Just as paging carriers look to two-way paging as a means of differentiation into the next millennium, so do paging manufacturers.In the past, a one-way pager was pretty much the same all over. Even the new lines of 1.5-way, or guaranteed messaging, pagers based...
Research In Motion Ltd. introduced a wireless e-mail solution, called BlackBerry, designed to allow Microsoft Exchange users mobile access to their desktop e-mail.BlackBerry is an end-to-end solution that combines the Inter@ctive 950 pager from RIM with e-mail/organizer software, a PC docking cradle, desktop software,...
BOSTON-Fidelity Investments announced its InstantBroker wireless stock alert and e-trading service will use BellSouth Wireless Data L.P.'s network for data transmission.As part of the agreement, Fidelity has exclusive use of BellSouth's RAMpowertool, which features encryption technology from Certicom Corp. for secure trading using the...
WASHINGTON-Progress toward lowering telecom equipment tariffs and trade barriers was overshadowed at the recent Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum by Vice President Al Gore's controversial remarks in support of Malaysian anti-government protesters and the failure of Pacific Rim nations to take bold steps to...
ORLANDO, Fla.-BellSouth Wireless Data disclosed in greater detail its distribution strategy for its Interactive Paging service at PCS '98 last week, where the company also announced a strategic alliance and conducted a developer's seminar.BellSouth released a list of 43 distributors made up of resellers,...
VLSIVLSI Technology Inc. said its president and chief operating officer, Richard M. Beyer, left the company for personal reasons. "We have a very solid team that can weather the current semiconductor industry downturn while we continue to invest in the strategic technologies that position...
WATERLOO, Ont.-Research In Motion announced it signed a $1 million agreement to supply its radio modems and wireless PC cards to Lipman USA Inc.Lipman provides integrated portable wireless electronic funds transfer and point-of-sale terminals. RIM's radio modems are expected to be an integral component...
The Federal Communications Commission affirmed a 1997 decision to move Teligent Inc. wireless local loop licenses from the 18 GHz band to the 24 GHz band. Laurence Harris, senior vice president at Teligent, applauded the decision. "Teligent continues to move forward with construction of...
Mobile data applications to date have been fairly industry-specific and complicated, something many in the data industry blame for its confinement to a limited vertical market.But mobile data network carriers Ardis and BellSouth Wireless Data Inc.-formerly RAM Mobile Data USA L.P.-believe two-way interactive text...
Loral Space & Communications said it will increase its ownership in Globalstar L.P. to 42 percent, establish a US$210 million fund to reinvest in the mobile satellite service project and add the Soros funds as a significant investor in Globalstar.Loral has offered to purchase,...
GlobalStar Telecommunications Ltd. announced that China Telecom Group Ltd. has agreed to invest $37.5 million to become a full partner in Globalstar L.P.China Telecom, which provides fixed and wireless services in China, along with China Telecommunications Broadcast Satellite Corp., will retain the sole rights...
NEW YORK-British Telecommunications plc announced its mobile satellite communications customers will enjoy price reductions up to 15 percent, when the company introduces a new U.S. dollar billing rate.BT will reduce the cost of calling from mobile terminals via the Inmarsat system. Customers on BT's...
Tom Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, will have spent two weeks on the road before he returns home to Washington, D.C. Wheeler was scheduled to spend the first week in Cannes, France, at the GSM MOU conference and this week hosting...
To the Editor: Last week, in a letter to the editor, a former employee of Pocket Communications blamed me for Pocket's demise. Well, he's right!Pocket neither qualified nor deserved to be a C-block licensee. And if the FCC had done its job, there would have...
... Kudos to AT&T Wireless for being the proud provider of PCS service that worked in D.C.'s Old Ebbitt Grill. The bartender said most pocket phones don't work in Old Ebbitt because of lead in the windows. My AT&T PCS loan phone roamed like...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Put four analysts up on a podium, ask them what they think and while their answers don't always agree on specifics, their big picture themes often seem similar.That's what happened at the recent 1997 CDMA North American Regional Congress when four wireless market...
The National Telecommunications Commission in the Philippines announced it will issue one nationwide and four regional permits for new mobile phone operators there.Kari Roe, analyst for Asia and the Pacific Rim for International Technology Consultants in Bethesda, Md., said the tender is for an...
Since the passage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, it seems rarely a week goes by without the announcement-or rumor-of another blockbuster telecom deal.The recent flurry of merger and acquisition activity clearly is changing the face of the telecom landscape and prompting debate about where...
L.M. Ericsson signed a contract to supply a Digital Cellular System 1800 network in Denmark for Telia Mobile AB. Ericsson values the first phase of the project at $49 million, with options for deliveries totaling $152 million, said the company. Bo Stokholm, vice president...
WASHINGTON-The mobile data industry still is in its infancy, according to manufacturers, service providers and users, but the next few years promise a mini boom in applications easy for almost anyone to use. A study recently released by Booz Allen Hamilton predicts 17.4 million...
WASHINGTON-President Clinton, with help from Japan, Canada, Australia and the European Union, snatched victory from defeat in winning support from Asia-Pacific leaders to end tariffs on telecommunications and information technology products by 2000.The accord, culminating the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum last week in Manila,...
Using the existing Ardis two-way data network, ConectUS Wireless Communications of Thousand Oaks, Calif., plans to launch two-way nationwide messaging services next month, initially targeting business users.ConectUS is a subsidiary of Executive Page, which is an Ardis master reseller and distributor of products for...
WASHINGTON-As expected, DCR PCS Inc., part of Pocket Communications Inc. and the second-largest C-block winner, responded to National Telecom PCS Inc.'s recent second supplement to its petition to deny DCR's licenses by stating, "once again, there is no affidavit support or legal authority advanced...
WASHINGTON-In his continued attempt to regain the C-block American Samoa personal communications services license taken back by the Federal Communications Commission due to default, Jack Robinson, president of National Telecom PCS Inc., has charged a financial-fundraiser and a major C-block winner with collusion during...
