SAN DIEGO-The National Dispatch Center Inc. said it will provide international call routing for GlobalRoam, the international cellular roaming service scheduled to be introduced by GTE Mobilnet Inc. in the third quarter of this year.GlobalRoam will allow traveling Europeans and North Americans to roam...
DALLAS-Northern Telecom Ltd. will provide Star Digitel with a Time Division Multiple Access digital cellular phone system valued at $24 million under the terms of a three-year supply agreement. Star Digitel is a wholly owned subsidiary of Star Paging (International Holding) Ltd."Star Digitel will...
AT&T Corp. and Saudi Arabian company A.S. Bugshan & Bros. won a contract to expand the Global System for Mobile communications cellular network of the Saudi Ministry of Post, Telegraph and Telephone. An additional 300,000 subscribers can be added. The expansion will cover 16...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Interim Standard-634, an open network interface standard, has been approved by the engineering committee of the Telecommunications Industry Association. The standard provides an open interface between the mobile switching center and the radio base station subsystem in a cellular network.It is the...
Sprint Telecommunications Venture-which plans to operate next-generation mobile phone service across much of the nation-is keeping to its cable roots by selecting Code Division Multiple Access technology as the foundation for its network.The Sprint-cable TV consortium last month announced it would use CDMA technology...
AT&T Network Systems Inc. said it intends to buy some of Philips Electronics' assets in a deal that would grant AT&T access to Global System for Mobile communications-based cellular equipment, and therefore provide the company a gateway to European and other markets.Specifically, the two...
KAZAN, Republic of Tatarstan-Hughes Network Systems has installed a digital fixed wireless phone system in the Republic of Tatarstan valued at $48 million. It will initially serve Tatarstan's capital city of Kazan, with plans to serve 50,000 customers with voice and data in eight...
Applying its linear fiber optics technology, Ortel Corp. is providing wireless networks a vital supplement for communicating in environments that are limited by physical barriers, like underground transit.Together with Andrew Corp., Ortel will help provide clear communications for cellular customers in Hong Kong's Mass...
WAYNE, Pa.-A month before the tender application deadline, Comcast Corp. announced its Comcast International Holdings Inc. subsidiary will head a consortium bidding a second cellular license in Ireland.Comcast will own a 65 percent stake in the venture. Irish partners are Radio Telefis Eireann, a...
Bell Atlantic Corp. formed a joint wenture with the Bombay-based Essar Group to bid for basic and mobile telephone service licenses in India. Bell Atlantic will be a minority partner in the yet unnamed venture with a 33 percent stake. Essar, which has widespread...
Boasting a 65 percent increase in first quarter earnings, Ericsson Inc. reported its radio communications sector is largely accountable for the company's financial results.For the period ended March 31, Ericsson's net income totaled $114 million, compared with $69 million for the same period in...
Thomas A. Barlett was named president of the Northeast regional territory for the Bell Atlantic Mobile and Nynex Mobile joint venture. Barlett will be responsible for sales, marketing, engineering, asministration, finance and network systems in the region, which includes all of New England and...
InterDigital Communictaions Corp. said it received an order for UltraPhone digital wireless local loop equipment valued at $17.6 million from the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. Installation in metropolitan Manila is scheduled to begin the second half of this year. The Myanma Posts and...
BEIJING-Nokia Corp., the giant Finnish mobile telephone company, plans to form its sixth manufacturing joint venture in China under a contract, initially valued at $10 million, with the Chinese Posts and Telecommunications Industrial Corp.The partnership, Beijing Nokia Mobile Telecommunications Ltd., will produce Global System...
An Oregon test and measurement equipment company with international alliances is poised for what it hopes is a wave of demand from companies building personal communications services networks."Test equipment is an integral part of installing a PCS system. And we think testing will be...
Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group has been awarded a contract for more than $10 million to expand the narrowband advanced mobile phone service in the Dominican Republic. The contract with the private telephone company, Tricom Inc., will expand that company's cell sites to a...
Nokia Corp. reported solid financial results for the first eight months of 1994, particularly in its telecommunications and mobile phone divisions, with net sales increasing 54 percent and 62 percent, respectively.Accounting for structural changes within the group, as well as fluctuating exchange rates, the...
Seeking a bigger slice of the telephony pie, Cybertel Cellular is slashing prices for its new digital cellular service in Hawaii.Cybertel, a subsidiary of Ameritech Cellular Services, is offering customers airtime rates as low as 3.7 cents per minute in Hawaii Rural Service Area...
The National Association for Business and Educational Radio announced the release of its ninth edition of The NABER Resource. The guide is a comprehensive source of Federsl Communications Commision rules, regulations and licensing, said NABER. "It includes current addresses, fee and form information through...
A rose by any other name still smells as sweet.Finnish-based Nokia Corp. hopes the same holds true for cellular telephones.The company's Nokia Mobile Phones Inc. announced late last month it will focus its marketing efforts in the United States on one brand name. The...
Following is a laundry list of current and future cellular technologies: Circuit-switched networkThe most widespread option for transmitting cellular data is over the circuit-switched network, which is the existing analog cellular network, technically known as the AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone Services) network. The circuit-switched network...
Motorola Inc.'s Personal Communications Systems formally introduced its Teledensity product, a wireless system designed for local loop and personal communications services applications, at the recent Personal Communications Industry Association Showcase in Seattle.Earlier in September, Motorola announced its first customer for Teledensity would be Southwestern...
Illinois Superconductor Corp. said it has introduced an interference filter for cellular base station receivers that uses superconductor technology, enabling the base station to hear weaker signals more clearly.Superconductivity involves cooling certain metals and alloys to a very low temperature so electrical currents can...
Cellular carriers and manufacturers need to appreciate the value of analog technology well into the future if they want to succeed, said industry consultants at an annual strategic cellular and wireless radio seminar.For the first time in the seven-year history of the seminar, presented...
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