NEW YORK-Preferred Networks Inc., a paging wholesaler that went public in March, experienced net losses of $1.5 million during the first quarter of 1996, the price for investment in rapid expansion, company officials said.At the same time, revenues increased by $1 million to $2.4...
As it was pointed out to me time and time again during the aftermath of last week's C-block broadband personal communications services auction, in every game there are winners and losers. The winners held their press conferences, sent their press releases, made themselves available...
Code Division Multiple Access has been touted as a success story in Seoul, South Korea and in Hong Kong. Many U.S. personal communications services licensees have based their access technology decision on CDMA's reported superior performance, high capacity and low cost. Many analysts put...
The introduction of fully digital wireless networks means that marginal readings by portable test equipment are no longer acceptable."It's all ones and zeros now, so you have to be precisely tuned," said Jan Whitacre, spokeswoman for Hewlett-Packard Co.That reality lit a fire under the...
Telular Corp. said it is emerging from its restructuring "lean and focused," in spite of the $12.4 million in one-time charges it cost the company to accomplish the changes.Telular reported a net loss of $17.4 million, or 69 cents per share, for the second...
Cloners beware, Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. are active with authentication technology-each carrier in two markets."We've taken the next step from protection to prevention. It's like a little Fort Knox for your phone," said Steve Fleischer, general manager of corporate...
Nokia profits down in first quarterA 62 percent decrease in operating profit reported by the Nokia Group has been attributed to Nokia Mobile Phones.The Finnish manufacturer's handset division struggled with low phone prices and slow sales during its first quarter. Sales of mobile handsets...
MAY6 The Emerging Market for Wireless Location-based Products and Services, by Telestrategies Inc. Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, Arlington, Va. (703) 734-7050.6-9 Inside Washington: Business and Public Policy Focus on the Information Superhighway, by The Brookings Institute. Embassy Row Hotel, Washington, D.C. Call Joan Milan at...
One mission of the CTIA Foundation for Wireless Communications is to undertake innovative wireless projects, like the one beginning today in Minnesota.The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association Foundation is giving 40 phones to a task force for battered women that covers nine counties in the...
After reorganizing the business two years ago, Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc. today boasts a market capitalization of $38 million and is moving toward becoming a giant in the specialized mobile radio industry.On the basis of spectrum, Chadmoore ranks third behind Nextel Communications Inc. and...
Millicom International Cellular S.A. signed a seven-year $200 million credit facility agreement arranged by ABN-AMRO Bank and ING Bank. Millicom said the facility will be used to refinance $125 million of existing short term credit facilities at the parent level and the balance of...
WASHINGTON-Wireless Technology Research, L.L.P., the entity created with funding from the wireless telecommunications industry three years ago after a highly publicized lawsuit claimed pocket phones cause brain cancer, is losing the support of some manufacturers and members of the scientific community amid charges that...
NEW YORK-With the advent of a personal communications services overlay onto the nation's traditional cellular landscape, 1996 also will mark the debut of the dual-mode wireless phone as a consumer product.To Terrence Valeski, vice president of marketing for Pacific Bell Mobile Services, Pleasanton, Calif.,...
When MCI Communications Corp. asked him to build a radio tower on top of a mountain using a helicopter, 21-year-old wireless newcomer Michael Budagher said yes. Fifteen years later, his company is one of the industry's leading infrastructure builders.Budagher quit his job as a...
Steinbrecher Corp., which was recently acquired by Tellabs Wireless, announced the MiniCell Wireless Access System, a complete cellular system utilizing software-programmable radios with remote and local transceivers. Based on industry standard protocols, the MiniCell system is interoperable with other networks. The company said the...
WASHINGTON-With the huge capital costs of spectrum, infrastructure and marketing playing a major part in the rollout of new personal communications services, PACS technology may become an attractive option for firms planning to bid on 10 megahertz licenses later this summer.PACS is a low-tier,...
VIENNA, Va.-Cable & Wireless Inc. has reached an agreement with MobileComm that will allow CWI to introduce CWI-branded paging service to its long-distance customers during this second quarter.CWI focuses on business customers in the United States, offering a combined portfolio of domestic and international...
APRIL28-1 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference '96, by IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. The Westin Peach-tree Plaza, Atlanta. (908) 562-3870.30 The Telecom Act of 1996: Myths and Markets, by Creamer Dickson Basford. Sheraton Hotel, Needham, Mass. Call Christine Campbell at (617) 467-1521.MAY6 The Emerging Market for Wireless...
The fusion of wireless telecommunications and computer processing power into a device that fits your hand ought to be a slam-dunk proposition. It lets time-critical information go unobtrusively to where it can be most productive-in the field-rather than requiring the user to go where...
Opportunity looms for the Canadian kin of PageMart Inc. and Paging Network Inc. Both companies recently activated service in Canada where market penetration is only 3 percent, or about 1 million people."Paging has been a `me too' product," said Rob Graham, vice president sales...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Pan American Wireless Infrastructure Division announced it has been awarded contracts valued at more than $30 million for the expansion of its analog cellular telephone system in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil.The system, owned by Telesp, is currently centered...
A Korean company has allied with an Indian manufacturer to build pagers and paging systems in India, and directly compete with U.S. manufacturers that claim strong inroads into that nation.Seoul-based Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is pooling money and expertise with Larsen & Toubro Ltd....
Safco Corp.'s Electronic Systems Division has opened a third satellite office in Boca Raton, Fla., to serve the Latin American market. David Neumann will lead the new office. Neumann joined Safco in 1991, and previously served as a systems engineer and a national accounts...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada-PCS Wireless Inc. has appointed Rob Milne director of engineering. Milne formerly was head of product marketing at Motorola Inc.'s Wireless Data Systems Division. Prior to joining Motorola, he spent 11 years with Mitel Corp., most recently as vice president and...
