Following partnership agreements established last December, Northern Telecom Ltd. has issued its first purchase order, valued at $2 million, to Qualcomm Inc. for Code Division Multiple Access-based cellular and personal communications services infrastructure and subscriber equipment, Qualcomm said. Northern Telecom is supplying BC TEL...
Culminating seven years of development and fine-tuning, American Mobile Satellite Corp. has launched the country's first satellite for mobile communications, giving lift-off to a new form of wireless services.Hughes Communications Inc., a division of GM Hughes Electronics, built AMSC's geostationary satellite, supporting mobile voice...
Cellular One in the Washington, D.C., area has suspended roaming services temporarily in New York City while the company tackles an enormous cellular cloning problem.Cellular fraud has been a major concern of the U.S. cellular industry for quite some time. The problem has mounted...
Cellular One in the Washington, D.C., area has suspended roaming services temporarily in New York City while the company tackles an enormous cellular cloning problem.Cellular fraud has been a major concern of the U.S. cellular industry for quite some time. The problem has mounted...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Uniden America Corp. reported the successful testing of its 220 MHz ESAS system in Ohio.Multiple sites were networked together in October, with mobiles roaming automatically between sites, handling single site calls, networked calls between units, individual calls and voice mail messages. Actual...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Go Communications Corp. issued a 10-year, multihundred-million-dollar request for proposal for a system integrator to develop and operate the information system technology for the 30 MHz and 10 MHz blocks of spectrum reserved for entrepreneurs by the Federal Communications Commission, the company said.The...
NEW HAVEN, Conn.-SNET Mobility said it will pay $450 million cash for certain of Nynex Corp.'s and Bell Atlantic Corp.'s cellular properties, and, ironically, become a fierce competitor of the two Baby Bells.The properties affected are areas where BAM and Nynex each hold cellular...
DALLAS-CellStar Corp. said its net income increased 58 percent to $4.5 million, or 24 cents per share, on 18.6 million shares outstanding for third quarter 1994, ended Aug. 31.Revenues for the third quarter rose 92 percent to $138.6 million. Increases were primarily a result...
CHICAGO-Seven large wireless communications companies have united to provide seamless, uninterrupted cellular service between the United States and Mexico.The Pan American alliance is open only to B-band licensees. Initial members are Alltel Mobile, Ameritech Cellular Services, BellSouth Mobility Inc., CommNet Cellular Inc., GTE Personal...
WASHINGTON-He's baaack!Craig McCaw, founder of the cellular empire that AT&T Corp. bought for $11.5 billion, will bid for broadband personal communications services licenses Dec. 5.The wireless entrepreneur is one of 74 applicants seeking 99 licenses to operate next-generation pocket telephone systems across the country....
Overlapping markets and conflicting decisions on digital technology are two issues the new quartet of Bell Atlantic Corp., Nynex Corp., U S West Inc. and AirTouch Communications has to address. But the potential conflicts are all manageable, said company leaders.The foursome announced last month...
STOCKHOLM-An international consortium involving Ram Mobile Data Network GmbH, a German subsidiary of BellSouth Corp., said it has chosen Mobitex technology for its mobile data network in Germany.Gessellschaft fur Datenfunk GmbH, a German consortium, was awarded a license in May from the German Bundesposte...
What's behind the recent wave of wireless mega-mergers and alliances?First, AT&T Corp. launched its bold acquisition of cellular leader McCaw Cellular Communications Inc., and MCI Communications Corp. responded by attempting to purchase a stake in enhanced specialized mobile radio operator Nextel Communications Inc. More...
