SAO PAULO, Brazil-Samsung in mid-March opened its first manufacturing operations for cellular handsets outside of South Korea. The company began manufacturing a CDMA handset for the Brazil market in Manaus, in the northern state of Amazonas, where Samsung has manufactured other consumer products such...
IntellicellIntellicell Corp. announced Mike Hedge and Michael King, both previously with CellStar Corp., are heading up Intellicell's sales and marketing group. Hedge will be responsible for the implementation of an overall strategic growth plan to increase revenues and King will focus on developing a...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS and Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. announced the SCH-1500 personal communications services handset.The phone is a dual-band, dual-mode handset that combines voice-activated dialing. Sprint PCS will make the phone available in RadioShack stores nationwide this month. The handset will retail for...
WASHINGTON-As the Federal Communications Commission moves closer to setting guidelines to make telecom equipment and services accessible to disabled individuals, the wireless industry is pressing regulators to back off proposed rules that it claims are too restrictive and burdensome and that run counter to...
WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. announced a five-year extension of its technology licensing agreement with Telemac Corp.STC said it will feature handset-based prepaid technology from Telemac in its direct-response TV campaigns, use Telemac technology as well as other technologies in its retail distribution programs...
AO PAULO, Brazil-Samsung in mid-March opened its first manufacturing operations for cellular handsets outside of South Korea. The company began manufacturing a Code Division Multiple Access handset for the Brazil market in Manaus, in the northern state of Amazonas, where Samsung has manufactured other...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it changed the operating segments it uses to report financial figures to coincide with organizational changes in its communications equipment business.Research and development expenditures now will be included as a separate line item on the company's consolidated operations statements. The...
BURLINGTON, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. announced Sprint PCS will deploy Lightbridge's Retail Management System and consulting services.According to Lightbridge, RMS will help Sprint PCS to incorporate a more efficient selling process into its retail locations and will allow the company to better manage its handset and...
WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. announced it signed an agreement to partner with MCI WorldCom Inc. to distribute STC's prepaid cellular services under the MCI WorldCom brand name."With MCI WorldCom as our distribution partner, we look forward to significant growth opportunities in the prepaid...
CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. said it received contracts from Telefonica Del Peru S.A. and BCP Telecomunicacoes of Brazil to distribute prepaid cellular cards.In Brazil, CellStar will be the primary distributor in the northeastern region, covering six states. Prior to launching service in northeastern Brazil, CellStar...
While the domestic wireless industry struggles to determine the demand for wireless local loop services in the United States, Frontier Cellular in May will mark the one-year anniversary of the commercial launch of its WLL system in its New York markets.WLL services are expected...
Iridium L.L.C. announced that Kyocera Corp. has completed its handset testing process and has been approved to begin volume distribution of its single-mode satellite phones and dual-mode adapters, as well as terrestrial cellular phones. Kyocera had reported several problems with the testing process, causing...
In the first product announcement resulting from its acquisition of Starfish Software Inc., Motorola Inc. introduced a personal organizer accessory designed to clip on to the back of other StarTAC phones at Wireless '99 this week called the StarTAC Mobile Organizer.The 2.3 ounce device...
ALEXANDRIA, Minn.-Rural Cellular Corp. announced it received regulatory approvals for and completed the acquisition of RGI Group Inc./ Glacial Lakes Cellular 2000 for $11.9 million.The cellular properties acquired from RGI Group Inc. will operate as part of the RCC-Midwest business unit, with offices and...
MELVILLE, N.Y.-In-Touch Management Systems Inc., a developer of software and computer management systems for the paging and personal communication services industries, said its In-Touch II point-of-sale system has been installed at five regional wireless communications and reseller companies.The companies include ATS in Omaha, Neb.;...
Sprint PCS Chief Executive Officer Andrew Sukawaty declared his company now has the largest digital wireless footprint in the United States as the company ended 1998 having recorded $2.9 billion in capital expenditures.The nationwide personal communications services carrier added a record number 836,000 customers...
DinetDinet Inc. announced an advanced keypad will be installed in all of its models of mobile data terminals. The keypad provides a more tactile feel as well as improved radio-frequency shielding. Testing of the new keypad showed no failures occurring in 16 million pushes....
MarketwaveRichard Bryan is the new senior vice president of sales and marketing at Marketwave Corp. Bryan previously worked for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. as its vice president of sales and marketing, in charge of staff, national accounts and retail sales.Kansas CellularKansas Cellular announced several...
SAN FRANCISCO-Telstra MobileNet in Australia said strong December growth and increased migration of subscribers from analog to digital service increased its customer base to approximately 2.2 million Global System for Mobile communications customers and about 1 million analog customers.Telstra estimates MobileNet controls approximately 49...
TYLER, Texas-Teletouch Communications Inc. announced it added five retail stores in Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi, to expand its presence to 43 stores in its nine-state area.
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Datalink Systems Corp. announced it will begin operating under the name Datalink.net to more accurately reflect its Internet-based strategy."All of our products are driven by our Web-based customer interface, which enables our subscribers to customize their services and maintain their accounts," said...
CARROLLTON, Texas-CellStar Corp. said it plans to reposition itself to be more focused on wireless carriers and manufacturers, targeting improved sales and profitability growth.The strategic initiatives the company plans to implement include de-emphasizing or eliminating businesses and writing off related assets that do not...
ZetronZetron Inc. launched the Model Z907 PCS Fault Finder, which provides fast notification of power amplifier and antenna problems at personal communications services sites. The PCS Fault Finder monitors forward radio-frequency power and antenna return loss in the 1.8 GHz to 2.0 GHz frequency...
NEW YORK-L.M. Ericsson announced several endeavors that will provide handsets with increasing degrees of global utility.The Swedish-based manufacturer said it is forming a "groundbreaking initiative" with four companies to create the "geostationary mobile satellite standard," or GMSS.Participating with Ericsson in developing GMSS are United...
