Alphanumeric paging is making a turnaround in the U.S. marketplace. It's easier to use, more spectrum-efficient and may open a gateway for service providers to sign on two-way messaging customers.Alphanumeric paging is on the rise. According to Roberta Wiggins, director of wireless/mobile communications for...
WASHINGTON-Congress this week is expected to approve a controversial securities litigation reform bill that would limit the ability of investors to sue firms in the wireless telecommunications industry and in other high-tech sectors that fail to make good on bullish earnings and growth projections.The...
WASHINGTON-The 900 MHz specialized mobile radio auction that begins tomorrow is expected to be characterized by a mixture of bidding by big companies like Geotek Communications Inc. and Ram Mobile Data USA L.P., which want to expand existing systems into national networks, and more...
Sweden's Post and Telestyrelsen, the national telecom agency, said it expects to license up to four operators for nationwide personal communications networks early next year.Cellular penetration is at about 25 percent of Sweden's nearly 9 million people, so while the country is home to...
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...
WASHINGTON-MCI Communications Corp. introduced a package of network design and operation services the company says will let any local operator build and run a wireless business.Called networkMCI WIN (Wireless Integrated Network), the package will be offered to existing wireless companies and to companies that...
Several uncertainties face small specialized mobile radio operators in the future if spectrum above 860 MHz is auctioned off next year-a plan that has been proposed by the Federal Communications Commission."The FCC is giving the frequency to the mountaintop owner," said Guntis Ositis, owner...
BRUSSELS, Belgium-The European Commission has asked the government of Italy to create a level playing field between two cellular operators competing in Italy's digital phone market. The commission has expressed concern with the licensing procedure in other states as well."In the selection procedures screened...
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...
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...
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...
The summer's battle between the adjoining New York cities of White Plains and North Castle has ended, with the state Supreme Court ruling in favor of White Plains.The dispute began last spring when Nynex Mobile received permission from White Plains to erect a monopole...
Wireless technologies are critical to introducing true competition into the country's last bastion of telecommunications monopoly, according to market research by Action Information Services. Unlike today's analog cellular services that merely supplement traditional wireline service, new digital cellular and personal communications services will begin...
JAKARTA, Indonesia-Wireless activity in Indonesia is heating up as two more telecommunications giants jump into the market.L. M. Ericsson and Indonesian partner PT Erindo Utama received a contract from Indonesian operator PT Telkom to deliver a Digital European Cordless Telephone radio access system to...
LAS VEGAS-Specialized mobile radio operator Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc. announced it will acquire 100 percent of the outstanding stock of AirNet Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Universal Network Services Inc.The transaction, valued at approximately $2 million, will exchange 437,143 shares of Chadmoore's restricted...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati last week stayed the entrepreneur block auction for broadband personal communications services licenses after Radiofone Inc., a cellular operator in New Orleans, challenged PCS-cellular cross-ownership rules.The Federal Communications Commission planned to auction the...
While some microwave incumbents are being unreasonable, others are negotiating fairly, reaching agreements and making plans to move their microwave links from the 2 GHz spectrum, according to telecom and utility people involved in the process."It's unfair to tarnish the image of the microwave...
While the personal communications services industry in general remains locked in a three-way split over an airlink standard for systems deployment, cable TV operators in the PCS business so far have pitched their tents in the Code Division Multiple Access camp.CDMA got a large...
ATLANTA-GTE Telecommunications Services and IBM Corp. have introduced a service for managing usage and billing information generated by cellular roaming users.The number of roamers has grown, said GTE, and so it has become increasingly difficult to track usage and manage the distribution of operator...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Switch manufacturer Summa Four Inc. is collaborating with software designer Engineering and Business Systems Inc. to create and market a mini mobile switching center for the personal communications services market.The miniMSC will use Summa Four's Virtual Central Office open, programmable switch and EBS'...
The two-way paging system recently launched by SkyTel Corp. is reasonably priced and clearly takes the paging industry across the threshold into next-century applications, say wireless analysts."The market is going to be very competitive on price," said Heidi Bomengen, associate director for the telecommunications...
The world cellular equipment market, including both switching and base station equipment, totaled $14.4 billion in 1994 with plenty of growth still ahead, according to a new study from Northern Business Information.In "World Cellular Network Equipment Markets: 1994 Edition," NBI projected a compound average growth...
On a recent trip across Europe to visit some of the major operators and manufacturers of the blossoming cellular industry there, I was asked to describe the state of the industry in the United States. Of course I spoke of the great advancements we...
