The Oct. 6 news analysis on the C-block personal communications services restructuring should have stated that "If the three commissioners felt so strongly that `rules are rules,' should not they have decided to do nothing and let the chips fall as they may?"The three...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it has expanded its distribution agreement with The Southland Corp.'s 7-Eleven stores to six additional states.In Virginia and Maryland 7-Eleven stores, PageMart began offering in June Motorola Inc.'s Pronto pager for $40, including activation, as a pilot test. As of...
A Federal Express drop-box pages a route driver letting him know that it received no packages that day and that a stop is not necessary. A beer distributor sends an alphanumeric page to the 100 digital display signs he has in different liquor stores,...
Motorola Inc. last week released its third quarter financial results, which detailed the lower-than-expected performance of the company that was forecast in December. Earnings per share, previously expected to be 60 cents, instead totaled 44 cents per share, or $266 million.The figure, while above...
KANSAS CITY-Sprint Corp. announced it selected Motorola Inc. and Northern Telecom Inc. to supply Code Division Multiple Access personal communications services equipment and services in the markets for which the company acquired licenses in the D- and E-block PCS auction.Motorola will provide about 60...
Mtel simplifies credit covenantsMobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. announced it has simplified certain covenants associated with its $250 million credit facility after negotiations with its bank group.Modified items include the elimination of the one-way units in service covenant and the extension of Mtel's exit of...
NEW YORK-Borrowing a tag line from a recently released report of the Paging Leadership Association, industry representatives and analysts say there is "no grim reaper for the beeper."The association, comprised of the 13 companies that represent 73 percent of the United States paging market,...
Clearnet Communications Inc. launched its Mike enhanced specialized mobile radio network in Ottawa-Hull. The Ottawa-Hull, Ontario, network covers nearly 1 million people in the region-on the Ontario-Quebec border-including Aylmer, Barrhaven, Chelsea, Cumberland, Gatineau, Gloucester, Kanata, Manotick, Nepean, Orleans, St. Onge, Stittsville and Vanier as...
WASHINGTON-While the United States and Japan avoided a nasty trade fracas by agreeing last week to new measures to open Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.'s $13 billion procurement market, a potentially huge trade fight was shaping up between the U.S. and China in part...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola's Land Mobile Products Sector announced it signed a $38 million, 10-year contract with the city of San Francisco to provide a digital 800 MHz trunked radio communications system.The system is part of the city's planned upgrade to a new enhanced 911 system....
Despite the fact most private-radio attention is aimed at certain 800 MHz and 900 MHz operations and the industrial radio arena, 220 MHz to 222 MHz service is up and running, and its expansion channels soon will be up for auction.And it is that...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group introduced a Code Division Multiple Access cellular base transmission system that supports about twice the capacity of current commercial CDMA networks, said the company.Motorola currently is deploying the new SC 4840 base stations in Japan as part...
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas-GoPage Inc. announced it has established e-mail paging connections in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and in the Grand Caymen Islands. The company now has its network overlay operating in four countries, including the United States and Canada.GoPage's network overlay provides e-mail-to-pager service...
IBM Corp. and Geotek Communications Inc. announced they will join forces to provide integrated mobile communications services, equipment and software to business customers in the United States and some international markets.The agreement will see the two companies working together in two areas: technology, and marketing...
Rank Company Name 1996 Revenues (000)1 Matsushita Electric Inds. Co. Ltd. $63,192,0002 NEC Corp. $41,174,0003 Motorola Inc. $27,973,0004 Lucent Technologies Inc. $23,286,0005 Ericsson...
Rank Company Name 1996 Net Income (000)1 Motorola Inc. $1,154,0002 Lucent Technologies Inc. $1,054,0003 Ericsson (L.M.) Telephone $1,034,1524 NEC Corp. $718,0005 Nokia...
Espoo, FINLAND-Nokia Corp., L.M. Ericsson, Motorola Inc. and Unwired Planet Inc. will work together to define a common protocol for wireless data technologies. The initial proposal to consolidate the technologies was presented at the Mobile Data Initiative earlier this year in Munich.The purpose of...
BearCom Inc., a two-way radio equipment dealer, acquired a portion of Motorola Inc.'s Radio Products Group rentals business, commonly referred to as Motorola Rentals.The business will be consolidated into BearCom's national rental operations, said the company. BearCom offers rentals locally from 26 offices throughout...
The whisper on Wall Street is turning into a roar.Suddenly, telecom stocks are "hot" again, springing back to life in recent weeks following a painful and prolonged two-year slump.Telecom stocks-Wall Street darlings during the early 1990s-had been taking something of a beating the past...
At an unprecedented gathering earlier this month, a number of prominent specialized mobile radio equipment suppliers temporarily set aside competitive interests to draft a historic action plan. Their goal: selecting a single enhanced analog standard for the SMR industry."It is absolutely critical that this happens...
WASHINGTON-With last week's House vote supporting presidential renewal of most-favored-nation trading status for China, the focus shifts to Hong Kong-and its huge wireless-driven telecom export market that falls under Beijing rule tomorrow-and to the World Trade Organization.Both China and Hong Kong are strategic wireless...
Editor's note: On the previous page are five charts ranking major telecommunications vendors according to revenues, net income, percentage change in revenues from 1995 to 1996, percentage change in income from 1995 to 1996 and two-year total return on investment.Nordby International Inc. of Boulder, Colo.,...
Startel, a wireless network operator in Chile, launched digital service on its network using Interim Standard 136 Digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service technology provided by L.M. Ericsson. The new digital services are being introduced initially in Santiago and later will be expanded to cover...
