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,...
ATLANTA-AvData Systems Inc. and NEC America Inc.'s Satellite Communications Division announced at PCS '96 the introduction of AvData's Very Small Aperture Terminal Network Infrastructure system.VNI is a high-speed VSAT network for narrowband personal communications services that is specifically tailored for the two-way paging industry,...
NEW YORK-Following on the heels of Motorola Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc., AT&T Corp. announced last week it anticipates lower than expected earnings for the third and fourth quarters of 1996.In a letter to shareholders, Robert E. Allen, AT&T chairman, said the company anticipates...
A California manufacturer is producing a paging repeater that it believes is unique and will appeal to carriers battling high installation costs.The P450 by AML Communications Inc. has a split chassis design. Most repeaters are housed in a single unit that combines the receiver...
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...
Dennis Miller is the new president of Midwest Wireless Communications, the company taking over management of Cellular 2000. The transition between MWC and Cellular 2000's current management company, Pacific Telecom Cellular, is expected to be complete by the end of the year. Miller will...
Judging from information provided in Form 175s submitted prior to the Federal Communications Commission's auction of D-, E- and F-block personal communications services licenses, small rural telephone companies-backed by established telecom heavy hitters-are taking advantage of this last big sale of spectrum. Even though...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. announced it has established a strategic alliance with Bell Atlantic Corp. to offer paging and messaging services. Bell Atlantic will provide Metrocall paging services under the Bell Atlantic name to a potential market of 15 million consumer and business customers, the...
NEW YORK-Glenayre Technologies Inc. recently issued an advance warning that it expects its third-quarter net income to be "significantly below" results posted in the same period last year.According to unaudited financial statements available on Glenayre's World Wide Web site, the company earned net income...
Oki telecom, one of Oki America Inc.'s five divisions, announced Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. will realign the corporate structure of its U.S. telecommunications group. On October 1, a new corporation named Oki Telecom Inc. will be established to better address the opportunities presented...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Group introduced Tango Lite, the newest addition to its family of Tango two-way advanced messaging devices at the PCS '96 Conference last week.Tango Lite, which will operate on the ReFLEX two-way messaging protocol networks, is a two-way alphanumeric...
In the vein of 007 and his accessory antics, Seiko Communications of America is making it possible to receive pages, security-coded messages and other information by watch, and soon by car radio or personal computer.The Beaverton, Ore.-based Seiko company, a joint venture of Seiko...
IRVINE, Calif.-Wireless messaging services as well as online capabilities are accessible via television, using Cue Network Corp.'s UniversalMessage system in conjunction with UniView, by Curtis Mathes Corp., announced Cue.UniView allows a television set to be used as an Internet-link portal, which provides a variety...
Nextel Communications launched a fully digital communications service in Chicago, Milwaukee and other large cities in Illinois, Wisconsin and northern Indiana. Features of the new PowerFone service include digital cellular calling, instant group and private two-way conferencing capability and numeric or alphanumeric paging all...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission shifted into damage control last week after two officials contradicted each other over whether candidates for the Telecommunications Development Fund board were vetted by the White House.Catherine Sandoval, director of the FCC Office of Communications Business Opportunities, said nominees for...
WASHINGTON-The House last week zeroed out a little known government agency that in recent years has played a key role supporting wireless ventures by American firms in countries experimenting with capitalism and democracy for the first time .By a vote of 260-157, the House...
WASHINGTON-In a stunning move with perhaps more symbolism than substance, Ameritech Cellular Services left the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week because the trade group's aggressive wireless agenda clashed with the Midwest regional Bell telephone company's business plans."Over time it has become clear to...
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Bidders currently participating in the auction of D-, E- and F-block broadband personal communications licenses are as diverse as the markets they are pursuing.Many come with deep-pocketed backers, including insurance companies, and others are working with no revenues or assets at all. Some are...
More than a year has passed since the Federal Communications Commission completed its first ever auction for both narrowband and broadband personal communications services frequencies. The winners are racing to design, acquire and build out their new digital networks. Some of these PCS systems...
NEW YORK-Claflin Communications Inc., as a reseller for Paging Network Inc., has signed up more than 2,000 customers for its StockTips information service since the launch of the service in January.The idea behind StockTips, as well as the infoQuotes service launched last month by...
