A manufacturer of mobile phone shield devices said business has been booming following the release of a Swedish study that linked mobile phone use with headaches, fatigue and tingling and heat sensations on the ear and skin."We've been inundated with calls. Our switchboard has...
ENCINITAS, Calif.-CommQuest Technologies Inc. won a multimillion-dollar contract to design and supply chipsets for SOS Wireless Communications Inc.'s emergency 3-button phone, after it completed the design of the printed circuit board in eight weeks, the company said.SOS targets consumers who would like to have...
For the cellular industry, it's the morning after. Sort of.The industry was deregulated significantly in 1993, a high mark for the powerful cellular lobby in Washington, D.C. Life was good. Congress had put states out to pasture. Growth was running as high as 40...
The bigger-than-life presence of Jim Brady at last week's press briefing was unexpected but oh so welcomed, this enduring symbol of the triumph of the human spirit over adversity.Why was he here? The briefing was coordinated by House telecom subcommittee Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.),...
Brightpoint Inc. announced it extended for three years its agreement with Esat Digifone, a Global System for Mobile communications operator based in Dublin, Ireland. Brightpoint supplies Esat fulfillment and distribution services and wireless handsets and accessories from its new Dublin facility, said the company.The...
1921Detroit Police Department begins first mobile telephone service.1928Edwin Armstrong inventsFrequency Modulation.1946The Bell System introduces first Public Land Mobile Communications System service in St. Louis at 150 MHz (FM).1948Bell Labs invents transistors.1956The Federal Communications Commission opens the 450 MHz band for PLMCS service (FM) to...
SAN DIEGO-Sony Corp. launched a $10 million advertising campaign this month in an effort to build awareness of the new wireless handsets created by Sony Personal Mobile Communications of America.The national campaign for the Digital Wireless Audio Visual Entertainment phones began with print ads...
WASHINGTON-The Republican congressional leadership plans hearings to investigate Clinton-administration approval of commercial satellite technology transfers from U.S. wireless firms to China that Pentagon and intelligence officials say were converted to improve Beijing's long-range nuclear missile capability.House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and House Majority Leader...
NEW YORK-"The Asian crisis is overstated; the real problem is Japan," said Joseph W. Duncan, chief economic adviser to The Dun & Bradstreet Corp., Murray Hill, N.J."The other countries (in the region) have currency and stock-market weakness, but they will continue to play a...
NEW YORK-Compania De Radiocomunicaciones Moviles S.A., one of two cellular carriers serving the greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area, received a BBB-debt rating from Standard & Poor's Corp.The New York-based rating agency May 4 assigned the low-tier investment grade rating to CRM's $350 million medium-term...
SINGAPORE-What was to have been one of the most glorious moments in Singapore's telecommunications history turned out to be a major fiasco when one of the contenders for the nation's mobile phone license, GTE Corp., said it wanted no part of it.Just one day...
WARSAW, Poland-The GSM MoU Association and Japan's largest wireless communications operator, NTT DoCoMo, have signed an agreement regarding the development of third-generation mobile phone technology.The GSM MoU believes the agreement underlines the global scale of unification behind an evolved Global System for Mobile communications...
NEW YORK-Orange plc outshined the other major mobile network providers in the United Kingdom, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 1998 U.K. Mobile Customer Satisfaction Study.Orange's overall satisfaction rankings were fueled by top scores in key areas, including corporate capabilities, call quality and...
ChinaL.M. Ericsson signed four Global System for Mobile communications contracts in China, which the company values at a total of $756 million. Ericsson will expand existing GSM networks in Shandong, Liaoning and Heilongjiang. The fourth contract calls for the company to provide a new...
Globalstar L.P.'s original service providers have until the end of today to decide if they want to take up Loral Space & Communications' recent offer to buy a portion of their holdings in the satellite partnership.In a series of complex transactions announced April 24,...
BANGKOK, Thailand-Cellular and PCS operators in the Asia-Pacific region have doubled from 56 in 1993 to the current 113, according to the Yankee Group's recently released "Asia-Pacific Wireless Series." The research firm expects the region will house 184 million users or 34 percent of...
MELBOURNE, Australia-The Australian government has called an urgent review to end speculation about the future of analog mobile phone coverage in regional and remote areas of the country. The analog system, based on the AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone Service) standard, was earmarked for closure...
China Telecom (Hong Kong) in late April announced the purchase of Jiangsu Mobile Communication for US$2.9 billion. China Telecom said the purchase gives it close to 4.8 million cellular subscribers in China, according to The Wall Street Journal. Jiangsu, one of China's largest and...
BEIJING-In the wireless world, China no longer is a forgotten backwater, but is rapidly moving to center stage. According to the new Ministry of Information Industry (MII), the country had a 92-percent growth rate last year, bringing total mobile users to 13 million, and...
MELBOURNE, Australia-Australia's long-awaited PCS spectrum auctions began at the tail end of April with nine bidders vying for 230 lots in the 800 MHz and 1800 MHz spectrum bands.Marking a key stage in Australia's long-term plans to establish a fully competitive market, the PCS...
SINGAPORE-What was to have been one of the most glorious moments in Singapore's telecommunications history turned out to be a major fiasco in April when one of the tenderers for a new Singapore mobile phone license, United States-based GTE Corp., said it wanted no...
LONDON-After years of uncertainty and confusion, the Russian wireless telecommunications market finally seems set to come out of hibernation and deliver what investors and analysts have been expecting for some time.There's certainly possibilities for growth following a slow start. At the end of 1997,...
OXFORD, England-More than a million mobile phone users in Switzerland are under surveillance.Swisscom secretly is storing historical data that can track the movements of its subscribers' mobile terminals.These revelations of wireless snooping were made earlier this year by the Swiss Sunday newspaper Sonntags Zeitung....
NokiaGSM phonesNokia Corp. introduced three new GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) phones operating on the 900 MHz frequency band. The Nokia 8810 has a protective slide cover and is accented with a touch of silver. It offers built-in data communications capabilities with infrared...
