The specialized mobile radio industry is quickly becoming a fractured market divided between the traditional small SMR carriers, which are focused on providing dispatch services to customers at reasonable prices, and big players, which are marketing services as a high-end alternative to personal communications...
Nextel Communications Inc. finally found another vendor willing to manufacture handsets incorporating Motorola Inc.'s proprietary iDEN technology.Nextel and Kyocera Corp. signed a letter of intent last week calling for the Japanese vendor to produce a small high-end integrated Digital Enhanced Network phone by late...
Enhanced specialized mobile radio operators are poised to lead the country in rolling out Wireless Application Protocol services next year.Today, no U.S. wireless provider offers full WAP services. But SMR operators Nextel Communications Inc. and Southern Linc both have embraced pre-WAP services, with an...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. unveiled its i500plus multiservice wireless phone. The integrated Digital Enhanced Network handset is a Wireless Application Protocol-compliant phone that features an Internet microbrowser, two-way e-mail and wireless modem functionality.The i500plus phone will enable users to access Internet-based information such as news,...
ATLANTA-Southern LINC, the digital wireless communications services arm of energy company Southern Co., announced plans to offer a suite of wireless data and Internet services beginning this fall.Southern LINC, which offers service using integrated Digital Enhanced Network technology, is beta testing the wireless data...
VANCOUVER, Canada-eDispatch.com Wireless Data announced recently it signed an evaluation and installation agreement with Southern Linc, under which Southern Linc will demonstrate the eDispatch.com system to customers on its iDEN network, as part of a beta test of wireless data services.eDispatch.com is a wireless...
King Communications U.S.A. Inc. introduced Sentor, a package consisting of radio frequency monitoring, hot standby controller, site management and tower light control systems. Sentor does not require a computer at the remote site and can be addressed by RF or telephone modems from a...
Armed with about 4,000 users on its digital specialized mobile radio system, the Southern Co. is marketing its services to businesses in the southeastern United States, going head-to-head with the nation's largest SMR operator, Nextel Communications Inc.Southern is the parent corporation for five utility...
