LYNCHBURG, Va.-L.M. Ericsson recently supplied a digital trunked radio system to the city of Las Cruces, N.M.The 800 MHz system provides the city's police officers with encryption technology that prevents people with scanners from listening in on official radio transmissions, city officials said.City departments...
SAN FRANCISCO-Hughes Network Systems Inc. completed interoperability tests with subscriber terminal suppliers for its enhanced full-rate voice coder for Interim Standard 136 Time Division Multiple Access technology.The company is including the coder in its GMH 2000 TDMA system, which will be able to support...
WASHINGTON-Future auctions conducted by the Federal Communications Commission will be run by a standard laundry list of rules instead of a new set of rules formulated auction by auction.The FCC last Thursday adopted competitive bidding rules. The panel also adopted a plan for consolidating...
DALLAS-DSC Communications Corp. said Stet Hellas has completed interoperability testing of DSC's A-Infusion platform, and this month signed an agreement with Stet for the platform."The DSC A-Infusion product gives us the ability to design and deploy in a quick and flexible manner new cellular...
A new Phantom low profile antenna was introduced by Antenex. The antenna has a wide bandwidth and low angle radiation pattern. It also has an element that reduces dropped calls and dead spots, the company said. It comes with Antenex's standard NMO style mounting...
The MultiMedia Telecommunications Association and the Telecommunications Industry Association announced an affiliation and intent to merge, creating a joint membership exceeding 1,000 companies."MMTA's focus on computer telephony integration and businesses in the communications and computing delivery channel, coupled with TIA's proven strengths in public...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt has signaled concerns to the industry about potential disruptions to public telecommunications networks as a result of the Internet's growing popularity.The FCC said Ivan Seidenberg, chairman of Nynex Corp. and head of the Network Reliability and Interoperability Council-a...
Tektronix Inc. announced a new capability for the R3465 Modulation Spectrum Analyzer, which is made by Japan-based Advantest Corp. and marketed in North America by Tektronix. The new tool, called Option 61, adds Code Division Multiple Access base station test features to the R3465....
WASHINGTON-In a formal ceremony Sept. 16 attended by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt and Assistant Secretary of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Larry Irving, the Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee handed over the final version of its report outlining the needs of...
Open standards must be developed so smart cards can integrate with personal computers, according to a group of PC manufacturers and smart card developers that have banded together to make sure that happens."Standards will drive the development of the smart card market," said Jacques...
BOSTON-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile announced it has signed a deal to provide its Cellscape service to Walsh Messenger Service Inc., a delivery company serving the New York City metropolitan area.Beginning in October, Walsh Messenger will replace the pagers it currently uses with the Cellscape...
After several broken engagements, MCI Communications Corp. thinks it has finally found a partner it can commit to long-term for wireless service, NextWave Telecom Inc.Although MCI has been down this road before, this time I think the company may have done it right.MCI-which sold...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association announced it has published a variety of interim standards for wireless networks, including 1800 MHz personal communications services systems, public mobile systems, wideband spread spectrum systems, a speech service option for wideband spread spectrum systems and mobile station loopback...
WASHINGTON-Comments were due late last week on the draft proposal forwarded by the Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee, which contained recommendations by five subcommittees regarding ways to fill the country's public-safety spectral and technical needs between now and 2010.PSWAC, sanctioned jointly by the Federal...
Enhanced services deliver greater convenience, mobility and security to cellular customers, but how much value these "value-adds" provide carriers is uncertain.Depending on the sophistication and expandability of the platform, enhanced services can be expensive for carriers to implement in their networks. But customers who...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is offering a 60 percent price reduction for its Packet Data Service, which uses Cellular Digital Packet Data technology, which is optimized for short "bursty" data transmissions.AT&T is offering five service plans: $22 for an allowance of 200 kilobytes per month,...
New protocol-based paging technologies may not only alleviate carrier capacity problems but also may transform the nature of service offerings from "cheap beeps" to "paging on steroids."Alphanumeric paging, the first "enhanced service" to be offered by carriers, ran smack into the problem of network...
New protocol-based paging technologies may not only alleviate carrier capacity problems but also may transform the nature of service offerings from "cheap beeps" to "paging on steroids."Alphanumeric paging, the first "enhanced service" to be offered by carriers, ran smack into the problem of network...
The cellular telecommunications industry is making steady progress introducing advanced mobile data services as it works to overcome its own fragmented nature as well as the competition.According to the most recent "Report Card" issued by the CDPD Forum, carriers are deploying Cellular Digital Packet...
ArrayComm Inc. announced it has closed a private equity placement totaling $12.3 million. The placement, which was oversubscribed, was managed by UBS Securities Inc. and Volpe, Welty & Co. ArrayComm said the placement will fund the completion of its wireless local loop product and...
WASHINGTON-Before disadvantaged and rural customers can take advantage of existing and emerging telecommunications services, the Federal Communications Commission and its adjunct Federal/State joint board have to decide how to revamp longstanding universal-service requirements to include wireless providers as possible local exchange carriers.As a prelude...
BellSouth Mobility said it expects to sell an additional 1 million minutes of airtime per day during the 1996 Olympic Games that begin in three months in Atlanta.The symbolic torch is scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles from Greece on April 27. Then after...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has given the wireless community in general, and the public-safety arena in particular, an extra-long comment period to ponder the agency's thoughts on the future spectrum and service needs of that mobile communications sector. In addition, the notice proposes to...
Spectrum Information Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. announced they have reached an agreement to settle the patent litigation that has been pending between the two companies since December 1984. The agreement is subject to U.S. Bankruptcy Court approval. Spectrum's bankruptcy is pending in the...
