WASHINGTON-The United States had mixed success in securing more spectrum for next-generation global satellite systems at the World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva, an event unexpectedly preoccupied with the mammoth Teledesic Corp. network planned by high-tech billionaires Craig McCaw and Bill Gates."I think this conference...
WASHINGTON-The future is here.Vice President Al Gore, father of the information superhighway, christened the broadband personal communications services industry with a call to Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke Nov. 15 on the Sprint Spectrum system operated by American Personal Communications."I'm proud to speak to you...
A number of small U.S. cellular companies have been hit with lawsuits from the government of Alberta, Canada, which is charging the companies breached contracts by not purchasing cellular equipment from NovAtel.One of the companies, Dial Two Inc. of Santa Rosa, Calif., is fighting...
WHEATON, Md.-Wireless local loop subscribers are expected to double in the next four years, from 172 million to 367 million, according to a new report by Herschel Shosteck Associates Ltd.The Wheaton, Md.-based firm focused exclusively on developing countries of the world, those with per...
Information services-whether it be sports, financial or headline news that arrives on an alphanumeric pager-could mark the early stages of a new industry, according to company promoters."Paging companies that don't have these services will be left in the dust," said Christopher Hayes, marketing manager...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Pan American Wireless Infrastructure Division will expand Comunicaciones Celulares' cellular phone system in Guatemala City and surrounding areas, Motorola announced.The contract, valued at $20 million, calls for Motorola to add 12 SC 9600 digital base stations that support Advanced Mobile...
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Audiovox Cellular Communications received a 13-month contract to sell 500,000 cellular phones to PCS PrimeCo, the joint services organization of AirTouch Communications Inc., U S West Inc., Bell Atlantic Corp. and Nynex Corp.Three supply contracts were issued by PrimeCo; Motorola Inc. and Nokia...
The cellular industry's major handset manufacturers reported lower growth figures in third quarter reports, a sign that the wireless phone industry could be slowing down in the United States.Low cellular phone prices were one of the contributing factors that led to the slower growth...
Several companies are moving into the network planning business, ready to offer computer-based design expertise to new wireless operators and existing operators faced with increasing competition in the cellular and personal communications services markets.Most of these firms use computer software programs to merge radio...
Motorola Inc.'s North Asia Cellular Infrastructure Division has signed an agreement with the China Directorate General of Telecommunications and L.M. Ericsson to interconnect the nationwide cellular network in China. Motorola and Ericsson will provide more than 3 million Chinese subscribers with automatic roaming services...
Two kinds of private, in-building wireless systems are seeking the attention of today's large business customers-stand-alone systems that provide portable extensions of employee desk phones, and stand-alone systems that provide portable extensions but also can hand off calls to the external, macro wireless network.Both...
Photographs and medical data now can be sent on existing POCSAG paging networks to portable devices using a technology developed by Data Critical Corp.Data-Through-Paging technology, or DTP, is a protocol that compresses images or text, then slices it into packets. Compressed and packetized data...
RUTHERFORD, N.J.-Nextel Communications Inc. has launched digital service in parts of New England, expanding its Northeastern region to the metropolitan areas of Boston and Worcester, Mass., Providence, R.I., and Manchester and Portsmouth, N.H.Nextel said it had about 61,000 digital mobile units in service as...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s International Cellular Infrastructure Division will expand and upgrade cellular phone service in Thailand under a contract valued at $160 million.Total Access Communications Public Co. Ltd. ordered the expansion to increase overall network capacity and extend geographic coverage in the capital...
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Network Ventures Division and Telular Corp. have signed an agreement allowing Telular to become a preferred supplier of fixed wireless subscriber equipment to Motorola NVD's cellular joint ventures worldwide.Under the terms of the agreement, NVD cellular operations will have the...
Two Motorola Inc. wireless communicators, Marco and Envoy, will be offered from now until Dec. 29 at a reduced cost through a holiday-season marketing promotion by Motorola's Wireless Data Group and the Ardis wireless data network.Motorola said it is working with resellers to offer...
Tender documents for two new cellular licenses in Poland should hit the table this week, unlocking the door to telecom competition, but an American company is protesting the government's decision.Ameritech Corp. is urging the Polish Communications Ministry to uphold a letter of intent signed...
IFR Systems Inc. has named Dr. Samual Kyehung Lee director of business development for the Pacific Rim. He will also be the management contact for all IFR distributors in mainland Asia, Southeast Asia, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.Dr. Lee joined IFR in 1987 as...
AT&T Wireless Services has unveiled personal Air Communications Technology, a new open standards-based architecture for two-way messaging that the company expects will become an industry standard for narrowband personal communications services.Armed with pACT, AT&T is first to challenge Motorola Inc.'s FLEX technology in the...
The nation's major cellular handset manufacturers caused a little commotion on Wall Street recently when they noted handset sales hadn't grown at the phenomenal rate that analysts and industry execs are used to seeing.Does this mean the cellular marketplace is finally slowing down? Should...
As the entrepreneurial block auctions for broadband personal communications services get underway this December, the first broadband PCS services also are scheduled to become reality. But a later rollout schedule is par for the course among major PCS license holders, resulting in part from...
Standard Telecom America Inc. introduced a line-up of Nixxo pagers including Nixxo Tutti, Nixxo AirFly and the alphanumeric Nixxo, to American and Latin American markets. The company is a new player in the U.S. paging market but is a leading manufacturer in South Korea...
Editor's Note: This letter was sent to several U.S. Congressmen by the owners of Americell Communications.To the Editor: Americell Communications is a medium- to small-sized specialized mobile radio company operating in the 800 MHz frequency spectrum. We started our business on May 25, 1991, with a...
In the Oct. 9 issue of RCR, a story about Hutchison Telephone Co. Ltd. introducing commercial digital phone service based on Code Division Multiple Access technology in Hong Kong stated the incorrect number of cell sites and switch es. Those numbers are confidential. Motorola...
