Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group is struggling to keep PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. from giving future contracts to another vendor for more personal communications services equipment.PrimeCo reportedly is dissatisfied with the performance of Motorola's Code Division Multiple Access equipment currently installed, but contrary to...
OXFORD, England-The European Commission has threatened five European countries with legal action over their failure to award DCS 1800 licenses. Belgium, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands and Spain all missed the commission's 1 January 1998 deadline for issuing at least one DCS 1800 digital cellular...
The transformation of Russia's paging industry took a major step in late January when modest operator Multi-Page merged into industry giant Segol RadioPage Inc.According to the terms of the agreement, RadioPage will create a holding company called EnergoNet, which will be responsible for all...
Further developments in the B-band auction for cellular licenses in Brazil continue to be stymied, while the June privatization auction date set for government-owned Telebr
DENVER, United States-Competition in the world's cdmaOne handset markets is expected to heat up this year as more countries deploy commercial systems and manufacturers battle it out for market share.Ray Jodoin, senior analyst with InStat in Scottsdale, Arizona, expects some 8.9 million cdmaOne cellular...
Telesystem International Wireless Inc., Canada, signed a letter of intent with SOGERA to acquire, for approximately US$13 million, the French trunked radio operations of France Telecom that were marketed under the brand names Praxiphone, Heliophone and Armoricom, announced TIW. With this acquisition, TIW's French...
The new GSM licensee in Israel, Partner Communications Co., signed a letter of intent with L.M. Ericsson for the supply of equipment for the operator, a joint venture between Hutchison Telecommunications, Matav Cable Systems Media and Elbit, reported The Financial Times. The newspaper quoted...
KANSAS CITY, United States-Sprint Spectrum L.P., Lucent Technologies Inc., Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group, Northern Telecom Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. announced plans to jointly develop third-generation wireless systems based on the evolution of code division multiple access (CMDA) technology.The companies' 3G technology goals include...
BALTIMORE, United States-The World Health Organization (WHO) is assessing the feasibility of conducting a multi-nation study to determine the connection, if any, between mobile-phone use and cancers in the brain, head and neck.Countries collaborating on the research initiative include Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Israel,...
BEIJING-"Please come in, sir, and have a look. The cheapest prices and the best choice."No, we have not discovered Beijing's red-light district, and the time is not midnight. We have come to Xizhimen, an area where narrow streets are lined by small "mom-and-pop" stores,...
JOHANNESBURG-The International Telecommunication Union's (ITU's) formal approval of Motorola Inc.'s FLEX paging protocol as an international standard will give the green light to expand FLEX operations in Africa. This will be particularly so in South Africa, the hub of the paging industry.One operator in...
JOHANNESBURG-South African companies are poised to play a major role in telecommunications as the privatization and deregulation process, which began in the early 1990s in Africa, moves rapidly ahead.But the march is not likely to be an easy one as top international companies are...
Moffet, Larson & JohnsonMoffet, Larson & Johnson Inc. announced the integration of Comarco Wireless Technologies' Network Evaluation System tool NES-250 with the PathPro drive-test post-processing module, PathView. The integration provides the capability to transmit data from the GEN II series to the PathPro, the...
NEW YORK-James Bond and his high-tech Nokia mobile phone may be Hollywood's idea of the real McCoy. But truth, as journalists well know, often is stranger and scarier than fiction.For a gripping, spine-tingling experience, read this newly published book: "War by Other Means-Economic Espionage in...
WASHINGTON-Labor Secretary Alexis Herman last week reiterated her innocence in connection with a Justice Department probe into whether she profited from helping Mobile Communications Holdings Inc. obtain a global satellite phone license last year."As I said, first of all, the allegations aren't true, and...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-The commercial trunked radio industry in the Czech Republic is showing significant signs of growth and is on pace to reach more than 22,000 subscribers by 2000, according to the International Mobile Telecommunications Association.Mobilkom, a joint venture between Motorola Inc. (49 percent) and...
oseph B. Cahill Crain's Chicago Business CHICAGO-As economies from South Korea to Indonesia convulse, China has become the last line of defense in Asia for Motorola Inc. The importance of China to the Schaumburg, Ill.-based manufacturer of semiconductors and wireless communications gear became...
CANNES, France-Comverse Network Systems Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Comverse Technology Inc., said it is developing a new set of mobile unified messaging applications for the Global System for Mobile communications smartphone market.The new applications will give subscribers visual access via the Internet...
Multinational Automated Clearing House U.S.A. said it signed agreements to provide roamer call data clearing services to Global System for Mobile service providers American Personal Communications, Powertel Inc., Microcell Connexions Inc., Aerial Communications, Airadigm Communications, DigiPH PCS, Conestoga Wireless and NPI Wireless. A subsidiary...
CLAREMONT, Calif.-WolfeTech Corp. and MovieLink announced a strategic alliance to bring nationwide movie listings to two-way paging subscribers.Under the agreement, users of the Research in Motion Inter@ctive pager and Motorola Inc.'s PagerWriter 2000 will have access to MovieLink's nationally updated movie show times and...
South Korean CDMA handset manufacturers exporting their way out of the currency crisis affecting their country are expected to fuel competition in the U.S. Code Division Multiple Access handset market this year.One analyst in South Korea expects all four of the country's main handset...
With technology advancing at lightning speed and telecommunications becoming a powerful engine of the global economy, the International Telecommunication Union has found itself learning to cope in a brave new world where private-sector politics are replacing nation-state diplomacy as the driving force in worldwide...
ALLEN TELECOM INC.Allen Telecom Inc.'s Antenna Specialists Division introduced a springless option to its line of Mosaic LMR vehicular antennas. Allen said the springless option is designed for applications in less rugged operating environments, and is available in both conversion and component forms for...
TRANSCRYPT INTERNATIONALTranscrypt International Inc. named Craig Huffaker senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer. Huffaker's 20 years of financial management experience include 12 years as CFO for publicly traded companies. Huffaker, a certified public accountant, most recently was CFO of TIE Communications.CellStar...
