The Guangdong Machinery and Export Corp. of China awarded Allen Telecom Group's Decibel Products division a contract to expand its Global System for Mobile communications and Digital Cellular System 1800 networks. Allen Telecom values the contract at more than $9 million. The expansion will...
Ericsson Private Radio Systems ordered 150 PCMobile units from XL Computing Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cycomm International Inc. XL Computing values the order at more than $1 million. Delivery is scheduled for the first half of the year. The PCMobile units will...
CHARLOTTE, N.C-Glenayre Technologies Inc. has formed three strategic market units as part of organizational changes being made to maintain responsiveness to expanding global markets, the company said.The wireless messaging unit will continue to develop and manufacture paging and narrowband personal communications services systems and...
Xypoint Corp. named Jane Bissonnette director of 911 services. She will be responsible for developing the company's wireless enhanced 911 products, maintaining relationships with the public safety community and tracking industry standards and issues. Bissonnette previously was a project director at AT&T Wireless Services...
L.M. Ericsson said Digital Tuka Kyushu ordered equipment, including AXE switching and radio base station infrastructure, to expand its Personal Digital Cellular mobile telephone system. Ericsson values the contract at $75 million. The company expects the capacity increase for the southwestern Japanese region to...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Ex Machina Inc. selected Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s Wireless Messaging Transfer Protocol for its narrowband personal communications services network.WMtp is an interswitch protocol designed to support the performance demands of NPCS and the increasing capacity requirements of expanding paging networks, Glenayre said. It offers...
AirNet Communications Corp. entered an agreement with the Thomsen Group of Denmark, appointing Thomsen as AirNet's authorized business representative in Denmark and certain Far Eastern countries. Thomsen will distribute AirNet's wireless broadband software-based infrastructure equipment, base stations and systems for the wireless local loop,...
FAIRFIELD, N.J.-Electronics Communications Corp. activated its own paging system making it a full-service paging carrier.Electronics Communications has licenses covering Long Island, Westchester and Rockland counties and metropolitan New York, New Jersey, lower Connecticut and downtown Philadelphia. The system uses a Glenayre 900 megahertz FLEX...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. and LG Electronics have entered a three-year agreement to bring FLEX paging technology to South Korea. LG Electronics said it will purchase more than 2000 units of Glenayre's GL-T8531 high speed transmitters and GL-C2000 controllers. Glenayre values the contract at...
Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile will use Corsair Communications' PhonePrint fraud prevention system in its A-side cellular markets. Installation already has started in Connecticut. PhonePrint uses radio frequency fingerprinting to detect cloning in local service areas and large roaming markets.360
NEW YORK-Hongkong Telecommunications Ltd. reported a 9.3 percent increase in operating revenues for the first half of its fiscal year, attributing the rise partly to strong growth in its wireless services.Operating income increased to Hong Kong $15.92 billion for the six-month period, which ended...
While some narrowband messaging companies have been busy marketing products and services, one company has worked diligently and discreetly to acquire more spectrum, form distribution partnerships for its voice paging network and design a marketing strategy fit for a new competitor among rooted paging...
PCS Development Corp. has changed its name to Conxus Communications. The company believes the new name will better reflect its voice and messaging business.Conxus-pronounced connects us-plans to provide a range of portable voice and data messaging products and services on its narrowband personal communications...
Uniden Corp. said its San Diego Research and Development Center entered into a licensing agreement to use Unwired Planet Inc.'s wireless communications software platform that includes an Internet/intranet browser, server and mark-up language. Uniden said it plans to debut its first Unwired Planet-based product...
MobileMedia Corp. marked the end of the third quarter with poor earnings, anticipated bank covenant violations, increased churn, a decrease in net new subscribers and potential trouble with the Federal Communications Commission. The grim news sent MobileMedia's stock for a dive.Such are the travails...
NEW YORK-Glenayre Technologies Inc. authorized its management Sept. 25 to repurchase up to 2.5 million shares, or 4 percent of the company's common stock, in addition to the 1.5 million share repurchase completed Sept. 20.Glenayre's stock closed on Nasdaq Sept. 25 at $21.38-significantly below...
I'm still recovering from PCS '96 in San Francisco.Between the 400 exhibitors, about 15,000 attendees and 30 sessions, I just couldn't take it all in. In fact, PCIA said it had to turn away numerous companies that wanted to exhibit.It's always difficult to take...
Objective Systems Integrators, Folsom, Calif., announced it received a multimillion dollar contract from Omnipoint Communications Inc. for its NetExpert framework to be used to manage Omnipoint's Global System for Mobile communications system. Omnipoint expects to launch initial personal communications services in the New York...
NEW YORK-Following on the heels of Motorola Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc., AT&T Corp. announced last week it anticipates lower than expected earnings for the third and fourth quarters of 1996.In a letter to shareholders, Robert E. Allen, AT&T chairman, said the company anticipates...
NEW YORK-Glenayre Technologies Inc. recently issued an advance warning that it expects its third-quarter net income to be "significantly below" results posted in the same period last year.According to unaudited financial statements available on Glenayre's World Wide Web site, the company earned net income...
Pagerola Inc. is six years old, distributes products in 21 countries, employs more than 800 people and is 1 million units strong, but only this month makes its formal entrance into the United States.The company manufactures pagers and related paging devices in Taipei, Taiwan,...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-The Wireless Messaging Group of Glenayre Technologies Inc. and Paging Network Inc., a wireless messaging company with 7.9 million subscribers, teamed up to install Motorola Inc.'s InFLEXion voice messaging system.During tests in San Francisco, voice messages were sent through the public switched telephone...
Telephone Warehouse, a wireless retailer with stores in Texas, Kansas and Missouri, said it is helping first-time cellular and pager buyers make informed decisions about products with its new mall-based superstore. The store, located in North Dallas' Valley View Mall, features hands-on product displays...
