NEW YORK-As the Federal Communication Commission's C-block auction for personal communications services draws to a close, a key consideration for systems build-out is the kind of role equipment vendors will play.Although many creative financing ideas are under way or under consideration, two persistent stumbling...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration, having shuffled around key leadership in the aftermath of the plane crash that killed Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 others during a Balkan trade mission, is aggressively moving ahead to reach a global telecommunications liberalization accord in Geneva this week...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P., the wireless partnership of AirTouch Communications Inc., Bell Atlantic Corp., Nynex Corp. and U S West Inc., initiated the first digital wireless phone call in Milwaukee over its newly installed personal communications services network. Using Code Division Multiple...
NEW YORK-Operating outside the limelight cast by telecom deregulation and the Federal Communications Commission's C-block auction for personal communications service, the paging sector is pursuing its own profitable agenda in the changing wireless environment.By 2006, paging revenues are projected to more than triple to...
Nextel Communications Inc. said the 177 licenses it won at auction are a "relatively small thing" considering the enormous holdings it has already.Nextel has been quiet for the last year, silently building out digital networks, completing large acquisitions and swapping properties with other specialized...
Sales of wireless network equipment in the United States grew more than 72 percent in 1995 to $5.44 billion, up from $3.16 billion the previous year, according to a new report from Northern Business Information.In U.S. Wireless Network Equipment Markets: 1995 Edition, NBI said that...
L.M. Ericsson and Motorola Inc. say they don't expect to pull workers out of Lebanon at this time, where two digital wireless phone networks are under construction, despite escalating violence in the area.The Israeli military bombed numerous sites in southern Lebanon last week to...
L.M. Ericsson announced it has signed an agreement with the Guangdong Post and Telecommunications Administration for the installation of intelligent networks in the Guangdong province, China. Ericsson said it will implement its latest IN software and hardware. The agreement also includes an IN service...
WASHINGTON-Public alarm over potential health risks from mobile telephones that reached fever pitch in the United States several years ago may be about to seize Great Britain, following publication in the London Sunday Times of new evidence that radio frequency radiation from handheld communicators...
NEW YORK-Fast on the heels of resignations by two chief financial officers and a director this year, CellStar Corp. recently braced the investment community for a first-quarter earnings report "significantly lower than analysts' estimates."Securities analysts had estimated that first quarter net income for the...
The Telecommunications Industry Association wrote the standard for authentication technology five years ago and in March 1995, Tom Berson, a noted cryptologist and president of Anagram Laboratories, completed a study for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's Fraud Task Force that determined "in an authentication...
WASHINGTON-After reaching an exhausting seven rounds per day, the 900 MHz specialized mobile radio auctions finally ended last week, with the predicted big spenders-Paging Network of America, Geotek Communications Inc., FCI 900 Inc., Motorola SMR Inc. and Fleet Talk Inc.-leading the pack. Of the...
BellSouth Mobility said it expects to sell an additional 1 million minutes of airtime per day during the 1996 Olympic Games that begin in three months in Atlanta.The symbolic torch is scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles from Greece on April 27. Then after...
After three enterprising decades at Motorola Inc.-during which he pioneered high-capacity paging and the first radiotelephone-succeeded by several telecom start-up firms, Martin Cooper was ready to hang up his spurs.That was four years ago. Today Cooper, along with the esteemed scientist and engineer who...
Fujian Posts and Telecommunications Administration of China will trial Motorola Inc.'s fixed wireless telephone system using Fujitsu Ltd.'s switching system, announced Motorola's Wireless Access Systems Division. The trial will be the first application in China of Motorola's Code Division Multiple Access digital wireless local...
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BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc. has renamed its Paging Products Group the Messaging Systems Products Group. The headquarters for MSPG will be in Fort Worth, Texas, where Motorola has advanced messaging and cellular infrastructure operations."We are now at an inflection point in our business, due...
The Personal Mobile Communications Division of Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc. announced the MobileAccess smart phone. The phone integrates a cellular telephone with broad messaging and data capabilities in a lightweight, handheld unit, the company said. The model relies on cellular digital packet data technology...
NEW YORK-TCSI Corp., a California-based software company serving wireline and wireless carriers, sold 3.45 million shares of its common stock March 27 at a price of $28 per share. TCSI stock closed the next trading day at a share price of $29, according to...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc.'s Paging Products Group announced West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Pager One Inc. has introduced a FLEX high-speed paging system that it said gives pager users more reliable service and increased battery life than any local paging system currently available in the...
The South African Police Services announced it has awarded Motorola Inc. and South Africa-based Alcom a contract for a SmartZone UHF two-way radio communications system. Motorola said the system will serve SAPS personnel working in Cape Town and the greater western Cape region. Alcom...
OLYMPIA, Wash.-U.S. Intelco Wireless said it has negotiated a volume discount agreement with Motorola Inc. that will give its 200-plus members significant discounts on equipment purchases.USIW also has signed a discount umbrella agreement with Lucent Technologies Inc. for discount volume purchases. USIW unites companies...
California Microwave Inc. announced it is expecting earnings per share for its 1996 fiscal year third quarter ending March 31 to be in the range of 5 cents to 10 cents as a result of lower than projected bookings and related sales in its...
NEW YORK-Last year, companies involved in various aspects of wireless communications generated 16,000 new jobs in the United States at all levels, and that number is expected to grow by an additional 20,000 this year, according to Christian & Timbers Inc.The wireless-related businesses affected...
