WASHINGTON-The Justice Department is investigating whether Labor Secretary Alexis Herman, in her role as a White House aide during President Clinton's first term, sold political clout to win Federal Communications Commission approval for a global satellite phone license for Mobile Communications Holdings Inc. last...
After almost two years of savage beatings on Wall Street, Glenayre Technologies Inc. has proven to have a tough chin, and analysts believe the company now is poised to come off the ropes swinging for a comeback.Stock turnaround specialists Robert M. Cohen & Co.,...
McLEAN, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. introduced several new products and services, including the i600 phone, and announced record subscriber numbers in the fourth quarter 1997.Nextel's digital subscriber units in service increased 324,100 during the fourth quarter, exceeding the company's third-quarter additions. During 1997, Nextel added...
NEW YORK-Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, Ill., reported higher sales and earnings for the fourth quarter of 1997 and for all of last year, but slightly below analysts' expectations due to the unsettled condition of its Asian markets.Christopher Galvin, chief executive officer, said the company expects...
CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire TA Intercall AB, a wholesale distributor of wireless communications products in Sweden.TA Intercall recorded sales of about $83 million for the year ended Dec. 31. The company distributes products in Sweden...
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.-After introducing the architecture for the Wireless Application Protocol last September, collaborators L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc., Nokia Corp. and Unwired Planet Inc. announced they established a new company called Wireless Application Protocol Forum Ltd.According to the companies, WAP is meant to bring...
Software developer US/Intelicom stands poised to capitalize on prepaid wireless, an industry segment some analysts expect to grow rapidly during the next few years. The company entered the prepaid arena with the idea that the same stores that rent furniture and electronic equipment to...
INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. announced it has entered into an agreement to perform value-added logistics services like receiving, kit preparation and packaging for Conxus Communications Inc., Greenville, S.C.Conxus is building a nationwide narrowband personal communications services network based on Motorola Inc.'s InFLEXion technology. Conxus has launched...
NEW YORK-ZipLink L.L.C., Lowell, Mass., announced Jan. 8 it has been named exclusive Internet and enhanced one-number service provider for the new Beeperwear pager watch offered by MTX Paging Products L.L.C., a joint venture of Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, Ill., and Timex Corp., Middlebury, Conn.Once...
The effects of Bell Nino, which jumped on the radar screen in Wichita Falls, Texas, New Year's Eve, are being felt in the nation's capital.The Bells and U.S. District Judge Joe Kendall prove venue shopping has its rewards. Thanks to Good Ol' Joe, the...
There is little doubt that the telecommunications industry has taken on a global hue. Increasingly, American wireless providers are teaming up with foreign companies to expand their service portfolios across the world.As communications technologies enter these alien markets, it is interesting to see how...
LAS VEGAS-Motorola Inc. introduced two dual-band phones at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a Global System for Mobile communications phone and a Time Division Multiple Access phone, as well as custom leather cases for its analog StarTAC wearable phones.The cd160, Motorola's new...
The Quadrant consortium's lone bid for Great Britain's public-safety mobile radio license tender is a result of anti-competitive actions by the United Kingdom in violation of European Union rules, claims a rival firm prohibited from competing in the tender process.Matra Communications-a French telecommunications firm...
ArrayComm Inc. announced the opening of a liaison office in New Delhi, India, to serve a growing interest in its proprietary IntelliCell processing technology and IntelliWave wireless local loop system. ArrayComm is anticipating the release of a Department of Telecommunications WLL tender in India...
Giving the wireless data industry some important momentum to start the new year, American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced it plans to acquire Motorola Inc.'s Ardis data messaging business, which combined potentially could create the most ubiquitous coverage of any wireless data company.Under terms of...
NEW YORK-Promotional activity revved into high gear during the critical December holiday season, which accounts for about 40 percent of carriers' yearly gross customer additions, according to an informal but intensive survey by the wireless research consulting staff at The Yankee Group, Boston.Based on...
InterDigital Technology Corp. made another move in a long-running patent dispute with Ericsson Radio Systems AB.The company's parent, InterDigital Communications Corp., announced ITC has sought a further stay of its patent litigation with Ericsson in federal court, requesting a re-examination by the U.S. Patent...
Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group announced that the Radiocommunication Sector of the International Telecommunication Union approved its FLEX paging protocol as an international paging standard.The Geneva-based organization's ITU-R Recommendation M.584-3 on Codes and Formats for Radio Paging included the high-speed paging protocol on...
InfoPower, a subsidiary of Motorola Inc., announced it has combined forces with Solo America and Metrocall Inc. to provide the ESPN To Go wireless sports information and paging service nationwide.The service will provide game information and score updates every five minutes from ESPN, resold...
WASHINGTON-While the World Health Organization has reaffirmed the need for more bioeffects research on mobile phones, lawsuits attempting to link wireless devices to brain cancer in the United States are falling by the wayside.Over the past six months, three cellular cancer claims either have...
WASHINGTON-Comments regarding the Federal Communications Commission's notice of proposed rule making on the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act have one thing in common-moving the compliance date back two years, to Oct. 25, 2000.The Telecommunications Industry Association, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, the American...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. has completed its 1997 launch phase, bringing Sprint personal communications services to 134 metropolitan markets across the country. The company also announced the markets where it plans to start service during the next two years.In 1998 and early 1999...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Conxus Communications Inc. rolled out its Pocketalk narrowband personal communications service in Miami, West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., last week.Conxus' south Florida network uses Motorola Inc.'s InFLEXion voice messaging protocol.
Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group won a supply agreement from Sweden's Comviq to install a Digital Cellular System at 1800 MHz, which will be used to enhance coverage and capacity on Comviq's Global System for Mobile communications 900 MHz network in Sweden. Motorola CIG...
