MINNEAPOLIS-Motorola Inc.'s Land Mobile Products Sector has introduced a wireless communicator for industrial and public safety use.The Forte Wireless CommPad is a rugged, handheld computer designed to operate on Motorola's private two-way radio communications networks, the company said. It features an internal data radio...
CINCINNATI-Despite soaring revenue and subscriber growth, USA Mobile Communications Inc. reported a sharp decline in net income for the second quarter, ended June 30, because of increases in depreciation and amortization costs associated with assets gained in recent acquisitions.Net loss reached $7.6 million, or...
Convergence shows its colors as cable TV provider Cox Communications Inc. charts its course into next-generation wireless telephony, underscored by its announcement last month of plans to use Code Division Multiple Access technology on its personal communications services networks.The company is a PCS pioneer's...
Sprint Telecommunications Venture-which plans to operate next-generation mobile phone service across much of the nation-is keeping to its cable roots by selecting Code Division Multiple Access technology as the foundation for its network.The Sprint-cable TV consortium last month announced it would use CDMA technology...
CommNet Cellular Inc. said it has successfully concluded its call for redemption of its 6.75 percent convertible subordinated debentures. Of $74.7 million aggregate principal amount of the debentures outstanding, $41.9 million were redeemed and the balance of $32.9 million was converted into shares of...
WASHINGTON-The United States and Japan will resume talks this fall in hopes of heading off a full-blown trade dispute concerning foreign access to Japan's booming next-generation pocket telephone business, which American trade officials argue is subject to a major telecommunications accord agreed to by...
FORT LEE, N.J.-Tri-State Radio Co. announced deployment of Motorola Inc.'s FLEX high speed paging protocol on its East Coast and West Coast regional paging networks."The rapid growth of our markets necessitated an advanced protocol solution. We chose the FLEX protocol because it is the...
WASHINGTON-The United States will seek additional spectrum for voice and data low-earth-orbit global satellite systems at the World Radiocommunication Conference this fall in Geneva."We've worked closely with the private sector to achieve what we believe will provide our industry and this country with the...
After two years of storm and stress, Nextel Communications Inc. is putting finishing touches on its enhanced specialized mobile radio network and ownership structure-but one early backer has decided to cash out.Nextel said it has received stockholder approval to complete its pending transactions with...
CHICAGO-Sprint Cellular announced Cellular Digital Packet Data trial systems now are available in four of its markets. Trial sites include Norfolk, Va., Raleigh and Greensboro, N.C., and Las Vegas, Nev.The systems enable Sprint's customers to use CDPD technology, which allows packets of information to...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Air Apparent for NetWare, a wireless software application, was introduced by Motorola Inc.'s Personal Communicator Systems and Software division.Air Apparent is an enterprise-wide wireless software application integrating paging technology with Novell NetWare and NetWare Directory Services. By uniting the network server with...
Although Motorola Inc. has been actively refining its worldwide focus to be solely an equipment manufacturer, the Schaumburg, Ill.-based company holds ownership interests in cellular operating companies in three blooming Asian markets-Pakistan, Thailand and Hong Kong."Our objective in opportunities worldwide is to be an...
Growth in the paging industry exploded this year, led by public companies that have pushed boldly across market borders, stepped confidently into marriages of convenience and reaped tremendous opportunities from serving a new consumer-oriented market.The result is a 38 percent industry growth rate at...
As the onset of narrowband personal communications services nears, the industry is abuzz about what promises to be the next wave of wireless wonder. But for many narrowband providers-to-be, it is only a natural extension of one-way paging.Two camps have emerged among advanced messaging...
Editor's Note: The following information is a Smith Barney Inc. analysis released April 28. From time to time, RCR plans to print investment opinions and summaries about publicly traded telecommunications companies as a service to its readers.Dial Page Inc. recently reported its first quarter 1995...
As one company fine-tunes its debut for narrowband personal communications services, others bide their time by determining market position and devising rollout strategies.SkyTel Corp.-through its PCS bidding entity Destineer Corp.-plans to activate its nationwide two-way advanced messaging service during the second half of the...
WASHINGTON-American Personal Communications unveiled a new device that helps next-generation pocket telephone firms optimize access to 2 GHz spectrum while they negotiate to move incumbent fixed microwave licensees off that band onto higher frequencies.PathGuard remote measuring units, based on a new APC patent and...
Editor's Note: The following information is a Smith Barney Inc. analysis released April 28. From time to time, RCR plans to print investment opinions and summaries about publicly traded telecommunications companies as a service to its readers.Dial Page Inc. recently reported its first quarter 1995...
Punctuating the onset of narrowband personal communications services, Motorola Inc.'s new InFLEXion messaging protocol is among a family of protocols the company expects to become the new paging standard.Distinguished by its voice and two-way data capabilities, speed, capacity and frequency reuse, InFLEXion reportedly is...
In India, where basic telephone service is scarce and telecommunications unfamiliar, the introduction of paging technology promises new opportunities for both service providers and consumers.After the Indian government opened the paging market last year, granting 94 licenses in 27 cities among 15 companies, partners...
The Post and Telecommunication Administration in the Zhejiang Province of China is reconfiguring its existing paging network, based on Motorola Inc.'s M15 series paging terminals, with an order valued at more than $3 million for new Digital Communications Frame-based paging infrastructure equipment.Motorola's Paging Products...
Following partnership agreements established last December, Northern Telecom Ltd. has issued its first purchase order, valued at $2 million, to Qualcomm Inc. for Code Division Multiple Access-based cellular and personal communications services infrastructure and subscriber equipment, Qualcomm said. Northern Telecom is supplying BC TEL...
L.M. Ericsson introduced the Prism HP portable, which the company says is its smallest, lightest and most sophisticated high specification radio. It is designed to meet worldwide user requirements and can be programmed to work on both Enhanced Digital Access Communications Systems trunked or...
InterDigital Communictaions Corp. said it received an order for UltraPhone digital wireless local loop equipment valued at $17.6 million from the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. Installation in metropolitan Manila is scheduled to begin the second half of this year. The Myanma Posts and...
