BANGALORE, India-State-owned Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. (MTNL) last year announced its plans to give private cellular operators in New Delhi and Mumbai a run for their money by launching a low-tariff mobile telephone service to cater to the salaried middle-class and students.Ever since MTNL...
EVANSTON, Ill.-A $600,000 grant from Motorola Inc. will fund research in wireless multimedia devices and protocols design in a new Northwestern-Motorola Center for Telecommunications in Northwestern University's Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.The grant is intended to strengthen Motorola's relationship with...
Seventy years ago, the mobile radio industry was born when the Detroit Police Department installed the first one-way radios in their squad cars. Today there are approximately 19 million two-way radios in use in the United States, including 3.1 million specialized mobile radio units.Cellular...
NEW YORK-When it comes to smart cards, potential consumer demand is the proverbial tail wagging the dog of available supply, according to Avi Zahavi, chairman of the Smart Card Forum's telephony work group.Right behind secure storage of their medical insurance and health information, consumers...
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....
AUSTIN, Texas-Motorola Inc. introduced a feature-rich, high-performance integrated microprocessor for high-end communications equipment, including cellular base stations.The MPC8260 PowerQUICC II Communications Microprocessor combines a high-speed PowerPC core, a communications engine processing up to 710 megabits of data per second and a circuit board's worth...
LONDON-The Wireless Application Protocol Forum announced 23 companies have joined the organization since May, and it recently expanded and elected new officers to its board of directors.Formed last summer by Ericsson Inc., Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp. and Unwired Planet Inc., the WAP Forum's goal...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc., in a move possibly signaling capacity problems that may be forcing the already highly leveraged wireless giant back into acquisition mode, is negotiating with the Justice Department to lift a 1994 antitrust consent decree."We have had discussions on this and, no,...
WASHINGTON-The House is set to begin debate this week on legislation to allow more highly skilled foreign workers into the United States, an initiative opposed by the White House and organized labor that would help the wireless industry to fill many key positions left...
NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. plans to begin trials in Europe late this year of CardFone, which it hopes will be the first handset available commercially to give users access both to automated teller machine (ATM) capabilities and conventional wireless telecommunications."We are basically taking the momentum...
RICHARDSON, Texas-TransData announced it has created an electric meter that integrates national two-way automatic meter reading technology completely under glass using American Mobile Satellite Corp.'s Ardis data network.The MARK-V AMR DATA-PRO platform communicates billing data, load profiles, power quality and outage-notification reports. It integrates...
When controversy comes calling, policy makers and wireless telecom firms turn to a high-tech sounding board whose work is based more on reality than on rhetoric: the Telecommunications Industry Association.TIA, comprised of U.S. and foreign telecom manufacturers that develop technical standards, has been dragged into...
PELHAM, Ala.-Computer Resources Inc. said it completed several international projects for Motorola Inc.CRI said it interfaced a Motorola Smart Zone mobile radio system to provide to the Rome Police Department, allowing them to reconstruct radio conversations.In Capetown, South Africa, CRI interfaced a Smart Zone...
MOBILEMEDIAMobileMedia Corp., dba MobileComm, promoted several people in management positions. Steven Gross was named executive vice president of sales and marketing. He joined MobileComm as senior vice president of sales and marketing in 1996, and since has been responsible for new product introductions, including...
GLOBECOM SYSTEMSGlobecomm Systems Inc. announced commercial availability of its Systems Explorer II Portable Satphone, a satellite phone system that uses Integrated Services Digital Network technology. Explorer II is made in the United States and weighs 32 pounds. The system can be configured from the...
The massive popularity of 3Com Corp.'s PalmPilot personal digital assistant has spurred several mobile communications companies to develop wireless solutions for the product. The most recent application is from Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc., whose Personal Mobile Communications Division recently announced the availability of its...
Iridium L.L.C. announced it will delay its initial Sept. 23 service launch date to Nov. 1, citing the need to "improve operational stability of the network," according to Ed Staiano, the company's vice chairman and chief executive officer.In a briefing with reporters last week,...
VENEZUELANokia Corp. was awarded a multi-year contract valued at up to $105 million to supply a turnkey 900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications network to Corporacion Digitel C.A. in Venezuela. Nokia said it will provide mobile switching centers, home location registers, base station...
WASHINGTON-Under even the most abnormal of normal circumstances, it usually is possible to handicap odds for passage of wireless legislation before Congress adjourns.But these are not normal times.An American president is under siege, and the global stage is imploding with financial meltdowns, political unrest,...
Nextel Communications Inc. recently offered a farmer in South Coventry, Pa., a new $70,000, 105-foot silo if the wireless phone company could put an antenna inside of it to fill a gap in its coverage.This is just one example of the extremes companies will...
Sorry Microsoft Corp., but analyst firm Strategy Analytics predicts the handheld device market in the future will not be dominated by any single standard."Microsoft will not dominate this category as it has with PCs," Matthew Checkley, associate consultant with the firm, said in a...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group was awarded two contracts valued at $38.8 million to replace another vendor's existing cellular Global System for Mobile communications networks and to expand Motorola CIG's GSM and analog cellular systems in China's Jilin province.The contracts, awarded through...
FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. announced it will resell Conxus Communications Inc.'s Pocketalk voice paging service in the New York metropolitan area.Pocketalk uses an InFLEXion-based network developed by Motorola Inc. and built by Conxus, which markets the service through a collection of resale agreements...
