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NEW YORK-A happy marriage of convenience is taking place among billboard companies and wireless communications carriers looking for antenna sites."It's something that just seems to be coming around the pike," said James M. Marsh, an equities research analyst for Prudential Securities Inc., New York,...
If you look at maps of the United States that depict the 1900 MHz coverage for the nation's three primary digital standards, it appears each standard will cover a great deal of the country.In the future, that is, because illustrations of coverage footprints are...
To those Europeans who scoff at Americans and their (too) many wireless standards choices, we now have a response: FLEX.AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has decided not to deploy personal Air Communications Technology two-way paging technology in its markets. For all intents and purposes, this leaves...
The mobility service BellSouth Mobility Inc. intends to launch in its new D- and E-block markets not only fills in coverage gaps in the carrier's existing cellular footprint, but boosts BellSouth's total pops by 11 million.BellSouth is the nation's third largest cellular operator, reporting...
SAN FRANCISCO-Saying the timing is right to pursue the Code Division Multiple Access technology-based handset market, Nokia Mobile Phones Inc. announced it plans to build phones for the CDMA market.Nokia said it has designed its own chipset to be used in its handsets, the...
DALLAS-Cellular service provider Uzdunrobita will double the size of its Advanced Mobile Phone Service/Time Division Multiple Access wireless network in the former Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan and add a variety of advanced digital subscriber services under terms of an $8.4 million contract with Northern...
SAN FRANCISCO-Hughes Network Systems Inc. completed interoperability tests with subscriber terminal suppliers for its enhanced full-rate voice coder for Interim Standard 136 Time Division Multiple Access technology.The company is including the coder in its GMH 2000 TDMA system, which will be able to support...
Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. reported the first profitable year in the company's 11-year history last week, although the victory was accompanied by a fourth-quarter net loss due to investments in two subsidiaries.Net income for 1996 was $6.4 million, or 16 cents per share, compared...
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.-"Until a few weeks ago, I was under the impression that the outlook for TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) was quite different than it is today," said investment banker Brad Peery at last week's TDMA Global Summit here."Qualcomm (Inc.) has done...
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.-Indus Inc., a new personal communications services company based in Milwaukee, announced Feb. 11 a vendor financing agreement with Hughes Network Systems Inc. and a roaming agreement with AT&T Wireless Services Inc.Indus is the first winner of Federal Communications Commission C-block...
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.-Chief executives of Mobikom of Malaysia and Pacific Link Communication Ltd. of Hong Kong last Wednesday signed the first Time Division Multiple Access roaming agreement for Asian cellular carriers."This is a very significant milestone for the worldwide advancement of TDMA," said...
A cellular operator with New England properties launched a digital cellular network on the specialized mobile radio frequency in Hawaii, saying it is the first non-traditional cellular company to accomplish this feat.Officials with Atlantic Cellular Co. of Colchester, Vt., said they have explored the...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-Arguments will begin Thursday in the appeal by InterDigital Communications Corp. of its 1995 patent infringement case against Motorola Inc.InterDigital's patent protection arm, InterDigital Technology Corp., sued Illinois-based Motorola in 1993 regarding patents for Time Division Multiple Access technology.The case went...
DSP Communications Inc. expects to see continued growth in 1997 and 1998, when the company may reap rewards from its new product, a wireless branch exchange system.The company reported revenues of $88.9 million for the 12-month period ended Dec. 31, an 118 percent increase...
The hefty number of strong, new competitors entering the handset market doesn't intimidate longtime terminal supplier Audiovox Communications Corp."Look how many have exited in recent years, like Clarion, Sharp, Panasonic, Sanyo, NovAtel," said Philip Christopher, president and chief executive officer of the Hauppauge, N.Y.-based...
Proponents of Time Division Multiple Access technology quietly formed a formidable group last year, while the industry's attention was focused on high-profile scraps between two other competing technologies.Universal Wireless Communications L.L.C. now has 44 members, representing support for TDMA systems in Canada, South America,...
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...
Editor's Note: The companies listed below are the current holders of A-, B- and C-block licenses for broadband personal communications services in the United States. Some of the companies have not yet received their licenses from the Federal Communications Commission because of challenges.Companies are ranked...
"The debate on CDMA is over, folks," declared Jerry Butters, an executive with Lucent Technologies Inc., last week when PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. launched 1900 MHz service in 11 major trading areas.It was the most comprehensive launch of both personal communications services and Code...
NEW YORK-Omnipoint Communications Inc. opened for business Nov. 14, but a full-scale promotional campaign for its first personal communications services network-in the New York City metropolitan area-won't start for another week or so.By then, roaming will be possible in portions of Southern California, the...
The digital era has arrived.Pick a technology. We've got your TDMA, your CDMA, upgraded TDMA and some GSM. We've got your 800 MHz, your 1.9 GHz. And we've set aside some plain old analog technology for you folks longing for the good old days.For...
Hughes Network Systems Inc. aspires to accomplish a great deal more than just to supply $1 billion of network equipment to NextWave Telecom Inc."This goes beyond equipment supply. That's why we took the equity position," said Pradeep Kaul, executive vice president of Hughes Networks...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-Ericsson Inc. announced it will provide AT&T Wireless Services Inc. with digital wireless phones. The agreement, which is the largest Ericsson has ever signed with any single U.S. customer for wireless phones, is valued at more than $300 million.Ericsson said it...
