NEW YORK-With plans to deliberately blur the distinction between cellular and personal communications services, AT&T Corp. launched an advanced digital cellular communications network covering a population of 70 million in 40 major markets where it now offers cellular service.The new offering has been dubbed...
RadioMail Corp. announced the availability of its RadioMailer wireless Internet access solution for Cellular Digital Packet Data networks. Service previously was limited to Mobitex and DataTAC packet radio systems."By extending our service to operate on CDPD and cellular networks, we are the only company...
Luis M. Larralde is the new international area manager for Hutton Communications Inc. His responsibilities will include establishing new accounts and generating business in the South Florida market as well as in Central and South American and in the Caribbean. He has been involved...
The voices of young people are getting louder in the paging industry.Paging manufacturers and carriers have discovered just how "cool" teenagers and young adults think pagers are, and are beginning to pump money into products and marketing campaigns to make sure the market segment...
OCTOBER7 Making Sense of the Changing Communications Marketplace, by TeleStrategies Inc. Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, Washington, D.C. (703) 734-7050.7-9 Wireless APPS Convention, by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Bally's, Las Vegas. (301) 694-5243.7-9 Technology Forecasting for the Telecom Industry, by Technology Futures Inc. Renaissance...
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Paging, a division of AirTouch Communications Inc., announced it will add New York City to its paging network. AirTouch currently serves several major cities in the Northeast, including Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore and Washington D.C."Opening our New York office is an important milestone...
NEW YORK-Glenayre Technologies Inc. authorized its management Sept. 25 to repurchase up to 2.5 million shares, or 4 percent of the company's common stock, in addition to the 1.5 million share repurchase completed Sept. 20.Glenayre's stock closed on Nasdaq Sept. 25 at $21.38-significantly below...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies' Wireless Messaging Group introduced the GL3200, which is a gateway from the Internet to both one- and two-way paging, delivering text messages to alpha pagers and providing new two-way paging services such as multistage e-mail transmission with multiple response capabilities.The GL3200...
NEW YORK-Citing numerous customer complaints, the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan Dallas has expelled Excel Communications Inc., a large reseller of wireline and wireless telephone services, from its membership.Excel officials met with Better Business Bureau representatives Sept. 23 to appeal the decision, but no...
NEW YORK-Within two years, AT&T Corp. and Sprint Corp. "will be the dominant wireless players," said Michael Elling, senior telecommunications analyst for Prudential Securities Inc., at a press conference Sept. 26.Today, he said, the United States telecommunications market is balkanized like the former Yugoslavia....
Wireless Access Inc.-recently licensed to incorporate the ReFLEX protocol in its integrated circuit chipset-is guided by a twofold business philosophy, said Tim Williams, founder and chief technical officer of the company. "You build better equipment by having better silicon and you have better silicon...
I'm still recovering from PCS '96 in San Francisco.Between the 400 exhibitors, about 15,000 attendees and 30 sessions, I just couldn't take it all in. In fact, PCIA said it had to turn away numerous companies that wanted to exhibit.It's always difficult to take...
The option to pay in advance for wireless service is booming in the cellular industry. The same trend may soon spread in paging.Grab 'n Go is a prepaid beeper package unveiled by SkyTel Corp. and Sony Wireless Telecommunications Co. at PCS '96 earlier this...
MORRISTOWN, N.J.-Bellcore said its board of directors has not yet approved the sale of the company, although a California defense contractor is believed to be close to making the buy.Bell Communications Research Inc. was created in 1984 by the regional Bell operating companies following...
TEL AVIV, Israel-Nexus Telecommunication Systems Ltd. and Ex Machina Inc. have agreed to develop personal computer-based message entry and retrieval software to operate with the Nexus two-way paging system.The application will allow users to send and receive text messages to and from Nexus Tag...
The Romanian government received applications from four consortia for two Global System for Mobile communications licenses, reported MobiFon, one bidding group. The deadline for applications was last Thursday.The 900 MHz digital cellular licenses are expected to be awarded by Oct. 25. Winners will be...
SAN FRANCISCO-Philips Electronics NV of the Netherlands and Motorola Inc. announced a cross-licensing agreement giving Philips access to the FLEX family of messaging technologies, including the FLEX one-way, ReFLEX two-way and InFLEXion voice messaging protocols.In addition, Philips Semiconductor Division, a worldwide supplier of paging...
WASHINGTON-When it comes to getting a say in telecommunications policymaking in the nation's capital, firms let their dollars do the talking. And, oh, how the money has talked in recent years, like an endless filibuster gushing in all its gilded glory.While political action committee...
SAN DIEGO-The National Dispatch Center Inc. and Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV have established NDC Voice Corp., which will develop and provide state-of-the-art wireless and wireline voice services worldwide.NDC said the new company will release its initial wireless voice services including voice paging,...
The futuresque communications previously only envisioned by StarTrek's writers are reality in the here and now as demonstrated at PCS '96 by students of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, in conjunction with Motorola Inc.The communications technology projects exhibited by MIT use Motorola's FLEX...
TORONTO-Clearnet Communications Inc. has launched its business communications service, a digital wireless telecommunications service that integrates mobile phone, dispatch or group and private call radio, alphanumeric paging and messaging services in one handset.Clearnet said the service uses Motorola Inc.s integrated Digital Enhanced Network. The...
BEIJING-China Telecom, a division of the country's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, has selected Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Group to supply infrastructure equipment to implement China's FLEX national backbone paging network in Beijing, Shanghai and nine major provincial capital cities.The system, which is expected...
Centigram Communications Corp. announced it will sell its MobileManager enhanced services platform to Paging Network Inc. for limited testing this year with possible commercial deployment later. Centigram developed MobileManager in partnership with Priority Call Management. It is designed to support enhanced features such as...
NEC America Inc. introduced what it believes to be the first in a new class of pagers: The Beacon data pager.The device is a one-way FLEX pager that uses wireless data exchange software from Microsoft Corp. to transfer and coordinate information with Windows-based personal computers,...
