NEW YORK-Omnipoint Communications Inc. opened for business Nov. 14, but a full-scale promotional campaign for its first personal communications services network-in the New York City metropolitan area-won't start for another week or so.By then, roaming will be possible in portions of Southern California, the...
California Microwave Inc. added $5 million to a satellite communications network project with Sudatel, a telecommunications service provider in Sudan. The contract, originally awarded during the second quarter of this year, is now valued at $10 million. The system, which is expected to be...
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-Russia's largest cellular carrier, Vimpel-Communications, plans to go public with an international offering that will make it the first Russian company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.Through an underwriting syndicate led by Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp., New York, Vimpel-Com has...
Cylink Corp. introduced the AirLink E1/T1 microwave radio, an infrastructure component designed to provide dependable, cost-effective wireless connections for personal communications services providers to their cell switching centers. AirLink E1/T1 also can provide temporary cell sites to promote carrier services or provide an extra...
Plantronics Inc. has taken one small step by expanding its existing headset business into the wireless market.The company first introduced communications headsets in 1962. Initially designed for airline pilots, the headsets have been adopted for other applications including operator services, air traffic control and...
NEW YORK-As Omnipoint Communications Inc. sprints toward the Nov. 14 commercial launch of its personal communications service in the New York City metropolitan area, two hurdles remain: Nynex and NIMBY.But when Omnipoint opens for business this week, there will be no disclaimers and no fine...
The introduction of new digital cellular and personal communications services standards in the United States and global markets has brought to bear the issue of multimode and multiband wireless handsets.Shying away from the continuing and unproductive debate between the proponents of various digital standards,...
Toshiba Corp. will throw its bowler into Europe's GSM ring. The company's subsidiary, Toshiba Information Systems UK Ltd., announced it will introduce its first cellular handset to operate on Global System for Mobile communications networks this fall in Europe.Toshiba already supplies Advanced Mobile Phone...
When Pacific Bell Mobile Services launches commercial GSM-based personal communications services this Friday in San Diego, it will do so alongside a quiet competitor. AirTouch Communications Inc. said it will launch its Code Division Multiple Access cellular network on the same day and in...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is pushing its PBX-connected, digital microcellular in-building wireless system, saying it sees a 40 percent compounded annual growth rate for the business market."There are about 86 million business telephones in use in the United States," said Jerry Kaufman, an analyst...
The full-size SIM card may lend itself more easily to future services, said Powertel Inc., a U.S. wireless operator that has contracted to buy handsets from one of two manufacturers offering the feature.Two sizes of Subscriber Identity Modules are being deployed by U.S. operators...
LAS VEGAS-Telemetry applications made a strong showing at last week's Wireless Apps '96 show hosted by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association.Skywire Corp. announced a trial to monitor several hundred soda vending machines throughout Southern Nevada for J.W. Costello Beverage Co. in partnership with cellular...
BellSouth Mobility has launched digital cellular service in Atlanta. After spending $77 million preparing the network for the Summer Olympic Games, the company said it was more than ready to roll out service.The carrier previously announced it would turn off its Time Division Multiple...
NEW YORK-With plans to deliberately blur the distinction between cellular and personal communications services, AT&T Corp. launched an advanced digital cellular communications network covering a population of 70 million in 40 major markets where it now offers cellular service.The new offering has been dubbed...
Sagem SA, a French manufacturer, plans to supply Global System for Mobile communications handsets to Omnipoint Communications Inc., a personal communications services operator. According to the contract, valued at $10 million, Omnipoint will offer two models of Sagem SA's GSM phone: the CS610 and the...
Qualcomm Personal Electronics says it is meeting the handset manufacturing contract requirements of Sprint PCS, which intends to launch service in 15 to 20 major markets by year's end.
Even though Sprint recently signed a handset contract with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung isn't scheduled...
Ameritech Cellular Services announced it has successfully completed a 15-month test of its Code Division Multiple Access network in Illinois. ClearPath, the new name for the system, was tested in a seven-cell test bed reaching from the company's headquarters in Hoffman Estates to Woodstock,...
Northern Telecom entered the wireless handset market in North America for the first time by introducing PCS 1911, a personal telephone that supports voice mail and messaging services, the company said. Nortel was awarded a contract by BellSouth Mobility DCS to deploy the handsets...
NEW YORK-Pacific Bell Mobile Services announced Sept. 18 an agreement to purchase $50 million worth of PCS-1900 handsets from Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc.The new phones will operate on PacBell's personal communications services network, which is under construction in California and Nevada. The wireless carrier...
TRENTON, N.J.-To paraphrase an old Barbra Streisand song, "On a rainy day, you can hear forever," even when making a call to Colorado from a car parked beneath a water tower in the state capital of New Jersey.That's the sound quality of a brief...
Orange plc, one of the United Kingdom's two 1800 MHz personal communications providers, announced it established a roaming agreement with the Swiss Post, Telephone and Telegraph.Concurrently, Colin Tucker, group technical and operations director, said he believes dual band phones, which operate at 900 MHz...
Sprint Corp., Sprint Spectrum L.P. and RadioShack announced they are teaming up to provide one-stop shopping for all Sprint-branded products.The companies have developed a "store-within-a-store" concept, whereby 15 percent of all RadioShack store floor spaces will be dedicated to Sprint products. Customers will have...
The European Commission has invited comment on the Iridium satellite system and its impact on European mobile communications, although the EC has said it "intends to take a favorable view" of the Motorola Inc. project.The European Union is considering the future role of satellite...
