TORONTO-Clearnet Communications Inc. has launched its business communications service, a digital wireless telecommunications service that integrates mobile phone, dispatch or group and private call radio, alphanumeric paging and messaging services in one handset.Clearnet said the service uses Motorola Inc.s integrated Digital Enhanced Network. The...
BEIJING-China Telecom, a division of the country's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, has selected Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Group to supply infrastructure equipment to implement China's FLEX national backbone paging network in Beijing, Shanghai and nine major provincial capital cities.The system, which is expected...
ATLANTA-AvData Systems Inc. and NEC America Inc.'s Satellite Communications Division announced at PCS '96 the introduction of AvData's Very Small Aperture Terminal Network Infrastructure system.VNI is a high-speed VSAT network for narrowband personal communications services that is specifically tailored for the two-way paging industry,...
NEW YORK-Following on the heels of Motorola Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc., AT&T Corp. announced last week it anticipates lower than expected earnings for the third and fourth quarters of 1996.In a letter to shareholders, Robert E. Allen, AT&T chairman, said the company anticipates...
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...
BEIJING-China Telecom, a division of the country's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, has selected Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Group to supply infrastructure equipment to implement China's FLEX national backbone paging network in Beijing, Shanghai and nine major provincial capital cities.The system, which is expected...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-IBM Mobile and Wireless Systems announced an agreement with Motorola Inc.'s Wireless Data Group and Ameritech Cellular Services to provide wireless access for Lotus Development Corp.'s software applications.IBM said the three companies will provide hardware, software and telecommunications services to deliver...
InterDigital Communications Corp. announced it has signed a contract valued at $43 million to provide UltraPhone Time Division Multiple Access digital wireless loop systems to the Pakistan Telecommunications Co. Ltd. It is the single largest order of the UltraPhone to date, the company said....
NEW YORK-Glenayre Technologies Inc. recently issued an advance warning that it expects its third-quarter net income to be "significantly below" results posted in the same period last year.According to unaudited financial statements available on Glenayre's World Wide Web site, the company earned net income...
TRENTON, N.J.-To paraphrase an old Barbra Streisand song, "On a rainy day, you can hear forever," even when making a call to Colorado from a car parked beneath a water tower in the state capital of New Jersey.That's the sound quality of a brief...
WASHINGTON-Mobile Communications Holdings Inc. told federal regulators last week it has more than $650 million in financial commitments to operate the Ellipso global pocket telephone satellite system.In January 1995, the Federal Communications Commission found MCHI financial qualifications lacking but gave the firm time to...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Pan American Wireless Infrastructure Division has signed a network upgrade agreement with Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile.The arrangement, valued at $53 million, will include the deployment of Code Division Multiple Access technology in Phoenix and Charlotte, N.C.Motorola has agreed to install...
WASHINGTON-The House last week zeroed out a little known government agency that in recent years has played a key role supporting wireless ventures by American firms in countries experimenting with capitalism and democracy for the first time .By a vote of 260-157, the House...
GREENBELT, Md.-Cellular One has started "FreedomPlus" service in the Washington D.C./Baltimore, Md., area. FreedomPlus is designed to operate between cellular and landline networks to deliver calls to a customer's cordless phone at home or a cellular phone away from home using only one number."FreedomPlus...
A cellular company in San Francisco is working to provide equal access to all people by providing special discounted prices on wireless phones and service to people with visual or mobility impairments.Since 1992, Cellular One, in conjunction with handset provider Motorola Inc. and the...
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Teklogix International Inc. was awarded a $6.8 million contract to supply more than 1,100 rugged, wireless-enabled mobile computers, docking stations, technical support and service to the Chicago Police Department.The Badger computers are specially designed to withstand extreme weather conditions, heavy vibrations and shock, and...
NEW YORK-Claflin Communications Inc., as a reseller for Paging Network Inc., has signed up more than 2,000 customers for its StockTips information service since the launch of the service in January.The idea behind StockTips, as well as the infoQuotes service launched last month by...
Motorola Inc. said the limited distribution program for its StarTac phone may be a new tactic for the cellular phone industry, but it's not a new method in the electronics or automotive world."This is aimed only at our high tech products, not the rest...
WASHINGTON-Hardcore opponents of the new hybrid radiofrequency radiation standard, believing federal regulators will reject calls to repeal it, are already considering putting a consortium together to challenge the safety guideline in court.By registering their grievances with the Federal Communications Commission, despite uncertain prospects for...
NEW YORK-Motorola Inc.'s unusual advance warning last week of poor third-quarter expectations raised eyebrows and at least two questions.Is Motorola still the bellwether company, giving early notice of stormy weather ahead for the entire industry? Or are its problems largely attributed to external factors...
Corsair Communications Inc. appointed Dr. Donald R. Oestreicher vice president of engineering. Oestreicher will direct Corsair's efforts in product engineering, research and development. Oestreicher's background includes engineering management with Dow Jones & Co., Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Valid Logic Systems and Xerox Corp....
Pagerola Inc. is six years old, distributes products in 21 countries, employs more than 800 people and is 1 million units strong, but only this month makes its formal entrance into the United States.The company manufactures pagers and related paging devices in Taipei, Taiwan,...
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. announced it has chosen J. Walter Thompson of Chicago as the agency-of-record for its multimillion dollar advertising account.The agency will be responsible for all aspects of marketing communications and will be instrumental in the launch of VoiceNow, PageNet's new service that...
