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...
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,...
NEW YORK-Following on the heels of Motorola Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc., AT&T Corp. announced last week it anticipates lower than expected earnings for the third and fourth quarters of 1996.In a letter to shareholders, Robert E. Allen, AT&T chairman, said the company anticipates...
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...
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...
WASHINGTON-U.S. manufacturers have begun mounting a counter offensive to what they see as a European-led, anticompetitive effort to restrict global wireless standards for third generation pocket phones.The controversy surfaced as International Telecommunication Union members developed recommendations on which technology or technologies should drive wireless...
REDMOND, Wash.-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium has been formed to champion Interim Standard 136 Time Division Multiple Access and IS-41 wireless intelligent network technologies."The UWCC was designed as a cooperative decision-making business entity with the express goal of promoting TDMA/WIN solutions," said Leo Nikkari,...
WASHINGTON-Hardcore opponents of the new hybrid radiofrequency radiation standard, believing federal regulators will reject calls to repeal it, are already considering putting a consortium together to challenge the safety guideline in court.By registering their grievances with the Federal Communications Commission, despite uncertain prospects for...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies and IBM Corp. announced they will collaborate to grow the market for wireless data networking equipment, applications and services.Specifically, the companies said they will work together to stimulate the growth of business solutions that take advantage of Cellular Digital Packet...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J.-The Microelectronics Group of Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it is shipping to wireless equipment manufacturers what it claims is the world's fastest digital signal processor.The DSP 1620 operates at 120 million instructions per second with a 3 volt power supply, nearly twice...
NEW YORK-When it comes to bundling wireless and landline telephone services, AirTouch Communications Inc. will pursue two different strategies, one domestic and one European, key executives said at a Sept. 11 meeting with the Wall Street investment community.On the home front, "we plan to...
Ameritech Cellular Services has joined several other carriers in deploying authentication technology to combat cloning fraud.Concurrently, Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile announced it has extended authentication fraud protection into its eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island markets.Authentication is seamless to customers and Ameritech Cellular and other...
On the surface, neither the odds-on re-election of President Clinton nor a dramatic upset victory by GOP rival Bob Dole in the presidential race should impact telecommunications policy.The blueprint for a deregulated, competitive marketplace was etched in sacred stone with Clinton's signing of the...
WASHINGTON-Uncertainty about compliance with the new, hybrid radio frequency radiation exposure standard and growing concern with the struggling industry-funded bioeffects research program could invite unforeseen legal and operational problems for the wireless telecommunications industry."There's no guidance on compliance. They need definitions," said Ronald Petersen,...
NEW YORK-Hugh Johnson's official title is chief investment officer of First Albany Corp., Albany, N.Y., an investment bank and brokerage firm that specializes in high-technology stocks. In that capacity, "I'm in charge of agonizing at our firm; I'm always worried," he said.At least through...
Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Group said Shanghai Guomai, the largest paging carrier in China, is operating using Motorola's FLEX protocol-based paging system in Shanghai. Guomai has close to 1 million subscribers in service in the city and outskirts of Shanghai. The new FLEX protocol-based...
Lucent Technologies Inc. said it doesn't expect to renew its original equipment manufacturer contracts with Nokia Mobile Phones and Oki telecom at the end of the year when the agreements expire.Lucent said it is making good progress on establishing a factory in New Jersey...
PICKERING, Ontario, Canada-Clearnet Communications Inc. has signed a deal with Lucent Technologies Canada to buy pocket phone equipment, valued at $475 million, during the next five years using a loan from Lucent to finance the purchase.Clearnet plans to roll out its personal communications services...
While naysayers doubted that personal communications services networks could be built out in record time, the five systems now up and running prove them wrong.Western Wireless Corp. last week turned on a PCS network in New Mexico, its third PCS launch in five months....
PRAGUE-Landline operator SPT Telecom s.p. of the Czech Republic has agreed to purchase wireless equipment, valued at $7 million, from Lucent Technologies Inc.Lucent will supply 12 Integrated Radio Telecommunications systems to SPT, the Czech Republic's wireline operator. The radio network will allow SPT to...
It probably wouldn't be a bad idea if all political news from here on in were tagged `Campaign '96.'Take the July 22 front-page piece by Washington Times reporter Frank J. Murray that brought late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown back to life to criticize the...
OLYMPIA, Wash.-Illuminet, formerly Independent Telecommunications Network and US Intelco Networks, announced it has integrated all aspects of US Intelco Wireless Communications Inc. into its operations.US Intelco Wireless had operated as a separate subsidiary since 1993, providing business planning, financial, marketing and equipment procurement services...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration is on a collision course with Congress over encryption policy, as policymakers try to balance law enforcement and national security needs with privacy and commercial interests.The latest White House proposal, outlined by Vice President Al Gore in a briefing with reporters...
Micronetics Wireless Inc. is close to receiving patents for its MicroCal Module, a recently developed integrated circuit that facilitates self-monitoring in wireless equipment, reported the company.MicroCal's alarm circuitry monitors the health or integrity of radio frequency, detecting minor performance degradations in the wireless portion...
