NEW YORK-It has been said that where you stand depends on where you sit. And so it was earlier this month when representatives of four wireless carriers and four equipment vendors offered their views at a BT Alex. Brown forum on the interplay between...
WASHINGTON-The House telecommunications subcommittee last week passed legislation to inject more competition in the international satellite market.The bill, co-sponsored by House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley (R-Va.) and Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), would privatize the International Maritime Satellite Organization and the International Telecommunications Satellite...
Socket Communications Inc. and Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group announced an agreement to develop and support software that will allow FLEX-enabled palmtop computers powered by the Windows CE operating system to receive personal, group and broadcast wireless messages. The agreement combines Socket's data...
PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. awarded Lucent Technologies Inc. a $500 million three-year exclusive contract to supply personal communications services equipment and services for the next phase of its network development.The announcement is a blow to Motorola Inc., which was in discussions with PrimeCo in...
ChinaL.M. Ericsson announced it signed a $64 million contract with the Shanghai Posts & Telecommunications Administration to expand its Global System for Mobile communications dual-band network. Ericsson said it provided SPTA's first commercial GSM 1800 trial system, which was implemented last year. The network...
TEL AVIV, Israel-Nexus Telocation Systems Ltd. announced SingTel Paging launched commercial two-way paging and telemetry data service in Singapore using the Nexus system.SingTel is upgrading its one-way system, which uses Motorola Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc. equipment supporting POCSAG and FLEX paging protocols. The...
Vendors and carriers have renewed hope that the world could have one standard in place for third-generation systems, but Europe holds one of the keys in making it a reality.The situation is as political as ever as vendors, carriers and interest groups work within...
Argentine President Carlos Menem last week announced a telecommunications liberalization plan that would give American wireless companies broader access to the Argentine telecommunications market.Under the president's executive decree, Argentina's two major telecom providers would begin competing in each other's territory in October 1999, a...
While it may be clear that the use of wireless phones is prohibited aboard commercial aircraft, many private pilots in a recent survey indicated they have made calls from their cellular phone while airborne, and some believe it is OK to do it.Billig &...
Superconducting Core Technologies Inc. has ended commercial distribution of its cryoelectronic receiver front-end products for the mobile wireless base station market, igniting questions of whether superconductor companies targeting the wireless industry can raise enough capital to operate.Robert Paige, chief operating officer of Golden, Colo.-based...
NEW YORK-Nextel International Inc., Seattle, plans to sell $300 million in 10-year senior discount notes to help with expansion plans, including construction of its integrated Dispatch Enhanced Networks in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and the Philippines.The company plans its first commercial launch of iDEN...
A new group consisting of personal computer, telecommunications and consumer electronics companies is developing a protocol for wirelessly connecting home appliances to PCs.The Home Radio Frequency Working Group's mission is "to enable the existence of a broad range of interoperable consumer devices by establishing...
The United Kingdom continues to dominate news related to Trans European Trunked Radio technology, as a company there recently took steps to offer the first and only commercially available network based on the technology.Dolphin Telecommunications, formerly known as TetraLink Telecommunications Ltd., announced it plans...
Blaming weakened Asian currencies, Motorola Inc. warned investors that its first-quarter earnings will be well below expectations.The largest shortfall will come from the company's semiconductor business, where the Consumer Systems Group and Components Group have been significantly impacted by lack of demand in Asia...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-The Cellular Infrastructure Group of Motorola Inc. said it successfully completed hand-over tests between Global System for Mobile communications 900 MHz and 1800 MHz dual-band cellular systems currently being trialed in China's Hunan Province.The dual-band hand-over tests were made among five GSM...
RESTON, Va.-The Federal Communications Commission approved the transfer of control of Ardis Co.'s wireless data network from Motorola Inc. to American Mobile Satellite Corp., following a $100-million cash and stock deal announced Dec. 31, said AMSC.The acquisition received approval from the Federal Trade Commission...
NORTHBROOK, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said its Albuquerque Ceramic Products Operation will incrementally reduce its workforce by about 20 percent.The plant produces ceramic components for radios, cellular phones and other electronic products. Motorola said it will begin reducing its workforce at the end of March by...
NEW YORK-Philips Consumer Communications L.L.P., has embarked on plans at home and abroad to market aggressively its new ISIS Advanced Mobile Phone Service/Narrowband Analog Mobile Phone Service handsets.The Dallas-based joint venture between Lucent Technologies Inc. and Philips Electronics North America Corp. began selling ISIS...
PRINCETON, N.J.-Nearing completion of an intense three-year effort with major equipment manufacturers and European regulators, Intek Global Corp. said its proprietary linear modulation technology complies with the Europe-wide narrowband specification recently approved and released for member comment by the Technical Committee of the European...
Ericsson forms office mobility unitATLANTA-Ericsson Inc. announced the formation of the Wireless Services unit in response to the increasing need for wireless communications in the workplace.Ericsson said the new unit will provide a wireless office solution based on the Interim Standard-136 Time Division Multiple...
ATLANTA-Spyglass Inc. and Fujitsu Software Corp. both have joined the Wireless Application Protocol Forum, the companies announced at CTIA's Wireless 98 trade show.Founded by L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp. and Unwired Planet Inc., WAP was formed to create a network-independent, global wireless protocol...
ATLANTA-While it's evident most of the world's standards bodies will adopt some form of Code Division Multiple Access technology for next- generation systems, the CDMA Development Group said it is concerned about the fragmented versions of the technology that could be adopted around the...
ATLANTA-PrairieComm Inc. last week introduced itself to the wireless industry with a big splash by announcing agreements with two industry heavyweights-Qualcomm Inc. and Motorola Inc.The three-year-old company, which has chosen to remain relatively quiet until now, provides systems design components, including digital signal processing...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group said it signed a $38 million contract to expand the Global System for Mobile communications network in Jahra and Kuwait City, Kuwait.The expansion project for Mobile Telecommunications Co. will improve in-building coverage and increase its network capacity...
