was awarded a contract from MRCB Telecommunications Sdn Bnd to license Comsearch microwave design engineering software. The software, called Interconnect, is being used to support the design, licensing and implementation of the MRCB microwave network for its personal communications network service...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced it has signed an agreement with Motorola Inc. giving Ericsson a license to use Motorola's high-speed paging protocol, FLEX. The license includes pagers and infrastructure equipment.Ericsson said it is seeking to support multiple standards in a number of areas, including...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it has signed an order for a Time Division Multiple Access/Advanced Mobile Phone System cellular network with Compania de Telecommunicaciones Moviles Chile S.A., one of two operators in Chile.Ericsson said the system will enable CTCC to offer a full range...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - Ericsson Inc. announced winning contracts to place its Freeset Business Wireless System at the world's two largest futures exchanges, both located in Chicago.The Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange selected Freeset to enhance their Chicago Loop...
Ameritech Corp. announced it has formed a consortium with Singapore Telecom and Tele Danmark to pursue a partnership with Belgacom S.A., the national telecommunications operator in Belgium. The Belgian government this summer selected Ameritech as a final bidder for the consolidation of Belgacom. The...
CellStar Corp. said it formed a distribution relationship with Cellular One Group. The company said the agreement is a nationwide strategic cellular accessory program encompassing original equipment manufacturer products from Motorola Inc., NEC Corp., Nokia Inc., Ericsson Inc. and Oki telecom, as well as...
WASHINGTON-The future is here.Vice President Al Gore, father of the information superhighway, christened the broadband personal communications services industry with a call to Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke Nov. 15 on the Sprint Spectrum system operated by American Personal Communications."I'm proud to speak to you...
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...
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...
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...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Trimble Navigation Ltd. and L.M. Ericsson have agreed to license technology that allows dispatch centers such as ambulance and other public-safety services to use radio bandwidth more efficiently in tracking their vehicles.Trimble said it will offer Automatic Vehicle Location and data messaging products...
As the entrepreneurial block auctions for broadband personal communications services get underway this December, the first broadband PCS services also are scheduled to become reality. But a later rollout schedule is par for the course among major PCS license holders, resulting in part from...
Standard Telecom America Inc. introduced a line-up of Nixxo pagers including Nixxo Tutti, Nixxo AirFly and the alphanumeric Nixxo, to American and Latin American markets. The company is a new player in the U.S. paging market but is a leading manufacturer in South Korea...
Allen Telecom Group Inc. announced it has reached a purchase agreement with Pacific Bell Mobile Services. The three-year, non-exclusive agreement allows Pac Bell to purchase Allen's omni-directional and panel antennas and accessories in preparation for building its personal communications services infrastructure for its base...
JAKARTA, Indonesia-Wireless activity in Indonesia is heating up as two more telecommunications giants jump into the market.L. M. Ericsson and Indonesian partner PT Erindo Utama received a contract from Indonesian operator PT Telkom to deliver a Digital European Cordless Telephone radio access system to...
Telemac Cellular Corp. agreed to license its patent-pending debit technology to Trimax Inc. of Taiwan. Trimax will use the technology to manufacture a switch independent cellular debit phone. The license is expected to result in the distribution of 500,000 phones into China during a...
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...
American Personal Communications has cracked a deal with Baltimore Gas & Electric that will allow APC to put full-sector antenna configurations on electric transmission towers.The relationship could help APC leap over some of cellular's long-time site acquisition hurdles-zoning board battles. Electric utilities are well...
While the personal communications services industry in general remains locked in a three-way split over an airlink standard for systems deployment, cable TV operators in the PCS business so far have pitched their tents in the Code Division Multiple Access camp.CDMA got a large...
