mobile satellite

Siemens Components Inc. introduced its Model CMY210, a GaAs MMIC that can be used for designing cellular or personal communications services handsets based on Time Division Multiple Access or Code …

Stratos Mobile Networks, an international multi-network mobile satellite service provider, is in operation and ready to partner with other network operators and service providers. Stratos, headed by Chief Executive Officer …

Metawave Communications Corp. named Vito Palermo senior vice president and chief financial officer, with responsibility for the company’s financial and administrative operations including accounting, treasury, financial planning, investor relations and …

Several low-earth-orbit satellite systems will have initial launches this year, marking the beginning of services that a Washington, D.C., consulting firm says “will fill the gaps other wireless systems don’t …

WASHINGTON-Sen. Ernest Hollings (R-S.C.), in what amounts to a showdown with the Clinton administration, is mounting a campaign to condition Senate confirmation of U.S. Trade Representative-designate Charlene Barshefsky on passage …

Washington-The wireless telecom industry opposes funding proposals for the Clinton administration’s plan to link all schools and libraries to the Internet by 2000, a component of a sweeping $51 billion …

WASHINGTON-Motorola Satellite Communications Inc. filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission to modify its license for the Iridium mobile satellite system to include authority to provide aeronautical mobile satellite …

NEW YORK-British Telecommunications plc and Telenor of Norway have launched a satellite phone as small and light as a notebook personal computer. It’s called Mobiq. The phone, which weighs just …

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.- DCN Wireless, a California-based wireless services reseller, will begin providing GTE Mobilnet Inc. service in the San Francisco area and Northern California. “Our decision to offer the …

NEW YORK-If the conventional wisdom holds true that a rising tide lifts all boats, then wireless companies seeking to go public this year can take comfort in the results of …

Odyssey signs ChinaSat as service provider Odyssey Telecommunications International Inc. signed on its first service provider, China Telecommunications Broadcast Satellite Corp. The Odyssey mobile satellite system, which is scheduled to …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission adopted new rules Jan. 9 that will allow users of unlicensed Part 15 equipment, including laptop computers, to access the Internet wirelessly. By unanimous vote, commissioners …

RESTON, Va.-Comsat Personal Communications, a division of Comsat Corp., selected Giesecke & Devrient to provide Subscriber Identity Module smart cards for Comsat’s Planet 1 personal satellite telephone. Planet 1 is …

OTTAWA-TMI Communications agreed to provide mobile satellite communications services to Cable & Wireless Caribbean Cellular, a marine cellular network operator in the Caribbean. The service, CellSat, allows users to switch …

Cellular operators need to “get their heads together” if they want to offer cellular as a primary solution for telemetry, said a Houston-based company that manages that service for large …

Editor’s Note: No other debate has ignited the wireless telecommunications industry like the one that rages between TDMA and CDMA technology. For several years, the greatest argument against CDMA technology …

Sabre Communications Corp. introduced a new line of monopoles designed to support antenna loadings for cellular, personal communications services, enhanced specialized mobile radio and microwave applications. The monopoles extend 200 …

WASHINGTON-If the wireless telecom industry has learned one thing in recent years, it is that rules for paging, cellular, specialized mobile radio, personal communications services, mobile satellite, microwave, wireless local …

Investee Company Investors Amount Raised Type of Financing Nature of Business SignalSoft Corp. Olympic Venture Partners $1.9 million First Wireless location software & services Boulder, CO Pathnet Inc. Corman Foundation …

WASHINGTON-The jury trial between Radio Satellite Corp./Gary Noreen and American Mobile Satellite Corp., set to begin Nov. 25, was pushed back at the 11th hour when the judge scheduled to …

LONDON-A new 9.8 kilobits per second service, which uses the International Mobile Satellite Organization’s Inmarsat-B mobile satellite communication system, allows rapid data communications without a modem or special landline connections, …

WASHINGTON-A major breakthrough in efforts to ink a global telecom free trade pact by mid-February came last week as the European Union agreed to liberalize wireless mobile markets by 1998 …

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 …

WASHINGTON-After filing his complaint against American Mobile Satellite Services more than four years ago, Gary Noreen, chairman and chief executive officer of La Canada, Calif.-based Radio Satellite Corp., will get …

President Clinton’s electoral landslide victory over Bob Dole was anticlimactic for sure. “Building the bridge to the 21st century”-the Clinton-Gore campaign mantra-could be just as boring. It’s what lies on …