WASHINGTON-The battle over whether major local telephone companies will be allowed to merge-expected to be debated again today at the Federal Communications Commission-is tied to spectrum caps more than most people realize, said Motorola Inc.'s Michael D. Kennedy.The Practicing Law Institute's 16th Annual Telecommunications...
Convergys extends pacts with carriersCINCINNATI-Convergys Corp. said it extended its contracts with L.A. Cellular and Houston Cellular well into the next century.Convergys' new outsourced billing and customer care contract with L.A. Cellular will run through 2007, and the Houston Cellular contract will run through...
PREFERRED NETWORKSPreferred Networks Inc. announced its founder, president and director, Michael Saner, will retire Dec. 31. Saner previously held upper-management positions at several paging companies, such as Paging Services Inc., a paging repair, maintenance, installation and sales company he founded, which was acquired by...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group said Sprint Spectrum L.P. launched its personal communications services network in several key markets as part of the expansion of its nationwide network. Seven of these new markets are using Motorola CIG's Code Division Multiple Access network...
Ever since Nokia Mobile Phones Inc. introduced the first in a new class of mobile phones with its Nokia 9000 Communicator, the excitement surrounding the idea of devices that combine wireless voice and data has been growing.Nokia last week manufactured its 100 millionth mobile...
Some analysts are expecting Code Division Multiple Access infrastructure spending to taper off in 1999 as cdmaOne infrastructure deployments in China remain questionable."I think China is the lynch pin for CDMA infrastructure going into next year and to a certain extent greater Asia," said...
WASHINGTON-A $60 million Motorola Inc. emergency radio system contract is at the center of a huge scandal that threatens to take down South Australian government leader John Olsen.Olsen-according to a letter leaked by a senior bureaucrat and reported by The Australian newspaper-offered to reserve...
In an unprecedented show of cooperation, Glenayre Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. joined forces to promote ReFLEX paging systems in the Asia Pacific, organizing the ReFLEX Technology Symposium '98 held last month in Beijing and Bangkok, Thailand.The symposium drew representatives from more than 300...
ADC Telecommunications Inc. completed its acquisition of Teledata Communications Ltd. for $15.75 per share, or about $200 million in cash.Omnipoint Communications Inc. launched commercial roaming with NPI Wireless of Traverse City, Mich. NPI operates Global System for Mobile communications services in the northern Michigan...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it has implemented Sun Microsystems Inc.'s EmbeddedJava technology in its M.Core microprocessors, in what is described as the first step toward bringing Java technology to handheld and portable devices. This is the first product resulting from the licensing agreement Motorola...
IRVINE, Calif.-Bax Global said it won a multiyear contract from Motorola Inc. to manage the packing and distribution of Motorola's Personal Communications Sector in the Asia-Pacific market.Under terms of the agreement, Bax will manage delivery of materials and parts from Motorola suppliers in Asia...
CHICAGO-Ameritech announced the Motorola digital StarTac phone will be available with Ameritech's ClearPath wireless service beginning Nov. 27 in Chicago, Columbus, Detroit and St. Louis.The 5.1-cubic-inch dual-mode phone offers up to 162 minutes of talk time in digital mode, and can receive calls outside...
With the Nov. 1 commercial activation of Iridium L.L.C.'s satellite-based global mobile phone network, the mobile satellite services industry proved it is technologically possible to extend cellular communications to virtually any point on the planet.With this validation behind it, the industry faces another, equally...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. declared its 207th consecutive regular quarterly dividend of 12 cents per share, payable by Jan. 15, 1999, to stockholders of record Dec. 15.The company also announced its board of directors adopted a new preferred share purchase rights agreement to replace the...
The personal handyphone system market in Japan is ready for improvement, but analysts say it will take big commitments from carriers and differentiated marketing to jump-start demand.PHS subscriber numbers steadily have fallen for more than a year as the country's operators pushed the limited-mobility...
PageMart Wireless Inc. reported the Synapse Pager Card production delays have been worked out and shipments are underway in the volume expected.PageMart began shipping units in July, but reported in its third-quarter earnings release that "significant manufacturing problems" of the Synapse card were affecting...
NEW YORK-John T. Stupka, president and chief executive officer of SkyTel Communications Inc., said a BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. advertisement that's been running in the Wall Street Journal, as well as in other newspapers, is misleading but nevertheless welcome.The ad compares SkyTel's messaging service,...
Horizon Personal Communications Inc. launched its personal communications services network in seven basic trading areas in Ohio and West Virginia, under an affiliate agreement with Sprint Spectrum L.P. Horizon, which is an affiliate of The Chilicothe Telephone Co., has a management agreement with Sprint...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s Integrated Network Group announced its modular voice processing system is being used by Motorola Inc.'s Ground Systems Division to deploy voice messaging and other enhanced services for the Iridium L.L.C. gateway network.The Glenayre MVP system has been installed in all...
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-PageMart Wireless Inc. and Motorola Inc. have signed strategic alliance agreements with Monitel Products Corp. to provide various aspects of a two-way wireless remote monitoring system.Monitel provides remote monitoring systems to the imaging industry, for products including photocopiers, printers, fax machines and...
WASHINGTON-Iridium L.L.C. has activated its global paging and messaging network, about two weeks after the commercial launch of its global satellite phone system.Messaging tests have gone well, and Motorola Inc. and Kyocera Corp., which make the Iridium pagers, are shipping the devices to the...
For some time, the paging industry has looked to information services as one possible means to increase revenue, but several technological obstacles have restricted the level of customization required for such services to offer real value.Last week, those obstacles were cleared when 11 paging...
Nextel Communications Inc. is testing nationwide pricing plans that fall in line with high-end one-rate plans offered by national mobile phone competitors.Analysts say the company quietly is rolling out the plans, which eliminate long-distance fees, to test the market's demand for nationwide pricing."This is...
Motorola Inc. plans to purchase assets related to the research and product development portion of Lucent Technologies Inc.'s wireless handset facility in New Jersey.The two companies have signed a tentative agreement, contingent upon Lucent fully dissolving its partnership with Royal Philips Electronics, and Motorola...
