SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-The Pontiac and Stateville Correctional Centers in Illinois each installed Motorola Inc.'s new Smartnet trunked radio system to improve the speed and quality of communication at the prisons, Motorola announced.The Motorola 800 MHz Smartnet system was designed to penetrate the concrete and steel...
Aiming to attract alphanumeric paging subscribers wary of dictating messages to a dispatch operator, GoComm Wireless Corp. created a device called the MessageSender, currently being shipped to distributors.The MessageSender is a portable Qwerty keyboard about the size of a checkbook on which users can...
Ike Kim, the number-one man at what is striving to be the number-two paging device manufacturing company, died earlier this month, ending a successful but far-too-short career in the wireless communications industry.Kim, 46, was president and chief executive officer of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Standard...
SINGAPORE-Motorola Inc.'s Asia-Pacific Paging Networks Division announced it signed an $8 million contract with Zhejiang P & T Radio Paging Corp. for a high-speed, multifrequency, roaming paging network.The network will cover the Zhejiang province's 11 cities: Hangzhou, Ningbo, Taizhou, Wenzhou, Huzhou, Jiaxing, Shaoxing, Lishui, Jinjua,...
Coverage is king, says Iridium North America, which is aiming to help cellular and personal communications services operators offer wireless coverage anywhere in the world.Iridium L.L.C. is a Motorola Inc.-led consortium expected to offer global voice, paging and fax services via a constellation of...
Motorola Inc. announced that it will use and distribute the full family of Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java platform technologies, according to a licensing agreement the two entered.Under the terms of the agreement, Motorola will incorporate the Java technology into its entire portfolio of consumer...
Safety has long been a selling point for the wireless industry and customers historically have pointed to safety as a primary reason for purchasing a wireless phone.Now several automobile manufacturers are deploying systems in their vehicles that can summon emergency help to accident victims,...
WASHINGTON-In the FBI's Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement implementation report, submitted Jan. 26 to Rep. Harold Rogers (R-Ky.) for review, the dates for actual CALEA hardware and software rollout remain outside of the October 1998 deadline.Only two solutions providers-Northern Telecom Inc. and Bell Emergis-were...
NEW YORK-It was a glowing quarter for Brightpoint Inc., Indianapolis, which reported significant increases in net sales, income and income per share.The company, a worldwide distributor of wireless handsets and accessories, closed the fourth quarter of its fiscal year Dec. 31 with $373.2 million...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced an agreement totaling nearly $40 million to supply four operators in northern regions of Mexico with Code Division Multiple Access infrastructure.The agreement with Baja Celular Mexicana, Movitel del Noroeste, Telefonia Celular del Norte and Celular de...
SINGAPORE-At the initial launch of dual-band services in the Asia-Pacific, Singapore and Taiwan reached the starting line simultaneously.Singapore Telecom Mobile Pte. Ltd. on Jan. 20 launched dual-band service between its Global System for Mobile communications 900 and GSM 1800 networks. The same day, Far...
The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of mobile satellite carriers based on interviews with industry contacts. The chart is arranged alphabetically because most of the companies are not yet offering service and cannot therefore be ranked by subscribers.Many of the...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration last week proposed to expand the global trade agreement that eliminates tariffs on telecom and information technology products by 2000.With developing countries increasingly turning to wireless technology for mobile and basic communications, the initiative would further improve the ability...
Iridium L.L.C.-the Motorola Inc.-led consortium expected to offer global voice, paging and fax services via a constellation of 66 low-earth-orbit satellites by September-announced it has secured the U.S. Department of Defense as its first customer.According to the consortium, the military will buy a gateway...
European Telecommunications Standards Institute members last week reached a consensus agreement for a third-generation mobile phone standard, incorporating two major proposals that were on the table. The agreement came after members failed the day before to reach the 71-percent consensus vote required to approve...
In the Jan. 12 edition, RCR incorrectly identified the pager watch offered by MTX Paging Products L.L.C., a joint venture of Motorola Inc. and Timex Corp. The watch is called Beepwear.
SINGAPORE-The Asia-Pacific currency crisis has taken its toll on the Personal Communications Industry Association's first venture into the international trade-show arena. Wireless Showcase Asia, held here last week and touted as the first all-wireless show in the region, drew only limited attendance from outside...
WASHINGTON-Greg Simon, telecom lobbyist and former domestic policy adviser to Vice President Gore, last week denied any wrongdoing regarding his 1996 meeting-undertaken at the request of then-White House aide Alexis Herman-with Mobile Communications Holdings Inc. officials who wanted administration help in obtaining a global...
Samsung is not a household name in the United States, but the consumer electronics giant is hoping its $10 million brand promotion campaign introduced in the fourth quarter and its aggressive strategy to grab a 40-percent share of the U.S.CDMA handset market will do...
QuickWord, a new product introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show by Motorola Inc.'s Paging Products Group, is designed to keep families safe and in touch and encourage the use of paging for personal use.The counter-top word entry device sends alphanumeric messages directly to word...
Clarence Friend, a wireless industry veteran, founded Newport Beach, Calif.-based Cellular Development Systems L.P. to provide real-time call rating and billing services to the rental car industry.Now, about four years later, his newly patented technology is being implemented in Chicago, where Enterprise Rent-A-Car has...
LISLE, Ill.-Tellabs won a contract to supply its MartisDXX managed access and transport network solution to Indian mobile network operator Spice Telecom for its Global System for Mobile communications cellular networks in Karnataka and Punjab states, announced Tellabs.The initial contract, valued at $1 million,...
Manufacturers are under pressure to finance independent personal communications services companies, but recent financial turmoil surrounding some C-block carriers highlights the risk involved in extending credit to companies whose only assets sometimes are licenses not yet paid for."There is an inordinate amount of pressure...
WINNIPEG, Canada-MTS Mobility, the Province of Manitoba and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police signed a 10-year, $60 million contract calling for MTS to provide the police force with province-wide FleetNet service.FleetNet is an enhanced, trunked radio dispatch network with more features and flexibility than...
