Metrocall Inc. announced it has filed formal complaints with the Federal Communications Commission's Common Carrier Bureau enforcement division, charging several regional Bell and independent telephone companies with continuing to violate the commission's recently clarified interconnection rules.Included as defendants are GTE Corp., Southwestern Bell Mobile...
LAS VEGAS-Manufacturers at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas may have been hinting at things to come with a handful of launches and plenty of promises of phones that can do more for longer periods of time.Long-awaited dual-mode, dual-band phones-those that work...
ArrayComm Inc. announced its next-generation IntelliCell-enhanced Personal Handyphone System cell stations are operating in Tokyo's PHS network, following months of field trials conducted with DDI Pocket Telephone. DDI holds a nationwide license in Japan to provide mobile PHS service and is the largest PHS...
The Institute for Wireless Education, a nonprofit corporation that has been training wireless engineers and technicians for about a year, recently added a segment dedicated to Code Division Multiple Access technology to its two-week course, "Basic Wireless Telephony.""We cut our teeth on Time Division...
ArrayComm Inc. announced the opening of a liaison office in New Delhi, India, to serve a growing interest in its proprietary IntelliCell processing technology and IntelliWave wireless local loop system. ArrayComm is anticipating the release of a Department of Telecommunications WLL tender in India...
Paging industry veteran George Perrin, founder of Paging Network Inc., announced his retirement last week, effective Jan. 31-ending a 17-year reign as head of the world's largest paging company.Perrin established PageNet in 1981 and served as its president and chief executive officer until 1993,...
Giving the wireless data industry some important momentum to start the new year, American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced it plans to acquire Motorola Inc.'s Ardis data messaging business, which combined potentially could create the most ubiquitous coverage of any wireless data company.Under terms of...
In an initial victory for paging carriers nationwide, the Federal Communications Commission's Common Carrier Bureau announced its current rules do not allow local exchange carriers to charge paging carriers for delivering traffic over the LEC network.Specifically, the bureau said its rules "do not allow...
NEW YORK-World Access Inc., Atlanta, announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Advanced TechCom Inc., a Wilmington, Mass., designer and manufacturer of digital microwave and millimeter wave radio systems.Assuming formal shareholder approval of the plan, the two companies expect to close the merger...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-California Microwave Inc. has agreed to sell its Satellite Transmission Systems division to L-3 Communications Corp. for $27 million in cash, the company announced.California Microwave decided to sell its Microwave Networks and Satellite Transmission Systems divisions last June, saying it wanted to...
21st Century Telesis Inc. said it is making a significant step toward becoming the first U.S. wireless carrier to commercially deploy Personal Access Communications System technology.Costa-Mesa, Calif.-based 21st Century, which holds C-, D- and F-block personal communications services licenses covering some 8 million pops,...
Homeowners in California soon will have the capability to run their entire house by remote control-using only a computer, two-way pager, or telephone-thanks to utility deregulation efforts and agreements signed between Enron Energy Services Inc. and Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Inc.Enron, a wholly owned subsidiary...
NEW YORK-By 2000, some 22 million devices other than personal computers will be accessing the Internet, according to IDC-Link Resources projections cited at a recent Internet World '97 conference.Although wireless industry representatives and analysts are predicting a bright future for data communications, use of...
MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill.-Illinois Superconductor Corp. will begin the first three installations of its RangeMaster filter system this month, under a planned 15 cell site purchase by a regional Bell company that is one of the 10 largest cellular operators in the country, the company...
MT. OLIVE, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it completed its prototype base station that will be used by NTT DoCoMo of Japan in experiments on a wideband Code Division Multiple Access system for third-generation mobile communications systems.The W-CDMA system, proposed by NTT DoCoMo, is part...
WASHINGTON-After 235 rounds of bidding, Nextel Communications Inc. ended up paying $88.8 million for 475 licenses covering 97 percent of the country in the 800 MHz specialized mobile radio auction.North Sight Communications Inc. came in a second, monetarily, pledging $1.5 million for the A-block...
The Personal Communications Industry Association and a coalition of alphanumeric paging dispatchers have filed petitions to either stay or reconsider, respectively, the Federal Communication Commission's Pay Telephone Compensation Remand Order.PCIA believes the ruling will cause economic and competitive harm to the paging industry, and...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-The city of Hialeah, Fla., approved the $6.4 million purchase of a trunked, two-way public-safety radio system from Motorola Inc.'s Land Mobile Products Sector, announced Motorola.Motorola's SmartZone analog system will replace the existing VHF/UHF communications systems used by the fire/rescue and police departments...
ATLANTA-Digital Transmission Systems Inc., a telecommunications equipment maker, recently announced that it received a $5.4 million order from a national wireless carrier.The order, which the company says is the largest in its history, is for more than 6,000 FlexT1 units and associated equipment. About...
DALLAS-SpaceCom Systems said it plans to install an additional geographically diverse uplink system at the Dallas-Fort Worth Teleport so its customers can achieve a quick recovery for their satellite networks if a catastrophic natural disaster occurs at the primary uplink site in Chicago."It's a...
TULSA, Okla.-Arch Communications Group Inc. said it bought a fourth satellite channel from SpaceCom Systems to expand its transmission capacity.The company said it expects to require added capacity once it completes the addition of 50 new downlink sites. The new channel features a data...
WASHINGTON-The predicted growth areas for wireless services will not be dominated by voice, according to a Commerce Department 1998 outlook report. Rather, current and prospective carriers will try to develop and build out advanced messaging, data transmission, location and remote monitoring applications. In addition,...
ArrayComm Inc. announced that G. John Gruen III will fill the newly created position of director of corporate development. Gruen will be responsible for building and enhancing strategic partnerships and corporatealliances as well as developing pre-initial public offering strategies and communications for the privately...
Dataradio introduced T-Base, a transparent integrated radio modem base/repeater unit. It features vir-tually no bit dribble and is compatible with most protocols, including Modbus binary, and also is capable of continuous duty transmit operation, said the company. The T-Base has remote online radio-frequency network...
