The SBC Communications Inc. and Ameritech Corp. merger means two major cellular markets may be up for grabs.Both companies own cellular licenses in Chicago and St. Louis, Mo., as well as surrounding licenses in Illinois, Indiana and Missouri. SBC will have to sell off...
NORMAN, Okla.-The University of Oklahoma's EMC Center reported recent findings indicate that interaction may occur between a small number of wireless phones and some implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs).ICDs are electronic devices inserted within a patient's body to monitor and correct abnormally fast heart rhythms....
PAIGNTON, United Kingdom-Northern Telecom Inc. said it successfully demonstrated Integrated Services Digital Network capability via fixed wireless access.The company said it plans to begin field tests and customer implementation of ISDN on Nortel Proximity fixed wireless access systems later this year."An operator using Proximity...
CANCUN, Mexico-Northern Telecom Ltd.'s Proximity T-LTX, which allows operators to offer fixed wireless services from a wireline switching system, is now commercially available, announced the company at Mexico's Wireless '97 show.The Proximity T-LTX uses Time Division Multiple Access technology to deploy additional capacity, particularly...
NEW YORK-Telstra Corp. Ltd. debuted with a bang Nov. 17 on the Australian Stock Exchange, and trading began on the New York Stock Exchange a day later.The hugely oversubscribed initial public offering of 4.3 billion shares of common stock in the country's largest telecommunications...
NEW YORK-Despite recent volatility in the equities markets and lawsuits against it by six competing carriers, Telstra, Australia's largest telecommunications company, apparently still plans to proceed by mid-November with its initial public stock offering.Besides its wireline business, Telstra operates Telstra Mobilenet, one of three...
SYDNEY, Australia-Telstra, an Australian telecom company, announced it selected Northern Telecom Inc. as its preferred digital fixed wireless access network infrastructure equipment and services provider, with plans to deploy 350 of its base stations over the next three years.The carrier already has begun commercial...
Nokia Corp. and MobileOne of Singapore signed an agreement to expand MobileOne's Global System for Mobile communications network capacity to accommodate about 200,000 customers. Nokia values the arrangement at more than $30 million. Nokia agreed to supply its high-capacity DX200 mobile switching equipment, tropicalized...
Globalstar L.P. announced at a signing ceremony it has placed purchase orders by the partners that comprise Globalstar's limited partnership for 35 Globalstar gateways to be installed around the world. The contracts, totaling approximately $275 million, represent a further commitment by the Globalstar partners...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana-Guyana Telephone & Telegraph said it launched the first fixed wireless access network in the Anna Regina area of the Caribbean.The system uses Northern Telecom Ltd.'s Proximity product to supplement a rural analog switch, housed in an Anna Regina exchange, which was incapable...
TEMPE, Ariz.-AirTouch Cellular announced plans to move its customer service operation for the Southwest region from Bellevue, Wash., to Tempe, Ariz.The site for the new 67,000-square-foot call center was chosen for its proximity to Arizona State University and Sky Harbor Airport, the company said....
PAIGNTON, United Kingdom-ScottishTelecom awarded a contract to Northern Telecom Ltd. for Nortel's Proximity fixed wireless access equipment and services designed for use in the 3.4 GHz to 3.5 GHz band. The companies value the contract at $145 million.ScottishTelecom launched commercial service in Edinburgh using...
LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill.-Ardis extended its nationwide wireless data network to include 13 new cities. The company also extended 19.2 kilobits per second coverage to five new cities and added PowerSave capabilities to the network.The new coverage areas include Panama City, Fla., Ottawa, Ill., Hamlet, N.C.,...
Simmonds Capital Ltd. said its wholly owned subsidiary, Midland International Corp., sold an 80 percent controlling interest in its European business to an undisclosed buyer. The transaction includes a license to distribute Midland two-way radio products in Western Europe, Africa, India, the Middle East...
PAIGNTON, U.K.-Northern Telecom Inc. will supply Proximity I fixed radio access network equipment and services to Ionica, a new national public telephone operator in the United Kingdom. Proximity wireless access products substitute radio for copper cable to connect customers' homes and businesses, reducing time...
TRENTON, N.J.-To paraphrase an old Barbra Streisand song, "On a rainy day, you can hear forever," even when making a call to Colorado from a car parked beneath a water tower in the state capital of New Jersey.That's the sound quality of a brief...
Alexandria, Minn.-based Rural Cellular Corp. said it plans to offer personal communications services and cellular service to customers in portions of Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin through a joint venture with American Portable Telecom Inc.The two companies have signed a letter of intent to...
L.M. Ericsson announced it will deliver a Global System for Mobile communications network, valued at $77 million, to the Indian cellular operator Birla Communications Ltd. Birla Communications is a joint venture between AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and the Indian company A.V. Birla Group. Its...
Opportunity looms for the Canadian kin of PageMart Inc. and Paging Network Inc. Both companies recently activated service in Canada where market penetration is only 3 percent, or about 1 million people."Paging has been a `me too' product," said Rob Graham, vice president sales...
Budget talks between the Clinton administration and the GOP-controlled Congress are stalled, the chances that any budget agreement will be worked out by the end of this week-when Shutdown III is set to start-look dismal.The concept of a flat tax is all the rage,...
Yet another wireless technology is knocking on the door of the U.S. personal communications services marketplace, with the promise of wireline quality voice service.Actually, the low-power, microcellular PACS Edge system is making a few distinctive claims. It doesn't claim to offer full-blown PCS or...
The revolution in wireless communications, already well underway, will dramatically reshape the way we work, play, shop and travel. Which technologies survive and flourish depends not only upon their consumer acceptance in the marketplace, but also, on a more basic level, their ability to...
