The industry's first cellular phone manufacturer has become another casualty of the highly competitive handset business. Oki Telecom Inc. has ceased manufacturing, sales and marketing all mobile phones in the United States.Suwanee, Ga.-based Oki was a pioneer in the cellular handset industry. Involved with...
Motorola Inc.'s Mexican offices reported one of its employees was killed last weekend in Juarez, Mexico, the apparent victim of an ongoing drug war in the region that has left 34 dead this year.Hector Francisco Gonzalez Gomez worked for Motorola's Mexico City-based unit. Published...
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association said it published a new performance guideline for cellular Time Division Multiple Access and personal communications services networks.Interim Standard-727, or "TDMA Cellular/PCS-Radio Interface-Minimum Performance Standards for Discontinuous Transmission Operation of Mobile Station," describes definitions, methods of measurement, minimum delay...
The vast number of players coupled with loads of savvy Wall Street money has set the stage for mass consolidation within the tower industry.The rate of acquisitions has moved quickly within the last year, and industry executives and analysts say only a handful will...
In the past year, paging companies have engineered a striking makeover designed to change their "look" to better meet the business style of the new millennium.Just as the parachute pants and spiked haircuts of the 1980s are out and the khaki pants and George...
Though the International Telecommunication Union is months away from reaching a consensus on third-generation standards, European and Japanese governments are revealing plans to auction third-generation spectrum next year.The race is on to deploy 3G services. Some key European countries and Japan see 3G services...
Lucent Technologies Business Communications Systems said it plans to develop aggressively the company's U.S. network of 1,000 authorized dealers, distributors and value-added resellers, aiming to increase them by at least 40 percent this year.The Lucent BusinessPartner program seeks "to expand intelligently while maintaining a...
ENCINITAS, Calif.-CommQuest Technologies has teamed with Hewlett-Packard Co. to provide a turnkey solution for in-line production testing of Code Division Multiple Access and Global System for Mobile communications wireless handsets.The production process combines HP's TS-5500 test platform and handset-fixture solution with CommQuest's customized test...
NEW YORK-Saying Teletrac Inc. faces "numerous competitive alternatives" to its wireless location services for commercial vehicles, Standard & Poor's Corp. lowered speculative grade ratings Aug. 7 on $135 million of the company's debt.Kansas City, Mo.-based Teletrac purchased Federal Communications Commission 900 MHz licenses for...
LONDON-The European Commission approved the formation of Symbian, a joint venture launched in June between Psion Software plc, L.M. Ericsson, Nokia Corp. and, eventually, Motorola Inc.Symbian plans to promote wireless standards for mobile wireless operating systems based on the EPOC standard. The company said...
The U.S. State Department suspended work July 27 on an international project aimed at launching communications satellite-carrying rockets from a floating launch pad near the equator, fearing American technology secrets may have been compromised, according to The Washington Post.The Sea Launch venture, 40-percent owned...
CLEVELAND-Reltec Corp. entered into a definitive merger agreement to purchase all the outstanding shares of Positron Fiber Systems Corp. for about $200 million, the companies said.The merger advances Reltec's position in the multibillion-dollar SONET/SDH broadband access delivery market and creates a robust suite of...
NEW YORK-Price Communications Corp.'s board of directors authorized a common stock split in the form of a 100-percent dividend payable Aug. 31 to shareholders of record Aug. 17."Investors have expressed difficulty in acquiring common shares in size because of large institutional and individual holding,...
WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Resellers Association last week told the Federal Communications Commission it should not delay the rollout of wireless number portability despite the industry's claims it isn't technically possible to implement number portability prior to June."Achieving wireless number portability using the method proposed by...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc. announced its PageWriter 2000 two-way pager will have access to Internet-based information services through the PocketGenie software application developed by WolfeTech Corp. The agreement follows a year-long trial of the software by Motorola.PocketGenie allows pagers to receive news, weather, scores,...
WASHINGTON-An agreement between GTE Corp. and AirTouch Paging, signed earlier this month, is a good example of how the telecommunications industry can work with "regulatory guidance but without regulatory fiat," said Rob Hoggarth, senior vice president for paging and messaging for the Personal Communications...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry has been asked to help the Federal Communications Commission reduce a three-inch thick backlog of work yet to be completed by the FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. At the urging of congressional staff, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, the Industrial Telecommunications Association...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.-Transcrypt International's E.F. Johnson products division celebrated its 75th year of manufacturing radio equipment at a reception for its customers at the National Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials Conference.E.F. Johnson was founded in 1923 by Edgar F. Johnson in his hometown of Waseca,...
CUPERTINO, Calif.-DSP Communications Inc. introduced its third-generation Time Division Multiple Access baseband processor chipsets.According to DSP, the D5203 chipsets are compliant with Interim Standard-136A requirements. Volume production is expected to be delivered in the fourth quarter. The new chipsets offer higher levels of integration...
Metrocall Inc. is conducting technical and market trials of Omni-Voice Technologies Inc.'s digital voice paging technology, according to OmniVoice. The OmniVoice platform allows compressed voice messages to be sent over FLEX paging networks, along with text and data. The company also is working on...
In the Aug. 10 issue of RCR, the chart "Wireless Carrier Net Income 1993-1997" on page 18 incorrectly listed the source. The source is Arthur Andersen.
NEW YORK-To get a better idea of the impact of cellular phone use while driving, tap the World Wide Web, but please don't do it while your vehicle is in motion, even if you do have Internet access via your mobile handset."To see how...
WASHINGTON-The real issue of the digital wiretap act is cost, according to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. And, changing both the compliance date and the "grandfather date" will not increase its implementation costs, Rep. Henry J. Hyde (R-Ill.) said earlier this month...
As a trade news reporter covering the paging industry, I talk with all sorts of marketing and public-relations personnel, as well as company executives, who regularly impress upon me the many advantages of paging technology.For the most part, I concur. Paging is a useful...
