DALLAS-United States Cellular Corp. selected Northern Telecom Inc. to build new Code Division Multiple Access and Time Division Multiple Access networks in its markets, said Nortel.Milwaukee will be the first market to be implemented, with commercial service scheduled to be available later this year,...
WASHINGTON-The Telecommunications Resellers Association last week defended its study that claims a "resale blockage" exists in broadband personal communications service and specialized mobile radio service.TRA President Ernie Kelly, in a March 24 letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Bill Kennard, lashed out at Personal...
TORONTO-TMI Communications announced it launched a new mobile packet data network available in all 50 states and in Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean using its MSAT geostationary satellite.TMI said the service is aimed at mobile data users with people and equipment in remote areas...
Cellnet, a United Kingdom-based cellular operator, selected Brite technology to deliver its traffic information services to its subscribers. Cellnet's Traffic Line provides in-car traffic reports on a digital network direct to a mobile phone. A small receiver placed in the car notifies customers of...
WASHINGTON-No one was more surprised at the eventual outcome of the most recent Federal Communications Commission spectrum auction as was Thomas Jones, president of WNP Communications Inc., who walked away with the right to build in 30 of the top 50 markets.Auction 17, which...
WASHINGTON-The wireless industry will be gearing up soon for cutover to a universal electronic licensing system that will consolidate 11 systems and databases into one and allow a one-day turnaround in a best-case scenario. The on-line, secure, private system, demonstrated earlier this month at...
MCLEAN, Va.-LCC International Inc. announced the opening of its Cellular Institute to the public worldwide.Established in 1991, the Cellular Institute offers a process-based, just-in-time job-skills curriculum, said the company.The Institute announced last year it plans to begin offering a group of courses online, to...
NEW YORK-U S West Communications Inc.'s long-term debt ratings were downgraded from Aa3 to A2 by Moody's Investors Service Inc. for several reasons.Moody's said it is concerned about public-policy issues, financial pressures associated with the restructuring of businesses within the U S West Inc....
Further extending its reach into the wireless industry, Sun Microsystems Inc. announced it has signed an agreement giving L.M. Ericsson license to use and distribute its PersonalJava platform and Java Application Environment.The Ericsson announcement comes less than two months after Motorola Inc. announced it...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc.'s cdmaOne Interim Standard-634 wireless network solution is scheduled to be available beginning in the second quarter of 1998.The system features Qualcomm's QCore base station controllers fully integrated with Alcatel Telecom's 1000 S12 switching center via the IS-634 open interface.The new architecture...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Iridium L.L.C. has 75 percent of its planned satellite constellation deployed after it successfully launched two more satellites into orbit, bringing the total number of operational satellites to 51, said Iridium.The two satellites were launched on a Chinese Long March 2C/SD rocket from...
WASHINGTON-With the number of new bids and new high bids dwindling down to nearly zero, the first sale of 986 local multipoint distribution services licenses may be over today. However, with some 128 B-block licenses languishing without so much as a minimum bid offer,...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.-Rockwell Semiconductor Systems Inc. introduced a complete antenna-to-microphone system solution for 900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications, the first GSM products in its wireless telephony portfolio.Rockwell plans to offer solutions to support GSM at 1800 MHz and 1900 MHz as well...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. announced the nationwide rollout of its new Pager ID service, which identifies the name of the person placing the call to the pager, as well as a return telephone number for the paged party to call. The call back can go...
BOSTON-Omnipoint Communications Inc. expanded its wireless network coverage into Boston; Providence, R.I.; Manchester, N.H.; and the Interstate-95 corridor and other connecting routes.As part of the New England launch, Omnipoint opened a flagship retail store in Boston, and additional retail outlets in Natick, Mass., and...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-Northern Telecom Ltd. said it will invest $20 million in Interwave Communications International Ltd. in a strategic alliance to integrate Interwave's radio and switching solutions into Nortel's Global System for Mobile communications product line.Interwave's products are optimized for corporate and rural community...
Paging carriers and industry analysts alike believe one of the biggest struggles facing the industry is that it needs to change its image in the mind of the consumer.For years, paging carriers marketed themselves as a cheap communications tool. Today, they want to market...
WASHINGTON-Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), one of several House Republican leaders caught on a radio scanner in 1996 plotting to limit damage of an ethics investigation of Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), has sued Rep. James McDermott (D-Wash.) for allegedly leaking a transcript of the conversation...
DULUTH, Ga.-Astronet Corp. said it accelerated the development schedule of its new Time Division Multiple Access wireless Private Branch Exchange product by selecting Isotel's call-processing engine software."The luxury of using Isotel software with our hardware is that it quickly and easily integrates with our...
SAN RAMON, Calif.-U.S. Wireless Corp. announced it completed the acquisition of the minority interest in its subsidiary, Labyrinth Communication Technologies Group Inc.The merger will be implemented exchanging approximately 4.5 million shares of U.S. Wireless' common stock for 490,000 shares of Labyrinth's-49 percent of the...
Like the ugly duckling that was teased and spurned in its younger years only to mature into a beautiful swan, the two-way paging market is expected to someday spread its wings and lift the paging industry to new heights of subscriber growth and increased...
NEW YORK-It has been said that where you stand depends on where you sit. And so it was earlier this month when representatives of four wireless carriers and four equipment vendors offered their views at a BT Alex. Brown forum on the interplay between...
NEW YORK-Telephone and Data Systems Inc. announced it completed the merger of its wholly owned subsidiary, API Merger Corp., with American Paging Inc., effective March 20.TDS announced March 18 that its buyback program for its paging subsidiary's publicly held stock had expired. Through API...
