BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-U.S. Olympic athletes in Atlanta communicated with their coaches, teammates, friends, family and press using OlymPagers, alphanumeric pagers that Motorola Inc. provided to each Team USA athlete.The pagers were unexpectedly beneficial for athletes needing to communicate with family and with one another...
AVON, Colo.-NSN Network Services introduced Broadcast TNPP for paging networking, technology that combines Telocator Network Paging Protocol sources from a number of locations into one data stream, enabling point-to-multipoint communications between terminals.TNPP is the protocol that allows paging terminals to talk to one another....
FORT WORTH-Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group has released an enhanced version of its FLEX high-speed, one-way paging protocol.Version 1.8 of the FLEX protocol offers backwards compatibility with previous versions and provides advantages to carriers worldwide, said Motorola.The new version eliminates constraints of single...
Hong Kong's dominant cellular operator Hongkong Telecom said it deeply regrets that the government failed to award it one of six new wireless licenses, and intends to discuss the matter with Hong Kong officials.Fourteen companies bid for the 10-year personal communications services licenses offered...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.- Glenayre Technologies Inc. said it is working with the Chinese Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, various MPT design institutes, the Research Institute of Telecommunications Transmission and the Mobile Communications Bureau in China to help establish the country's national standard for interswitch paging...
WASHINGTON-Following July 30 rulings by two different U.S. appeals courts, the Federal Communications Commission's D-, E- and F-block broadband personal communications services auctions will start Aug. 26. The application date for bidders was July 31.Judges Walter Stapleton and Collins Seitz of the U.S. Court...
Teletouch Communications Inc. announced it has completed its acquisition of laPAGEco of Baton Rouge, La. laPAGEco is a privately owned paging company that provides services to about 6,700 pagers on 157.74 MHz, Teletouch's main paging frequency. Teletouch said the acquisition complements its paging operations...
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Paging, a subsidiary of AirTouch Communications Inc., is offering Internet paging access to its 2.6 million customers nationwide.All AirTouch Paging customers now can receive e-mail messages sent to their pagers from anywhere in the world. AirTouch said Internet users can send a...
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Communications Inc.'s net income for the second quarter increased 58 percent to $61.2 million, or 12 cents per share, from $38.7 million, or 8 cents per share, for the second quarter 1995."During the quarter, worldwide demand for wireless services exceeded our most...
FORT WORTH, Texas- Uniden America Corp. licensed Motorola Inc.'s InFLEXion voice messaging protocol, the first manufacturing company to license the technology for advanced messaging devices, announced Motorola's Messaging Systems Products Group."It's our belief that voice capability will bring messaging into the business and personal...
MORRISTOWN, Tenn.-Advanced Communications announced it is now offering Racepage alphanumeric racing information service to paging carriers and resellers. Previously, Racepage only was available to subscribers of Advanced Communications' paging service, said the company.The service provides subscribers with motor race information including qualifying results, field...
SAN DIEGO-Pacific Communication Sciences Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cirrus Logic Inc., announced it has signed a reseller agreement with Retix to provide personal Air Communications Technology narrowband personal communications services solutions to the paging industry.PCSI said it will provide pACT infrastructure equipment,...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc. said it has been assisting the RITT Research Institute of Telecommunications, within China's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, to establish an internetwork communications protocol as China's national standard. The Inter Paging Networks Protocol, IPNP, will allow paging terminals to communicate...
Cable & Wireless Inc. has signed a cellular resale agreement with Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile, one of the first steps in introducing its own branded wireless service package into the United States.CWI said it initially will offer its Business First Cellular service this fall...
I wonder if Judge Loretta Preska has ever been to a professional basketball game.Preska ruled in favor of the NBA in its lawsuit against Motorola Inc., ordering Motorola and information providers STATS Inc. to stop sending accounts of NBA basketball games over its pager...
WASHINGTON-Members of a small-business personal communications services coalition met with staffers representing Sen. Christopher (Kit) Bond (R-Mo.), chairman of the Committee on Small Business, to ask for his intervention if their emergency petitions filed last week at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
TORONTO, Ontario-Paging Network Inc. of Canada said it started service in Ottawa and Quebec City. The company first introduced one-way paging services April 1 in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal.Toronto-based PageNet Canada uses nationwide spectrum and a transmission system owned by Madison Telecommunications Inc.PageNet of...
American Technologies Inc. announced the availability of the MicroTracker remote tracking module, a vehicle location system that combines a global positioning system receiver, radio transceiver and radio frequency modem in one unit. ATI said the module can be easily installed in trailers, cars, boats,...
NEW YORK-The NBA won its lawsuit against Motorola Inc. last week, with a judge ruling the electronics company "engaged in unlawful conduct" with its pager-like device that provides accounts of games.Judge Loretta Preska, in her decision in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, said Motorola...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group, in cooperation with the Personal Communications Industry Association, has made the Telocator Data Paging suite of protocols available free of charge to wireless application developers on the World Wide Web.The TDP protocol suite allows wireless product...
Dear Editor: Small businesses are the foundation of our nation's economic success; they create jobs, spur innovation and spark competition. The Federal Communications Commission is committed to fostering the entry of small businesses into the telecommunications industry. Thus, it was with amazement that I read...
Photocomm Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz., has been awarded a $3 million contract from Motorola Inc. for 831 solar electric systems to power a wireless communications project in Indonesia. Photocomm said its solar systems will provide power to an extensive communications network linking remote sites...
WASHINGTON-Following what they characterized as an unsuccessful meeting with Wireless Telecommunications Bureau personnel last week, three personal communications services small-business concerns filed a petition for reconsideration regarding revised D-, E- and F-block auction rules.Personal Technologies Services Inc., DigiVox Corp. and the National Paging &...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration is on a collision course with Congress over encryption policy, as policymakers try to balance law enforcement and national security needs with privacy and commercial interests.The latest White House proposal, outlined by Vice President Al Gore in a briefing with reporters...
