ACC Corp., through its wholly owned subsidiary ACC TelEnterprises Ltd., signed an agreement with Paging Network of Canada Inc., a paging company affiliated with PageNet in the United States, to resell PageNet services under the ACC brand name. The paging services will be bundled...
CALGARY, Alberta-Telus Mobility will offer Northern Telecom Ltd.'s Cellular Digital Packet Data services to its customers in Alberta."Telus Mobility's extensive deployment of Nortel's platform throughout Alberta allows us to offer service to remote areas as well as major centers," said David Miles, vice president...
TORONTO-Northern Telecom Ltd. has signed an agreement with Bell Mobility to supply equipment for Bell Mobility's cellular and personal communications services networks. Nortel said it values the agreement at approximately $293 million.The deal resulted from a memorandum of understanding signed by the companies in...
TORONTO-Northern Telecom Ltd. signed an agreement with Bell Mobility to supply equipment for Bell Mobility's cellular and personal communications services networks. Nortel values the agreement at around $293 million.The deal resulted from a memorandum of understanding signed by the companies in April. The arrangement...
NEW YORK-Like the fabled elephant described by a group of blind men positioned near various points of its anatomy, equipment vendors at the recent "PCS-1900 in North America" conference gave widely different definitions of so-called "smart phones."The closest thing to a consensus reached was...
Northern Telecom Ltd. signed a three-year agreement to supply equipment to Mobility Canada for its 800 MHz cellular network. "Our enhanced 800 MHz cellular platform will allow Mobility Canada to offer advanced voice and data services complementary to those services being proposed for (personal...
DALLAS-Northern Telecom Inc. said it is syndicating about $1.1 billion of its $1.3 billion vendor credit facility with Sprint Spectrum L.P. through a group of major financial institutions.The syndication of participation rights and loan assignments is expected to be completed early next year, the...
L.M. Ericsson said Digital Tuka Kyushu ordered equipment, including AXE switching and radio base station infrastructure, to expand its Personal Digital Cellular mobile telephone system. Ericsson values the contract at $75 million. The company expects the capacity increase for the southwestern Japanese region to...
DALLAS-Northern Telecom Inc. added fax messaging and voice mail applications to its Norstar-PLUS system. Voice messaging applications allow users to reply to messages with one-touch callback, turn call forwarding on or off remotely from a tone-dialing telephone and set up guest mailboxes to keep...
AirNet Communications Corp. entered an agreement with the Thomsen Group of Denmark, appointing Thomsen as AirNet's authorized business representative in Denmark and certain Far Eastern countries. Thomsen will distribute AirNet's wireless broadband software-based infrastructure equipment, base stations and systems for the wireless local loop,...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Mobility DCS says the new ergonomically designed, 1900 MHz phone it now offers will be more comfortable, easier to use and is "the phone people are calling for."Northern Telecom Inc. manufactured the phone for BellSouth based on marketing and consumer research conducted by...
The new telecommunications arm of Black & Veatch is the fastest growing segment of the Kansas City, Mo.-based engineering company, and is expected to bring in 20 percent of the firm's annual $1.1 billion in revenue this year."We believe we'll be extremely busy doing...
Tomorrow has always been a bit tricky to forecast. Did John Walter know on his first day at R.R. Donnelley that one day he would be picked to run AT&T Corp?Keeping that in mind, I give you my predictions for RCR's Top 20 PCS...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is pushing its PBX-connected, digital microcellular in-building wireless system, saying it sees a 40 percent compounded annual growth rate for the business market."There are about 86 million business telephones in use in the United States," said Jerry Kaufman, an analyst...
Canadians may be giving Fido to their loved ones this Christmas.But Fido is not a dog. It's the spunky brand name for Microcell Telecommunications Inc.'s personal communications service scheduled to be available in Montreal in time for the holidays."We wanted to find a word...
Canadians may be giving Fido to their loved ones this Christmas.But Fido is not a dog. It's the spunky brand name for Microcell Telecommunications Inc.'s personal communications service scheduled to be available in Montreal in time for the holidays."We wanted to find a word...
The Micro Digital M75 is a Time Division Multiple Access digital phone from Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Subscriber Group. The Flip Phone meets the Telecommunications Industry Association IS-136 standard for North American TDMA digital cellular service. The dual mode phone automatically will access a TDMA...
Northern Telecom Ltd. announced Telemig, a Brazilian telecommunications provider, has signed two contracts valued at $95 million to purchase Nortel cellular network infrastructure equipment. According to the first contract, Telemig will buy DMS-MTX SuperNode switching, cell site equipment and voice channels to expand its...
Northern Telecom entered the wireless handset market in North America for the first time by introducing PCS 1911, a personal telephone that supports voice mail and messaging services, the company said. Nortel was awarded a contract by BellSouth Mobility DCS to deploy the handsets...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Following successful completion of field trials of Northern Telecom Ltd.'s 800 MHz Code Division Multiple Access network, BC Tel Mobility has committed to move forward with full commercial rollout of its CDMA digital cellular service in British Columbia, Canada."Our trials and controlled...
TUNIS, Tunisia-Tunisia is expected to issue an international tender for a nationwide cellular network using Global System for Mobile communications technology.In 1985, L.M. Ericsson built a Nordic Mobile Telephone system there.More recently, Northern Telecom Inc. has constructed a GSM system in the capital city...
While naysayers doubted that personal communications services networks could be built out in record time, the five systems now up and running prove them wrong.Western Wireless Corp. last week turned on a PCS network in New Mexico, its third PCS launch in five months....
DALLAS-Northern Telecom Inc. has entered into a three-year agreement to resell Motorola Inc.'s line of data frame relay access devices, or FRADS, which convert local area network and other data protocols to frame relay.Nortel also said its new data and multimedia access strategy will...
