NEW YORK-Point-to-multipoint equipment should be available in quantity by mid-1998, bringing the bandwidth on demand promise of last-mile wireless "fiber" closer to widespread deployment."Where the heck did this market come from and why is it here today?" David Graves, chief executive officer of Broadband...
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...
I wonder how many Americans fired up their cellular phones last Thursday morning to see if a call to 911 would go through. I know I did.If ABC's Nov. 12 "Primetime Live" segment didn't put the fear of God into everyone who ever went...
NEW YORK-Hongkong Telecom showed strong growth in revenues, net income and earnings for the six-month period that ended Sept. 30, according to results the carrier released Friday.Compared with the same first-half fiscal year period in 1996, Hongkong Telecom reported operating revenue of $2.27 billion,...
Northern Telecom Ltd. won a $780 million contract with Teligent Corp. and offered to purchase all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Broadband Networks Inc. on a fully diluted basis, indicating its desire to become the leading vendor in the emerging fixed...
Business finally is taking off for some of the players with nationwide coverage plans in the enhanced specialized mobile radio arena.With technology bugs worked out, marketing and distribution strategies set and coverage areas improved, digital SMR companies are seeing their work pay off: a ramp-up...
NEW YORK-Working with Ericsson Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc., Powertel Inc. has just completed a successful "beam firing antenna" trial.The beam firing antenna array, tested in Auburn, Ala., increases efficiency by more than 20 percent and maximizes the linear distance that transmissions can travel,...
LONDON-Code Division Multiple Access technology is playing a key role in several leading technology contenders for third-generation wireless networks in Europe, but back-to-back industry shows held here last week underlined just how convoluted and contentious Europe's standards process has become.And while CDMA technology seems...
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. announced the release of its EZT3 DS3 access multiplexer, which it said gives carriers the power of simple network management protocol and flexible capacity upgrades.ADC said the product frees up rack space and simplifies the network management through increased visibility. ADC...
Business and consumer market customers traditionally have been the focus of the paging industry's marketing and sales efforts. But there is a hidden, some say ignored, segment of the population that has a more unique need for paging technology ... the deaf and hard...
BETHESDA, Md.-Comsat Corp. said its new satellite-based tool will offer service providers access to advanced networking technologies normally associated with sophisticated wireline networks.The product, called Link One, is scheduled to be commercially available in mid-1998.Link One incorporates Asynchronous Transfer Mode, Frame Relay, Signaling System...
NEW YORK-NEC Corp. announced China's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications awarded it a contract for a Synchronous Digital Hierarchy microwave system through the Chinese company Marubeni Corp.The contract, valued at 4.5 billion yen, is for a 2,200 kilometer public communication line connecting six Chinese...
Erico Inc. introduced a new line of ground bar assemblies and related products designed for the personal communications services market. Erico ground bars are electrolyptic copper bars manufactured to individual design specifi-cations, said the company. The bars are available with a variety of options...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. and PageMart Wireless Inc. announced a five-year strategic alliance that will allow Alltel to offer its customers PageMart's numeric and text-based paging services.Alltel is a wireless and wireline service provider that offers Internet access, wireless services, voice mail and local...
NEW YORK-Borrowing a tag line from a recently released report of the Paging Leadership Association, industry representatives and analysts say there is "no grim reaper for the beeper."The association, comprised of the 13 companies that represent 73 percent of the United States paging market,...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group introduced a Code Division Multiple Access cellular base transmission system that supports about twice the capacity of current commercial CDMA networks, said the company.Motorola currently is deploying the new SC 4840 base stations in Japan as part...
RESTON, Va.-Constellation Communications Inc. filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission to launch an additional 46 satellites to operate in the 2 GHz frequency bands.The satellites will allow for high-speed digital transmission services at rates up to 28.8 kilobits-per-second, Group 3 facsimile, Internet...
IBM Corp. and Geotek Communications Inc. announced they will join forces to provide integrated mobile communications services, equipment and software to business customers in the United States and some international markets.The agreement will see the two companies working together in two areas: technology, and marketing...
CEDAR CREST, N.M.-Specialty Teleconstructors Inc. signed letters of intent to acquire all of the capital stock of Microcell Communications of America Inc. and Ellis Tower Co. Inc. in exchange for an aggregate of 851,064 newly issued shares of Specialty common stock.Microcell, based in Fort...
NEW YORK-Notable by its absence amid the current merger mania in telecommunications is convergence across industry lines between transmission and content providers, according to a new study by Price Waterhouse L.L.P."Competition didn't happen in the way people expected after the , and expectations may...
WASHINGTON-Iridium L.L.C. launched seven satellites on a proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.The satellites are part of a 66-satellite wireless personal telecommunications network designed to permit any type of telephone transmission worldwide including voice, data, fax and paging. The first five...
Two environmental health advocates in Boston and New York have initiated petitions to stop area launches of personal communications services networks and shut down existing networks pending a public hearing and epidemiologic studies on potential health effects.The Boston petition, introduced by Susan Clarke, has...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-California Microwave Inc. announced it will sell its Satellite Transmission Systems and Microwave Networks business units. The company will retain its satellite modem and other wireless radio divisions.California Microwave said it decided to focus on maintaining and expanding its six wireless markets...
SAN DIEGO-General Instrument Corp., a supplier of end-to-end digital transmission systems, signed a letter of intent to co-produce digital DVB satellite receivers in China with joint venture partners Xi'an Yellow River New Era Co. Ltd. and China Radio & Television Co.The letter of intent...
