Since announcing its new vision last fall, the Wireless Data Forum has taken several significant steps in the last weeks to move toward its goal of transforming into an industry-wide organizationMost recently, the organization hired Mark Desautels as the WDF's new managing director. Desautels...
WASHINGTON-The Senate plans to vote in May on compromise encryption legislation announced last week, but it is unclear whether the Clinton administration will back it.While retreating from its previous attempt to impose domestic controls on encryption technology, the White House's desired means of keeping...
Due to an editing error, the comments of an unidentified California paging reseller in the Feb. 23 "WireLink extensions benefit resellers" story were incorrectly attributed to WireLink Communications Inc. President Steve Lan.Lan did not make those comments. They were instead the opinions of a...
Blaming weakened Asian currencies, Motorola Inc. warned investors that its first-quarter earnings will be well below expectations.The largest shortfall will come from the company's semiconductor business, where the Consumer Systems Group and Components Group have been significantly impacted by lack of demand in Asia...
LAS VEGAS-Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc., a specialized mobile radio services provider, announced it topped the 10,000 subscriber unit mark."At this time last year, we had only a little over 2,000 units activated in four markets," said Robert W. Moore, Chadmoore's president and chief executive...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-The Personal Mobile Communications Division of Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc. announced it formed a business development relationship with Data on Air Inc. to expand the sales of advanced wireless products and services.The companies plan to offer service packages to cellular carriers, which will...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-The Cellular Infrastructure Group of Motorola Inc. said it successfully completed hand-over tests between Global System for Mobile communications 900 MHz and 1800 MHz dual-band cellular systems currently being trialed in China's Hunan Province.The dual-band hand-over tests were made among five GSM...
LONDON (AP)-Three British telephone companies charge customers too much to place calls to mobile phones, a regulator said Thursday as he ordered a monopoly investigation of their pricing."Mobile phones are an increasingly important part of everyday life," said Don Cruickshank, Britain's director general of...
Hearings were scheduled to begin Friday in a lawsuit against Ameritech Mobile Communications Inc. that alleges the carrier schemed to defraud its dealers and put them out of business.The lawsuit, filed by Chicago-area dealers DCI Integrated Computer Systems and Infinity Wireless Communications Inc., claims...
NEW YORK-World Access Inc., Atlanta, reported sales for the fourth quarter, ended Dec. 31, were $21.3 million, a 45-percent increase from the last quarter of 1996.Net income per share declined by 1 cent to 14 cents per share on a diluted basis compared with...
WASHINGTON-Four Senate telecom lawmakers plan to introduce universal service legislation this week aimed at preventing mandated Internet links for schools, libraries and rural health-care facilities from draining telephone service subsidies for poor and high-cost rural subscribers.The bipartisan draft, authored by Sens. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska),...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission may have violated a key telecom provision of the 1997 budget act by making idle frequencies available to a paging company instead of to a Southern California public-safety agency that had sought them two-and-a-half years ago.Less than two months after...
WASHINGTON-The House last week passed legislation to extend wireless privacy protection to personal communications services and to beef up enforcement of the law.House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.), sponsor of the bill, said the measure brings privacy to the wireless digital Age."We in...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Platform Software Division announced its add-on software applications for the PageWriter 2000 two-way pager will be available on CNET Direct Inc.'s software distribution and purchasing Web site.Under an agreement the two signed, users can buy the PSD's Personal Productivity Pack-which includes...
MCLEAN, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. reported its total revenue during 1997 increased by 122 percent to $739 million compared with $332.9 million for 1996.Fourth-quarter total revenue increased 187 percent to $275 million compared with $96 million the previous year. Radio service revenue increased 139 percent...
NEW YORK-Citing unfavorable market conditions, Colombia's largest cellular carrier, Celumovil S.A., has postponed indefinitely its plans to go public.Celumovil's decision has not, however, altered plans by another local carrier, Occidente y Caribe Celular-doing business as Occel Celular S.A.-to sell 62 percent of its stock...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Following its acquisition of the company, Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced all products made by its CNET subsidiary will be marketed and sold under the Glenayre Options brand.CNET develops operational support systems, network management and integrated radio-frequency planning software products and services for the...
BellSouth Wireless Inc. sold the majority share of its Cellemetry Data Service to NumereX Corp.Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will form a joint venture called Cellemetry L.L.C., to which NumereX will make an initial in-kind cash contribution of $7.5 million...
BearCom Inc. acquired Fidelcomm Service Co., a two-way radio equipment dealer serving the greater Los Angeles area, said BearCom. The dealership, which has been in business since 1988, will assume the BearCom name.Brightpoint Inc. agreed to sell Merrill Lynch & Co. $335 million aggregate...
WASHINGTON-Area-code splits are unnecessary at this time, and the Federal Communications Commission needs to take command of state-controlled phone number allocations that need to move away from the traditional 10,000-number blocks.The rise in fax machines, pagers and cellular phones cannot be blamed for what...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson was awarded a contract to provide turn-key solutions for a second expansion phase of the Global System for Mobile communications network in Morocco, said the company. The network expansion will be implemented primarily by Ericsson's local company in Morocco, Ericsson Maroc...
NORTHBROOK, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said its Albuquerque Ceramic Products Operation will incrementally reduce its workforce by about 20 percent.The plant produces ceramic components for radios, cellular phones and other electronic products. Motorola said it will begin reducing its workforce at the end of March by...
Ericsson forms office mobility unitATLANTA-Ericsson Inc. announced the formation of the Wireless Services unit in response to the increasing need for wireless communications in the workplace.Ericsson said the new unit will provide a wireless office solution based on the Interim Standard-136 Time Division Multiple...
Latest statistics put the national capital area as the second worst gridlocked place in the country, second presumably to Los Angeles.As a native Washingtonian, I've sensed for some years that congestion was getting worse.Now I know why: the lawyers, the scandals, the lawsuits, the subpoenas...
