MEXICO CITY-In Mexico, paging has been around for more than 40 years, and for a long time, only a handful of companies provided the service. That presented a perfect situation for the industry to have achieved a strong product, brand recognition, a well-developed distribution...
Perhaps the greatest indicator of the wireless data industry's rise to popularity is the way paging carriers are positioning themselves in the space today.Pioneering wireless data carriers like American Mobile Satellite Corp. and BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. started the trend by offering paging-like services...
If recent announcements by paging vendors and carriers are any indication, two-way paging products and services are poised to make a big splash in 2000.Both Motorola Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc. unveiled their long-awaited ReFLEX 25 compatible two-way paging devices last week at the...
Motorola Inc.-expected next week to introduce its ReFLEX 25 two-way pager at CES in Las Vegas-has entered into a series of agreements with Glenayre Technologies Inc. to expand ReFLEX 25-based devices.The agreements call for joint market development activities, collaborating on a common over-the-air programming...
WASHINGTON-The private wireless and medical communities will have to wait until next year to find out if the Federal Communications Commission houses wireless medical telemetry service at 1.4 GHz.The FCC probably won't decide where to house medical telemetry service until first-quarter 2000, which again...
TesscoTessco Technologies Inc. appointed Kevin P. Demery vice president and unit director of product and brand development. He will be responsible for electronic commerce, product management, strategic planning and all marketing communications. Demery has held senior sales and marketing positions with Ericsson Inc. and...
NEW YORK-L-3 Communications formed a new Telemetry-East division through the consolidation of the company's Microcom division and the Aydin Telemetry division of L-3 Communications' Aydin Corp.The division, a business unit of the L-3 Communications Products Group, will be headquartered in Newton, Pa., and will...
In an attempt to position paging devices and services as Internet appliances, as opposed to telephone appliances, PageMart Wireless Inc. said it will change its name to WebLink Wireless Inc., effective Dec. 1, and also introduced a new line of products and services called...
DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P. said it signed a subscriber communicator manufacturing agreement with Satellite Smart Solutions Ltd., an Israeli company specializing in wireless telemetry and supervisory control and data acquisition solutions.SatSmart is developing a subscriber communicator for monitoring and controlling fixed assets in the...
RALEIGH, N.C.-HiddenMind Technology and Omnipoint Technologies Inc. announced a market development alliance under which the companies will collaborate on the development of wireless applications for Global System for Mobile communications networks.The applications being developed are based on HiddenMind's new software framework, HiddenLogic, and Omnipoint's...
NEW ORLEANS-At the CA World conference, American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced a technology development partnership with Computer Associates International Inc. and cStar Technologies Inc.The partnership is designed to deliver telemetry solutions that combine the nationwide wireless data capabilities of AMSC's Ardis network with cStar's...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission yesterday proposed moving wireless heart monitors to two different sets of spectrum blocks where the devices would be primary users.The blocks of spectrum include 608-614 MHz, 1395-1400 MHz and 1429-1432 MHz; and 608-614 MHz and 1391-1400 MHz. The multiple bands...
WASHINGTON-Efforts are under way in Congress and at the Federal Communications Commission to protect wireless heart monitors and other medical telemetry devices from interference.This week, the FCC will consider a notice of proposed rule making to allocate spectrum on a primary basis for medical...
BOSTON-A newly released report from the Yankee Group predicts the market for wireless telemetry services will grow to more than $6.6 billion in revenues by 2004.According the report, growth drivers for the market include the convergence of wireless, computing and Internet technology, as well...
WASHINGTON-In one way or another, Dale N. Hatfield has been connected to the wireless industry as a telecom policy maker, a consultant, an academic and now back full circle as chief of the Office of Engineering Technology at the Federal Communications Commission.He was there...
A front-page story in USA Today several weeks ago introduced a new technology called electronic ink, marketed by a company called E Ink, and paging technology just may be what brings it to life.The result of research conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,...
NEW YORK-Sierra Wireless, a Canadian provider of wireless data communications equipment, went public May 17 on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Scotia McLeod Inc., Toronto, was lead underwriter for the initial offering of 4.5 million common shares, priced at $14.25 each.Sierra Wireless, headquartered in Richmond,...
Faced with an uncertain future and many difficult questions, members of the Paging Leadership Association met last month in Florida to determine how the industry should position itself in a game that is moving in an increasing number of new directions."The big question is...
Nortele-mobility servicesNortel Networks introduced a portfolio of subscriber services, called e-mobility services, that provide rapid, flexible deployment of leading-edge voice and data capabilities optimized for the Internet Protocol environment. The services include Wireless Prepaid, Group Conferencing, Smart Mobile Access, Wireless Voice-Activated Dialing, Mobile Messaging...
Amid speculation that it could be a takeover target by MCI WorldCom Inc., SkyTel Communications Inc. announced a new pricing plan and a major strategic alliance last week, both designed to better position it for the wireless messaging battle ahead.Most significantly, the company announced...
SONY ELECTRONICSSony Electronics introduced a new alphanumeric pager with a synthesized tuner, generic-over-the-air programming capabilities and the company's Jog Dial operation, called the MP-7001. The generic-over-the-air programming technology, or GOTAP, is an advanced feature of the Motorola Inc. FLEXsuite protocol. Sony also released the...
CanadaCell-Loc Inc. announced it expects to receive funding from the National Research Council of Canada's Industrial Research Assistance Program to assist in continued research and development of a Code Division Multiple Access Cellocate System. The Cellocate System is capable of locating any cellular telephone...
The introduction of digital phone technology has changed dramatically the landscape of wireless communications across the globe and put the heat on the global paging industry.Paging's old advantages of small size and cheaper service are being whittled away, as digital phones shrink in size...
After months of aggressive buildout-beginning in late June with the Texas launch-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced its two-way, ReFLEX 25-based narrowband personal communications services network is available nationwide.The $310 million, Internet Protocol network upgrade adds two-way messaging capabilities to its existing FLEX network and, with...
