SAN FRANCISCO-Pacific Bell Mobile Services launched its personal communications services network in the San Francisco Bay area.The network uses Global System for Mobile communications technology. Each phone includes a GSM smart chip, which stores a subscriber's PCS telephone number, calling plan and speed dialing...
The cellular industry joined Ellen and the Clinton administration last week, volunteering to come out as a consumer advocate.That's right, CTIA joined the fight against aggressive driving-this coming from the people who champion the car phones that irresponsible drivers cradle between head and shoulders...
IRVING, Texas-Nokia Mobile Phones introduced a service that allows direct Internet access from standard Global System for Mobile communications cellular phones."The main idea behind Smart Messaging is to combine Internet access with wireless telephony in a seamless manner," said Mikko Terho, vice president of...
China will have more than 20 million cellular subscribers by 2000, predicts a report released by International Technology Consultants Inc., titled Wireless Communications Markets: China. By 2000, China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications plans to install 150 million switching lines and only 105 million main...
NEC Corp. won contracts for two transmission projects in Costa Rica in conjunction with Intituto Costarricense de Electricidad. One project calls for NEC to supply a 2 GHz/8 Mbps digital microwave radio system for rural districts of Costa Rica. The other calls for NEC...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson signed two contracts to expand Global System for Mobile communications and Total Access Communications System mobile networks in the Hebei province of China. The company values the contracts with Hebei Post & Telecommunications Administration at $71 million.The first contract, which accounts...
A C-block enterprise created by two Alabama telephone companies is methodically slipping into position to rival big-name wireless players in the Gulf Coast area.The telephone companies believe if they are going to lose landline customers to wireless offerings, they want to lose business to...
ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks will expand its cooperation with Nokia to provide packaged content and services for Smart Messaging, the Nokia-developed Global System for Mobile communications wireless service architecture announced last month at the CeBIT '97 technology fair.Geoworks will provide wireless services using Nokia's newly proposed...
XIAN, China-Northern Telecom Inc. won a contract to expand Shaanxi Provincial Telecommunications Administration's Global System for Mobile communications cellular network. Nortel values the agreement at $22 million.Nortel supplied the existing Shaanxi GSM network in 1995. The company will add DMS-MSC digital switching equipment and...
SAN FRANCISCO-MobiFon, the Romanian cellular venture of Telesystem International Wireless of Canada and AirTouch Communications Inc., launched commercial service less than five months after receiving a license.The network uses Global System for Mobile communications technology. Service is available in Bucharest and eight major cities,...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. announced it has reached a roaming agreement with Eircell, a Global System for Mobile communications provider in Ireland. The launch of service with Eircell is Omnipoint's fifth active international roaming pact in less than three months, the company said.Omnipoint...
The lack of certain infrastructure testing equipment will slow the rate at which many digital wireless telecommunications providers roll out service, says a Maryland-based test equipment manufacturer."We'll probably see mass deployments (of digital services) come together at a slower pace than they potentially could...
Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group announced it is supplying its Sceptre chipsets for Blaupunkt's new Radiophone device, a car stereo and cellular phone in one that will be available in Europe during the third quarter, said Lucent.The initial release of Radiophone will operate using...
The technology wars aren't over until the new universal, third generation worldwide standard is developed.Two prominent institutions are pushing the development of such a standard-the International Telecommunication Union in Geneva and the European Union in Brussels.The ITU first proposed the idea. A committee called...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson signed two contracts with the Jiangsu Post & Telecommunications Administration to expand its Global System for Mobile communications and Total Access Communication System networks in China.Ericsson values the contract for GSM equipment at $60 million. The equipment is part of the...
BOCA RATON, Fla.-Siemens Stromberg-Carlson agreed to supply Global System for Mobile communications network equipment and services to DigiPH PCS Inc., which holds licenses in the Florida panhandle, southern Alabama and parts of Mississippi. Siemens values the agreement at $74.9 million.Installation of the system will...
Company Technology Wquipment Provider21st Century Telesis Inc. PACS/DCTU Siemens AG NEC Corp.Hughes Electronics Corp. BellcoreACC-PCS Inc. N/A N/AAer Force Communications L.P. N/A N/AAmerican Portable Telecommunications Inc. ...
Norway's Ministry of Transport and Communications announced plans to award three national Digital Cellular System 1800 licenses, perhaps by this summer. However, the winners will not be required to build networks nationwide.The new personal communications network operators will be required to provide service in...
Avic Group International Inc. said it has formed a joint venture partnership with the Hebei Provincial Government in China to develop telecommunications projects in the province of Hebei. The joint venture expands on Avic's commitment with the Hebei government to build a 70,000 subscriber...
NEW YORK-A happy marriage of convenience is taking place among billboard companies and wireless communications carriers looking for antenna sites."It's something that just seems to be coming around the pike," said James M. Marsh, an equities research analyst for Prudential Securities Inc., New York,...
NEW YORK-Celcore Inc. expects to begin shipping its new GlobalSwitch in April, which the Memphis, Tenn., computer hardware and software designer believes is the first Global System for Mobile communications switch on the market that costs less than $1 million.Late last year, Justin Dudley,...
KIEV, Ukraine (AP)-Ukraine expressed regret last week that Motorola Inc. dropped plans for a $500 million investment in a Global System for Mobile communications network.Motorola's Network Management Group and its local partner, Ukrainian Radio Systems, was one of three groups awarded licenses earlier this...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to release a public notice that will modify existing C-block personal communications services installment payment plan notes and security agreements by allowing one yearly payment instead of four quarterly payments. At press time, the document was expected to...
Austria's Ministry for Science and Transport announced a tender for a Digital Cellular System 1800 personal communications network license, according to the U.S. Embassy in Vienna.Interested parties that requested tender documents and submitted a $2,200 fee by March 27 were mailed tender documents that...
