L.M. Ericsson announced it received an order from Tokyo Digital Phone to expand its Personal Digital Cellular mobile telephone system.Ericsson said the order, valued at $85 million, includes switching and radio base station equipment as well as new software functions to be delivered during...
WASHINGTON-Iridium Inc. announced it has concluded a private financing within its existing investor group, raising an additional $315 million and boosting its total capital base from $1.6 billion to more than $1.9 billion.The additional funds will be applied by Iridium Inc. to the ongoing...
LAS VEGAS-A group of California entrepreneurs have invented a robot to program phones in the retail environment."With only brief training, a nontechnical retail employee can program any phone in three minutes or less, without mistakes," according to Activator Systems Inc. of Tustin, Calif.The phone...
Sprint is the newest name in pag ing. Sound familiar? Yes, well that's the idea. Through a reseller agreement be tween Sprint Telecommunica tions Venture and Paging Net work Inc., Sprint Corp. plans to sell PageNet's services to its long-distance customers and others.The deal...
North American Wireless Inc. announced NextWave Personal Communications Inc. is joining the NAWI team of companies planning to build a nationwide personal communications services network using Code Division Multiple Access technology."NextWave brings a tremendous amount of expertise, experience and strength to our nationwide network,"...
Alphanumeric paging is making a turnaround in the U.S. marketplace. It's easier to use, more spectrum-efficient and may open a gateway for service providers to sign on two-way messaging customers.Alphanumeric paging is on the rise. According to Roberta Wiggins, director of wireless/mobile communications for...
With plans to offer commercial tracking services in North America in February, Orbcomm Global L.P. has two satellites in orbit and is beta testing its global data-only communication system.The Dulles, Va.-based company is licensed to create a 34-satellite system to provide worldwide data and...
SAN MATEO, Calif.-RadioMail Corp. said it is taking new initiatives to extend and enhance its two-way gateway messaging service for both cellular carriers and its own subscribers.The San Mateo, Calif.-based company announced a new suite of Message Center services to enable cellular carriers to...
Wynd Communications Corp. is pursuing the wireless data market with an integrated messaging and information service for the mobile professional called WyndMail.San Luis Obispo, Calif.-based Wynd is a subsidiary of Call America. The 13-year-old firm provides telecommunications services including paging, Integrated Services Digital Networks,...
BellSouth Wireless Inc. is prodding other cellular carriers to adopt its Cellemetry wireless telemetry solution by announcing it will only license the technology to one carrier per market-first come, first served."We don't want to get into the `wait-and-see game' that other wireless data technologies...
The prime movers behind the recent rollout of Personal Handyphone System services in Japan are not losing any time promoting the digital technology in other Asia-Pacific markets.Cable & Wireless plc joined with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc., Hongkong Telecom...
Fearing fratricide in the sky, Wall Street is losing its ardor for backing risky telecommunications ventures with junk bonds. In recent weeks, mobile satellite service developers Iridium Inc. and Globalstar L.P. have had to scrap high-yield, high-risk debt offerings after meeting resistance from the...
A Richardson, Texas, business is offering utility companies the chance to have a two-way wireless communications network with automated meter reading without the full capital expense of building a network."Because utility companies are facing competition today, they have to protect their market as well...
Federal regulators late last week approved final rules for the 900 MHz specialized mobile radio service auction on Nov. 28.The Federal Communications Commission said 1,020 licenses, or 20 1-channel blocks in 51 major trading areas, will be sold in a simultaneous multiple round auction.The...
SAN DIEGO-The National Dispatch Center Inc. said it will provide international call routing for GlobalRoam, the international cellular roaming service scheduled to be introduced by GTE Mobilnet Inc. in the third quarter of this year.GlobalRoam will allow traveling Europeans and North Americans to roam...
BellSouth Wireless Inc. unveiled a new cellular technology application called Cellemetry, which makes it possible to send short data messages over existing cellular networks.Currently undergoing system trials, applications for the patent-pending technology include remote utility meter reading, alarm, copier and vending machine monitoring and...
AT&T Network Systems Inc. said it intends to buy some of Philips Electronics' assets in a deal that would grant AT&T access to Global System for Mobile communications-based cellular equipment, and therefore provide the company a gateway to European and other markets.Specifically, the two...
APRIL25-27 International Wireless Communications Exposition, by Argus Trade Shows. Sands Exposition Center, Las Vegas. For information call (800) 828-0420.MAY1-5 International Symposium on Integrated Network Management '95, by the International Federation for Information Processing and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. Red Lion...
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...
Other Iridium investors include: Iridium Canada Inc.China Great Wall Industry Corp.Iridium Africa Corp.Iridium Andes-Caribe of VenezuelaIridium India Private Ltd.-a consortium of Indian financial institutions, investing $32 million, one seat on the Iridium board, rights to gateway service covering Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal and Sri...
Alcatel has received approval from Satelindo PT. Satellite Palapa Indonesia to implement the second phase of its Global System for Mobile communications digital cellular infrastructure deployment plan, which will cover 18 major cities in Indonesia and offer a capacity of 130,000 mobile subscribers. The...
With three new investors injecting a fresh $310 million into its low-earth-orbiting satellite project, Iridium Inc. said it has completed its planned equity financing.That means the Motorola Inc.-led international group now can make debt financing arrangements to fund the remainder of its commitments.Iridium seeks...
