Noise/Com Inc. introduced its BS-800 Dual Interference Signal Generators to aid in interference testing of Code Division Multiple Access and Time Division Multiple Access base stations. The products include two synthesized CW signal generators and all necessary radio-frequency components including attenuators and switches, to...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Pyramid Communications recently purchased the Nextel Communications Service Shop in Greenwood, S.C., and the Nextel Communications Sales and Service Shop in Albermarle, N.C.Both stores provide a full line of Motorola communications equipment including pagers, portable and mobile units and base stations.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-Motorola Inc. will begin transferring its select service accounts in its South Florida market to Signal Communications Service Inc., the only authorized Motorola service station in South Florida.Throughout the next year, a select group of expiring Motorola service contracts associated with businesses...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group won a contract to expand the analog cellular Total Access Communications System in China's Shandong province. Motorola values the contract at more than $50 million.The contract with Shandong Posts and Telecommunications calls for Motorola to upgrade cell...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-Motorola Inc.'s Communication Test Equipment division and Grayson Electronics, a division of Allen Telecom, Inc., have announced a collaboration that will focus on Grayson's drive test technology and the communications system analyzer business in which Motorola plays a significant role."Our new association with...
After experiencing continual poor financial results, American Paging Inc. announced last month it would halt spending on narrowband personal communications services development to fix its core business. The company also may stop contributing financially to American Messaging Systems Inc., a joint venture between the...
Coherent Communications Systems Corp. announced its chief financial officer, Michael Gendron, has left the company to pursue other interests. Gendron's responsibilities will be assumed by Joan Cominski, corporate controller, while the company searches for a new CFO.Cellexis International Inc. promoted Gary Paisley to president...
Groups led by AT&T Corp. and Telia of Sweden are among those that recently purchased bidding packages from the Argentine government, which plans to award two 1900 MHz personal communications services licenses this fall.Interested companies must present initial offers, including technology plans, by Aug....
WASHINGTON-In a January 1993 article, a year-and-a-half before joining the Federal Communications Commission, then-attorney Rachelle Chong laid out what has turned out to be a model defense of cellular phone-cancer lawsuits.Chong, in a paper titled "Zap, Crackle, Pop" delivered at a conference in Asia,...
WASHINGTON-President Clinton last week said he will renew most-favored-nation trade status for China, kicking off a fierce debate in Congress on the world's potentially biggest wireless growth market."I believe if we were to revoke normal trade status it would cut off our contact with...
German cellular service provider T-Mobil awarded a contract to Lucent Technologies Inc. to expand T-Mobil's Global System for Mobile communications network. Lucent values the agreement at more than $30 million. T-Mobil's D-1 network currently serves 2.5 million subscribers. According to the contract, Lucent will...
MINNEAPOLIS-Nextel Communications Inc. launched its integrated digital wireless communications network in Minneapolis.Nextel customers can use their Nextel PowerFone in Nextel markets throughout the United states without paying roaming fees, the company said.The service, which uses Motorola Inc.'s integrated Digital Enhanced Network technology, combines cellular,...
After three years in Motorola Inc.'s Information Systems Group and 23 years with the company, Frank Lloyd has returned to paging, his mind set on growing international markets and advancing voice paging and two-way messaging.Lloyd is senior vice president and general manager of Motorola's...
WASHINGTON-The telecommunications industry is preparing to mount a fierce lobbying campaign to support renewing most-favored-nation trade status for China.The debate on China MFN, which has become a ritual this time every year, takes on added significance in light of allegations being probed by the...
Ericsson Inc. won a victory of sorts recently when the interim standard for the common air interface of Project 25 was taken off IS status and sent back to committee."They tried to jam through this standard without giving consideration to our comments," said Steve...
Telecel-Zambia announced plans to launch a Code Division Multiple Access system next week in Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia. The initial launch will cover 450 customers, and a broader launch a month later will provide service to the general public. The company said...
WAYNESBORO, Va.-CFW Communications Co. and American Telecasting Inc. will begin testing two-way digital voice and data services over spectrum principally used for wireless cable.An experimental license for the trial, which will be conducted in Waynesboro, Va., was granted by the Federal Communications Commission. The...
"The market for universal phones may prove more limited than trade hyperbole suggests," argues one analyst in response to industry buzz about satellite-based global telephone service-fueled by the successful launch May 5 of the first group of Iridium Inc. satellites."Extolled by the Iridium satellite...
Belt-tightening, steady growth of one-way services and advances in two-way and voice paging are winning the paging sector renewed interest on Wall Street."I think there are people in the investment community beginning to kick the tires," stated Jeanine Oburchay, paging analyst at Bear Stearns...
Metawave Communications Corp. named Tom Crawford director of product marketing and business development. He will be responsible for maintaining strategic partnerships that provide new sales and marketing opportunities for Metawave's multibeam antenna systems. Prior to joining the company, Crawford was director of strategic accounts...
AirTouch Cellular launched Caller ID service in the Puget Sound area of western Washington. The service is available using Motorola Inc., Audiovox Corp. and Nokia Corp. narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone Service `MegaPhones,' said the company. The service is available for $4 per month.Northern Telecom...
WASHINGTON-An Illinois judge last week ruled that personal injury claims in product liability lawsuits against cellular telephone manufacturers can proceed, but dismissed conspiracy charges against the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, former CTIA spokesman Ron Nessen and Wireless Technology Research L.L.C.The ruling involves four cases...
NEW YORK-South Korea's telecommunications marketplace is in the throes of a gradual but deliberate deregulation that is presenting opportunities and challenges for SK Telecom Co. Ltd., the largest wireless carrier."Korea will be almost wide open with free competition, but Korea is different from the...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. offers several new communications solutions for the manufacturing environment through the SiteComm portfolio.One solution is a pre-packaged, trunked radio system that includes a portable, self-contained housing for plug-and-play capability.The computer-controlled, automatic channel-sharing ability of trunking provides fast, clear connections, Motorola said....
