TAMPA, Fla.-GTE Tele-communications Services Inc. has agreed to supply its CloneDetector system to PrimeCo Personal Communications. The agreement also calls for GTE Telecommunications Services to manage the maintenance and operation of the system's software and hardware platforms.The system identifies and minimizes fraudulent calls by...
A Seattle company has created model legislation that wireless carriers can use to convince state legislators to create a dedicated wireless E-911 fund administered at the state level."We have met with numerous carriers and there is a feeling that the state-level fund is the...
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association agreed last week to insure Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. scientists against lawsuit damages, while dashing speculation that it wants to dissolve WTR over the indemnification issue.The stalemate over legal coverage threatened to shut down the already struggling research program,...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said a "soft-handoff" feature deployed in its Code Division Multiple Access infrastructure enables mobile phones to simultaneously maintain a wireless connection to service areas served by different mobile switching centers."This achievement proves that there's no inherent obstacle to CDMA...
Tektronix Inc. added an Advanced Mobile Phone Service option for its CMD80 digital radio communications test set. The AMPS Option 17 makes the CMD80 a "one-box" test solution for digital cellular and personal communications services mobile phone equipment, the company said. The CMD80 includes...
L.M. Ericsson on Jan. 1 plans to reorganize its five business areas into three: Telephones & Terminals, Mobile Systems and Infocom Systems. Telephones & Terminals will be responsible for consumer products, including mobile phones and cordless phones. Mobile Systems will be responsible for network solutions,...
AirNet Communications Corp. entered an agreement with the Thomsen Group of Denmark, appointing Thomsen as AirNet's authorized business representative in Denmark and certain Far Eastern countries. Thomsen will distribute AirNet's wireless broadband software-based infrastructure equipment, base stations and systems for the wireless local loop,...
NEW YORK-Vimpel-Communications, a Russian wireless telecommunications company, went public on the New York Stock Exchange Nov. 15 with an offering of 5.4 million American Depository Shares priced at $20.50 each. Each ADS equals three-quarters of a share of common stock.The initial price was much...
SmarTrunk Systems Inc. announced its ST-865KW2 SmarTrunk II trunking logic board, which offers advanced trunking features for Kenwood's latest portable and mobile conventional radio models. The logic board enables radios to share a common pool of frequencies for individual calls, group calls and telephone...
The Romanian Ministry of Communications awarded two 900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications licenses to the consortia of Mobil Rom, led by France Telecom International Mobiles, and to MobiFon, led by Montreal-based Telesystem International Wireless Services. AirTouch Communications Inc. is a minority partner...
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. will acquire the infrastructure equipment group of Pacific Communication Sciences Inc., according to a definitive agreement. ADC said it will purchase the group in a cash deal valued at $23 million."To realize our goal of expanding ADC's presence in mobile and...
Using the existing Ardis two-way data network, ConectUS Wireless Communications of Thousand Oaks, Calif., plans to launch two-way nationwide messaging services next month, initially targeting business users.ConectUS is a subsidiary of Executive Page, which is an Ardis master reseller and distributor of products for...
Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group licensed its FLEX technology to paging infrastructure manufacturers EcoSoft GTCO and Tecnomen Oy. EcoSoft said it will use the technology to make inexpensive paging terminal equipment for Russian and Commonwealth of Independent States markets. Tecnomen Oy plans to...
HELSINKI, Finland-The Nokia Group said increased sales in the Nokia Telecommunications division, and strong growth in the Nokia Mobile Phones division, led to strong third quarter results.Nokia Telecommunications reported a 26 percent increase in net sales for the third quarter to $691 million, compared...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Dr. Nils Rydbeck, manager of Mobile Telephony research and development at Ericsson in the United States, was awarded the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences' Gold Medal for an outstanding contribution in the development of mobile telephones.The medal committee recognized Rydbeck for "significant...
NEW YORK-Russia's largest cellular carrier, Vimpel-Communications, plans to go public with an international offering that will make it the first Russian company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.Through an underwriting syndicate led by Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp., New York, Vimpel-Com has...
Plantronics Inc. has taken one small step by expanding its existing headset business into the wireless market.The company first introduced communications headsets in 1962. Initially designed for airline pilots, the headsets have been adopted for other applications including operator services, air traffic control and...
California Microwave Inc. added $5 million to a satellite communications network project with Sudatel, a telecommunications service provider in Sudan. The contract, originally awarded during the second quarter of this year, is now valued at $10 million. The system, which is expected to be...
Deutsche Telekom AG said it made its mobile arm an economically independent subsidiary three years ago in anticipation of the upcoming public offering of the Deutsche Telekom Group's stock.As one of the world's largest telecommunications companies moves slowly from government to public ownership, the...
Nextel Communications Inc. charted a new frontier in its acquisition strategy with plans to buy most of Wireless Ventures of Brazil Inc., owner of Brazil's only nationwide specialized mobile radio license.Nextel of McLean, Va., said it reached definitive agreements with Wireless Ventures, of Arlington...
JV Digital Cellular Communications of Ukraine Ltd. placed an order, valued at $30 million, for L.M. Ericsson's fixed Digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service/AMPS cellular network. Under the contract, Ericsson will install the network in Kiev, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Charkiv, Odessa and the peninsular Krim. The...
The introduction of new digital cellular and personal communications services standards in the United States and global markets has brought to bear the issue of multimode and multiband wireless handsets.Shying away from the continuing and unproductive debate between the proponents of various digital standards,...
SAN DIEGO-Pacific Communication Sciences Inc. will provide its Personal Access Link smart phone to TranSettlements Network Services for use in its Tracker Transportation Information System. TranSettlements provides value-added electronic data interchange services to the transportation industry.The cellular phone has an embedded wireless modem that...
Sixteen wireless operators have made the cut to be considered possible partners for Greece's government telephone company.Watching the success of the country's two private cellular providers, the government has awarded a third mobile license to its own landline entity, OTE. OTE will compete with...
