PanaVise Products Inc. debuted PortaGrip 2000, a cellular phone holder that features four-way adjustability. The side jaws move back and forth, while the support slide moves up and down, the company said. PortaGrip adjusts to hold any size or shape cellular phone. Three models...
Nextel Communications Inc. charted a new frontier in its acquisition strategy with plans to buy most of Wireless Ventures of Brazil Inc., owner of Brazil's only nationwide specialized mobile radio license.Nextel of McLean, Va., said it reached definitive agreements with Wireless Ventures, of Arlington...
Arch Communications Group Inc. named Carol E. Burns vice president of human resources. Burns has been director of human resources since she started with the company in July 1995. Before joining Arch, Burns was director of human resources at the Au Bon Pain restaurant...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. and NEC Corp. have teamed up to develop a core process for manufacturing integrated circuits with features as small as 0.18 microns. The current standard in the semiconductor industry is 0.5-micron features.The smaller features will allow integrated circuits to...
Sixteen wireless operators have made the cut to be considered possible partners for Greece's government telephone company.Watching the success of the country's two private cellular providers, the government has awarded a third mobile license to its own landline entity, OTE. OTE will compete with...
Geotek Communications Inc. has launched the data portion of its network, hoping to satisfy higher-than-expected demand for data and low subscriber numbers."We introduced with voice service, but data was what they really wanted," said Randy Miller, a Geotek spokeswoman.Only about 2,000 subscribers use the...
Motorola Inc.'s Asia Pacific Cellular Infrastructure Group has signed a contract valued at more than $100 million to deploy a fixed wireless telephone network in the Philippines.Motorola said the network will supply service in the southern and western Mindanao regions, located in the southern...
NEW YORK-Transcrypt International Inc., a designer and manufacturer of information security products for wireless and wireline voice and data communications, plans to go public.The company, headquartered in Lincoln, Neb., has registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell 3.75 million shares of common...
OLYMPIA, Wash.-Illuminet and Columbia Spectrum Management said they are helping small personal communications services providers clear spectrum using Columbia Spectrum's services. PCS license winners must relocate microwave systems that currently occupy spectrum allocated to PCS by the Federal Communications Commission.According to the agreement, Columbia...
PCS Development Corp. has changed its name to Conxus Communications. The company believes the new name will better reflect its voice and messaging business.Conxus-pronounced connects us-plans to provide a range of portable voice and data messaging products and services on its narrowband personal communications...
WASHINGTON-The consensus agreement formulated earlier this year by the American Mobile Telecommunications Association, SMR Won, Nextel Communications Inc. and the Personal Communications Industry Association has completed Round One of the public-comment cycle, with most of the large specialized mobile radio concerns marching in lockstep...
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WASHINGTON-A conservative watchdog group convinced a federal judge to force the Commerce Department to turn over documents of former Secretary Ron Brown in connection with allegations that trade missions-some with telecom executives along-were designed to cultivate Democratic Party fund raising.The Oct. 18 court order,...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is pushing its PBX-connected, digital microcellular in-building wireless system, saying it sees a 40 percent compounded annual growth rate for the business market."There are about 86 million business telephones in use in the United States," said Jerry Kaufman, an analyst...
Fortunately, I've never needed to call a cop for help. I've never been in a dangerous situation in the dark of night. I've never been accosted by anyone wielding a weapon. There are others who face these situations every day-the officers on the beat....
HOUSTON-Castle Tower Corp. said it now owns 15 tower sites in the center ridge of Puerto Rico after acquiring the assets of Motorola Inc.'s Puerto Rico network services operations.The acquisition was completed by Castle's newly created International Acquisitions and Development division. Castle estimates Puerto...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Group and Radiomensaje, an Argentina-based national and regional paging service provider, signed an agreement to expand Radiomensaje's FLEX protocol-based infrastructure network.The new channel will be launched this month in Argentina, Motorola said."The current Argentina paging subscriber base is...
Tektronix Inc. announced a new capability for the R3465 Modulation Spectrum Analyzer, which is made by Japan-based Advantest Corp. and marketed in North America by Tektronix. The new tool, called Option 61, adds Code Division Multiple Access base station test features to the R3465....
Korean telephone service provider Shinsegi Telecomm Inc. awarded Lucent Technologies Inc. a contract to supply and install a Code Division Multiple Access-technology based cellular network in the southern cities of Pusan and Kyungnam. Lucent said it immediately will begin installing its 5ESS-2000 switch-based mobile...
Donald Gips has a penchant for throwing himself into his work-and play-with reckless finesse and abandon.And he's paying for it today with a severely ruptured disc on the mend from years of rough and tumble sports that could have easily left him paralyzed and...
Uniden Corp. said its San Diego Research and Development Center entered into a licensing agreement to use Unwired Planet Inc.'s wireless communications software platform that includes an Internet/intranet browser, server and mark-up language. Uniden said it plans to debut its first Unwired Planet-based product...
The full-size SIM card may lend itself more easily to future services, said Powertel Inc., a U.S. wireless operator that has contracted to buy handsets from one of two manufacturers offering the feature.Two sizes of Subscriber Identity Modules are being deployed by U.S. operators...
LAS VEGAS-Telemetry applications made a strong showing at last week's Wireless Apps '96 show hosted by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association.Skywire Corp. announced a trial to monitor several hundred soda vending machines throughout Southern Nevada for J.W. Costello Beverage Co. in partnership with cellular...
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc.'s proposed $159 million buyout of Pittencrieff Communications Inc.-a deal that could give one firm half of the 2.2 million dispatch customers and access to most of the U.S. population-could become a key antitrust test case in the new wireless regime of...
