WASHINGTON-After a two-year process, the Federal Communications Commission established the Family Radio Service, a short-range two-way consumer system first proposed by the Radio Shack division of Ft. Worth, Texas-based Tandy Corp.According to the commission, the service will provide an "affordable and convenient means" for...
Comsat International Communications is creating a business unit to focus solely on mobile satellite communications. Comsat Personal Communications initially will concentrate on Comsat's Planet 1 global phone service scheduled to be available later this year. By the turn of the century CPC also will...
A Korean company has allied with an Indian manufacturer to build pagers and paging systems in India, and directly compete with U.S. manufacturers that claim strong inroads into that nation.Seoul-based Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is pooling money and expertise with Larsen & Toubro Ltd....
Nextel Communications Inc. said the 177 licenses it won at auction are a "relatively small thing" considering the enormous holdings it has already.Nextel has been quiet for the last year, silently building out digital networks, completing large acquisitions and swapping properties with other specialized...
WASHINGTON-Public alarm over potential health risks from mobile telephones that reached fever pitch in the United States several years ago may be about to seize Great Britain, following publication in the London Sunday Times of new evidence that radio frequency radiation from handheld communicators...
WASHINGTON-A report in the May issue of Epidemiology cast doubt on whether pocket telephones pose fatal health consequences for consumers in the short run, but leaves open the question of whether long-term use of phones can cause cancer or other maladies.The epidemiologic study, the...
PARK RIDGE, N.J.-The Hertz Corp. car rental company announced the rollout of a system that uses wireless technology to improve the speed and accuracy of communications between Hertz shuttle bus operators and Hertz #1 Club Gold rental facilities concerning arriving Gold customers.The company's Gold...
Eon Corp. of Chantilly, Va., said it plans to offer a low cost wireless two-way messaging service and a host of other consumer-priced wireless services to jump start the lagging interactive video and data services market.Having completed its research and development program for its...
The Personal Mobile Communications Division of Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc. announced the MobileAccess smart phone. The phone integrates a cellular telephone with broad messaging and data capabilities in a lightweight, handheld unit, the company said. The model relies on cellular digital packet data technology...
PHOENIX-Pacific Communication Sciences Inc. unveiled the first product in a new line of Personal Access Links at the recent Mobile Insights '96 conference.The PAL telephone can make calls over the analog cellular network and transmit fax and data via circuit-switched cellular or emerging Cellular...
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...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Hewlett-Packard Co. announced its ultra-miniature amplifiers and mixers, high-integration chipsets and a small 3-volt modulator/mixer that all are designed to benefit end users.The company has introduced three RFIC amplifiers and mixers suited for buffer or driver amplifier applications. All are designed to...
A galaxy of new wireless services may soon beam down on the telephony-poor regions of the world.Mobile satellite systems-just like terrestrial-based wireless networks-are evolving from serving specialized markets to providing consumer pocket telephony as well as plain old telephone service. Right now, many of...
WASHINGTON-After five years of research and development, and three tries on the keypad, the inaugural call on American Mobile Satellite Corp.'s SkyCell satellite telephone service was made Jan. 24 between a Red Cross flood-disaster site in Harrisburg, Pa., and Washington, D.C."Five years ago, I...
GREENVILLE, S.C.-PCS Development Corp. announced it has purchased infrastructure equipment from Motorola Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc. to construct a prototype advanced messaging system in Atlanta and Boston."The purchase of this advanced equipment enables PCSD to immediately begin building beta systems that will provide...
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...
AT&T Network Systems unveiled a new wireless business telephone system to help keep workers in voice contact as they roam about their building, office complex or campus.AT&T said its Air Extension system will support wireless public-network-based business services in the new personal communications services...
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,...
Photographs and medical data now can be sent on existing POCSAG paging networks to portable devices using a technology developed by Data Critical Corp.Data-Through-Paging technology, or DTP, is a protocol that compresses images or text, then slices it into packets. Compressed and packetized data...
The market for personal digital assistants, personal communicators and mobile companions will more than quadruple to one million units by 1997 and then double to more than two million units by early in the next decade, according to a new study from Datacomm Research...
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...
ATLANTA-Pepsi-Cola Allied Bottlers Inc. has selected Norand Corp., Racotek Inc. and RAM Mobile Data USA L.P. to establish a wireless data communications solution for its sales people in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York.The Fast Access solution will support route sales and bulk delivery to...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments has introduced a new digital signal processing solution designed to give cellular telephone users the safety of hands-free operation in the car along with the audio quality associated with handheld phone use.TI said its TMS320WP010 enhances hands-free cellular communications with a combination...
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...
