UkraineOrbcomm Global L.P. announced it has signed a service license agreement with Transexpo Corp. to provide its satellite data services to the Ukraine. According to the agreement, Transexpo will take delivery of an Orbcomm gateway, which includes a gateway earth station and a gateway...
SONY ELECTRONICSSony Electronics introduced a new alphanumeric pager with a synthesized tuner, generic-over-the-air programming capabilities and the company's Jog Dial operation, called the MP-7001. The generic-over-the-air programming technology, or GOTAP, is an advanced feature of the Motorola Inc. FLEXsuite protocol. Sony also released the...
NEW ORLEANS-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium and the GSM North American Alliance announced plans to work to achieve interoperability between TDMA and GSM technology, a move that could facilitate national and global consolidation among carriers with incompatible technologies and in particular allow SBC Communications...
Omnipoint TechnologiesOmnipoint Technologies Inc. introduced a Global System for Mobile communications radio module called Eagle One as the latest addition to its GSM-based wireless solutions product suite. The original equipment manufacturer solution provides developers the tools needed to integrate wireless data communications with their...
At CTIA's Wireless '99: The Jambala Wireless Application Protocol Gateway, which will allow operators to improve and expand wireless data services to their customers, said the company.An open-application platform, the Jambala WAP Gateway is a network node that serves as a bridge between the...
When BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. introduced its Interactive Paging service at PCS '98 last year, Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing Janet Boudris said she expected financial applications to be a big driver of the two-way messaging paradigm.If recent announcements are any indication, that...
Paging Network Inc. announced it is offering the Iridium World Page Service commercially in the United States as the country's exclusive paging carrier offering Iridium service.The paging portion of Iridium's 66 low-earth-orbit satellite system was activated in November, after which PageNet began beta testing...
Geoworks Corp. and APiON Ltd. announced they successfully completed interoperability tests of their products based on the Wireless Application Protocol. The testing process lasted several months and involved Geoworks' new Premion Interface+ graphical user interface and APiON's WAP gateway system to allow Premion-enabled handsets...
Unwired Planet Inc. took another step toward making its vision of Wireless Application Protocol devices and services a commercial reality by providing interoperability testing between its WAP-enabled UP.Link Server and WAP-encoded browsers produced by handset manufacturers.The first company to begin testing its proprietary browser...
Following an unannounced soft launch in November, Conxus Communications Inc. announced its long-awaited Pocketext text-messaging service is being rolled out market-by-market nationwide.The company began the service late last year in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Washington D.C./Baltimore. In the coming months, Conxus said it...
The introduction of digital phone technology has changed dramatically the landscape of wireless communications across the globe and put the heat on the global paging industry.Paging's old advantages of small size and cheaper service are being whittled away, as digital phones shrink in size...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-In an agreement with IBM's software group, Motorola Worldwide Data Solutions Division said it now will be able to offer IBM's eNetwork Emulator Express, eNetwork Web Express and eNetwork Wireless Gateway and Mobile Client as part of its Private DataTAC+ solution."The eNetwork Wireless...
Orbcomm Global L.P. announced its $500 million constellation of 28 low-earth-orbit satellites is complete and able to offer full commercial service worldwide.Orbcomm has offered limited service capabilities for more than two years on the two satellites it launched in 1995. However, those two satellites...
With the Nov. 1 commercial activation of Iridium L.L.C.'s satellite-based global mobile phone network, the mobile satellite services industry proved it is technologically possible to extend cellular communications to virtually any point on the planet.With this validation behind it, the industry faces another, equally...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s Integrated Network Group announced its modular voice processing system is being used by Motorola Inc.'s Ground Systems Division to deploy voice messaging and other enhanced services for the Iridium L.L.C. gateway network.The Glenayre MVP system has been installed in all...
WASHINGTON-Iridium L.L.C. has activated its global paging and messaging network, about two weeks after the commercial launch of its global satellite phone system.Messaging tests have gone well, and Motorola Inc. and Kyocera Corp., which make the Iridium pagers, are shipping the devices to the...
Dueling high-tech agendas In coming years, the debate for control of the nation's high-tech policy agenda will become as fierce, and perhaps as important, as any in official Washington. Given high-tech is the engine of the knowledge-based economy, it would be wise for the...
While Iridium L.L.C. continues work to improve the technical prowess of its low-earth-orbit satellite-based global phone service, the company also must turn its attention to its global sales and marketing effort.In the first week following the system's commercial activation, several of Iridium L.L.C.'s international...
TOKYO-As part of its effort to break through the stagnant pager market, Japanese pager maker Oi Electronic Co. Ltd. is developing a voice pager that can deliver voice, data and numeric data."The voice pager is one of the most important next-generation products," said Ko...
NEW YORK-If telecommunications companies worked in a vacuum, they would probably be well fortified against the Year 2000 electronics bug that threatens to hobble microprocessor-reliant equipment.Wireless networks that are newer than traditional landline systems often are equipped to pass muster in the new millennium....
Constant debate migrates in telecom circles as to the best communications solution to serve the needs of large rural markets, such as those that exist in Africa. While there are plenty of solutions that would work technically, many argue they're not cost-effective for low-density...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.-ReadyCom Inc. said it completed development of its two-way wireless voice messaging technology and is lining up carriers and distribution partners to make the service available in first half of next year.The Responder service allows users to send voice messages to voice...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced its first two products supporting the Wireless Application Protocol at the GSM Asia-Pacific Congress in Singapore.The products are the WAP Gateway and a WAP Service Developers' Kit for service and content providers.The WAP Gateway was created for Global System for...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. announced that Iridium L.L.C. selected it to provide sales and fulfillment services for Iridium World Roaming Services.Under the agreement, Brightpoint services will include sourcing, packaging and programming terrestrial wireless products for Iridium service providers, gateway operators and subscribers, as well as logistics...
