WASHINGTON-With China potentially becoming the biggest wireless export market in the world, the Clinton administration is challenged with keeping disputes over human rights, arms sales and Taiwan separate from its economic interests in the booming Asian nation of 1.5 billion people.Clinton was expected to...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa-The South African Police Services in Cape Town, South Africa, has decided to install Motorola Inc.'s SmartZone system following the recent completion of a successful trial of the system.Motorola's Radio Network Solutions Group developed the SmartZone system to help police forces...
RadioCall Service and Systems Inc. is a small California paging company too small to be acquired, but big enough to survive-and even thrive-in a messaging market dominated by a few big players.Core one-way paging is the focus of RadioCall. The company's recipe for success...
"The debate on CDMA is over, folks," declared Jerry Butters, an executive with Lucent Technologies Inc., last week when PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. launched 1900 MHz service in 11 major trading areas.It was the most comprehensive launch of both personal communications services and Code...
Most wireless carriers haven't been successful in marketing wireless data products in retail outlets because the people selling the products and service haven't been properly trained.Data On Air Inc. hopes to change all that.The Orlando, Fla.-based company is offering a new course that focuses...
Using the existing Ardis two-way data network, ConectUS Wireless Communications of Thousand Oaks, Calif., plans to launch two-way nationwide messaging services next month, initially targeting business users.ConectUS is a subsidiary of Executive Page, which is an Ardis master reseller and distributor of products for...
NOVEMBER18 Local Number Portability: Implementation Strategies, by Bellcore. Washington, D.C. (800) 521-CORE.18-19 Wireless Billing 1996, by the International Quality and Productivity Center. The Hyatt Arlington at Washington's Key Bridge, Arlington, Va. (800) 882-8684.18-19 A Practical Introduction to Wireless, by Data On Air. Marriott Newport Beach,...
NEW YORK-Omnipoint Communications Inc. opened for business Nov. 14, but a full-scale promotional campaign for its first personal communications services network-in the New York City metropolitan area-won't start for another week or so.By then, roaming will be possible in portions of Southern California, the...
Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group licensed its FLEX technology to paging infrastructure manufacturers EcoSoft GTCO and Tecnomen Oy. EcoSoft said it will use the technology to make inexpensive paging terminal equipment for Russian and Commonwealth of Independent States markets. Tecnomen Oy plans to...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. announced Christopher Galvin, currently president and chief operating officer, will become chief executive officer of the company effective Jan. 1. Galvin is grandson of Motorola founder Paul Galvin.Galvin will succeed Gary Tooker, who has been vice president and CEO. Tooker will...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Advanced Signal Inc. has licensed the entire FLEX family of paging protocols from Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group. Advanced also is developing test equipment for the narrowband personal communications services market.The test equipment, named SIGNALpro, allows users to characterize the outbound...
Hughes Network Systems Inc. aspires to accomplish a great deal more than just to supply $1 billion of network equipment to NextWave Telecom Inc."This goes beyond equipment supply. That's why we took the equity position," said Pradeep Kaul, executive vice president of Hughes Networks...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is considering auctioning low-earth-orbit mobile data satellite licenses from the remaining pool of applicants.The prospect of auctions, a regulatory tool not used in global satellite licensing to date, could prompt little LEO applicants to partner or pull out of the...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Dr. Nils Rydbeck, manager of Mobile Telephony research and development at Ericsson in the United States, was awarded the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences' Gold Medal for an outstanding contribution in the development of mobile telephones.The medal committee recognized Rydbeck for "significant...
Cylink Corp. introduced the AirLink E1/T1 microwave radio, an infrastructure component designed to provide dependable, cost-effective wireless connections for personal communications services providers to their cell switching centers. AirLink E1/T1 also can provide temporary cell sites to promote carrier services or provide an extra...
Plantronics Inc. has taken one small step by expanding its existing headset business into the wireless market.The company first introduced communications headsets in 1962. Initially designed for airline pilots, the headsets have been adopted for other applications including operator services, air traffic control and...
NEW YORK-As Omnipoint Communications Inc. sprints toward the Nov. 14 commercial launch of its personal communications service in the New York City metropolitan area, two hurdles remain: Nynex and NIMBY.But when Omnipoint opens for business this week, there will be no disclaimers and no fine...
The new telecommunications arm of Black & Veatch is the fastest growing segment of the Kansas City, Mo.-based engineering company, and is expected to bring in 20 percent of the firm's annual $1.1 billion in revenue this year."We believe we'll be extremely busy doing...
California Microwave Inc. added $5 million to a satellite communications network project with Sudatel, a telecommunications service provider in Sudan. The contract, originally awarded during the second quarter of this year, is now valued at $10 million. The system, which is expected to be...
NOVEMBER4-6 Wireless Buildout 1996-MTAs 83, 85 and 77, by ShoreCliff Communications. Coeur d'Alene Resort, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. (714) 443-3735.4-6 Mobile Business '96, by Telecommunications Industry Association. Utrecht, The Netherlands. Call Gray Jessup at (703) 907-7736 or Mike Wallis at (703) 907-7730.5-6 European Digital PMR...
MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc., a personal communications services operator, will expand its "friendly user" network trial by several hundred people in the New York City metropolitan area.The users will test such things as proper network coverage and voice quality, service features including two-way...
NEW YORK-DataLink Systems Corp. has launched QuoteXpress securities information service via pagers for commercial use in the United States.DataLink, now a public company headquartered in Los Gatos, Calif., has more than a thousand customers in Canada where the company was started in 1993, said...
The fervent growth of the wireless industry has turned into a gold mine of opportunities for Safco Technologies Inc.The Chicago-based company develops and provides automated signal strength testing products and has seen its business grow at a rate of 42 percent for the last...
