KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Corp. shareholders approved a proposal allowing Sprint to assume full ownership and management control of Sprint PCS and create two separate classes of Sprint common stock-one reflecting the performance of Sprint's personal communications services operations and the other tracking the company's...
ORLANDO, Fla.-"I feel like I'm on a bucking bronco and about to get thrown into the mud," George Shaginaw Jr. said at the Wireless Location Applications Conference earlier this month."We are looking at nine wireless licensees in each market by October 2001, and we...
DALLAS-Protection One Mobile Services Group said it will provide mobile emergency response and other live operator and automated services on Visteon Automotive Systems' new vehicle emergency messaging system, called VEMS.VEMS combines Global System for Mobile communications location-identifying technology via satellite and cellular telecommunications networks...
CHICAGO-Omnipoint Communications Inc. signed an agreement with site landlord U.S. RealTel Inc. to give the carrier access to U.S. RealTel's portfolio of properties nationwide. Specifically, the pact allows Omnipoint to place base stations and antennas on the properties in U.S.RealTel's portfolio, which includes more...
WASHINGTON-Celpage Inc. of Puerto Rico announced the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans set a Dec. 1 court date to hear appeals against universal service contribution rules.Celpage filed an appeal against the Federal Communications Commission's Universal Service Fund...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. declared its 207th consecutive regular quarterly dividend of 12 cents per share, payable by Jan. 15, 1999, to stockholders of record Dec. 15.The company also announced its board of directors adopted a new preferred share purchase rights agreement to replace the...
LAS VEGAS-Odyssey Software and Nettech Systems Inc. announced they have created a solution that extends wireless access to enterprise applications.The system blends Nettech's Smart IPO middleware with Odyssey's CEfusion, a Microsoft Windows NT-based connectivity suite for Windows CE devices.
WASHINGTON-A critical European Parliament vote last week, which could effectively mandate a third-generation mobile phone standard dominated by Sweden's L.M. Ericsson and Finland's Nokia Corp. and lock out American technology, will ratchet up the stakes in upcoming negotiations here among U.S., European Union and...
CUPERTINO, Calif.-DSP Communications Inc. introduced a single-chip Personal Digital Cellular solution, called PDChip d5311E.The PDC chip's architecture is based on Texas Instruments Inc.'s TMS320C54x DSP core, which combines a DSP core and digital and analog functions on one chip. DSP said the chip offers...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week officially proposed rules that could lead to the end of spectrum caps. Additionally, the FCC announced rules to relocate incumbents in the 2 GHz spectrum band that has been allocated to mobile satellite services.Both decisions could have dramatic...
For some time, the paging industry has looked to information services as one possible means to increase revenue, but several technological obstacles have restricted the level of customization required for such services to offer real value.Last week, those obstacles were cleared when 11 paging...
Nextel Communications Inc. is testing nationwide pricing plans that fall in line with high-end one-rate plans offered by national mobile phone competitors.Analysts say the company quietly is rolling out the plans, which eliminate long-distance fees, to test the market's demand for nationwide pricing."This is...
LOS ANGELES-Bell Atlantic Mobile announced it will begin phased introduction of high-speed wireless data capabilities over its existing cdmaOne network in 1999.The next-generation wireless services are based on cdma2000 third-generation enhancements provided by Lucent Technologies Inc."With Lucent as our technology partner, we intend to...
LOS ANGELES-Nortel Networks said it is conducting live trials of cdmaOne circuit-switched data services with Bell Mobility and other selected customers and in the Nortel Networks Wireless Internet Lab in Dallas.The announcement was made in conjunction with the 1998 CDMA Americas Congress this week...
This holiday season will see an unprecedented number of mobile phone competitors in the market, but carriers still seem unwilling to compete with break-neck pricing as they aim to keep average revenue per user at high levels.It's a "digital Christmas" this year, said Miles...
This year's holiday season promises to be an interesting one for wireless carriers and vendors offering their products to online buyers.Jupiter Communications, a new media research firm, predicts holiday shoppers will spend $2.3 billion online this season, up from $1.1 billion in 1997. According...
American Tower Corp. last week bolstered its leading position among independent tower companies when it announced plans to acquire TeleCom Towers L.L.C. and OmniAmerica Inc., the latter considered a major player in the tower industry.When completed, the mergers will add about 1,036 towers to...
It's been more than a year since Glenayre Technologies Inc. first announced its intention to divest the Western Multiplex microwave business unit, yet the company continues to search for a buyer.Glenayre officially put the microwave business on the block in September 1997, the same...
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Microwave Power Devices Inc. announced it received a $12.4 million follow-on order from Lucent Technologies Inc. for highly linear, single-channel, high-power PCS-CDMA amplifiers.The amplifiers are for use in Lucent's Code Division Multiple Access-based personal communications services base stations.Microwave Power said its backlog now...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. said its proprietary Integrated Resource Management System is now commercially available.The IRMS allows corporate customers to control wireless messaging activities in their organization by using local-area-network computers. The system uses an IPT 3000 switch, originally developed for medical and hospital campus...
WASHINGTON-While this week's election of Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Livingston (R-La.) to speaker of the House is not expected to dramatically change the course of telecom policy making in Congress, a wholesale shakeup in GOP leadership could alter the political dynamics of that process."We...
Alcatel to deliver network to PegasoSAN DIEGO-A subsidiary of Mexico's Pegaso Telecomunicaciones S.A. de C.V. and Alcatel Althsom signed an agreement that calls for Alcatel to provide up to $270 million in equipment, services and construction to build out Pegaso's nationwide personal communications services...
BOSTON-The North American GSM Alliance L.L.C. announced more than 2.3 million Global System for Mobile communications customers exist in the United States and Canada."GSM's growth continues to outpace rival digital personal communications services technologies," said GSM Alliance Chairman Don Warkentin, president and chief executive...
LONDON-The Wireless Application Protocol Forum announced 11 new companies have joined the organization, and it appointed three additional members to its board of directors.New to the board are Hiroshi Sakai, director and general manager of the Mobile Communications Engineering Division of DDI Corp.'s Engineering...
