ATLANTA-GTE Mobilnet Inc. said it will allow wireless competitors to lease space on several of its tower sites in Alabama, Texas, Indiana, Florida, Ohio, California, Illinois and New Mexico. Additional states will be added later, the company said.The company signed an agreement with UniSite...
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.-"Until a few weeks ago, I was under the impression that the outlook for TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) was quite different than it is today," said investment banker Brad Peery at last week's TDMA Global Summit here."Qualcomm (Inc.) has done...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s Wireless Data Division introduced its PocketNet service to give businesses access to the Internet and corporate intranets.Using PocketNet, business users will be able to read and respond to e-mail messages, forward documents to a fax machine and access stock...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Pan American Wireless Infrastructure Division signed an agreement with GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. to jointly offer cellular and personal communications services providers Intelligent Network features and applications at wholesale rates.The companies will lease out IN features-including voice mail with notification,...
A new chief executive and reinstated supply contracts have cast a positive light on MobileMedia Corp.'s bankruptcy restructuring. Prudential Securities sees the Chapter 11 filing as positive for the industry and expects the company may put itself up for sale.Glenayre Electronics Inc., Motorola Inc.,...
A new study from the University of Toronto released last week concludes drivers face a four-fold increase in risk of having an injury-producing accident when using a cellular telephone.Researchers Dr. Donald Redelmeier and Dr. Robert Tibshirani studied 699 drivers who had cellular phones and...
Paging for personal use is increasing, and personal users-among all paging users-show the most interest in advanced paging services, reported the Yankee Group in a recent study, "Wireless Segmentation: Strategies for the Consumer."The Boston firm also reported 75 percent of personal users would use a...
Aerial Communications Inc. appointed John Foster and Thomas Wilson Jr. to its board of directors. Foster and Wilson both will serve on Aerial's audit committee and on its stock option compensation committee. Foster is president and founder of Vedra International Associates. Before founding Vedra,...
VimpelCommunications said shares of its common stock are authorized to trade on the Russian Trading System market, an online, screen-based trading system used by brokers in Moscow and throughout the Russian Federation. Dmitri Zimin, president and chief executive officer of VimpelCom, said the company...
Uniden Corp. is quietly but extensively restructuring its U.S. operations with technology at the core of its mission. And despite talk of internal troubles, Uniden top executives report the changes are all good."Wireless is going digital. The products and the functionality are expanding rapidly,...
I think there should be certain tests that one should have to take before one is allowed to take part in certain endeavors. Driver's license tests should be given to everyone every few years. Not only would this prevent elderly drivers who no longer...
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.-ConectUS Wireless Communications filed a trademark infringement suit Thursday against Greenville, S.C.-based Conxus Communications Inc., which changed its name from PCS Development Corp. in October."Their new name is confusingly similar to ours," said ConectUS President Dennis Scully. "We have been using the...
NEW YORK-Sun Microsystems Inc. launched the Java Telecom Object Network, a free, cooperative Internet Web site forum for telecommunications companies interested in developing applications using distributed object technologies."The goal isn't to be positioned as a standards certification organization but to energize collaboration," said Nasser...
E.F. Johnson Co. last Friday spun off its E.F. Johnson Services wireless construction unit into a separate subsidiary in order to better court non-traditional customers.The services unit, in operation for 11 months, has been contracted for project management, engineering and construction services to such...
WASHINGTON-Digital subscriber growth surpassed analog subscriber growth in the specialized mobile radio industry last year for the first time in history, according to a study prepared by The Strategis Group and the American Mobile Telecommunications Association.The SMR industry added 210,000 digital subscribers, the report...
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario-Teklogix International Inc. was awarded a contract by the city of St. Petersburg, Fla., to supply mobile data communications systems to the city's police and public works departments. Teklogix values the contract at $1.16 million.The system includes 181 rugged TKX-3000 color notebook computers,...
Editor's Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of the 20 largest specialized mobile radio operators based on survey responses.Racom Corp., Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc. and B&C Communications Inc. declined to provide information.Nextel Communications Inc. announced in October its plans to...
Numeric paging service, which for years was the bread and butter for paging resellers, could be their doom in a market of increased competition, decreased rates and customer savvy.Industry disagrees about who is responsible-carriers, or resellers or both-for the drastic price drops, but agrees...
WASHINGTON-The mobile data industry still is in its infancy, according to manufacturers, service providers and users, but the next few years promise a mini boom in applications easy for almost anyone to use. A study recently released by Booz Allen Hamilton predicts 17.4 million...
Vodafone Group plc agreed to purchase Data Bank of Greece S.A. through its subsidiary Vodafone Europe Holdings Ltd. Vodafone said the principal asset of Data Bank is a 10 percent share in Panafon S.A., one of two Global System for Mobile communications operators in...
PICKERING, Ontario, Canada-Clearnet Communications Inc. announced it plans to acquire Mobilair Communications, the wireless communications division of Autostock Inc., to expand its MiKE specialized mobile radio network throughout Quebec.Clearnet said it expects to pay about $19.5 million, mostly in cash, for Mobilair. The specific...
If carriers want customers to pay for cutting-edge technology, they need to be willing to use the highest-end technology themselves to promote such products, said a Texas-based software creator."We've developed a software program that runs on Windows, has audio and, depending on how good...
IRVINE, Calif.-AirTouch Communications Inc. began offering caller ID to its analog customers in Los Angeles. It is available on certain phones manufactured by Audiovox Communications Corp., Motorola Inc. and Nokia Corp.When service is used with a message feature, customers have the option of letting...
NEW YORK-In its inaugural quarterly teleconference with the investment community, Omnipoint Corp. announced Jan. 31 the second straight year of losses but also numerous milestones passed en route to deployment of its personal communications services network.The Arlington, Va., company, which went public last year,...