If one were to ask Congress for a written transcript of the Feb. 2, 1993, Capitol Hill briefing on alleged health risks from portable wireless phones, the reply would be that it doesn't exist.The omission speaks volumes-figuratively and literally-about the state of government oversight...
BERKELY HEIGHTS, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group announced it will provide semiconductor chips for several Motorola Inc. two-way messaging units, in development.The chip's marked features include low-power consumption and the integration of more functionality, said Lucent. The new mixed signal processor is a further...
Motorola Inc. has won what it calls the largest cellular infrastructure contract in the world to date.The company's Cellular Infrastructure Group announced Japanese carriers DDI Corp. and Nippon Idou Tsushin Corp. (IDO), two of Japan's leading cellular service providers, have selected Motorola to provide...
After contemplating the matter for years, Motorola Inc. has decided to jump feet first into the global smart card business.The Schaumburg, Ill.-based manufacturer has created a new business unit to take advantage of the enormous potential it sees for plastic cards embedded with microprocessors.Technical...
NEW YORK-Iridium L.L.C., which plans to launch a satellite-based global telephone service, last week registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an application to take the company public.Iridium, headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda, is an indirect subsidiary of Motorola Inc., which formed the satellite...
To those Europeans who scoff at Americans and their (too) many wireless standards choices, we now have a response: FLEX.AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has decided not to deploy personal Air Communications Technology two-way paging technology in its markets. For all intents and purposes, this leaves...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. reversed course in narrowband personal communications services, resolving not to deploy services using the personal Air Communications Technology advanced paging protocol.AT&T Wireless said it still supports the technology development of pACT, but the turnabout could affect pACT vendors and the...
Brazil is in the wireless spotlight. Demand is high, penetration is low and growth in all sectors is being fueled by deregulation and a stronger economy.Brazil's current annual cellular growth rate is about 70 percent. The number of subscribers totaled 2.7 million last year,...
Geotek Technologies Inc. said it will supply trunked mobile radio equipment and services based on its Frequency Hopping Multiple Access technology to Hyundai Electronics Industries Co. Ltd. The company values the purchase order at $18 million. The agreement calls for Geotek to provide an...
ITASCA, Ill.-Shieldmate Robotics Inc. has denied allegations that it is infringing on a Motorola Inc. trademark by producing cellular phone housings for Qualcomm Inc.Motorola filed a lawsuit in federal court against Qualcomm and Shieldmate. The company charged the manufacturer of cellular phone housing components...
Alan Dick & Co. (USA) Inc. debuted its cross polarized antennas available for messaging, cellular and personal communications services. The XP base station panel is a dual polarized antenna with two orthogonal 45 degree slant radiators. This allows polarization diversity on the base station...
Motorola Inc.'s Pan American Wireless Infrastructure Division will install an Advanced Mobile Phone Service cellular network in Brazil. Motorola values the agreement with Telecomunicacoes de Sao Paulo S.A. at $63 million. The network will cover about 50,000 subscribers in the city of Aracatuba, and...
OAKLAND, Calif.-Nextel Communications Inc. introduced digital wireless service operating on Motorola Inc.'s integrated Digital Enhanced Network technology in northern California.The enhanced specialized mobile radio company also began offering its PowerFone in conjunction with the iDEN network. The PowerFone offers call waiting, hold, forwarding, last...
Motorola counters research memoDear Editor: I would like to take strong exception to the tone and substance of RCR's March 3 article on Motorola's 1994 response to biological research conducted at the University of Washington by Drs. Henry Lai and Narendra Singh. The article failed...
Metromedia International Group Inc. announced its subsidiary, Metromedia Asia Corp., has acquired Asian American Telecommunications Corp., a company engaged in the development and construction of telecommunications systems in China, by an exchange offer for all of AAT's common shares of stock. Following the acquisition,...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission issued two notices of proposed rulemaking at its monthly meeting March 12, one dealing with streamlining its authorization process for RF-related equipment and the other to allocate spectrum for commercial wireless operations in the 36 GHz-51 GHz range.The streamlining NPRM...
"The world's smallest PCS phone.""The world's lightest mobile phone.""The smallest and lightest CDMA phone in existence."The battle for the tiniest phone is no longer just a matter of shape and size. The technological standard used by the phone is now a clear differentiator.The new...
NEW YORK-Digital Microwave Corp., a California-based designer and manufacturer of wireless telecommunications interconnection and access products, was expected to sell a secondary common stock offering of 2.2 million shares late last week via Smith Barney Inc., lead underwriter.Assuming the opening price of the add-on...
Motorola Inc. has signed another contract with a Chinese company that has been manufacturing and selling Motorola-labeled cellular infrastructure equipment in China since 1991."These arrangements aren't OEM (original equipment manufacturer)," said Tom Hinton, vice president and general manager of Motorola's Greater China Cellular Infrastructure...
E.F. Johnson Co. and Motorola Inc.'s Land Mobile Products sector said they will submit a proposal to build a new digital, trunked 800 MHz public safety radio system for the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. E.F. Johnson said the Metropolitan Radio Board, a group of public...
NEW YORK-Dialing and talking while driving are getting a closer look in state capitols lately, as legislatures in at least three states-California, Illinois and New York-consider bills that would impose various restrictions on the practice.The Illinois and California legislatures are considering versions of mandatory...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-The digital handset market saw significant growth in 1996, an indication that this market is developing into a formidable one, says a study by Dataquest.The digital handset market grew 73 percent in 1996, said the company. L.M. Ericsson and Nokia Corp. were...
Siemens Components Inc. introduced its Model CMY210, a GaAs MMIC that can be used for designing cellular or personal communications services handsets based on Time Division Multiple Access or Code Division Multiple Access standards. The company said it functions as an up/down converter for...
After a year of sweeping talented executives away from competing companies and setting the stage for strongly anticipated success, Philips Consumer Communications doesn't blink when it says it expects to be one of the top three handset providers by 2000.The Netherlands-based electronics giant was...
