NEW YORK-L.M. Ericsson announced several endeavors that will provide handsets with increasing degrees of global utility.The Swedish-based manufacturer said it is forming a "groundbreaking initiative" with four companies to create the "geostationary mobile satellite standard," or GMSS.Participating with Ericsson in developing GMSS are United...
Happy New Year from the Nation's Capital.Only 361 days until the new millennium, at which time we will get to see if the millennium bug-also known as Y2K-really is a problem. But instead of looking ahead to future nightmares (not to mention an impeachment...
DENVER-Following its $107 million cash acquisition of Marconi Instruments Inc. in February, IFR Systems Inc. began a road tour last week-part product demonstration and part branding initiative designed to introduce the "new" IFR.What began as an avionics instrumentation company has grown to a global...
DENVER, United States-U.S.-based Teledesic L.L.C. and Motorola Inc. announced in June they will become partners in the development and deployment of Teledesic's global broadband "Internet-in-the-Sky" satellite communications system. The Boeing Co., a leading aerospace company, and satellite manufacturer Matra Marconi Space, also will be...
After more than seven years of investigation and litigation, Frequency Electronics Inc. has settled all outstanding criminal and civil cases brought against it by the U.S. government with a guilty plea to one count of filing a false statement and payments totaling $8 million.Going...
While the growth of the communications industry has created a great demand for test equipment, the changes to that industry have forced test-equipment manufacturers to reinvent themselves so they can meet that demand."Our expectation (is) that strong worldwide demand for wireless and wireline telecommunications...
Teledesic L.L.C. and Motorola Inc. last week announced they will become partners in the development and deployment of Teledesic's global broadband "Internet-in-the-Sky" satellite communications system.The Boeing Co., a leading aerospace company, and satellite manufacturer Matra Marconi Space, will round out the team of founding...
Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced its wireless messaging group has activated a dual-mode narrowband personal communications services system in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the foundation of a nationwide InFLEXion/ReFLEX25 network planned by Arch Argentina, a subsidiary of Arch Latin America, Glenayre said.IFR Systems Inc....
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. signed a royalty-bearing license agreement granting Marconi Instruments Ltd. a license to design and develop test equipment based on its Code Division Multiple Access Interim Standard 95 technology."The license agreement allows Marconi to expand its strategy of actively supporting CDMA technology...
The Portuguese government said it plans to open a tender for a personal communications services license this month and issue a third mobile phone license by the end of this or early next year."The specification of the bidding is practically concluded and will be...
RESTON, Va.-Constellation Communications Inc. selected Matra Marconi Space as prime contractor for the space segment of its low-earth-orbit satellite system. The initial contract is valued at $600 million.Matra will be responsible for developing the system's satellites and putting them in orbit. Constellation's LEO system...
The lack of certain infrastructure testing equipment will slow the rate at which many digital wireless telecommunications providers roll out service, says a Maryland-based test equipment manufacturer."We'll probably see mass deployments (of digital services) come together at a slower pace than they potentially could...
Portugal's telecommunications authority, Instituto das Comunicacoes de Portugal, is expected to issue a mobile phone license at 1800 MHz, for service to begin next year.A Digital Cellular Services 1800 operator will be selected based on technical and financial abilities and the public interest, said...
Marconi Instruments Inc. intends to offer products specifically for the U.S. market this year, beginning with a new a multisource signal generator that offers multiple radio frequency outputs in a single unit.The company calls the Model 2026 "a world first" because the unit combines...
WAYNE, N.J.-GEC-Marconi Systems has agreed to acquire Hazeltine Corp. from ESCO Electronics Corp., subject to government approval.Hazeltine makes intelligent base station antennas for the cellular, specialized mobile radio, enhanced SMR and personal communications services markets. The company is a long-time defense contractor manufacturing airborne...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-Skydata Inc. will deliver satellite data broadcast equipment to EuroCall's paging network in the Republic of Hungary, Skydata announced.The paging network, which uses Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s ERMES paging system, will include as many as 100 remote paging transmitters. A Skydata satellite paging receiver...
