Changing times are requiring some infrastructure vendors to reorganize their businesses and better align themselves with their customers.Siemens AG of Germany is the latest vendor to realize this. The company's New York subsidiary, Siemens Corp., announced last week three new business units in the...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week said the Justice Department has made initial queries regarding Nextel Communications Inc.'s request to lift a 1994 antitrust consent decree so the nation's largest dispatch operator can acquire more licenses, possibly those of bankrupt Geotek Communications Inc.In fact,...
Motorola Inc., remaining cautious about its financial outlook for 1998, said it likely will reach $7.9 billion in sales with earnings per share around 22 cents for the fourth quarter.The manufacturer, which implemented a restructuring program months ago, last week exceeded Wall Street's estimates...
NEW YORK-At least in the short run, prospects for deployment of large-scale Code Division Multiple Access networks in the People's Republic of China are on hold.However, the longer-term outlook could be brighter, according to Boston-based Information Gatekeepers Inc., which hosted a recent China Telecom...
JapanA large Japanese carrier in the Asia-Pacific region selected Brite Voice Systems to provide voice-activated dialing services to its markets throughout Japan, said Brite. The company values the contract at $15 million. The carrier, supporting more than 8 million wireless subscribers, plans to implement...
Swedish telecommunications equipment manufacturer L.M. Ericsson released details of a reorganization plan that signals an increased focus on markets and customers, said the company. The new organization is expected to be fully implemented by Jan. 1.Lars Stalberg, a spokesman for the company, said no...
Paging carriers looking to provide airtime for telemetry and off-the-hip paging applications received a big boost when Motorola Inc. introduced its first-generation ReFLEX chipset solution.The chipset includes a ReFLEX encoder/decoder equipped with ReFLEX Stack two-way software and a complete transceiver/receiver subsystem. The release marks...
BELLSOUTHBellSouth Corp. appointed Nancy Humphries vice president of investor relations. For the past seven years, Humphries served as executive director of investor relations for BellSouth, responsible for communicating the company's strategies, financial results and management philosophy to both institutional and individual investors. In her...
Paging carriers are showing signs that they have taken to heart analysts' warnings that information services must be customizable and have real value in order to convince customers to pay for them.While paging carriers believe information services have the potential to generate increased average...
WASHINGTON-Pekka Tarjanne, outgoing secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union, predicted last week a family of third-generation wireless standards will emerge by year's end and that family will include a standard "pretty close" to the Global System for Mobile communications-based technology dominated by Sweden's...
Electronic Data Systems said it signed a five-year systems management agreement with Motorola Inc., under which EDS will manage the technology infrastructure for Motorola's Systems Solutions Group and Satellite Communications Group. EDS said it will provide Motorola a full spectrum of Information Technology customer...
WASHINGTON-After months of delay, oral arguments are set for the week of Nov. 30 on legal challenges to radio-frequency radiation exposure guidelines adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in late 1996.The outcome of the litigation has enormous implications for the wireless telecom industry, which...
Motorola Cellular Service Inc. announced it achieved operational and marketing certification to become a North American service provider of Iridium L.L.C.'s satellite communications services. MCSI will offer Motorola Satellite Series phones and pagers with the full range of Iridium services.Nextel Communications Inc. launched enhanced...
Motorola Inc.'s recently formed Internet and Connectivity Services Division introduced a new application programming language that allows consumers to access the Internet using their own voice.The VoxML Voice Markup Language enables software developers and Internet content providers-including wireless carriers-to write voice applications to provide...
CHS Electronics Inc., an international distributor of microcomputer products, announced an agreement to purchase BrightStar Corp., a start-up wholesale distributor of cellular phones and accessories, the companies said.CHS will use cash and shares of stock to pay for the acquisition, but other terms of...
INTERDIGITALGerard Pepenella was hired by InterDigital Communications Corp. as vice president and general manager of broadband Code Division Multiple Access technology. He will collaborate with Gary Lomp, chief technology officer, on growth and enhancement of the company's technology and products. Pepenella joined InterDigital with...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group will purchase and deploy Excel Switching Corp.'s EXS infrastructure and switching platform as a network interface unit in certain wireless local loop markets worldwide, said Motorola.An NIU allows Motorola CIG to connect its Code Division Multiple Access...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Executives of Lucent Technologies Inc. say they expect the company to continue growing faster than the expanding telecommunications market and expect to take market share from competitors.One day before the Sept. 18 statement, Lucent released results for the third quarter, which ended...
The year-old Asian financial crisis is being blamed for an increasingly gloomy outlook for the third quarter, which ends this week. The situation is compounded by growing economic worries in Russia and Latin America and a weakened semiconductor market.Several companies warned investors last week...
Joining General Magic Inc. and Wildfire Communications Inc. in the voice-based virtual assistant game is Webley Systems Inc. with a unified messaging service bureau managed by an electronic English butler named Webley.Webley is an application of Vail Systems' platform, based on a UNIX cluster...
WASHINGTON-The House Judiciary Committee, amid legislation to shift satellite export licensing from the Commerce Department to the State Department and new signs that China plans to curtail wireless telecom trade, last week downplayed the prospect of including alleged technology transfers in any impeachment inquiry...
Motorola Inc.'s North American Paging Subscriber Division plans to announce several new paging devices at the Personal Communications Showcase in Orlando this week, including a new voice pager.The next-generation portable answering machine, or LS950V, is 40 percent smaller than the original Tenor model. It...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced it won a $53 million contract to expand the Global System for Mobile communications network in China's Sichuan province.Motorola CIG will supply network equipment to cellular operator Sichuan Posts and Telecommunications Administration through Eastern Communications Co....
Alcatel Alsthom's announcement of lower-than-expected earnings hit telecom stocks in Europe and the United States late last week.The French telecom equipment vendor said its telecom segment's income will be "adversely impacted by sharp investment cuts recently decided by some traditional operators and the deepening...
