Moffet, Larson & JohnsonMoffet, Larson & Johnson Inc. announced the integration of Comarco Wireless Technologies' Network Evaluation System tool NES-250 with the PathPro drive-test post-processing module, PathView. The integration provides the capability to transmit data from the GEN II series to the PathPro, the...
The Strategis Group predicts despite the industry's hardships to date, the commercial mobile data business can expect a rash of subscribers and revenues in the immediate years to come.In a report titled, "U.S. Mobile Data Marketplace: 1997," the Washington-based consulting company predicts there will be...
LAS VEGAS-Manufacturers at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas may have been hinting at things to come with a handful of launches and plenty of promises of phones that can do more for longer periods of time.Long-awaited dual-mode, dual-band phones-those that work...
ORLANDO, Fla.-Northern Telecom Inc. introduced an integrated text messaging system that simultaneously sends text to both wireless and wireline text-message compatible phones.Nortel demonstrated the system at the Code Division Multiple Access North American Regional Congress Conference in Orlando, Fla., last week.The system uses the...
IRVING, Texas-Nokia Corp. said its dual-mode Nokia 2180 phone that uses Code Division Multiple Access technology is available in the San Diego market.Developed at Nokia's research center in San Diego, the 800 MHz phone, which provides up to 210 minutes of talk time and...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s Integrated Network Group signed a contract to provide its modular voice processing system to Clearnet PCS Inc. for use in Clearnet's personal communications services network in Canada, announced the companies.According to the agreement, which Glenayre values at $2 million, the...
Pre-Paid Solutions said it introduced a new debit conversion technology for the prepaid cellular market. The technology will be available this month under the name Pre-Cell Technology and Pre-Cell Chip. Pre-Cell Technology offers prepaid cellular through chip-based phone conversions. Pre-Cell Chip allows customers to...
WILMINGTON, Mass.-Priority Call Management Inc. said it optimized its ORYX platform with a short message service application, resulting in an application that provides one number, prepaid calling and enhanced messaging short messages to digital handsets.The addition of SMS reflects growing demands in the wireless...
Motorola Inc.'s Integrated Software Products division released its Air Apparent software for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT version 1.1. The product is a general purpose, enterprise-wide wireless messaging software application that integrates paging technology with Windows NT. This allows Windows NT users to send wireless...
IRVING, Texas-Nokia Mobile Phones introduced a service that allows direct Internet access from standard Global System for Mobile communications cellular phones."The main idea behind Smart Messaging is to combine Internet access with wireless telephony in a seamless manner," said Mikko Terho, vice president of...
NEC Corp. won contracts for two transmission projects in Costa Rica in conjunction with Intituto Costarricense de Electricidad. One project calls for NEC to supply a 2 GHz/8 Mbps digital microwave radio system for rural districts of Costa Rica. The other calls for NEC...
WASHINGTON-More than half of wireless subscribers and 40 percent of non-users expressed an interest in two-way wireless e-mail, representing a potential market of 44.3 million users, according to a study conducted by The Strategis Group.The study, Wireless Internet and E-mail Markets: 1997, predicted the market...
SAN DIEGO-Sony/Qualcomm CDMA Sales, a division of Qualcomm Personal Electronics, will provide Code Division Multiple Access handsets to U S West Communications Inc. Sony/Qualcomm values the contract at $80 million.The Qualcomm QCP-1900 and Sony CM-D600 personal communications services phones initially will be available in...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Pan American Wireless Infrastructure Division signed an agreement with GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. to jointly offer cellular and personal communications services providers Intelligent Network features and applications at wholesale rates.The companies will lease out IN features-including voice mail with notification,...
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...
Samsung Telecommunications America Inc. introduced its SCH-1011, a personal communications services handset using Code Division Multiple Access technology, and SCH-110, a cellular dual-mode CDMA handset. The products include menu-driven interfaces to access functions like messaging and memory. Other features include caller ID, call timer,...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Group and Radiomensaje, an Argentina-based national and regional paging service provider, signed an agreement to expand Radiomensaje's FLEX protocol-based infrastructure network.The new channel will be launched this month in Argentina, Motorola said."The current Argentina paging subscriber base is...
Gemplus America Inc. said it signed contracts to provide subscriber identity module cards, point-of-sale equipment and personalization and over-the-air services to American Personal Communications, American Portable Telecommunications Inc., BellSouth Personal Communications Inc., Omnipoint Communications Inc. and Western Wireless Corp."With these agreements, Gemplus further solidifies...
WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Technology Inc. received an order for its Trilogue INfinity system from BellSouth Mobility DCS.Comverse said the system will allow BellSouth to provide a variety of enhanced telecommunications services, such as call answering and short message service notification, on its new digital wireless...
Enhanced services deliver greater convenience, mobility and security to cellular customers, but how much value these "value-adds" provide carriers is uncertain.Depending on the sophistication and expandability of the platform, enhanced services can be expensive for carriers to implement in their networks. But customers who...
Nokia Mobile Phones announced it has teamed with computer manufacturer Psion to enable wireless users to send and receive short messages over a Global System for Mobile communications-based PCS-1900 network using a Nokia PCS phone, Psion's palmtop computer and Palmtop BV's Messenger software. Messenger...
Digital TU-KA Chugoku Co. Ltd. launched commercial service in the Chugoku area of Japan, serving the capital city, major highways and the railway line. AirTouch Communications Inc. owns 4.5 percent of the Chugoku operator, as well as five other Digital TU-KA cellular companies offering...
Datum Inc.'s Timing Division announced the release of a small high-performance Global Positioning Satellite system receiver. Datum said the StarTime GPS Clock is designed for applications that require not only high performance but small physical size and low price. The clock consists of an...
Beijing Nokia Mobile Telecommunications Ltd. has received a contract from the Zhejiang Post and Telecommunications Administration to supply a digital cellular network to the Zhejiang province of the People's Republic of China. The contract is valued at more than $20 million. The Global System...
