MobileMedia Corp. sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, received a commitment to borrow $200 million and said its service to customers will not be affected as the company restructures finances and operations.But things don't look so good from the other side of the fence.Resellers charge...
MCLEAN, Va.-Lucent Technologies Inc. placed an order for Cycomm International Inc.'s Slice digital voice encryption attachments for Motorola Inc.'s MicroTac handheld phones. Cycomm said it is the largest order it has received for the device, but the exact number of units was not disclosed.The...
Philips Consumer Communications introduced its Fizz analog mobile phone at the Consumer Electronics Show. The Fizz phone offers 40 hours of standby time and 220 minutes of talk time with the extended battery option. It has a 26-character, three-line display, a notebook to store...
Simmonds Capital Ltd. said its wholly owned subsidiary, Midland International Corp., sold an 80 percent controlling interest in its European business to an undisclosed buyer. The transaction includes a license to distribute Midland two-way radio products in Western Europe, Africa, India, the Middle East...
MEMPHIS, Tenn.-Celcore Inc. opened an office in Singapore to serve the Asia Pacific region and appointed Eric Greenop vice president of Asia Pacific to head the office.Greenop has more than 25 years of telecommunications experience including senior management positions with Ernst and Young Management...
The first half of 1997 is full of promises for narrowband personal communications services, and as a few industry leaders fix and fine tune, Wall Street waits to see what flies.The troubles SkyTel Corp. had last year with its two-way network killed the post-auction...
NEW YORK-To address a widely acknowledged shortage of wireless technicians and appropriate training schools, the State University of New York at Canton hopes to launch in September a two-year degree program in collaboration with the wireless industry."It is very difficult to find technicians, and...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-Arguments will begin Thursday in the appeal by InterDigital Communications Corp. of its 1995 patent infringement case against Motorola Inc.InterDigital's patent protection arm, InterDigital Technology Corp., sued Illinois-based Motorola in 1993 regarding patents for Time Division Multiple Access technology.The case went...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Asia Pacific Cellular Infrastructure Group won a contract to expand Total Access Communications Public Co. Ltd.'s narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone Service network in Thailand.The contract, which Motorola values at $120 million, includes expanding overall network capacity and extending geographic coverage...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile launched its DigitalChoice cellular phone service in Washington/Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Charlotte, N.C. DigitalChoice uses 13-kilobit Code Division Multiple Access technology.The DigitalChoice service includes caller ID, voice mail with message indicator, free first minute on incoming calls, TalkDial, call waiting,...
American Messaging Systems Inc. is entering the two-way market with an alternative to ReFLEX that provides high system capacity, quick time to market and helps carriers cut costs, said the company.AMS is an equal joint venture of Minneapolis-based American Paging and Nexus Telecommunications Systems...
NEW YORK-PageStar Inc. is ramping up for full-scale production this Spring of a new generation of wireless vehicle location devices designed to put car owners in the driver's seat when it comes to controlling and locating their stolen automobiles.PageStar's new "StarTrak" system is designed...
WASHINGTON-Little LEO Iridium Inc. remained hopeful last week that a rescheduled Jan. 19 launch of three satellites from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base-the company's fourth attempt at liftoff-would prove successful.The launch of the trio will signal the beginning of a 66-unit global constellation that...
Nextel Communications Inc. continues to try to move analog customers onto its new digital network, now with the lure of no roaming fees while traveling on the Nextel system.Nextel's analog customers are unable to roam at all, the company said. So customers switching to...
NEW YORK-Total Access Communications Public Co. Ltd., the second-largest wireless carrier in Thailand, plans the private sale of $400 million in debt securities to fund capital expenses and reduce short-term debt.TAC intends to sell, under Rule 144A, $300 million in bonds due 2006 and...
NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. has introduced "Populous," a new cellular phone that runs interchangeably on disposable alkaline batteries, rechargeable nickel cadmium or nickel metal hydride batteries.The Populous weighs about 8.2 ounces with the NiCad battery pack.The use of four AA alkaline batteries will provide Populous...
A young Sarasota, Fla., marketing company is hoping Bart will have a large influence on all age groups. In this case it is not Bart Simpson, but a new cellular telephone and global positioning system for automobiles.Bart is an after-market monitoring system that is...
The hefty number of strong, new competitors entering the handset market doesn't intimidate longtime terminal supplier Audiovox Communications Corp."Look how many have exited in recent years, like Clarion, Sharp, Panasonic, Sanyo, NovAtel," said Philip Christopher, president and chief executive officer of the Hauppauge, N.Y.-based...
Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. introduced its SCH-1011, a personal communications services handset using Code Division Multiple Access technology, and SCH-110, a cellular dual-mode CDMA handset. The products include menu-driven interfaces to access functions like messaging and memory. Other features include caller ID, call timer,...
LAS VEGAS-Motorola Inc. launched PageFinder, a device that receives word messages and confirms delivery to the sender. Using Motorola's ReFLEX two-way wireless messaging system, PageFinder stores messages while a subscriber is out of range and overrides paging errors to avoid duplicated messages.In addition, Motorola...
Motorola Inc. reported higher sales but lower earnings for fiscal year 1996, saying that strategic decisions made during the fourth quarter will set the stage for a renewal of profit growth in 1997."We have initiated a reinvigorated process of discontinuing those development programs that...
Israel's two cellular operators are working hard to sign up as many customers as possible while the government continues to ponder details for licensing a third cellular operator."The (technology) standard of the third license hasn't been determined yet. The ministry has had a lot...
Simoco International Ltd. of the United Kingdom and German-based De Te We and Rhode & Schwarz Bick have formed a consortium to market Trans European Trunked Radio systems in Germany, a move that may give the group leverage against its formidable competitor Motorola Inc.Simoco,...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group provided the Code Division Multiple Access system used in Cellular One's Jan. 1 launch of digital service in Phoenix.Motorola said the Phoenix launch was the 13th using its CDMA equipment.The contract for the CDMA system...
