The next round in the fight to popularize voice paging has begun, this time in Latin America. Mexican paging operator RadioFlash this year became the first carrier to launch a voice paging service over a FLEX network using speech compression technology from OmniVoice Technologies.RadioFlash...
Phone.com added to its mounting momentum by signing a definitive agreement to buy the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) products and operations of infrastructure software company APiON of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The deal provides an entry point to Phone.com for selling its WAP products to...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said capacity problems and handset shortages constrained the company's ability to add subscribers in the third quarter.The nation's largest wireless operator added 269,000 subscribers in the third quarter, down 17.4 percent from the previous year and down significantly from 473,000...
TOKYO-Softbank, Microsoft and Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) announced they will establish a joint company to provide wireless access line services.According to the announcement, the new joint company will provide the wireless service at a speed of 1 Megabyte per second (Mbps) for individual...
U.S. TDMA operators must make some critical decisions about competing in the wireless data market during the next year as they witness their CDMA counterparts begin to launch circuit-switched data services on a large scale.TDMA operators-which in the late 1980s banked on Cellular Digital...
TOKYO-Softbank, Microsoft Corp. and Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) announced in August they will establish a joint company to provide wireless access line services.According to the announcement, the new joint company will provide the wireless service at a speed of 1 Megabyte per second...
U.S. TDMA operators must make some critical decisions about competing in the wireless data market during the next year as they witness their CDMA counterparts begin to launch circuit-switched data services in large scale.Time Division Multiple Access operators-which in the late 1980s banked on...
SANDTON, South Africa-Tanzania has been described as one of the least-developed countries in the world per capita, yet only recently prominent local investors with international backing have described it as "Africa's rising star."Taking advice that the country needs to make its business environment more...
TOKYO-Hitachi Ltd., Intel Corp., Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and Sharp Corp. agreed to standardize specifications for stacked chip scale packages, a multiple memory module for mobile communications and handheld computing applications.Specifications of S-CSP with flash memory and SRAM chips include compatibility of pin assign, unification...
The wireless handset market has proven that a strong brand name doesn't guarantee success.
Sony Electronics Inc. announced last week it is pulling out of the North American handset business and terminating 200 jobs in San Diego. The well-known consumer electronics giant is one of...
VLSI Technology Inc. said it received a major order from Mitsubishi Electric Corp. for its OneCT single-chip Global System for Mobile communications baseband solution. The order is valued at $19 million. Mitsubishi will use the OneCT product in its Trium GSM phones.Northern Telecom Ltd....
Unwired Planet Inc. last week filed a registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of common stock in June, and also announced the first commercial launch of its technology by a Global System for Mobile communications operator.Although it...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-PrairieComm Inc. announced Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc. selected PrairieComm's Time Division Multiple Access chipset for use in MWCI's recently announced T200 tri-mode TDMA handset.PrairieComm said its two-device TDMA chipset includes the PCI3601 digital baseband processor and the PCI3602 mixed signal processor. The...
TOKYO-Standard & Poor's Corp. said it downgraded the investment grade corporate ratings of nine Japanese industrial companies.The ratings of NEC Corp. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. both were lowered a notch to A-3 from A-2, and the rating of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. also was...
In the Nov. 23 issue of RCR, it was incorrectly stated Mitsubishi would be exiting the handset manufacturing business.Based on incorrect information supplied to RCR, an article in the Nov. 23 edition reported David Thompson is president and chief executive officer of Corsair Communications,...
DULUTH, Ga.-Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc. announced it is expanding its operation to offer a broader range of services to its customers and to increase employee opportunities.Effective in January, all of Mitsubishi Electric's North America telecommunications activities will be centralized into MWCI. Specifically, MWCI will...
Nearly a year in the making, Geoworks Corp. has introduced a long-awaited software solution that allows carriers to add enhanced data services to otherwise voice-only phones.Called Premion Interface+, the application platform combines a customizable graphical user interface with both the Wireless Application Protocol and...
TOKYO-As part of its effort to break through the stagnant pager market, Japanese pager maker Oi Electronic Co. Ltd. is developing a voice pager that can deliver voice, data and numeric data."The voice pager is one of the most important next-generation products," said Ko...
Royal Philips Electronics and Lucent Technologies Inc. last week said they will dissolve the consumer communications joint venture they established just more than one year ago.At the time of its formation Oct. 1, 1997, Philips Consumer Communications had high hopes it would be a...
SAN DIEGO-OmniVoice Technologies Inc. announced plans to commence beta trials of its digital voice paging technology with Mexican paging provider Digitel.OmniVoice's technology allows paging subscribers to send text and voice pages without the assistance of an operator over a standard FLEX network. Digitel joins...
TORONTO-Rogers Cantel Inc. said it has extended its Pay As You Go paging and cellular service to customers in Saskatoon and Regina, Saskatchewan."This product has opened up the wireless marketplace to new and different market segments such as seniors, teens and those individuals who...
GLOBECOM SYSTEMSGlobecomm Systems Inc. announced commercial availability of its Systems Explorer II Portable Satphone, a satellite phone system that uses Integrated Services Digital Network technology. Explorer II is made in the United States and weighs 32 pounds. The system can be configured from the...
The massive popularity of 3Com Corp.'s PalmPilot personal digital assistant has spurred several mobile communications companies to develop wireless solutions for the product. The most recent application is from Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc., whose Personal Mobile Communications Division recently announced the availability of its...
The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association in July released a consensus white paper on wireless number portability stressing the wireless industry should be treated differently than the wireline industry. Current requirements state wireless carriers must implement portability by next summer, but the industry says it...
