ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. and Shanghai Posts & Telecommunications Administration have signed an agreement to trial Motorola's fixed wireless telephone system in Shanghai using Code Division Multiple Access technology.The CDMA digital wireless local loop system will operate at 1.9 GHz, said Motorola. The trial...
A stern letter from the European Commission has gone out to dozens of wireless operators and phone manufacturers in Europe about the use of SIM card locks."With this pressure, we are trying to head off any agreements or the establishment of such a standard,"...
CellStar Corp. said it has a tentative Fortune 500 buyer for its kiosk business located in 347 Sam's Club stores nationwide, the expenses of which led to the company's disappointing first-quarter results.The investment community had estimated CellStar's net income would be at least $5...
Part of a year-old jury verdict was reversed last week when the technology patent lawsuit between InterDigital Communications Corp. and Motorola Inc. was revisited in U.S. District Court.However, the victory for Motorola, and ultimately for L.M. Ericsson as well, was upheld.The case began in...
CHICAGO-A group of wireless industry analysts and reporters got a chance to watch Schaumburg, Ill.-based Motorola Inc. atone for past enhanced specialized mobile radio infrastructure sins by introducing its second-generation line of digital network and subscriber gear-the Integrated Dispatch Enhanced Network system.The new iDEN...
CHICAGO-After an inauspicious debut that sent it back to rehearsals, the latest wireless extravaganza from Motorola Inc. is ready to return to prime time.The Schaumburg, Ill., telecommunications equipment giant was expected to announce today that it has smoothed over the rough spots of its...
WASHINGTON-In a Motorola Inc.-sponsored study producing mixed signals for the wireless telecommunications industry, Dr. W. Ross Adey found that 800 MHz digital cellular emissions failed to promote brain cancer in rats but did produce a bioeffect.The bioeffect, which Adey did not test for and...
Motorola Inc. and Qatar Public Telecommunications Corp. announced the introduction of a high-speed, high-capacity paging service based on the FLEX protocol in the Middle Eastern country of Qatar. With the FLEX protocol, Q-Tel said it can expand and enhance its paging service, while continuing...
WASHINGTON-While most wireless operators and manufacturers are planning for only a scant three to five years down the road, the Federal Communications Commission, according to Common Carrier Bureau economist Gregory Rosston, already is wondering how it will make spectrum available to new and incumbent...
The groundwork for a head-to-head duel between factories is being laid in Brazil, where Nokia Group and Motorola Inc. both are establishing handset manufacturing plants.Brazil has 1.2 million cellular subscribers, making it the most prolific cellular market in Latin America. An annual growth rate...
Socket Communications Inc. has introduced PageSoft for ACT!, an add-on software package that employs existing wireless paging networks to deliver time-critical text and data to ACT! mobile users. ACT! is a contact management software package developed by Symantec Corp. PageSoft for ACT! allows users...
Netherlands-based electronics giant Philips Electronics NV is mounting a new campaign to become one of the top three vendors to the global cellular handset market.Philips Mobile Phones launched a new business group in January called Philips Consumer Communications based in Le Mans, France. The...
A U.S.-owned company is up against competition in its bid for digital dispatch radio spectrum in the United Kingdom, while also facing implementation of the never-deployed TETRA standard.National Band Three Ltd. is wholly owned by Geotek Communications Inc. of Montvale, N.J. The four-year-old company...
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill.-A new Cellular Impact Survey commissioned by Motorola Inc. and conducted by the Gallup Organization found differences and similarities between cellular phone users in Canada, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Mexico and the United States.Most owners surveyed in all those countries agree that flexibility...
Smaller C-block licensees with only a handful of permits say they're confident of making a profitable business from the properties they have, disregarding naysayers who claim a wireless business must be big to survive."There's an assumption that small bidders are afraid to go it...
CHICAGO-Paging Network Inc. and software developer Ex Machina Inc. announced the rollout of a wireless, Internet-based news, entertainment and messaging network called AirMedia Live!PageNet said it will carry AirMedia Live! network broadcasts and individual alerts over its nationwide FLEX-enabled frequency this summer. The service...
The number of cellular subscribers in Africa and the Middle East increased 76 percent between 1990 and 1995, reported Pyramid Research Inc. in a recent study. Cellular subscribers totaled 1.8 million at the end of last year, and are expected to count 11.2 million...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Pertti Johansson is now senior vice president and general manager of Motorola Inc.'s International Cellular Infrastructure Division.Johansson joined Motorola in 1986 as director of International Cellular Operations and currently is responsible for sales, design, engineering and installation of cellular infrastructure equipment and...
MUNICH-Siemens AG won contracts worth $64.7 million from the Iridium mobile phone network. Siemens said that Motorola Inc., which founded and leads the Iridium project, placed an order for 12 switching systems with Siemens' public communications networks division.The Iridium system plans to use 66...
NEW YORK-ProNet Inc., one of the top 10 paging companies in the country, planned to sell concurrent stock and bond issues as early as last Friday.The common stock offering was proposed at four million shares, and the 10-year senior subordinated note issue at $100...
ATLANTA-Motorola Inc.'s Messaging, Information and Media Sector is forming a new Platform Software Division.The Atlanta-based division is chartered to develop and deliver an open software platform, including an operating system and development tools as well as applications for the wireless industry."The establishment of an...
Launching new technology into a market involves more than just technological know-how. The expectations of all parties must be managed in order to control the risks, analysts say.System operators must be responsible for the expectations they create in the minds of customers. Equipment manufacturers...
CHICAGO-Cellular One of Chicago is introducing FreedomPlus one-number service to its cellular customers.Cellular One of Chicago, a subsidiary of Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems, said the phone acts as a cordless phone at home or work, operating on the landline network, and automaticaly becomes a...
A photo of a Motorola Inc. personal communications services phone was misidentified in the May 27 issue of RCR. It is a member of the Flare product family, uses Global System for Mobile communications technology, and is being offered by Sprint Spectrum in Washington,...
