Southern California's emergence as a burgeoning wireless hub was reinforced when yet another new telecom company, Kokusai Communications Systems Inc., opened its world headquarters last month in San Diego.Kokusai Communications is the newest subsidiary of Kokusai Electric Co. Ltd., a Tokyo-based manufacturer of wireless...
NEC Corp.'s Wireless Message Terminals division recently reduced its sales staff, an action the company and some carriers say reflects the paging industry's changing structure."We're changing internally to better address the way the market is changing," said Beth Anderson, manager of marketing communications for...
Qualcomm Personal Electronics, a division of Qualcomm Inc. and Sony Electronics Inc., reduced its temporary work force in response to a planned transition to new product lines, automated production methods and lowered seasonal demand.About 600 temporary workers are affected by the downsizing. The workers...
Noise/Com Inc. introduced its BS-800 Dual Interference Signal Generators to aid in interference testing of Code Division Multiple Access and Time Division Multiple Access base stations. The products include two synthesized CW signal generators and all necessary radio-frequency components including attenuators and switches, to...
Qualcomm Personal Electronics reported it has shipped more than 1 million Code Division Multiple Access portable phones. Qualcomm Personal Electronics, a joint venture of Qualcomm Inc. and Sony Electronics Inc., manufactures the Qualcomm QCP-800 cellular and QCP-1900 PCS phones, and the Sony CM-D500 cellular...
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...
Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.-based In-Flight Phone Corp., the competitor to GTE Airfone Inc. for consumer air-to-ground communications, entertainment and information, quietly filed for Chapter 11 reorganization in a Delaware court.In-Flight officials would not comment on the Jan. 24 filing, choosing only to issue a written...
SEATTLE-AirTouch Communications Inc. announced large business customers in western Washington now have access to Code Division Multiple Access cellular service."In the past, we have launched new services to business and retail customers simultaneously," said Julie Dexter Berg, executive vice president and general manager for...
Editor's Note: No other debate has ignited the wireless telecommunications industry like the one that rages between TDMA and CDMA technology. For several years, the greatest argument against CDMA technology was that it was not commercially available. That changed in 1996 as both cellular and...
Sprint PCS service is available in six cities, and just two days remain for Sprint Spectrum L.P. to meet its goal of launching 1900 MHz personal comm-unications services in two more of its 29 A- and B-block markets.Sprint's Code Division Multiple Access service is...
SAN DIEGO-Sony/Qualcomm CDMA sales, a division of Qualcomm Personal Electronics, will supply Sony CM-D500 handsets for GTE Inc.'s launch of Code Division Multiple Access digital service in Austin, Texas.The dual-mode phones use Sony's lithium ion battery technology to increase talk and standby times. The...
CINCINNATI-GTE Mobilnet Inc. initiated the first call on its personal communications services network to Cincinnati Mayor Roxanne Qualls in her office at Cincinnati City Hall.The inaugural call represented the first use of Code Division Multiple Access technology in the Cincinnati market, said GTE. The...
When Pacific Bell Mobile Services launches commercial GSM-based personal communications services this Friday in San Diego, it will do so alongside a quiet competitor. AirTouch Communications Inc. said it will launch its Code Division Multiple Access cellular network on the same day and in...
Andres Link and Richard Swerdlow met three years ago playing basketball in Miami, and began discussing business opportunities. Last month, the University of Florida named the pair's partnership, Cellular Works, the fastest growing company in the state.Based in Hollywood, Fla., Cellular Works sells cellular...
The wireless industry is primed to woo holiday shoppers this season to their stable of products, offering service that is inexpensive and easy to use, with no strings attached.In the past, a shopper trying to decide between a pager and a blouse, or a...
Canadians may be giving Fido to their loved ones this Christmas.But Fido is not a dog. It's the spunky brand name for Microcell Telecommunications Inc.'s personal communications service scheduled to be available in Montreal in time for the holidays."We wanted to find a word...
Canadians may be giving Fido to their loved ones this Christmas.But Fido is not a dog. It's the spunky brand name for Microcell Telecommunications Inc.'s personal communications service scheduled to be available in Montreal in time for the holidays."We wanted to find a word...
The voices of young people are getting louder in the paging industry.Paging manufacturers and carriers have discovered just how "cool" teenagers and young adults think pagers are, and are beginning to pump money into products and marketing campaigns to make sure the market segment...
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...
Qualcomm Personal Electronics says it is meeting the handset manufacturing contract requirements of Sprint PCS, which intends to launch service in 15 to 20 major markets by year's end.
Even though Sprint recently signed a handset contract with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Samsung isn't scheduled...
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...
TRENTON, N.J.-To paraphrase an old Barbra Streisand song, "On a rainy day, you can hear forever," even when making a call to Colorado from a car parked beneath a water tower in the state capital of New Jersey.That's the sound quality of a brief...
CLIFTON, N.J.-AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has selected Gemini Industries Inc. to manage and supply the company's Universal Accessory Program. Gemini will supply all of the accessories for cellular phones marketed by AT&T Wireless.The new cellular accessory line will be marketed in AT&T's brand packaging...
NEW YORK-Telecom Analysis Systems Inc., founded by Bell Labs' alumni in 1984, introduced two new wireless communications testing products Sept. 10 that the company says are industry firsts.The TAS 4500 FLEX4 is the company's fourth-generation radio frequency channel emulator. It can even be used...
