Cellular One said it introduced FreedomLink Personal Communications System to businesses in western New York. The system operates as an extension to an existing office phone system by using very low power cellular frequencies to communicate with the office's existing phone system. This enables...
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...
AT&T Wireless Services has unveiled personal Air Communications Technology, a new open standards-based architecture for two-way messaging that the company expects will become an industry standard for narrowband personal communications services.Armed with pACT, AT&T is first to challenge Motorola Inc.'s FLEX technology in the...
Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced it will supply equipment for narrowband personal communications services to Paging Network Inc. under a contract agreement. PageNet will use the equipment to beta test its VoiceNow service in San Francisco. The contract order, valued at $4.5 million, calls for...
MINNEAPOLIS-American Paging Inc. has entered into a comprehensive agreement with Upper Canada Communications Group Inc. of Toronto to coordinate development and use of narrowband personal communications services and conventional paging frequencies in North America.American Paging said each company will pursue its own PCS buildout...
SALT LAKE CITY-AirGo Communications Inc. unveiled the AirGo phone system, a product that integrates a cellular radio and V.32 modem in a single personal computer card.AirGo said that by combining a cellular radio and a data/fax modem in a type III PC (or PCMCIA-Personal...
NASHVILLE, Tenn.-A-Plus Network Inc. said it has completed negotiations on its $25 million, seven-year credit facility with First Chicago Corp."This agreement will further enable us to move forward aggressively with our strategic growth plan, which includes acquisitions in the consolidating paging industry.," said Elliott...
DENVER-Regional Bell operating company U S West Inc. has been ordered by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission to give $150 monthly cellular-phone credit to Colorado residential and business customers who have waited more than 30 days for landline telephone installation.Some 1,850 customers were waiting...
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...
DALLAS-PageMart Inc. said it is offering subscribers the ability to receive wireless e-mail messages from anywhere in the world.PageMart's new universal e-mail gateway, PCS Enterprise Connection, accepts the various aliases and addressing formats used by different e-mail systems and allows senders to launch a...
Stung by a Sept. 22 lawsuit from its erstwhile strategic partner U S West Inc., Time Warner Inc. shot back with its own bitter accusations in a countersuit filed Oct. 11 with the Delaware Chancery Court.The month-long legal battle involves Time Warner's proposed merger...
Allen Telecom Group Inc. announced it has reached a purchase agreement with Pacific Bell Mobile Services. The three-year, non-exclusive agreement allows Pac Bell to purchase Allen's omni-directional and panel antennas and accessories in preparation for building its personal communications services infrastructure for its base...
SEOUL, South Korea-The Republic of Korea has postponed selection of licensees for seven new telecommunications services including personal communications services, second-generation cordless telephony and trunked radio services until after the general election for members of the National Assembly-scheduled for April..The selection of 30 new...
Telemac Cellular Corp. agreed to license its patent-pending debit technology to Trimax Inc. of Taiwan. Trimax will use the technology to manufacture a switch independent cellular debit phone. The license is expected to result in the distribution of 500,000 phones into China during a...
Specialty Teleconstructors Inc. announced its purchase of Orlando Tower Service Inc., an Orlando, Fla.-based builder of transmitting and receiving facilities for wireless telecommunications providers. Consideration for the transaction totaled $135,000 in cash, consisting of two semiannual payments of $65,000 during a 12-month period. Specialty,...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will be a less exciting place after Andrew C. Barrett leaves early next year. No more of those probing-sometimes direct, sometimes drifting-colloquies with FCC staff or light-hearted, off-the-cuff remarks to other commissioners during open meetings.Without Barrett's banter, FCC open meetings...
DALLAS-PageMart Inc. is marketing a new roaming service, infoRoam, which allows paging subscribers to change their coverage area on a short-term basis using an interactive voice response platform, announced the company.Users can phone in and immediately transfer their local numeric or alphanumeric coverage to...
BATON ROUGE, La.-Eatelcorp Inc. will partner with Mercury Cellular and Paging of Lake Charles, La., and contract assistance from Louisiana State University to conduct a trial of AT&T Network Systems Inc.'s Code Division Multiple Access wireless technology for a new personal communications systems network.The...
GIVATAYIM, Israel-Nexus Telecommunication Systems Ltd. said it signed a contract with Contop Ltd., a systems house and integrator of control and management systems and developer of vending machine monitoring units, to integrate its two-way messaging systems and location systems for vending machine monitoring.Israel's largest...
DCR Communications Inc. and Westinghouse Electric Corp. reached an agreement in principle for a multimillion-dollar investment commitment by Westinghouse in the new personal communications services company. Westinghouse's communications systems division will become DCR's primary network systems integrator and provide technical services to support the...
RIDGELAND, Miss.-MobileComm said it completed the conversion of its Mississippi system to the company's new 900 MHz nationwide network, which uses direct satellite control and Motorola Inc.'s FLEX technology.The concept was developed by MobileComm engineers with equipment from multiple manufacturers, including Glenayre Electronics Inc.,...
Metrocall Inc. has commenced a public offering of four million shares of its common stock at a price of $28.25 per share.The company expects to receive net proceeds from the offering of about $107 million and is concurrently offering $110 million principal amount of...
Editor's Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of terrestrial-based, two-way mobile data operators based on interviews with industry contacts. The chart is arranged alphabetically since many of the companies are just starting to offer mobile data service.Although most cellular and...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission early next year will hold a spectrum summit as policymakers rethink fundamental programs that have governed the airwaves for a half century, instead turning to the marketplace for answers.The all-day conference, inspired and organized by Commissioner Susan Ness, will address...
