It is unclear whether the wireless communications industry will be recession proof in the Asia-Pacific region if certain currencies there continue to fall taking economic growth with them.Beginning with the devaluation of the Thai baht in July, currency values have spiraled downward by as...
LONDON-Code Division Multiple Access technology is playing a key role in several leading technology contenders for third-generation wireless networks in Europe, but back-to-back industry shows held here last week underlined just how convoluted and contentious Europe's standards process has become.And while CDMA technology seems...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced it signed a $115 million contract with China Eastern Communications Co. Ltd. and Zhejiang Technical Import and Export Co. Ltd. to manufacture and supply digital cellular infrastructure equipment in China.The contract marks the third such agreement...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Worldwide Data Solutions Division announced an agreement that will allow its VersiTAC Integrated Wireless Data Solution to incorporate AT&T Wireless Services Inc.' nationwide cellular digital packet data offering.The agreement allows Motorola to extend its VersiTAC wireless data coverage area to more...
WASHINGTON-Amid an uproar of protest within an earshot of the White House against China's human and religious rights record and its sale of nuclear technology to rogue states, President Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin announced China will sign a global pact to phase...
CARROLLTON, Texas-Wireless phone distributor CellStar Corp. completed a $135 million multiple currency revolving credit facility, giving it the ability to borrow in various currencies for meeting capital needs and growth plans, the company said.The new facility, arranged by Chase Securities Inc., has a term...
WASHINGTON-Members of the House Subcommittee on Crime now know what the wireless industry has recognized but the public-safety community refuses to admit: that the two parties are no closer to an agreement on the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act than they were when the...
WOBURN, Mass.-Boston Communications Group Inc. announced it has signed an agreement with Motorola Inc. through the its Cellular Subscriber Sector's Latin America Division, under which Motorola will market and distribute Boston Communications' prepaid calling systems and services in Central and South America and Puerto...
Business and consumer market customers traditionally have been the focus of the paging industry's marketing and sales efforts. But there is a hidden, some say ignored, segment of the population that has a more unique need for paging technology ... the deaf and hard...
NEW YORK-Powertel Inc., a personal communications services carrier based in West Point, Ga., announced Oct. 20 it joined forces with Gemplus Corp. and CyberMark in a four-month trial of prototype multi-application smart cards involving 50 students at Florida State University in Tallahassee.Gemplus, a subscriber...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-China's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications launched its FLEX-based Nationwide High Speed Paging Network in 11 provincial capital cities. The system uses high-speed paging systems from Glenayre Technologies Inc., said the company.Glenayre said the Chinese paging network is the first in the world...
Customers of two-way paging devices using WolfeTech Corp.'s PocketGenie software now will have access to the information services provided by InfoSpace, according to a strategic partnership announced between the two. Motorola Inc.'s PageWriter 2000 and Research In Motion's Inter@ctive Pager both use the PocketGenie...
Although it has been months since AT&T Wireless Services Inc. dropped all plans for services using the personal Air Communications Technology advanced paging protocol, some talk remained about pACT Vendor Forum members seeking other customers for the technology they invested so much in.But it...
WASHINGTON-As he winds down the cellular industry-funded cancer research project with little to show for the $28 million that will have been spent by mid-1999 when he leaves, Wireless Research Technology L.L.C.'s Dr. George Carlo is quietly ramping up a new industry-backed health program...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. announced it will join with Lucent Technologies Inc., Motorola Inc., Northern Telecom Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. to speed up the development of Wideband cdmaOne Third Generation standardization.The company's Code Division Multiple Access based products and systems was a factor in...
Boston Communications Group Inc. signed a corporate agreement with Sprint Spectrum L.P. to provide wireless roaming services to personal communications services customers roaming within Sprint PCS' coverage areas. Boston's Roamerplus service allows non-Sprint PCS subscribers traveling within the Sprint PCS network to place calls...
WASHINGTON-National Telecommunications and Information Administration head Larry Irving called the first U.S.-China telecommunications summit "a resounding success," an appraisal that belies the Clinton administration's growing frustration with Chinese trade barriers and one that could reinforce the view that high-tech commerce is driving U.S. foreign...
WASHINGTON-Most of the wireless industry still has not seen the entire Federal Communications Commission report to Congress on spectrum auctions, released Oct. 9, but those who have agree the commission is pushing for additional powers.Eighteen companies and organizations-including most of the industry's associations, a...
Espoo, FINLAND-The Quadrant Consortium, which is comprised of British Telecommunications plc, Nokia Corp., Motorola Inc. and TRW, has been authorized by the British government to begin work on the specification and definition of a new national digital radio service for use by the country's...
NEW YORK-Established and new entrants to the wireless handset manufacturing sector are sitting pretty on the crest of a wave of growing worldwide demand, said participants in the NatWest Securities Corp. "Global Mobile Handset Conference."Handset sales could reach 250 million units in 2000 compared...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group was awarded a contract to expand the Code Division Multiple Access cellular network in Peru, the company said.Valued by Motorola at $350 million, the contract with Peruvian operator Telefonica del Peru will have Motorola CIG installing its...
NEW YORK-Wireless telecommunications and computer information systems are fast bringing agriculture to the brink of the next green revolution, known as precision farming."Farming has been in the dark ages technologically. Precision farming today is as significant as was the tractor replacing the plow," said...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it has expanded its distribution arrangement with Eckerd Drug Stores Inc. for its paging products and services to be offered in an additional 1,126 locations-up from 613-to a total 1,739 in all.The expansion comes as an attempt to increase PageMart's...
More than two years after offering iDEN technology to other manufacturers willing to license it, Motorola Inc. still hasn't found any takers, despite the growing success of iDEN-user Nextel Communications Inc."There's a lot of interest in the technology," insisted David Kurt, manager of public...
