BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc. announced the winners of its second annual pager design competition for college student designers. The enormous growth in pager use by children and teenagers prompted Motorola to focus the contest challenge on designing pagers for the younger generation, said the...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia-Motorola Inc. has bought a 38 percent stake in a joint venture company that will build a digital radio network in China. The company will use Motorola's integrated Dispatch Enhanced Network technology.Leader Universal Holdings Berhad of Penang, Malaysia, will hold a 52...
WASHINGTON-Uncertainty about compliance with the new, hybrid radio frequency radiation exposure standard and growing concern with the struggling industry-funded bioeffects research program could invite unforeseen legal and operational problems for the wireless telecommunications industry."There's no guidance on compliance. They need definitions," said Ronald Petersen,...
NEW YORK-Radio Movil Digital Americas Inc., a Deerfield Beach, Fla., specialized mobile radio carrier focused on South America, expected to place privately $130 million in debt last week.Lehman Brothers Inc., New York, is lead underwriter for the sale of seven-year senior discount notes. The...
AirNet Communications Corp. named Dr. Lee Hamilton vice president of product engineering. Hamilton will be responsible for developing and implementing AirNet's wireless broadband base station and related infrastructure equipment products. Hamilton previously served as general manager of system transmission products at Motorola Inc.'s Information...
DALLAS-DFW Communications announced it has purchased Motorola Inc.'s four Dallas/Fort Worth-based two-way radio service centers.The purchase is a result of Motorola's 1995 restructuring of its National Service Division, which implemented a new service strategy and consolidated all product repair services from company-owned service centers...
Triden Telecom Inc. has signed a letter of intent to acquire Communitronics Inc., a paging company based in Mobile, Ala. Communitronics has 3,000 pagers in service and is expanding its coverage area by acquiring and building out more paging terminals, said Triden.Denver-based ComTec International...
NEW YORK-After many delays, Brazil's B-band cellular license auctions, which will be open to foreign bidders, are likely to begin early next year.The Brazil Senate last month ratified telecommunications deregulation legislation already approved by the House, thereby opening satellite and cellular services to outside...
Paging stocks have been taking a beating lately as ratings agencies and some analysts worry that plain old paging won't be able to compete in the sophisticated two-way messaging and personal communications services market that beckons the mass consumer.Earlier this month, Moody's downgraded Metrocall...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS-NetCom GSM, a Norwegian cellular network operator, announced its trial DCS 1800 digital cellular system. The system, supplied and commissioned by Motorola Inc.'s European Cellular Infrastructure Division, follows the award of a three-year trial license to NetCom from the Norwegian government. NetCom initially...
AUGUST19-20 A Practical Introduction to Wireless Data, by Motorola Inc. San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel, San Francisco. (800) 771-2012.19-21 Wireless Communications Conference, by The Microelectronics Society. Regal Harvest House, Boulder, Colo. (303) 497-3037.21-22 The Wireless Buildout '96, by Shorecliff Communications. Hotel Del Coronado, San...
Preferred Networks Inc. said it has signed an agreement with NationsBank for a $20 million revolving credit facility. The money will be used primarily to finance the acquisition of paging networks and capital expenditures for the company's nationwide network construction, said Atlanta-based Preferred.Carlson Design/Construct...
ZK Celltest Inc. announced narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone Service measurement capability on the ZK-SAM/DX, a system access monitor. The company said the device interfaces with Motorola Inc.'s MicroTac dual-mode NAMPS phone and displays and collects NAMPS and enhanced AMPS call processing data. The DX...
Lucent Technologies Inc. said it doesn't expect to renew its original equipment manufacturer contracts with Nokia Mobile Phones and Oki telecom at the end of the year when the agreements expire.Lucent said it is making good progress on establishing a factory in New Jersey...
3607 Communications Co. launched its Code Division Multiple Access digital cellular phone network in Las Vegas and is offering the service to new and existing customers.The system, which covers 85 percent of the company's analog traffic areas, will allow 3607 to increase network capacity...
France Telecom Mobiles International has signed two digital cellular phone contracts with Chinese operator China United Telecommunications Corp. (China Unicom). The contracts call for the expansion of a 1995 system to add an additional 41,000 subscribers in the city of Guangzhou in Canton and...
AUGUST13-14 Wireless Interconnection '96, by Bellcore. Westin Hotel San Francisco Airport, Millbrae, Calif. Call Pam Dunn at (800) 521-CORE.13 & 20 Semiconductor Conference, by the New York Society of Security Analysts. NYSSA Headquarters, New York. (212) 912-9249.19-20 A Practical Introduction to Wireless Data, by...
For those who are banking on the growth of specialized mobile radio during the next few years, there is good news and there is good news. The good news is: The transition to digital technology will continue to grow, adding new voice and data services,...
WASHINGTON-With less than a ringing endorsement from two commissioners, the Federal Communications Commission last week adopted hybrid radiofrequency exposure guidelines that may violate a new law regarding technical standards used by government agencies.The new RF guidelines are stricter than existing ones, combining exposure limits...
Anne Bingaman, the government's antitrust czar who reviewed huge telecommunications mergers and took on computer software giant Microsoft Inc., said she will leave the Clinton administration later this year."The time seems right for me to tell you and the president that I have decided,...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-U.S. Olympic athletes in Atlanta communicated with their coaches, teammates, friends, family and press using OlymPagers, alphanumeric pagers that Motorola Inc. provided to each Team USA athlete.The pagers were unexpectedly beneficial for athletes needing to communicate with family and with one another...
While naysayers doubted that personal communications services networks could be built out in record time, the five systems now up and running prove them wrong.Western Wireless Corp. last week turned on a PCS network in New Mexico, its third PCS launch in five months....
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Asia/Pacific Cellular Infrastructure Group has been awarded a contract to expand Guangdong Mobile Communications Corp.'s digital cellular phone system in Zhuhai City, China. Motorola will sup ply additional InCell and TopCell Global System for Mobile communications network cellular base stations...
Champion Communication Services Inc. is pursuing a trunking strategy to bring enhanced capabilities to its network of community repeaters-a wide area dispatch technology that has been around since the 1970s.The Houston-based company acquired 1,500 community repeaters located in 22 states from Motorola Inc. in...
