U.S. Robotics is mounting a three-pronged campaign for the emerging wireless data industry.The Skokie, Ill.-based company's Mobile Communications division is a leader in PC Card modem technology with its Megahertz brand modem for circuit-switched cellular and packet radio networks. The company now wants to...
MIAMI-Geotek Communications Inc. said its digital wireless communications network based on Frequency Hopping Multiple Access technology has begun to offer services to the Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach metropolitan markets in south Florida.The network mirrors those recently introduced in Philadelphia, New York, Boston,...
The fusion of wireless telecommunications and computer processing power into a device that fits your hand ought to be a slam-dunk proposition. It lets time-critical information go unobtrusively to where it can be most productive-in the field-rather than requiring the user to go where...
L.M. Ericsson announced its order intake during the first quarter has continued to increase for the eighteenth consecutive quarter, and by 11 percent compared with the same period last year. Net sales increased by 14 percent. The company said its mobile communications business continues...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc.'s Paging Products Group announced West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Pager One Inc. has introduced a FLEX high-speed paging system that it said gives pager users more reliable service and increased battery life than any local paging system currently available in the...
WASHINGTON-North Coast Mobile Communications-gone. GO Telecommunications Corp.-gone. PCS 2000-director and CEO Anthony Easton resigns to "pursue other business interests." NextWave Personal Communications, GWI PCS Inc., DCR PCS Inc.-cleaning up. April Fools? Not hardly. Just another week in the life of the C-block broadband personal...
DENVER-ICG Satellite Services said it plans to acquire about 90 percent of Maritime Cellular Tele-Network Inc., a West Palm Beach, Fla.-based provider of cellular communications for commercial shipping.MCN will allow ICG to provide mobile satellite communications services to freighters, yachts, tankers and off-shore platforms...
WASHINGTON-If bidders in the C-block broadband personal communications services auction have learned one thing, it's to watch one's back at any given moment or prized markets will be stolen away. And another milestone has been passed-all C-block BTAs now have been bid higher than...
WASHINGTON-Bidders returned to the Federal Communications Commission's auction of C-block broadband personal communications services and 900 MHz specialized mobile radio licenses with renewed fervor last week, following complications from the government's second furlough and the East Coast Blizzard of '96.While there continues to be...
An 18-year-old Australian emergency lighting systems manufacturer plans to beam into the global, wireless communications marketplace with products company leaders say are ideal for serving low- to medium-density populations.Sydney-based Stanilite Pacific Ltd. will focus on building wireless systems for small municipalities, said Thomas Morrow,...
Cutting-edge graphic data software that allows en-route firefighters to wirelessly access images of building layouts using a laptop computer is just one mobile remedy offered by a new Motorola Inc. business.Motorola's RadioWare Software Solutions are made possible through alliances between Motorola's Land Mobile Products...
