To the Editor: I would like to clarify a point contained in your Aug. 3 article about export controls on U.S. communications satellites. Motorola Inc.'s commercial satellite launches from China are not related to earlier launch failures in China. The rocket used by Motorola to...
JACKSON, Miss.-SkyTel Communications Inc. announced it is offering a prepaid alphanumeric paging package in addition to its prepaid numeric paging product launched last fall.Prepaid alpha paging allows subscribers to pay for a set number of messages beforehand and renew as necessary. Two prepaid alpha...
SAO PAULO-Telefonica del Peru ordered the first phase of a digital cellular network expansion from Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group designed to extend service beyond the capital city of Lima into Peru's western provinces between the Pacific Coast and the Andes mountains.The Code Division...
The recent commercial launch of PageMart Wireless Inc.'s facilities-based ReFLEX 25 narrowband personal communications services network has heralded in the new age of paging, in which all major paging players will operate some type of two-way network.SkyTel Communications Inc. no longer will be the...
Watching a cellular handset manufacturer that was once on top of the market exit from the U.S. handset business has broken Mal Gurian's heart.The one-time president of Oki telecom, since renamed Oki Telecom Inc., considered the company his family."We had all the top people...
The industry's first cellular phone manufacturer has become another casualty of the highly competitive handset business. Oki Telecom Inc. has ceased manufacturing, sales and marketing all mobile phones in the United States.Suwanee, Ga.-based Oki was a pioneer in the cellular handset industry. Involved with...
LONDON-The European Commission approved the formation of Symbian, a joint venture launched in June between Psion Software plc, L.M. Ericsson, Nokia Corp. and, eventually, Motorola Inc.Symbian plans to promote wireless standards for mobile wireless operating systems based on the EPOC standard. The company said...
PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it will give up to two months of free airtime to customers who buy one-way numeric pagers in August at some 17,500 7-Eleven stores nationwide.7-Eleven stores sell Motorola Pronto Flex numeric pagers for a suggested retail price of about $40,...
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. introduced a two-way messaging service it said will allow customers to receive and create e-mails and pages from one device.The company also said it will create customized applications for large business customers that will enable workers to access the Internet and...
As a trade news reporter covering the paging industry, I talk with all sorts of marketing and public-relations personnel, as well as company executives, who regularly impress upon me the many advantages of paging technology.For the most part, I concur. Paging is a useful...
Joining a slew of other industry captains abandoning ship for various reasons, Ericsson Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Bo Hedfors last week decided to set sail for Motorla Inc.Beginning Sept. 8, Hedfors will serve as corporate vice president and president of Motorola's Network...
In the July 27 issue of RCR, the name of Mike Engle, vice president of international sales and worldwide marketing for Tadiran Microwave Networks, was misspelled. Also in that issue, Craig McCaw was given the wrong title at Nextel Communications Inc. McCaw is a...
LONDON-London Underground Ltd. selected the CityLink Telecommunications consortium to replace and manage its communications network in a private finance initiative project valued at more than $6 million during 20 years."Project Connect" calls for London Underground to receive radio services delivered through a Trans-European Trunked...
Paging Network Inc.'s Internet gateway experienced sporadic outages over a space of 30 hours late last month, during which customers nationwide were unable to receive text messages sent from an e-mail address. The Internet gateway went down on a Wednesday evening and was up...
SEATTLE-Tegic Communications added Motorola Inc. to the growing list of companies licensed to use its T9 text-input technology in their wireless handsets.Motorola initially plans to incorporate T9 technology into its integrated Digital Enhanced Network digital wireless handsets. T9 provides end users the ability to...
Motorola Inc. said it created a new start-up services business to focus on developing and providing integrated communication and information services.The Internet and Connectivity Services Division is part of the Internet and Networking Group, which is part of another new Motorola unit called the...
CAIRO, Egypt-Mobinil, a Global System for Mobile communications network operator in Egypt, awarded a contract, valued at up to $60 million, to Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group.Motorola CIG will provide and install infrastructure equipment to expand Mobinil's network to include Alexandria and the Nile...
No one at Iridium L.L.C. or Motorola Inc. has explained the cause of two satellite failures last month, but the consortium maintains the problem is unrelated to the previous five satellite losses.To date, Iridium has lost seven satellites of the 72 launched. According to...
CANADARogers Cantel announced the beginning of a rollout of Cantel AT&T Pay As You Go cellular service to more than 25 new markets in Canada. The markets include: Abbotsford, British Columbia; Winnipeg, Manitoba; Hamilton, Ontario; Quebec City, Quebec; Halifax, Nova Scotia; and Fredericton, New Brunswick.GERMANYMannesmann...
JERSEY CITY, N.J.-As the International Telecommunication Union wound up its meeting in South Korea July 24 to consider 15 third-generation wireless proposals, Telecom Analysis Systems convened a media briefing to evaluate the need for this technology."2G is barely rolled out, and a lot of...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration, encouraged but apparently not swayed by assurances in Brussels that Europe will be open to multiple third-generation wireless standards, is growing increasingly worried that American mobile phone technology will be locked out of the 15-nation European Union in the next century."We...
CROWN COMMUNICATIONSJohn P. Kelly was named chief operating officer of Crown Communications, the domestic operating subsidiary of Crown Castle International Corp. Robert Crown will continue as president and chief executive officer of Crown Communications for the next several months, during which time Kelly will...
Several paging carriers released their second-quarter earnings reports last week, each revealing a continued effort toward achieving profitability and reducing debt.Metrocall Inc. capped off a busy second quarter with a reported net loss of $28.7 million, or 76 cents per share, compared with $12.3...
Mobile phone sales during the second quarter gave Nokia Corp. a boost when it released its second-quarter earnings July 24, while its Swedish rival L.M. Ericsson suffered a plunge in its stock prices and several ratings downgrades on news its mobile phone sales were...
