FLEX has been adopted en masse in the paging industry, at least in principle. In reality, the majority of U.S. one-way paging customers are POCSAG customers and carriers are in no hurry to eliminate the protocol.FLEX, designed by Motorola Inc., offers increased capacity and...
NEW YORK-Because many new personal communications services providers are unable to pay out of pocket for equipment purchases, AirNet Communications Corp. announced last week it would downsize, restructure and direct its attention to customers capable of arranging financing independent of vendors."In markets outside the...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Telecomunicacoes do Ceara S.A., a Brazilian cellular provider, chose Motorola Inc.'s Pan American Wireless Infrastructure Division to supply its Advanced Mobile Phone Service network in the state of Ceara.Teleceara serves 120,000 subscribers and plans to launch its analog network in December. Located...
NEW YORK-As expected from its advance warning last month, Motorola Inc. last week reported lower sales and earnings for the third quarter of 1996 when compared with the same period last year.Motorola said its sales for the quarter, which ended Sept. 30, declined 5...
MobileMedia Corp. marked the end of the third quarter with poor earnings, anticipated bank covenant violations, increased churn, a decrease in net new subscribers and potential trouble with the Federal Communications Commission. The grim news sent MobileMedia's stock for a dive.Such are the travails...
Editor: Quentin Hardy's article, "Jacobs' Patter," in the Sept. 6 edition of The Wall Street Journal claims that "some of the biggest names in telecommunications" have invested perhaps $20 billion based on my promises about Code Division Multiple Access technology. This might be flattering if...
The Micro Digital M75 is a Time Division Multiple Access digital phone from Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Subscriber Group. The Flip Phone meets the Telecommunications Industry Association IS-136 standard for North American TDMA digital cellular service. The dual mode phone automatically will access a TDMA...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Asia/Pacific Cellular Infrastructure Group announced it will assist the Tianjin Posts & Telecommunications Administration in the expansion of the Global System for Mobile Communications network in Tianjin, China, under a multimillion dollar contract.Plans call for the expansion, scheduled to be...
RadioMail Corp. announced the availability of its RadioMailer wireless Internet access solution for Cellular Digital Packet Data networks. Service previously was limited to Mobitex and DataTAC packet radio systems."By extending our service to operate on CDPD and cellular networks, we are the only company...
The voices of young people are getting louder in the paging industry.Paging manufacturers and carriers have discovered just how "cool" teenagers and young adults think pagers are, and are beginning to pump money into products and marketing campaigns to make sure the market segment...
Northern Telecom Ltd. announced Telemig, a Brazilian telecommunications provider, has signed two contracts valued at $95 million to purchase Nortel cellular network infrastructure equipment. According to the first contract, Telemig will buy DMS-MTX SuperNode switching, cell site equipment and voice channels to expand its...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Asia/Pacific Cellular Infrastructure Group announced it will assist the Tianjin Posts & Telecommunications Administration in the expansion of the Global System for Mobile Communications network in Tianjin, China, under a multimillion dollar contract.Plans call for the expansion, scheduled to be...
NEW YORK-DSC Communications Corp., a major manufacturer of switches for wireless and wireline telecommunications, announced it anticipates posting disappointing revenues and earnings for the third quarter ending Sept. 30.The company expects total revenue for the quarter to be between $325 million and $335 million,...
WASHINGTON-The five-year, $25 million industry-funded research program on potential cancer risks from pocket telephones will come to a screeching halt unless wireless carriers and manufacturers agree to indemnify scientists named in several pending lawsuits, according to the project director."This is a serious issue for...
OCTOBER7 Making Sense of the Changing Communications Marketplace, by TeleStrategies Inc. Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, Washington, D.C. (703) 734-7050.7-9 Wireless APPS Convention, by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Bally's, Las Vegas. (301) 694-5243.7-9 Technology Forecasting for the Telecom Industry, by Technology Futures Inc. Renaissance...
NEW YORK-Boston Communications Group Inc. has a not-so-modest proposal and concrete plans to execute it: a prepaid wireless roaming network for the Western Hemisphere.Already the company is in various stages of a rollout of its C2C wireless prepaid roaming network for four cellular carriers: Southwestern Bell...
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Paging, a division of AirTouch Communications Inc., announced it will add New York City to its paging network. AirTouch currently serves several major cities in the Northeast, including Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore and Washington D.C."Opening our New York office is an important milestone...
Wireless Access Inc.-recently licensed to incorporate the ReFLEX protocol in its integrated circuit chipset-is guided by a twofold business philosophy, said Tim Williams, founder and chief technical officer of the company. "You build better equipment by having better silicon and you have better silicon...
I'm still recovering from PCS '96 in San Francisco.Between the 400 exhibitors, about 15,000 attendees and 30 sessions, I just couldn't take it all in. In fact, PCIA said it had to turn away numerous companies that wanted to exhibit.It's always difficult to take...
SBC Communications Inc. has made the latest move in the battle for prepaid cellular customers in Chicago.In June, SBC, operating under the franchise name Cellular One, began offering its Chicago-area customers a prepaid card called the AccessCard. Last month, Ameritech Cellular Services followed by...
SAN FRANCISCO-Philips Electronics NV of the Netherlands and Motorola Inc. announced a cross-licensing agreement giving Philips access to the FLEX family of messaging technologies, including the FLEX one-way, ReFLEX two-way and InFLEXion voice messaging protocols.In addition, Philips Semiconductor Division, a worldwide supplier of paging...
WASHINGTON-When it comes to getting a say in telecommunications policymaking in the nation's capital, firms let their dollars do the talking. And, oh, how the money has talked in recent years, like an endless filibuster gushing in all its gilded glory.While political action committee...
The futuresque communications previously only envisioned by StarTrek's writers are reality in the here and now as demonstrated at PCS '96 by students of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, in conjunction with Motorola Inc.The communications technology projects exhibited by MIT use Motorola's FLEX...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Alcatel Telecom and Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group will purchase each other's wireless equipment according to a memorandum of understanding announced Thursday.According to the agreement, Alcatel will be allowed to purchase and distribute Motorola's Code Division Multiple Access radio systems, while it...
