ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced its cast of wireless applications that enable cellular phone users to access information directly from the Internet.Motorola Wireless Internet Services will provide cellular and personal communications services subscribers with the ability to retrieve information including e-mail...
Telex Communications Inc. has introduced a lightweight headset specifically for cellular phones and other mobile applications. The company said its Telex Nomad Headset is a lightweight, ear-worn device with an adjustable boom microphone and high-fidelity speaker. The headset is designed to improve the sound...
Like parallel rails that run straight into the distance but seem to touch at the horizon, wireless telecommunications and mobile computing have each made great strides into the future. Now leading companies from both sectors are working together to make sure their convergence is...
WASHINGTON-If bidders in the C-block broadband personal communications services auction have learned one thing, it's to watch one's back at any given moment or prized markets will be stolen away. And another milestone has been passed-all C-block BTAs now have been bid higher than...
Spectrum Information Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. announced they have reached an agreement to settle the patent litigation that has been pending between the two companies since December 1984. The agreement is subject to U.S. Bankruptcy Court approval. Spectrum's bankruptcy is pending in the...
L.M. Ericsson announced it has won a contract from Telecel to provide Digital Cross Connect for Portugal's Global System for Mobile communications network. The DXX Digital Cross Connect system will enhance the network that covers most of Portugal, Ericsson said. The order comes to...
WASHINGTON-In a move that could chill other potential bidders, Sprint Corp. has taken itself out of the running for a multiyear federal government wireless provision contract that could be worth "a few hundred million" because it claims the General Services Administration already has decided...
NEW YORK-In the short run in the U.S. analog cellular phone equipment market, Nokia Corp. and, to a lesser extent, L.M. Ericsson, have gained ground on industry giant Motorola Inc. But the bigger question over the longer run is how meaningful this market share...
L.M. Ericsson has announced its new stock of Global System for Mobile communications phones designed to offer greater choice and flexibility to the consumer.The new family comprises the GH338 model, which follows the GH337, as well as a new model, the GA318, available in...
The Big Mac of wireless devices has arrived. Shaped like a regular cellular phone, the Nokia 9000 Communicator opens to expose an interactive digital world of voice, data, fax, e-mail, computer, on-line and organizer features to appease the cravings of today's business professionals.Nokia Mobile...
PCS Development Corp. is confident in the opportunities for early players in the market for stored voice paging in narrowband PCS. The company just last week announced it signed a memorandum of understanding with Metairie, La.-based Radiofone Inc., a wireless messaging provider with a...
L.M. Ericsson said it surpassed the 1 million subscriber milestone in February for its CMS 30 system for Pacific Digital Cellular, making Japan one of the fastest growing markets for cellular telephony. The number of cellular subscribers in Japan has increased rapidly since deregulation,...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it has a $30 million contract to deploy a digital cellular phone network for PT Telkomsel in Indonesia.The Global System for Mobile communications system will be able to serve 50,000 cellular customers in the capital city of Jakarta, the...
Western Wireless Corp. said aloha to Honolulu's wireless communications market by offering consumers yet another way to communicate-via a personal communications services handset.The Bellevue, Wash.-based company announced it has activated its PCS 1900 network based on Global System for Mobile communications technology in Honolulu...
SHELTON, Conn.-Engineering and Business Systems Inc., a global intelligent network telecommunications middleware and products provider, announced its merger with NewNet, an advanced wireless solutions provider.The joint company, called NewNet, named former EBS Vice President and General Manager Dilip Singh its president. Singh will focus...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s North Asia Cellular Infrastructure Division announced it has been awarded contracts to deploy seven Global System for Mobile communications networks in China."With the explosive growth of the Chinese cellular market, Motorola has planted a strong foothold in the country as...
NEW YORK-DSC Communications Corp. has seen its stock trade recently at less than half of its 52-week share price high of $64. Although the short-term prognosis for the company is troubled, the second half of the year should see marked improvement, securities analysts told...
Discord among potential bidding parties and the government's plan to refashion telecommunications regulations resulted in Chile postponing the March 1 deadline for personal communications services bids, reported Isabel Valenzuela, a telecommunications specialist at the U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile.The government has not set a...
The president of a Colorado-based rural cellular operator "emphatically refutes" claims by analog handset manufacturers that cellular growth is slowing, suggesting instead that low phone prices and the battle for market share are responsible for unwelcome pressure on manufacturing revenue."The number of subscribers continues...
WASHINGTON-The number of bidders participating in the C-block broadband personal communications services auction who are flying by the seats of their pants is staggering. The thought of committing millions of dollars to build a network that is expected to directly compete with numerous established...
L.M. Ericsson said it withdrew a complaint filed in January with the European Commission, which charged that Austria's award of a Global System for Mobile communications license to international consortium Oe-Call, was unfair. Siemens AG Oesterreich of Vienna holds 19.8 percent in Oe-Call. However,...
Northern Telecom Inc. announced the commercial launch of VoiceStream Wireless service on its Global System for Mobile communications-based personal communications services 1900 network in Hawaii, the second PCS network activated in the United States.The service, operated by Western Wireless Corp., was launched in Honolulu...
DALLAS-PageMart Inc. announced its wholly owned subsidiary, PageMart International, has teamed with Canadian partners to launch PageMart Canada Ltd., a new nationwide Canadian paging company that will operate on the same 900 MHz frequency that PageMart uses in the United States.The two carriers will...
WASHINGTON-Iridium Inc. announced it has concluded a private financing within its existing investor group, raising an additional $315 million and boosting its total capital base from $1.6 billion to more than $1.9 billion.The additional funds will be applied by Iridium Inc. to the ongoing...
