Orange plc, one of the United Kingdom's two 1800 MHz personal communications providers, announced it established a roaming agreement with the Swiss Post, Telephone and Telegraph.Concurrently, Colin Tucker, group technical and operations director, said he believes dual band phones, which operate at 900 MHz...
TAMPA, Fla.-Nokia Inc., which originated color cellular phones, now offers the Nokia 239, an Advanced Mobile Phone Service cellular phone with a keypad cover.The 239 has several features including a 16-character display with permanent signal and battery strength indicators, four "one-touch" dialing keys for...
The equipment arm of Geotek Communications Inc. has signed a supply contract with Hyundai Electronics Industries Co. Ltd. designed to strengthen the New Jersey-based company's position in Korea.Hyundai will build infrastructure equipment based on Geotek's proprietary Frequency Hopping Multiple Access technology. The agreement is...
Open standards must be developed so smart cards can integrate with personal computers, according to a group of PC manufacturers and smart card developers that have banded together to make sure that happens."Standards will drive the development of the smart card market," said Jacques...
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas-Allgon Enterprises Inc. and Teledyne Electronic Technologies have teamed up to develop and manufacture plastic technology for certain key wireless communications applications.The Allgon Enterprises and Teledyne Electronic Technologies alliance will develop and produce plastic/dielectric filters and duplexers for the Code Division Multiple...
While AirNet Communications Corp. is busy this week demonstrating its PCS 1900 base station system at PCS '96, the company's new Korean joint venture, AirCom, is busy demonstrating AirNet's software driven and protocol independent base station technology in Korea.Communications Technology Inc. of Seoul is...
This paper will show that wireless local loop systems provide more capacity than mobile cellular systems. Code Division Multiple Access technology has proven to have higher capacity than other multiple access schemes.Industrial countries require quality and service features from their mobile networks, while developing...
Some Personal Communications Services contenders are looking to differentiate themselves in the new age of wireless competition with data services based on the established Global System for Mobile communications standard."We see this as a strong differentiator for us and plan to offer it very...
Yet another European-based company is entering the U.S. digital handset market, trumpeting its communications and manufacturing expertise, particularly in Global System for Mobile communications technology.A U.S. division of Siemens A.G. hopes to eventually grab a double-digit slice of market share when it begins selling...
LEXINGTON, Mass. - Wildfire Communications Inc. signed 12 new authorized service providers for its electronic assistant and inked expansion agreements with two companies already offering the product. The Wildfire Electronic Assistant is now available through 34 providers in more than 40 metropolitan areas throughout...
Telesp Celular, the cellular division of the telephone operating company for the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, announced plans to install a digital network by December 1997 to eliminate capacity problems of its current analog network.Telesp said it has not chosen which digital standard...
A week after Mobistar launched Global System for Mobile communications cellular service in Belgium, sole incumbent Belgacom Mobile cut its cellular rates between 30 percent and 34 percent.However, Mobistar's rates are equally competitive to Belgacom's new rates, said Luca Tassan, analyst at London-based Economic...
Using cellular and intelligent satellite technologies, Telecel International Ltd. of New Canaan, Conn., is on track to rehaul communications in Africa.The company was first to introduce cellular service in Africa 10 years ago, said Justin Dudley, Telecel's vice president of engineering and research development....
ZK Celltest Inc. announced narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone Service measurement capability on the ZK-SAM/DX, a system access monitor. The company said the device interfaces with Motorola Inc.'s MicroTac dual-mode NAMPS phone and displays and collects NAMPS and enhanced AMPS call processing data. The DX...
NEW YORK-Aided by strong growth in its mobile phones and telecommunications business groups, Nokia Corp. reported strong second-quarter net sales Aug. 8 of nearly $1.9 billion, a 17 percent increase from the same period 1995.Operating profits for the quarter, which ended June 30, were...
Lucent Technologies Inc. said it doesn't expect to renew its original equipment manufacturer contracts with Nokia Mobile Phones and Oki telecom at the end of the year when the agreements expire.Lucent said it is making good progress on establishing a factory in New Jersey...
3607 Communications Co. launched its Code Division Multiple Access digital cellular phone network in Las Vegas and is offering the service to new and existing customers.The system, which covers 85 percent of the company's analog traffic areas, will allow 3607 to increase network capacity...
Although LHS Communications Systems Inc. was formed only a year ago, the company is not new.The U.S. operation, which provides billing and customer care systems to wireless carriers, is an offspring of LH Specifications, started in Germany six years ago by former IBM executives...
Germany, one of Western Europe's most developed mobile telephone markets, is preparing to license a fourth operator to further stimulate competition.Parties interested in the E-2 nationwide 1800 MHz digital personal communications network license must submit bids by Oct. 15, said Volker Wirsdorf, commercial specialist...
CTIA President Tom Wheeler called it the biggest issue facing the wireless industry in 1996. Last Thursday, he simply said, "Hooray."The Federal Communications Commission revamped interconnect agreements last week as part of sweeping rule changes aimed at bringing competition to the local exchange.For the...
LE MANS, France-Philips Electronics North America Corp. has appointed Osmo Hautanen president of Philips Consumer Communications Co., a seven-month-old Le Mans, France-based subsidiary of Philips Electronics.Hautanen will oversee Philips' launch of telecommunications devices, including cellular and wireline phones, answering machines and pagers, throughout the...
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Mobile Phones K.K. (Japan) has introduced the Nokia Digital Data/Fax Card to the Japanese digital cellular networks.The card enables wireless data transmission linking Nokia's digital mobile phones and portable computers with the PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) slot. A user...
Not wanting to be elbowed aside by rival new suitors, cellular carriers are beginning to serenade subscribers with their own chorus of "Digital! Digital! Digital!"But unlike emerging personal communications services networks that are digital by design, incumbent cellular carriers have some unexpected leeway in...
American Technologies Inc. announced the availability of the MicroTracker remote tracking module, a vehicle location system that combines a global positioning system receiver, radio transceiver and radio frequency modem in one unit. ATI said the module can be easily installed in trailers, cars, boats,...
