WASHINGTON, D.C.-The North American GSM Alliance L.L.C., a consortium of U.S. and Canadian GSM personal communications services carriers, filed reply comments with the Federal Communications Commission, saying a decision to disqualify regional mobile satellite systems would shortchange Global System for Mobile communications customers in...
In the upcoming months and years, several events in space have the potential to threaten the existing array of satellites orbiting the planet. Any one of these events has the ingredients to do as little as weaken satellite strength to as much as knock...
American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced it has signed a three-year contract extension with IBM Corp. to provide the computer company with wireless data network services over its Ardis network through 2001. IBM uses the Ardis network for its field-service support personnel using a national...
WASHINGTON-Attorney General Janet Reno last week sought an independent counsel to investigate Labor Secretary Alexis Herman in connection with allegations that Herman used her influence as a former White House aide to secure Democratic campaign contributions and that she personally profited from helping Mobile...
NEW YORK-Led by dramatic expansion of television, mobile telephony and multimedia services, global satellite industry revenues will skyrocket to $171 billion in 2007 from $38 billion in 1997, according to projections by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc., New York.Within the next year...
NEW YORK-Mobile Communications Holdings Inc., Washington, D.C., announced The Boeing Co. is to be the system integrator for the new Ellipso mobile satellite system in a contract valued at more than $1.4 billion.The Ellipso system, which could make its commercial debut as early as...
RESTON, Va.-American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced JS Express Inc. has signed a three-year contract extension for its Ardis wireless data network.JS Express, a one-hour, on-demand delivery service, uses the network for its wireless dispatch application that coordinates logistics for the 285 JS Express' drivers...
Trying to compete with satellite-industry giants, Celsat America Inc., a small, domestic player in the mobile satellite services arena, filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission opposing the allocation of any new spectrum to applicants that already have licenses."According to the FCC public notice,...
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...
Mobile data applications to date have been fairly industry-specific and complicated, something many in the data industry blame for its confinement to a limited vertical market.But mobile data network carriers Ardis and BellSouth Wireless Data Inc.-formerly RAM Mobile Data USA L.P.-believe two-way interactive text...
The Inmarsat Council reached an agreement to privatize Inmarsat with a target date of 1 January 1999. According to Inmarsat, its signatories, parties and management have worked together for three years to design and develop the framework for a new Inmarsat comprising a public...
DENVER, United States-If all goes as planned, the world could have as many as 10 mobile satellite communications (MSS) systems operating in the next five years. By 2002, the MSS industry could be an US$8.5 billion market.The various service providers will comprise four different...
Loral Space & Communications said it will increase its ownership in Globalstar L.P. to 42 percent, establish a US$210 million fund to reinvest in the mobile satellite service project and add the Soros funds as a significant investor in Globalstar.Loral has offered to purchase,...
WASHINGTON-House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley (R-Va.) said the privatization of the International Maritime Satellite Organization and the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization being negotiated by the Clinton administration may be inconsistent with U.S. law and could complicate an international satellite-reform bill that is estimated...
The Federal Communications Commission's International Bureau granted low-earth-orbit licenses to four companies, authorizing them to operate non-voice, non-geostationary mobile satellite systems, also known as little LEOs.E-Sat Inc., Final Analysis Communications Services Inc., Orbital Communications Corp. and Volunteers in Technical Assistance each received little LEO...
CHICAGO-American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced it completed its $100 million acquisition of Ardis last week, creating what it called the first fully-deployed, integrated terrestrial/satellite network for two-way wireless data services.Ardis, formerly owned by Motorola Inc., operates one of the largest terrestrial wireless data communications...
The Federal Communications Commission approved a request from American Mobile Satellite Corp. to modify its satellite license so it can temporarily consolidate its space segment facilities with TMI Communications and Co. L.P.Under the satellite sharing agreement announced early last December, AMSC will purchase a...
WASHINGTON-The House Commerce Committee last week passed a pro-competitive international satellite reform bill that lawmakers predict will save American consumers billions of dollars.The bill, co-sponsored by Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley (R-Va.) and Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), would privatize the International Maritime Satellite Organization and...
RESTON, Va.-American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced two new customers for its Multi-Mode Mobile Messaging Service-Dart Transit Co. and J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc.AMSC's messaging service provides seamless nationwide coverage and combines the ARDIS wireless data network-which it purchased from Motorola Inc. earlier this year-with...
TORONTO-TMI Communications announced it launched a new mobile packet data network available in all 50 states and in Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean using its MSAT geostationary satellite.TMI said the service is aimed at mobile data users with people and equipment in remote areas...
Strategy Analytics, a research firm based in Delafield, Wis., gave perhaps the most conservative forecast of the paging industry to date during a teleconference coinciding with the release of its report, titled "U.S. Paging Market Status and Forecast."Ann Lynch, a researcher at Strategy Analytics,...
WASHINGTON-The Justice Department last week extended for 60 days its probe into whether Labor Secretary Alexis Herman financially benefited from helping Mobile Communications Holdings Inc. obtain a global satellite phone license from the Federal Communications Commission last year.The extension follows a three-month investigation that...
NEW YORK-British Telecommunications plc announced its mobile satellite communications customers will enjoy price reductions up to 15 percent, when the company introduces a new U.S. dollar billing rate.BT will reduce the cost of calling from mobile terminals via the Inmarsat system. Customers on BT's...
RESTON, Va.-The Federal Communications Commission approved the transfer of control of Ardis Co.'s wireless data network from Motorola Inc. to American Mobile Satellite Corp., following a $100-million cash and stock deal announced Dec. 31, said AMSC.The acquisition received approval from the Federal Trade Commission...
