Glenayre Technologies Inc. installed its Modular Voice Processing system for PennSel Communication Services, a division of R.F. Communications. PennSel will offer MVP services to its customers in Pennsylvania and the Northeast, the company said. The MVP system provides paging users with voice and fax...
WASHINGTON-Having spent the better part of the 104th Congress reforming domestic telecommunications policy, lawmakers gave notice last week of their intention to make international satellite competition the top priority when they return next year.Already, the Clinton administration is under attack by some lawmakers who...
WASHINGTON-Mobile Communications Holdings Inc. told federal regulators last week it has more than $650 million in financial commitments to operate the Ellipso global pocket telephone satellite system.In January 1995, the Federal Communications Commission found MCHI financial qualifications lacking but gave the firm time to...
This paper will show that wireless local loop systems provide more capacity than mobile cellular systems. Code Division Multiple Access technology has proven to have higher capacity than other multiple access schemes.Industrial countries require quality and service features from their mobile networks, while developing...
Allen Telecom Group's Telecom Systems Division introduced NanoLite, a fiber optic microcell system the company said allows service providers to select locations for optimum cell site coverage while reducing site-related costs. The NanoLite remote unit can be mounted on utility poles, billboards, buildings and...
NEW YORK-Venture capitalists invested more than $160 million in 30 wireless industry companies during the second quarter, according to a survey by Price Waterhouse Technology Industry Group, Dallas.Overall, venture-backed investments jumped by nearly a third compared with the same period last year, totaling $2.43...
NEW YORK-After many delays, Brazil's B-band cellular license auctions, which will be open to foreign bidders, are likely to begin early next year.The Brazil Senate last month ratified telecommunications deregulation legislation already approved by the House, thereby opening satellite and cellular services to outside...
ZK Celltest Inc. announced narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone Service measurement capability on the ZK-SAM/DX, a system access monitor. The company said the device interfaces with Motorola Inc.'s MicroTac dual-mode NAMPS phone and displays and collects NAMPS and enhanced AMPS call processing data. The DX...
Editor's Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of mobile satellite carriers based on survey responses and interviews with industry contacts. The chart is arranged alphabetically because most of the companies are not yet offering service.Many of the networks plan to...
LONDON-The International Mobile Satellite Organization Council agreed to open regional offices to represent Latin America, South and East Asia and Africa."Inmarsat opened its first regional office in Beijing, China, in January 1994," said George Symeonidis, executive vice president. "Its success in contributing to the...
RESTON, Va.-American Mobile Satellite Corp. has appointed Gary Parsons president and chief executive officer. He will also serve on the company's board of directors.Parsons succeeds Brian Pemberton who will remain with the company concentrating on sales and marketing, AMSC said."Gary has demonstrated success building...
NEW YORK-At a coverage cost of $7 per population equivalent-one-tenth the cost of cellular-satellite communications promise $300 million in cash flow for each 1 percent of market penetration.That is one aspect of a positive outlook on wireless satellite telecommunications offered by Robert B. Kaimowitz,...
WASHINGTON-American Mobile Satellite Corp. could receive additional L-band mobile satellite services spectrum if favorable comments are received regarding a June 18 notice of proposed rulemaking released by the Federal Communications Commission.The commission proposed to assign AMSC the first 28 megahertz of spectrum (14 megahertz...
Just when every conceivable type of transmission site on earth and in orbit seems to have been recruited for wireless telecommunications, the industry now is taking to the stratosphere with lighter-than-air platforms.Sky Station International Inc. of Chantilly, Va., applied to the Federal Communications Commission...
Motorola Inc. and Qatar Public Telecommunications Corp. announced the introduction of a high-speed, high-capacity paging service based on the FLEX protocol in the Middle Eastern country of Qatar. With the FLEX protocol, Q-Tel said it can expand and enhance its paging service, while continuing...
American Mobile Satellite Corp. appointed Patrick C. FitzPatrick vice president and chief financial officer. Prior to joining AMSC, FitzPatrick was senior vice president and CFO of PRC Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Black & Decker Corp.Paging Network Inc. has appointed William J. Dixon...
WASHINGTON-In an address with major policymaking implications, Federal Communications Commissioner Susan Ness said government-endorsed wireless standards could improve U.S. competitiveness abroad and cautioned against spectrum reform based entirely on market forces.Ness, speaking last week at a conference sponsored by the Federal Communications Bar Association...
MONTREAL-Transys Networks Inc. said it has developed a fax solution that lets mobile and remote workers send faxes through satellite networks. The product, Mobilis, consists of a store-and-forward fax switch and mobile fax interface units that work with most standard G3 fax machines or...
California Microwave Inc. has appointed Dennis Raney executive vice president and chief financial officer. Raney brings 26 years of broad financial experience, including international operations, financial planning, information systems and product introductions. He most recently served as CFO for General Magic Inc.Preferred Networks Inc....
Comsat International Communications is creating a business unit to focus solely on mobile satellite communications. Comsat Personal Communications initially will concentrate on Comsat's Planet 1 global phone service scheduled to be available later this year. By the turn of the century CPC also will...
WASHINGTON-Interconnection with the local exchange carrier represents a significant expenditure for the wireless industry, nearly $936 million in 1995, according to a new study from MTA-EMCI Inc.In "Interconnection: Wireless Industry Rates and Trends," the company notes that the burgeoning growth of the cellular industry as...
American Mobile Satellite Corp. is taking steps to shore up its financing after disclosing the possibility of bankruptcy in its annual Form 10-K report filed April 1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission.The Reston, Va.-based mobile satellite company said it needed about $350 million...
WASHINGTON-Before disadvantaged and rural customers can take advantage of existing and emerging telecommunications services, the Federal Communications Commission and its adjunct Federal/State joint board have to decide how to revamp longstanding universal-service requirements to include wireless providers as possible local exchange carriers.As a prelude...
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