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 over five pounds, provides voice, fax and data communications including e-mail and comes as a...
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 service of both AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and GTE Mobilnet is in keeping with our...
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 the 1997 Super Bowl.For 27 of the 30 previous years, a win by a...
Odyssey signs ChinaSat asservice providerOdyssey Telecommunications International Inc. signed on its first service provider, China Telecommunications Broadcast Satellite Corp. The Odyssey mobile satellite system, which is scheduled to begin service in 2001, will allow subscribers to use a pocket-sized mobile phone or a fixed...
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 ordered that 300 megahertz of spectrum in the 5.15 GHz-5.35 GHz and 5.725-5.825 GHz ranges...
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 designed to offer global personal communications including voice, fax and data, from a portable...
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 from cellular to satellite services and provides one number seamless roaming in a 12-island service...
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 U.S. pipeline companies."If cellular wants to play heavily in this market, they're going to...
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 was that it was not commercially available. That changed in 1996 as both cellular and...
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 feet and are constructed of tapered sections for easy assembly and low visual impact,...
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 loop and private wireless services are not made in a vacuum.Wireless regulations and legislation-even...
Investee Company Investors Amount Raised Type of Financing Nature of BusinessSignalSoft Corp. Olympic Venture Partners $1.9 million First Wireless location software & servicesBoulder, COPathnet Inc. ...
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 hear the case decided three days would not be enough time for attorneys 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, said Inmarsat.The Inmarsat-B transportable terminals provide full office communications to customers in areas without...
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 and to relax restrictions elsewhere.But the 15-member EU let it be known in Geneva...
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 terminal equipment for Russian and Commonwealth of Independent States markets. Tecnomen Oy plans to...
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 his jury trial Nov. 25 in the U.S. District Court for the District of...
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 the other side of the bridge that beckons great expectations.The telecommunications industry thinks it...
MONTREAL-Low-earth-orbit mobile satellite operators Globalstar L.P., Iridium L.L.C. and Odyssey Telecommunications International Inc. said they will cooperate in efforts to secure global authorization for radio frequency spectrum to be used by their services.The companies said they agreed to a frequency-use plan, premised on the...
If ever there was a week when the FCC bore the brunt of everyone's aggressions, it was last week; I heard Hundt & Co. even was blamed for the Lindburgh kidnapping.First, commissioners decided at the last minute to pull the microwave cost-sharing item off...
WASHINGTON-A major breakthrough to erase telecommunications equipment tariffs by the year 2000 came last week when the European Union won political support from foreign ministers of EU member nations.The United States has been negotiating with the EU, Japan and Canada to reach an Information...
LONG ISLAND, N.Y.-Affordable Message Center said it will offer Mercury Paging & Communications Inc. services to its New York and New Jersey resellers. Mercury Paging operates on the 931 MHz frequency band and is available in 1200 baud, 2400 baud and Flex paging speeds....
FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Group and Radiomensaje, an Argentina-based national and regional paging service provider, signed an agreement to expand Radiomensaje's FLEX protocol-based infrastructure network.The new channel will be launched this month in Argentina, Motorola said."The current Argentina paging subscriber base is...
Donald Gips has a penchant for throwing himself into his work-and play-with reckless finesse and abandon.And he's paying for it today with a severely ruptured disc on the mend from years of rough and tumble sports that could have easily left him paralyzed and...
