Kevin Mitnick, a convicted computer hacker, recently plead guilty to charges of illegally using stolen mobile phone numbers. Federal prosecutors in North Carolina arranged the plea as part of an agreement when he was arrested last year after three years on the run. Mitnick,...
WICHITA, Kan. - Brite Voice Systems has introduced a cellular phone enhanced service designed to improve the safety of mobile phone use in automobiles.The company has developed a voicemail service that integrates speech recognition into the VSDmail application. The service, called Sami, provides speech...
Millicom International Cellular S.A. signed a seven-year $200 million credit facility agreement arranged by ABN-AMRO Bank and ING Bank. Millicom said the facility will be used to refinance $125 million of existing short term credit facilities at the parent level and the balance of...
Steinbrecher Corp., which was recently acquired by Tellabs Wireless, announced the MiniCell Wireless Access System, a complete cellular system utilizing software-programmable radios with remote and local transceivers. Based on industry standard protocols, the MiniCell system is interoperable with other networks. The company said the...
The fusion of wireless telecommunications and computer processing power into a device that fits your hand ought to be a slam-dunk proposition. It lets time-critical information go unobtrusively to where it can be most productive-in the field-rather than requiring the user to go where...
WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court's consideration of whether manufacturers of medical devices that malfunction can be sued in state court potentially adds a new twist to the wireless interference issue.Up to now, the issue has been largely framed by consumer advocates in terms of what digital...
CALGARY, Alberta, Canada-Isotel Research and Steinbrecher Corp. announced Isotel has been selected to provide digital cellular software based on the North American Interim Standard-136 Time Division Multiple Access technology for use in Steinbrecher's base station products.Steinbrecher is developing proprietary, wideband base station products for...
WASHINGTON-Public alarm over potential health risks from mobile telephones that reached fever pitch in the United States several years ago may be about to seize Great Britain, following publication in the London Sunday Times of new evidence that radio frequency radiation from handheld communicators...
WASHINGTON-A report in the May issue of Epidemiology cast doubt on whether pocket telephones pose fatal health consequences for consumers in the short run, but leaves open the question of whether long-term use of phones can cause cancer or other maladies.The epidemiologic study, the...
The Personal Mobile Communications Division of Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc. announced the MobileAccess smart phone. The phone integrates a cellular telephone with broad messaging and data capabilities in a lightweight, handheld unit, the company said. The model relies on cellular digital packet data technology...
DALLAS-According to Ericsson Inc., more than 1 million Time Division Multiple Access wireless customers contract for service worldwide every day. As a result, the Swedish manufacturer unveiled a bevy of TDMA-based products and services at the recent Wireless '96 conference in Dallas.Three new Digital...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced its digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service wireless communication system has been put into commercial service in Puerto Rico by Puerto Rico Telephone Co. The system allows PRTC to immediately offer digital services to its frequent users and will provide personal...
WASHINGTON-The wireless telecommunications industry is at a crossroads.Either the ever-popular mobile phone used by more than 35 million people today will remain forever a nice little extra for business people and safety-conscious citizens or it will evolve into something much bigger and revolutionary: the telephone...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson and Marubeni Corp., a Japanese general trading company, have signed a joint venture agreement to market and distribute Ericsson phones in the Japanese market.Ericsson said the Tokyo-based joint venture company, to be named Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan K.K., will handle marketing,...
Telex Communications Inc. has introduced a lightweight headset specifically for cellular phones and other mobile applications. The company said its Telex Nomad Headset is a lightweight, ear-worn device with an adjustable boom microphone and high-fidelity speaker. The headset is designed to improve the sound...
In Chicago, where cellular penetration is highest and rates are lowest among the nation's 10 most populous markets, Ameritech Cellular Services and SBC Communications Inc. are fighting it out for customers.And competition stands only to intensify once challengers in personal communications services, including the...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-Eighty-two percent of business cellular subscribers want a single wireless handset that can be used as an office phone indoors and as a mobile phone outdoors, concludes a two-year study conducted by Alexander Resources Inc.Alexander said the biggest threat to cellular and personal...
AirTouch Communications Inc. announced its cellular ventures in Germany and Italy have continued to experience strong customer growth. AirTouch said its German cellular venture, Mannesmann Mobilfunk, currently has more than 1.6 million customers. During 1995, Mannesmann Mobilfunk grew by more than 70 percent, ending...
In Chicago, where cellular penetration is highest and rates are lowest among the nation's 10 most populous markets, Ameritech Cellular Services and SBC Communications Inc. are fighting it out for customers.And competition stands only to intensify once challengers in personal communications services, including the...
The Big Mac of wireless devices has arrived. Shaped like a regular cellular phone, the Nokia 9000 Communicator opens to expose an interactive digital world of voice, data, fax, e-mail, computer, on-line and organizer features to appease the cravings of today's business professionals.Nokia Mobile...
L.M. Ericsson said it surpassed the 1 million subscriber milestone in February for its CMS 30 system for Pacific Digital Cellular, making Japan one of the fastest growing markets for cellular telephony. The number of cellular subscribers in Japan has increased rapidly since deregulation,...
CHICAGO - Three-sixty Communications Co. has completed its spinoff from Sprint Corp. to become a public business with a market capitalization of $3 billion."Becoming a new publicly traded company will allow us to become more agile and creative in leveraging our incumbent position," said...
Discord among potential bidding parties and the government's plan to refashion telecommunications regulations resulted in Chile postponing the March 1 deadline for personal communications services bids, reported Isabel Valenzuela, a telecommunications specialist at the U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile.The government has not set a...
L.M. Ericsson said it withdrew a complaint filed in January with the European Commission, which charged that Austria's award of a Global System for Mobile communications license to international consortium Oe-Call, was unfair. Siemens AG Oesterreich of Vienna holds 19.8 percent in Oe-Call. However,...
