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ORBCOMM TO OFFER GEO-TRACKING AND DATA SERVICES VIA SATELLITE

With plans to offer commercial tracking services in North America in February, Orbcomm Global L.P. has two satellites in orbit and is beta testing its global data-only communication system.The Dulles, Va.-based company is licensed to create a 34-satellite system to provide worldwide data and...

QUALCOMM, NEC TO OFFER CDMA NETWORK IN BRAZIL

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Qualcomm Inc., through its Brazilian subsidiary, Qualcomm do Brasil, and NEC do Brasil plan to deliver digital cellular systems based on Qualcomm's Code Division Multiple Access technology to Brazil.The two companies plan to jointly bid on tenders that will be issued by...

COMPUTER MAPPING HELPS PLAN BETTER CELLULAR, PCS NETWORKS

Several companies are moving into the network planning business, ready to offer computer-based design expertise to new wireless operators and existing operators faced with increasing competition in the cellular and personal communications services markets.Most of these firms use computer software programs to merge radio...

THE NATION

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...

PCS PRIMECO MAKES CALL USING CDMA TECHNOLOGY ON 1900 MHZ SPECTRUM

DALLAS-PCS PrimeCo L.P. announced it has made the world's first wireless phone call on a carrier-based personal communications services system using Code Division Multiple Access digital technology at 1900 MHz.The company said the calls, which were made in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, are technologically...

YANKEE GROUP PREDICTS 25 DES WILL PARTICIPATE IN PCS AUCTION

Short forms are due today for designated entities, marking a giant and-finally-tangible step toward the Federal Communications Commission's C-block auction of nearly 500 personal communications services licenses set for Dec. 11.About 25 DEs will actually make it to auction, and only a handful will...

QUALCOMM CREATES UNIT FOR CDMA ASIC MARKET

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. has formed the ASIC Products business unit to provide Application Specific Integrated Circuits for products based on Code Division Multiple Access technology.The unit will be under the direction of Richard Kerr, vice president and general manager, and will be responsible for...

MOBILE SATELLITE COMPANIES FIND RESISTANCE JOINING WALL ST. CLUB

Fearing fratricide in the sky, Wall Street is losing its ardor for backing risky telecommunications ventures with junk bonds. In recent weeks, mobile satellite service developers Iridium Inc. and Globalstar L.P. have had to scrap high-yield, high-risk debt offerings after meeting resistance from the...

WIRELESS INDUSTRY PLEDGES TO FIX HEARING AID TROUBLES

WASHINGTON-The wireless telecommunications industry told the Federal Communications Commission it will work with the hearing-impaired community, hearing aid manufacturers and audiologists during the next six months to develop short-term and long-term solutions to hearing aid interference and compatibility problems posed by digital pocket telephones."We...

GLOBALSTAR SETS SITES ON AFRICA WITH 3 SEPARATE JOINT VENTURES

Globalstar L.P. has landed three separate agreements to deliver mobile satellite service in 18 African nations. The company expects its global roaming services will benefit intercontinental travelers and rural fixed-site and mobile users in areas lacking landline or mobile coverage.Warwickshire, U.K.-based Globaltouch Communications Holdings...

HUNDT REQUESTS PLAN TO HANDLE GSM PHONE, HEARING-AID ISSUE

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt directed the wireless telecommunications industry to develop a plan by next week to address interference from European-designed digital pocket telephones to hearing aids.Hundt, according to sources, met last Monday with representatives from the Personal Communications Industry Association, the...

MSS FIRMS SEEK NICHE MARKETS BECAUSE OF INTENSE COMPETITION

The success of wireless communications presents a double-edged blade for mobile satellite service. On one hand, the continued acceptance of wireless communications and the development of wider applications represents large potential demand. On the other hand, the growth of terrestrial cellular systems reduces the...

THE WORLD

AT&T Network Systems Inc. installed a digital wireless data communications system on Tele2000's wireless network in Lima, Peru. Tele2000 said it was the first to bring cellular telephone service to Peru. AT&T's Cellular Digital Packet Data system allows subscribers on the network to send...

U S WEST REJECTS LOVE TRIANGLE WITH TURNER AND TIME WARNER

The recent scuffle between Time Warner Inc. and U S West Inc. over the former's proposed acquisition of Turner Broadcasting System Inc. may terminate yet another much-ballyhooed telecommunications partnership that couldn't survive changing industry conditions.On Sept. 22, U S West filed a lawsuit asking...

FUJITSU EXPANDS CONTRACT FOR CDMA INFRASTRUCTURE

GENEVA-Qualcomm Inc. announced it has signed a worldwide, royalty-bearing infrastructure license agreement with Fujitsu Ltd. to use Qualcomm's Code Division Multiple Access technology.The multimillion dollar agreement follows the recent announcement Fujitsu signed with Qualcomm to be a CDMA subscriber equipment licensee. The additional license...

PEOPLE

Sue Cardillo was named manager of public affairs at AT&T Wireless Services. Cardillo will be responsible for media relations, charitable giving, community relations and employee communications. She has 10 years experience in the public relations field, most recently as the senior media/community relations specialist...

QUALCOMM AND SCT JOINTLY TEST TECHNOLOGY IN PCS BASE STATION

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and Superconducting Core Technologies Inc. have completed the first field test of a cryoelectronic base station receiver for personal communications services.The station is designed to enable higher system performance, which could allow carriers to deploy fewer cell sites in their PCS...

AMTRAK TRAIN FLEET TO USE 80 OMNITRACS DATA UNITS

SAN DIEGO- Qualcomm Inc. announced that Amtrak signed a contract to purchase 80 OmniTracs mobile satellite communications units. The systems will be used aboard about half of the rail company's diesel locomotive fleet.Qualcomm said the OmniTracs system will allow Amtrak to have two-way communications...

AT&T, MOTOROLA SHARE CONTRACT FOR PRIMECO’S $1 BILLION SYSTEM

PCS PrimeCo L.P. has chosen AT&T Network Systems Inc. and Motorola Inc. to be equipment manufacturers for its nationwide personal communications services network.AT&T and Motorola will split the contract equally, with Motorola primarily supplying radio transmitters and receivers. The total contract is valued at...

SOUTH KOREA READIES TO AWARD SINGLE LICENSE DESPITE POLITICS

Reversing an earlier stance, South Korea is trying to deter infighting among some of its industrial heavyweights by awarding a single personal communications services license to a consortium that includes everybody but gives control to nobody.In early August, the Korean Ministry of Information and...

EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO STUDY EFFECTS OF MSS ON COMPETITION

BRUSSELS-The European Commission is investigating three consortia building mobile satellite systems to guage the effect those global systems will have on future competition in European Union nations.Globalstar L.P., Iridium Inc. and Inmarsat-P have been asked by Karel Van Miert, EC commissioner in charge of...

QUALCOMM’S SALMASI QUITS FIRM IN QUEST FOR PCS OPPORTUNITIES

A new company led by industry veteran Allen Salmasi is poised to bid in the entrepreneurial auction for personal communications services licenses, with plans to build a network based on Code Division Multiple Access technology.NextWave Telecom Inc. is headed by Salmasi, who recently resigned...

COX ENDS THREE YEARS OF TESTING WITH CDMA CHOICE FOR NETWORK

Convergence shows its colors as cable TV provider Cox Communications Inc. charts its course into next-generation wireless telephony, underscored by its announcement last month of plans to use Code Division Multiple Access technology on its personal communications services networks.The company is a PCS pioneer's...

SPRINT PCS GROUP ADOPTS CDMA TO ALLOW CABLE PLANT CONNECTION

Sprint Telecommunications Venture-which plans to operate next-generation mobile phone service across much of the nation-is keeping to its cable roots by selecting Code Division Multiple Access technology as the foundation for its network.The Sprint-cable TV consortium last month announced it would use CDMA technology...