Editor's Note: The RCR editorial staff has compiled this list of terrestrial-based, two-way mobile data operators based on interviews with industry contacts. The chart is arranged alphabetically since many of the companies are just starting to offer services.Although most cellular and specialized mobile radio carriers...
Wireless Access Inc.-recently licensed to incorporate the ReFLEX protocol in its integrated circuit chipset-is guided by a twofold business philosophy, said Tim Williams, founder and chief technical officer of the company. "You build better equipment by having better silicon and you have better silicon...
The option to pay in advance for wireless service is booming in the cellular industry. The same trend may soon spread in paging.Grab 'n Go is a prepaid beeper package unveiled by SkyTel Corp. and Sony Wireless Telecommunications Co. at PCS '96 earlier this...
NEC America Inc. introduced what it believes to be the first in a new class of pagers: The Beacon data pager.The device is a one-way FLEX pager that uses wireless data exchange software from Microsoft Corp. to transfer and coordinate information with Windows-based personal computers,...
NEC America Inc. introduced what it believes to be the first in a new class of pagers: The Beacon data pager.The device is a one-way FLEX pager that uses wireless data exchange software from Microsoft Corp. to transfer and coordinate information with Windows-based personal computers,...
Oki telecom, one of Oki America Inc.'s five divisions, announced Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. will realign the corporate structure of its U.S. telecommunications group. On October 1, a new corporation named Oki Telecom Inc. will be established to better address the opportunities presented...
Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group unveiled PageWriter, the first wireless device based on the company's Memos messaging platform.The two-way pager features the familiar QWERTY computer keyboard and a flip-up, high-resolution display for a graphical user interface.Slightly larger than a deck of cards and...
MCI Communications Corp. said its recent deal with NextWave Telecom Inc. isn't just another resale agreement."This will involve interconnection, and there is no reseller in the U.S. with interconnection," said Whitey Bluestein, MCI vice president of wireless strategy and development.MCI signed a resale agreement...
After several broken engagements, MCI Communications Corp. thinks it has finally found a partner it can commit to long-term for wireless service, NextWave Telecom Inc.Although MCI has been down this road before, this time I think the company may have done it right.MCI-which sold...
Licensees of narrowband personal communications services report their development, testing and introduction plans for two-way messaging services are right on schedule. But Ian Gillott, manager of wireless research for IDC/Link Resources, suggests carriers have shifted to more conservative time schedules.Many service providers say they...
NEW YORK-Moody's Investor's Service Inc. downgraded certain outstanding debt of Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp., Jackson, Miss.The New York-based rating agency downgraded its speculative grade rating to B3 from B2 on Mtel's $265 million issue of 13.5 percent notes due 2002. It also changed its...
For those who are banking on the growth of specialized mobile radio during the next few years, there is good news and there is good news. The good news is: The transition to digital technology will continue to grow, adding new voice and data services,...
FORT WORTH, Texas- Uniden America Corp. licensed Motorola Inc.'s InFLEXion voice messaging protocol, the first manufacturing company to license the technology for advanced messaging devices, announced Motorola's Messaging Systems Products Group."It's our belief that voice capability will bring messaging into the business and personal...
The prospect of taking SkyTel 2-Way messaging service from a workable technology to a marketplace product is at the crux of John Stupka's new role as president and chief executive officer of paging giant Mtel.In taking the helm at Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp., Stupka...
WASHINGTON-Claiming that nationwide paging provider SkyTel Corp. has robbed it of prime customers and millions of dollars in lost revenues, paging reseller Time Signal International Corp. filed a complaint late last month in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia on four different...
Lone personal communications services provider Pacific Bell Mobile Systems, regional cellular carriers, paging providers and rental companies will try to leave no stone unturned when it comes to providing wireless services to the estimated 35,000 participants of the 1996 Republican National Convention in San...
ProNet Inc. paid Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Information and Media Sector $43 million cash for its 931.9 MHz nationwide one-way paging license and associated Embarc system equipment, announced the companies."This nationwide license provides us a great deal of flexibility for expansion purposes as well as...
NEW YORK-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. hit the ground running last fall with its nationwide SkyTel 2-Way paging launch, stumbled over unforeseen obstacles and has now dusted itself off and resumed the race to commercial operation.That was the self-evaluation provided by Mtel Chairman John Palmer...
Launching new technology into a market involves more than just technological know-how. The expectations of all parties must be managed in order to control the risks, analysts say.System operators must be responsible for the expectations they create in the minds of customers. Equipment manufacturers...
Reflection Technology Inc. has completed a $10 million round of private funding from a series of new and existing investors. "This round of financing will allow us to accelerate our growth in the wireless communication and interactive entertainment markets and continue to develop our...
New protocol-based paging technologies may not only alleviate carrier capacity problems but also may transform the nature of service offerings from "cheap beeps" to "paging on steroids."Alphanumeric paging, the first "enhanced service" to be offered by carriers, ran smack into the problem of network...
SkyTel Corp. said it expects to have radio and software glitches worked out of its SkyTel 2-Way network in the next few months.While the service has been operating well in some areas, users have experienced problems in other regions of the country, according to...
New protocol-based paging technologies may not only alleviate carrier capacity problems but also may transform the nature of service offerings from "cheap beeps" to "paging on steroids."Alphanumeric paging, the first "enhanced service" to be offered by carriers, ran smack into the problem of network...
JACKSON, Miss.-Hewlett-Packard Co., SkyTel Corp. and Etak Corp. announced they have joined forces to help visitors coming to Atlanta for the Olympic Games to get travel information faster and easier.The companies have developed the Personal Travel Guide which consists of an HP 200LX Palmtop...
