ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group was awarded several contracts in China to provide Global System for Mobile communications infrastructure.They include a $21 million contract to increase system capacity by 180,000 in the Shanxi province, a trial Rapid Deployment Vehicle system with China...
WASHINGTON-Imagine for a moment that you own a local package delivery business. Wouldn't it be great to be able to pinpoint the exact location of all of your vehicles?Under a service license expected to be auctioned by the Federal Communications Commission, this could become...
WASHINGTON-With time left for the 105th Congress quickly dwindling away, the Federal Communications Commission has not seen any action on any of its suggested legislative items.Indeed, the FCC's Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs (OLI) has not even asked for any legislation since FCC...
BRAZIL-Local news reports state Telebras, Brazil's state-controlled telecom carrier, is expected to sign a deal with Iridium L.L.C. that would allow the Brazilian carrier's A-band subsidiaries to use Iridium satellites.Telebras subsidiaries are expected to use Iridium satellites to fill in coverage areas not serviced...
WASHINGTON-The International Mobile Telecommunications Association created the Council of Ministries Information Service, an outreach program for telecommunications regulators around the world who want to share information and learn about technology trends.IMTA was established in 1995 as a separate entity of its sister organization, the...
DENVER-The top man of Ameritech Corp.'s cellular and paging services unit is leaving the company to become president and chief operating officer of Verio Inc., a small Internet service provider in Colorado that recently went public.Herbert Hribar, 46, is the first upper management member...
WASHINGTON-As House Telecommunications Subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.) and Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) negotiate funding federal cancer research with revenue from E911 legislation, a major effort is underway in Europe to address the health question head on.The European Commission issued a series of proposed...
VANCOUVER, B.C.-GTE Wireless and Sierra Wireless Corp. announced their combined circuit switched cellular digital packet data solution now is commercially available, the first end user being the Indiana State Police.The CS-CDPD solution makes use of Sierra Wireless' MP215 modem, the first modem to retain...
WASHINGTON-Federal E911 legislation has yet to be introduced in the Senate and is on hold in the House.A bill introduced by Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.), chairman of the House telecommunications subcommittee, was supposed to be marked up last week but was postponed. Part of...
The Federal Communications Commission narrowly voted June 12 to keep in place the controversial funding for connecting schools, libraries and rural health-care facilities to the Internet, albeit making some minor changes to the program, such as connecting the neediest schools first.Whether the U.S. government...
ATLANTA-Cellemetry L.L.C., the joint venture between Numerx Corp. and BellSouth Corp., announced it secured agreements with three new cellular carriers.Centennial Cellular Corp., Cellular One of East Illinois and Pioneer/Enid Cellular now offer the Cellemetry service. With these deals, Cellemetry's footprint includes 25 carriers nationwide.
ATLANTA-Clear Communications Group acquired Communications Development Systems Inc., an engineering and site development construction services provider primarily serving the northeast corridor.Financing for the purchase of ComDev was provided by Fleet National Bank, Boston.
WASHINGTON-The Department of Justice and the FBI filed with the Federal Communications Commission a legal analysis of the controversial punch-list items law enforcement says are necessary to maintain electronic surveillance capabilities. The punch list refers to nine capabilities the telecommunications industry and privacy advocates...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc., a distribution and value-added logistics services provider to the wireless communications industry, today announced the following changes to its financial management team: Thomas Butler joined Brightpoint as the vice president, North American controller. Since 1986, Butler had been working with Eli Lilly and...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Metasys Inc. announced it was awarded a contract from Motorola Inc.'s Paging Systems Group to incorporate its software and services in PSG's paging infrastructure products.Metasys' software includes Oracle Corp.'s ERP application and Syntra's import/export management software. Motorola will use Metasys to automate its...
MCI Communications Corp. apparently is selling cellular service to residential customers once again after customer service representatives had told potential customers MCI wasn't taking on new cellular subscribers after June 1.Kelly Seacrist, an MCI spokeswoman, said the company, which resells cellular service nationwide, never...
Lucent Technologies Inc. added several new applications to its Cooperative Innovations alliance program, which is meant to supplement Lucent-developed and -branded solutions.Lucent tests applications marketed through Cooperative Innovations for compatibility with its wireless infrastructure. Testing takes place at the company's Wireless Innovation Lab in...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson was selected by Srinivas Cellcom Ltd., a Global System for Mobile communications operator in India, to build the largest mobile network ever to be rolled out in India, Ericsson said. The value of the contract was not disclosed.The new GSM network...
Industry veteran Fred M. Link died last week. He was 93.Link's company from 1931 to 1950-first called Fred M. Link Co. and later called Link Radio Corp.-manufactured two-way radio communications equipment used extensively by police departments in the United States and in other countries.In...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. shareholders increased the number of authorized shares of common stock from 75 million to 100 million, re-elected Robert S. Roath as board member for a three-year term and reappointed Arthur Andersen as independent accountant last week at its...
LONDON-ICO Global Communications Ltd. announced last week that it filed registration statements with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of $100 million worth of ordinary shares and $50 million of high-yield senior notes.ICO is a spinoff of Inmarsat, established...
WASHINGTON-In an unexpected development that could further complicate President Clinton's China visit this week and hurt him when he returns home, U.S. officials last week disclosed security concerns prompting them to temporarily block export approval of a $750 million satellite built by Hughes Electronics...
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Telecommunications software company Global Mobility Systems Inc. announced it opened a regional office in Richardson, Texas.Dean Jordan was hired as senior sales technical analyst for GMS and bring with him sales and technical experience from Tandem Telecommunications, the company said.Scott Barretto was hired...
Wireless companies heavily involved in the Asia-Pacific region have renewed confidence that China will not succumb to devaluing its currency.As the Japanese yen dropped last week to an eight-year low against the dollar, Chinese officials warned if Japan's currency continued to fall, China may...
