LOWELL, Mass.-National Internet service provider ZipLink L.L.C. announced it entered into a strategic alliance with Cue Data Corp. to provide full-service, nationwide Internet connectivity and specialized Internet e-mail forwarding and notification services.Cue plans to provide turnkey Internet services to its business and residential customers...
Nextel CommunicationsKevin Gleason was hired at Nextel Communications Inc. as Indiana General Manager and Sherri Cobb joined the company as market branch manager for Knoxville, Tenn. Prior to joining Nextel, Gleason served as vice president and general manager of PageNet of Indiana and also...
It was designed to be a way to compete against Motorola Inc.'s FLEX technology, but instead the joint venture between Nexus Telocation Systems Ltd. and American Paging Inc. has dissolved into a lawsuit and counter lawsuit.In the most recent round of feuding, American Paging...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced that its first Rapid Deployment Vehicle was deployed and is operating in China's Sichuan Province.The deployment is part of a $10 million contract Motorola CIG signed with China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications last October. The...
Embracing a nickname that employees have given its logo for years, Motorola Inc. launched a $100 million global branding campaign that unites all its business sectors' consumer products under the moniker "Wings."The effort marks the first time the company has employed an ad campaign...
Northern Telecom Ltd. and Matra Communication launched a joint-venture subsidiary in France. Matra Nortel Communications will provide French customers with one-stop access to a range of integrated solutions, including multimedia products, said the companies. The company is expected to begin operations in May once...
This year's financial outlook appears gloomy for Motorola Inc., which released poor first-quarter results last week and told analysts this quarter's results won't look much better."The primary factors likely to prevent sequential earnings improvement include further gross-margin pressure from higher shipments of new cellular...
WASHINGTON-In two new probes that could intensify scrutiny of President Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign, the Justice Department is investigating sworn allegations that Hillary Rodham Clinton directed former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown to sell trade mission seats for Democratic campaign contributions of $50,000 and whether...
Motorola Inc.'s announcement that its overall sales in China slowed during the first quarter doesn't indicate this market is in any trouble, say analysts.China is still seen as one of the largest markets for telecom equipment and service providers with its large pent-up demand...
Responding to concerns by radio astronomers that its transmission signals will overpower those from the distant celestial objects they track, Iridium L.L.C. has moved forward with a series of compromise agreements that it hopes will resolve the issue.A small portion of spectrum Iridium's satellite...
CHICAGO-American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced it completed its $100 million acquisition of Ardis last week, creating what it called the first fully-deployed, integrated terrestrial/satellite network for two-way wireless data services.Ardis, formerly owned by Motorola Inc., operates one of the largest terrestrial wireless data communications...
SAO PAULO, Brazil-The pace of liberalization in the Brazilian wireless markets has taken on new speed in the past two weeks following a judicial ruling grant-ing the region 2 B-band license to the Telia-led Tess consortium and swift movement by the Ministry of Communications...
MONROE, La.-To encourage safe driving, Century Cellunet is offering at no cost hands-free devices to customers who purchase a Motorola Inc. Profile 300E wireless phone, said the company.The hands-free accessory, normally priced at $30, includes an ear piece and a microphone on a cord...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group won a $19 million contract from Henan Posts and Telecommunications Administration to replace parts of its network in China's Henan Province.When the replacement project in the cities of Anyang, Puyang and Hebi is complete, Global System for...
CHICAGO-Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group has introduced three second-generation decoder chips and related software drivers to support the recently announced FLEX G1.9 high-speed, one-way paging protocol upgrade.The new one-chip solution integrates digital FM demodulation functionality that previously was available only through off-chip, multiple...
AUTHENTIX NETWORK INC.William W. Erdman was named president and chief executive officer of Authentix Network Inc., a company offering enhanced roaming solutions to wireless service providers. Erdman was one of the founding members and the first chairman of the Cellular Radio Communications Association, which...
WASHINGTON-The National Telecommunications & Information Administration estimates that the liberalization of the global telecommunications marketplace has resulted in a $675 billion opportunity for carriers that want to pursue business overseas.While the World Trade Organization treaty has paved part of the way into what used...
CHICAGO-The status of Motorola Inc. has been the hot topic of the week.Again.First, reports surfaced that the vendor was preparing a corporate restructuring that would separate its various businesses into two divisions-an industrial products group and a consumer products group-ending the internal competition fostered...
Conxus Communications Inc. announced it will extend its Pocketalk voice paging service rollout to Los Angeles and Chicago. Conxus first launched the service in the Baltimore/Washington D.C. and Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. markets, followed by Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas and Tampa/St. Petersburg and Orlando, Fla. "To...
MOSCOW-The Radio Paging Group of Metromedia International Telecommunications Inc. agreed to become a co-owner of Russian paging company ZAO Mobile TeleCom by acquiring shares held by the company's western partner.Mobile TeleCom holds the largest share of the Russian paging marketplace, according to Pyramid Research...
RESTON, Va.-American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced two new customers for its Multi-Mode Mobile Messaging Service-Dart Transit Co. and J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc.AMSC's messaging service provides seamless nationwide coverage and combines the ARDIS wireless data network-which it purchased from Motorola Inc. earlier this year-with...
Cellnet, a United Kingdom-based cellular operator, selected Brite technology to deliver its traffic information services to its subscribers. Cellnet's Traffic Line provides in-car traffic reports on a digital network direct to a mobile phone. A small receiver placed in the car notifies customers of...
Further extending its reach into the wireless industry, Sun Microsystems Inc. announced it has signed an agreement giving L.M. Ericsson license to use and distribute its PersonalJava platform and Java Application Environment.The Ericsson announcement comes less than two months after Motorola Inc. announced it...
Like the ugly duckling that was teased and spurned in its younger years only to mature into a beautiful swan, the two-way paging market is expected to someday spread its wings and lift the paging industry to new heights of subscriber growth and increased...
