Eastern European countries and those of the former Soviet republics launched cellular services in the early 1990s using the Nordic Mobile Telephone-450 standard, an analog technology developed to operate at 450 MHz. Most nations initially selected NMT- 450 instead of Global System for Mobile...
It's quicker to list which countries do not use FLEX than to name those that do.That's how Larry Conlee, corporate vice president and director of worldwide markets, Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Division, described FLEX's rapid acceptance worldwide. In the United States, most one-way paging...
WASHINGTON-At a time when Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. is scraping for cash to determine whether pocket telephones pose a potential public health risk, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association is pumping hundreds of thousands of dollars annually into public affairs to convince consumers that the...
While Motorola Inc.'s FLEX paging technology begins to dash across the globe, POCSAG remains the de facto standard in the international paging world, said Ann Lynch, an analyst with the Yankee Group.However, compared to mobile telephony, traditional paging is faring poorly in Europe, and...
The newest arrival in one of cellular's newest markets-prepaid-is Go Wireless International Ltd., led by an entrepreneur banking his dollars on consumers with damaged credit. The company is venturing new approaches to selling service.Go Wireless debuted in Florida a month ago and success so...
Geotek Communications Inc. is a new kid on the block, not tied to any traditional distribution system and not bound by "this is the way we've always done it" thinking.Unlike its two-way radio competitors, Geotek has no previous customer base - no analog customers...
New protocol-based paging technologies may not only alleviate carrier capacity problems but also may transform the nature of service offerings from "cheap beeps" to "paging on steroids."Alphanumeric paging, the first "enhanced service" to be offered by carriers, ran smack into the problem of network...
Motorola Inc. said it has worked out the glitches and is in full production again on the RSVP, its slim cellular phone battery that contains a pager.The product was introduced last October. It fits on both the Motorola MicroTac flip phone and the Retail...
It is said that when you provide a valuable service at a fair price, you'll always have customers. Such is the personality of paging.In the last year more than ever, the industry has recognized that two-way paging and other wireless services, feature-rich as they...
Paging operators have different ideas about what will be the killer application that attracts paging customers to two-way service. But they do agree about a few things: Paging customers want small devices, low-cost service and they want to know if the page was received. Operators...
SkyTel Corp. said it expects to have radio and software glitches worked out of its SkyTel 2-Way network in the next few months.While the service has been operating well in some areas, users have experienced problems in other regions of the country, according to...
MAY27-28 High Speed Information Services: Strategies to Win the Race to the Home, by ICM Conferences. The Mart Plaza, Chicago. Call Thomas Serafine at (312) 540-5698.29-31 Canadian Wireless '96, by the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada. Call Catherine Hopwood at...
NEW YORK-In its first application outside paging, Motorola Inc.'s FLEX chipsets will be used in Ex Machina Inc.'s AirMedia Live information services product, the companies announced.AirMedia Live will allow computer users to access Internet services without going online. For instance, a light will signal...
New protocol-based paging technologies may not only alleviate carrier capacity problems but also may transform the nature of service offerings from "cheap beeps" to "paging on steroids."Alphanumeric paging, the first "enhanced service" to be offered by carriers, ran smack into the problem of network...
Paging operators have different ideas about what will be the killer application that attracts paging customers to two-way service. But they do agree about a few things: Paging customers want small devices, low-cost service and they want to know if the page was received. Operators...
WASHINGTON-The United States and China are on the verge of a trade war that could hurt the wireless telecommunications industry's ability to expand into one of the world's fastest growing-and potentially one of its biggest-markets.Acting U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky last week said $2...
SINGAPORE-Numerous announcements about Code Division Multiple Access technology came out of last week's CDMA World Congress in Singapore. The event was attended by about 600 people from 40 countries.Motorola Inc. has formed a joint venture with two Chinese entities to manufacture CDMA infrastructure products...
Another handset manufacturer saw its company stock drop then slowly rise again following the release of a quarterly report with stagnant earnings.It's the continuation of a process that began last year when the drop in handset prices began to noticeably affect percentage growth. Manufacturers...
SOMERS, N.Y.-MobileComm and Motorola Inc. have teamed up with Mountain Dew to launch a program aimed at placing pagers in the hands of teens and young adults.The promotion, called Mountain Dew Extreme Network, allows consumers to send in 10 proofs of purchase from Mountain...
WASHINGTON-After a two-year process, the Federal Communications Commission established the Family Radio Service, a short-range two-way consumer system first proposed by the Radio Shack division of Ft. Worth, Texas-based Tandy Corp.According to the commission, the service will provide an "affordable and convenient means" for...
How 'bout the attendees at President Clinton's White House Corporate Citizenship Conference last Thursday here: Robert Allen, chairman of AT&T Corp.; Charles Lee, chairman of GTE Corp.; Richard Notebaert, chairman of Ameritech Corp.; Bert Roberts, chairman of MCI Communications Corp., Bernard Schwartz, chairman of Loral...
"This is not a race," said AirTouch Communications Inc. about its controlled rollout of digital cellular service in northern Los Angeles."It's about getting the right customers transitioned," explains AirTouch spokeswoman Amy Damianakes.The "right" customers, to the California-based cellular operator, are the heavy phone users...
Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Group announced that PacLink has become the first to launch Motorola's FLEX paging protocol and distribute FLEX protocol-based pagers in Thailand. PacLink is investing more than $1 million in the FLEX protocol-capable infrastructure system and plans to launch the latest...
Give me a mountain with nothing to do. Give a pager to a kid with nothing to do and what will he do with it?Last week MobileComm and PepsiCo announced a program to distribute half a million pagers to young Americans to create the...
