NEW YORK-Telecommunications reflected the dramatic drop in the number and size of mergers and acquisitions involving U.S. companies last quarter, Los Angeles-based Mergerstat reported.Across industry sectors, these transactions numbered 1,954, down from 2,539 during the year-ago quarter. Communications companies announced 86 combinations this spring,...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Aeris.net, a Web-to-wireless telemetry network operator, and American Innovations, a supplier of remote monitoring systems, have teamed up to offer what they say is a surer way to prevent explosions and leaks in the more than 2 million miles of pipelines traversing...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Just a week after paging infrastructure provider Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced its plans to drop out of the business, two more companies licensed Motorola Inc.'s two-way paging protocol, ReFLEX.Standard Telecom, which manufactures Nixxo products and pagers, and Advantra, which designs and manufactures...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Networks and the Shanghai Machinery Complete Equipment (Group) Corp. will provide the city of Tianjin, China, with an 800 MHz TETRA mobile digital radio communication system for its Water Conservancy Bureau.The network will provide digital trunking telecommunications for the flood-control information system,...
HANNOVER, Germany-CellPoint Inc., which provides location and wireless telemetry services, announced a strategic partnership with German mobile operator E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH.E-Plus has installed CellPoint's network-based mobile-phone location system. The system supports location-based services for all GSM phones and mobile GSM devices in the operator's...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Aeris.net, a provider of Web-to-wireless and machine-to-machine communications services has joined forces with PeopleNet Communications Corp., a provider of Internet-based vehicle location and mobile communications solutions to the transportation industry. The companies announced an agreement that will provide PeopleNet customers with hourly...
WEST BOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Wireless Group's shares jumped up 14 percent at the start of trading Feb. 15 to about $1 per share after announcements it received $250 million for the sale of its SMR licenses to Nextel Communications Inc. and its plans for new...
NEW YORK-Borrowing the vernacular of a traffic engineer, a financier compared the current capital market conditions for telecommunications companies to rush-hour congestion, but observed that the tie-up looks like it is slowly beginning to clear.Investors still are sorting out a host of concerns that...
Globalstar USA, in desperate need of some debt relief, announced it launched Globalstar Data Services, which will provide 9,600 bit per-second Internet connectivity for the same per-minute rate as voice service.Customers can use a Globalstar phone like a wireless modem. The current model Globalstar...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Under a new partnership, CellPoint Inc. and Swedish game developer It's Alive! plan to "bring the mobile phone to life" by creating location-based mobile games for short message service phones or WAP handsets.Tom Soderlund, It's Alive!'s chief executive officer, said the companies hope...
AT&T Wireless Inc. last week outlined a new migration path to third-generation services rife with ramifications affecting the wireless industry worldwide.The company said it will overlay a GSM/general packet radio service system atop its existing TDMA network in the nation's top 100 markets where...
DENVER, United States-U.S. paging operator WebLink Wireless is making plans to implement a narrowband PCS (NPCS) network in Central America using a first-ever infrastructure-sharing arrangement that would enable low-volume providers in the seven-nation region to cost effectively begin providing two-way paging services.Central America, sandwiched...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Aeris.net introduced a new service option called VBurst, an overlay to the firm's existing MicroBurst service, using the cellular control channel for packet data services.While MicroBurst is positioned primarily as a one-way, alert service, VBurst is a full-duplex, universal roaming two-way packet...
NEW YORK-The CreataLink 2XT wireless data transceiver has garnered positive corporate reception and connections since its debut in late summer, said Scott H. Davis, director of telemetry for the Motorola Inc. Advanced Messaging Group, Boynton Beach, Fla.Based on Motorola's ReFLEX two-way paging protocol, CreataLink...
The Federal Communications Commission has extended by 45 days the deadline by which carriers must report their telephone number utilization. A coalition of telecommunications trade associations had urged the FCC to extend the Aug. 1 deadline by 90 days.The FCC told the chairman of...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's recent rules setting aside spectrum for medical telemetry came under fire by Congress last week when two top-ranking FCC staffers were caught unaware of congressional concerns about the allocation.Dale Hatfield, chief of the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology, and...
SAN FRANCISCO-Aeris.net will provide wireless telemetry services for TelEvoke Inc.'s alarm and report notification services, the company announced.The agreement combines Aeris' MicroBurst technology with TelEvoke monitoring services, such as car alarm activation, air bag deployment, home security systems, thermostats, VCRs and stolen or misplaced...
SANDTON, South Africa-The trunking industry in South Africa is in the throes of mergers, amalgamations and new acquisitions, which will change the nature of the industry. Experts believe there will eventually be only one national trunking operator catering to a specific niche market-business users-and...
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Aeris.net said it is extending its MicroBurst service into six states as part of an agreement with operator Triton PCS. The MicroBurst service uses cellular network control channel technology to provide wireless connectivity to the Internet and telemetry services.The system targets alarm...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday set aside 14 megahertz of radio-frequency spectrum as the Wireless Medical Telemetry Service to help protect wireless health devices from interference, the transition to digital TV transmission and private wireless refarming."Today's action will enhance the ability of health...
There seems little doubt the wireless Internet is going to be a reality, but what remains unclear is exactly who will use it, on what devices and using which technology.Many types of wireless devices are entering the marketplace with wireless Internet capabilities, using various...
NEW YORK-The American wireless marketplace needs a healthy dose of innovation jump-started by foreign intervention to drive user penetration, said Hans R. Snook, chief executive of Orange plc.At the moment, Orange is otherwise engaged, so it cannot put momentum into this immodest proposal straight...
DENVER-Ford Motor Co. has allied with Sprint PCS to offer voice-activated wireless communications and Internet telemetry services to certain 2001 model Ford vehicles.According to the agreement, Sprint's network will carry the in-vehicle communications and information services to Ford's 2001 Lincoln models.The new system will...
NEW|ORLEANS-GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. said it has purchased the Jambala Mobility Gateway from L.M. Ericsson to complement its Interim Standard-41 to Global System for Mobile communications message conversion, which is part of GTE TSI's GlobalRoam solution.With this acquisition, GTE TSI now provides one-stop shopping...
