CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom-Cambridge Positioning Systems introduced its Cursor Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) location system in February at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France.The company said Cursor is the first demonstrable system of its kind.Cambridge is demonstrating the system to potential business...
BEIJING-"Please come in, sir, and have a look. The cheapest prices and the best choice."No, we have not discovered Beijing's red-light district, and the time is not midnight. We have come to Xizhimen, an area where narrow streets are lined by small "mom-and-pop" stores,...
Moffet, Larson & JohnsonMoffet, Larson & Johnson Inc. announced the integration of Comarco Wireless Technologies' Network Evaluation System tool NES-250 with the PathPro drive-test post-processing module, PathView. The integration provides the capability to transmit data from the GEN II series to the PathPro, the...
1998 may be the year for introductions of next-generation wireless office systems that allow for seamless handoffs between the office system and a carrier's macrocellular system.Hughes Network Systems Inc. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced a strategic marketing agreement last week calling for AT&T...
Cambridge Positioning Systems, a Cambridge, United Kingdom-based company, last week introduced its Cursor Global System for Mobile communications location system at the GSM World Congress in Cannes, France.The company said Cursor is the first demonstrable system of its kind. Cambridge is demonstrating the system...
Winter Olympian Elvis Stojko, the Canadian silver medalist in the men's figure-skating event, is one of dozens of North Americans using GTE Telecommunications Services Inc.'s GlobalRoam technology in Nagano, Japan.GTE TSI last month completed two-way functionality of its GlobalRoam service between North America and...
South Korean CDMA handset manufacturers exporting their way out of the currency crisis affecting their country are expected to fuel competition in the U.S. Code Division Multiple Access handset market this year.One analyst in South Korea expects all four of the country's main handset...
ALLEN TELECOM INC.Allen Telecom Inc.'s Antenna Specialists Division introduced a springless option to its line of Mosaic LMR vehicular antennas. Allen said the springless option is designed for applications in less rugged operating environments, and is available in both conversion and component forms for...
NEW YORK-Bolstered by strong results in its wireless handset and telecommunications infrastructure businesses, Nokia Corp., Helsinki, reported the highest net sales, profits and earnings per share in its 132-year history.Nokia closed the fiscal year 1997 with net sales of $9.57 billion, up 34 percent...
NEW YORK-A wide and growing array of handset choices has caused some carriers to evaluate whether to winnow down the number of makes and models sold at their own retail stores.Is this a case of product oversupply? No, it's only half the story.Telecommunications equipment...
Two developers of handset-based prepaid technology are headed to court over alleged patent and trademark infringement.Telemac Corp. has filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., against Topp Telecom Inc. of Miami, charging the company with patent and trademark infringement and unfair...
NEW YORK-The dominant impression today of Centennial Cellular Corp., New Canaan, Conn., is connected more to its late 1996 wireless debut in Puerto Rico than to its longstanding analog role on the U.S. mainland.Centennial Puerto Rico Wireless Corp. is a Code Division Multiple Access...
Canada's mobile phone market rebounded somewhat at the end of 1997 from lagging subscriber additions that plagued carriers throughout the year, but the results showed a slow expansion of the wireless market even with personal communications services entrants."I think the increase in subscriber additions...
United States Cellular Corp. appointed Paul Henri Denuit to a special committee of the board of directors that will consider how the company should respond to a proposal from its parent organization, Telephone and Data Systems Inc. He has been on the board of...
Coverage is king, says Iridium North America, which is aiming to help cellular and personal communications services operators offer wireless coverage anywhere in the world.Iridium L.L.C. is a Motorola Inc.-led consortium expected to offer global voice, paging and fax services via a constellation of...
NEW YORK-Like Sam Ginn, its chairman and chief executive officer, AirTouch Communications Inc. is on a roll, aided by those two key components of success-good luck and good timing.Ginn arrived in New York Feb. 4 from San Francisco to meet "the Street," just behind...
NEW YORK-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Cincinnati Bell Wireless plan to team up to provide personal communications services in two urban Ohio markets, according to a joint venture between their parent companies.The agreement, subject to Federal Communications Commission approval, provides that Cincinnati Bell Wireless...
NEW YORK-It was a glowing quarter for Brightpoint Inc., Indianapolis, which reported significant increases in net sales, income and income per share.The company, a worldwide distributor of wireless handsets and accessories, closed the fourth quarter of its fiscal year Dec. 31 with $373.2 million...
SINGAPORE-At the initial launch of dual-band services in the Asia-Pacific, Singapore and Taiwan reached the starting line simultaneously.Singapore Telecom Mobile Pte. Ltd. on Jan. 20 launched dual-band service between its Global System for Mobile communications 900 and GSM 1800 networks. The same day, Far...
Iridium L.L.C.-the Motorola Inc.-led consortium expected to offer global voice, paging and fax services via a constellation of 66 low-earth-orbit satellites by September-announced it has secured the U.S. Department of Defense as its first customer.According to the consortium, the military will buy a gateway...
While the personal communications services industry is characterized as up and running, a host of PCS carriers have yet to launch service, raising questions about whether they will survive in the marketplace.Twenty-six out of RCR's 40 top PCS operators (ranked by pops) have yet...
SINGAPORE-The main effects of the Asia-Pacific currency crisis on wireless carriers will be to make both foreign-manufactured equipment and foreign-debt servicing more expensive, said Jonathan Tarlin, senior vice president-international for The Strategis Group, last week at Wireless Showcase Asia. As a direct result, he...
Samsung is not a household name in the United States, but the consumer electronics giant is hoping its $10 million brand promotion campaign introduced in the fourth quarter and its aggressive strategy to grab a 40-percent share of the U.S.CDMA handset market will do...
Clarence Friend, a wireless industry veteran, founded Newport Beach, Calif.-based Cellular Development Systems L.P. to provide real-time call rating and billing services to the rental car industry.Now, about four years later, his newly patented technology is being implemented in Chicago, where Enterprise Rent-A-Car has...
