DALLAS-DSC Communications Corp. said it will demonstrate products designed to meet the requirements of the telecom act this week at SuperComm '97 in New Orleans.Products designed to solve problems with unbundling and Internet congestion as well as switched digital video, ADSL, broadband data transmission...
Cook Inlet Region Inc. will roll out personal communications services this week in Tulsa, Okla.,-just the second C-block player to launch commercial PCS operations. Airadigm Communications Inc., another C-block licensee, launched its PCS service in March in Appleton, Wis.Cook Inlet, an Alaskan Native American...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Telecommunications signed a contract with Mobilix, a subsidiary of the France Telecom Group, to supply a new Digital Cellular System 1800 MHz network in Denmark. Mobilix won a license to operate the Danish DCS 1800 mobile phone network in March.The agreement includes...
Lodestar Towers Inc., a developer and manager of multi-use transmission sites, broke ground on its Mt. Harvard facility in Southern California.Lodestar said the facility is the nation's first multi-use facility equipped to provide turnkey transmitter plant facilities for digital television in the Southern California...
TAMPA-GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. signed a contract to provide its Access Services clearinghouse system to PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P.GTE also will provide its RoamerXchange database management system to PrimeCo, which operates a Code Division Multiple Access personal communications services network.The Access Services system determines...
SKOKIE, Ill.-U.S. Robotics and Northern Telecom Ltd. agreed to jointly develop wireless data access products for mobile professionals needing wireless access to e-mail, the Internet and other data applications."Digital wireless technology promises faster, higher quality and more reliable data transmission than circuit-switched analog cellular...
Using tracking technology developed almost a decade ago for the financial community, ProNet Inc. is marketing a security tracking service for college students and employees.CampusTrac works the opposite from traditional paging, explained Kelly Love, manager of investor relations for ProNet. When users push a...
WARREN, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it is supplying its GlobeView-2000 asynchronous transfer mode switch to the Communications Authority of Thailand and Indonesia's P.T. Komunikasi Selular Indonesia.ATM is a switching method that breaks streams of information into small packets, which facilitates high-speed transmission of voice,...
Cushcraft Corp. introduced a personal communications services dual polarized single patch antenna. The S2407HVP provides for reception and transmission of both vertically and horizontally polarized signals in the 2400-2500 MHz frequency band. The antenna consists of a single broadband microstrip patch, which provides a...
DALLAS-While admitting the growth of wireless communications is unbridled, challenges still lie ahead for the industry, particularly when it comes to marketing.Speaking at the recent Wireless Marketing Summit, co-sponsored by RCR Publications Inc., Lynn Upshaw, principal of Upshaw & Associates, listed some of the...
TORRANCE, Calif.-Intek Diversified Corp.'s subsidiary Roamer One signed an agreement to provide voice communication and computer aided dispatch to Time Warner Inc. for its cable television fleet operating in northern Los Angeles.The system provides functions such as vehicle location, mapping, high-speed data transmission and...
Swedish telecommunications giant L.M. Ericsson is promoting the application of wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology, and recently announced a partnership with Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Corp. of Japan to develop commercial uses for W-CDMA.The announcement has raised a few eyebrows for a number...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. and the University of Texas at Dallas will jointly develop curriculum for electrical engineers specifically for the wireless telecommunications industry.Stephen Gibbs, an Ericsson employee of seven years, will teach at the University's Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, and...
More than a year after the Internet burst into the wireless space, the big story in mobile data continues to be how the industry is responding to this communications phenomenon.While circuit-switched cellular still is the standard for wireless data connectivity-offering near-universal access for dial-up...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-BT Mobile awarded a contract to Ericsson Ltd. to upgrade BT's wide area paging network.The project, scheduled for completion this year, will add features and increase network capacity."BT needs flexibility to adapt their system as the subscriber base grows and new services are...
NEC Corp. won contracts for two transmission projects in Costa Rica in conjunction with Intituto Costarricense de Electricidad. One project calls for NEC to supply a 2 GHz/8 Mbps digital microwave radio system for rural districts of Costa Rica. The other calls for NEC...
TULSA, Okla.-Enhanced Messaging Systems and SpaceCom Systems teamed up to provide an integrated satellite link and transmission control system for the paging industry. The system, HyperNet, provides reductions in satellite link costs and new operational capabilities, the companies said.SpaceCom's HyperCubed satellite communications technology and...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. signed an agreement to supply and install an analog Nordic Mobile Telephone cellular network in Murmansk, Russia, for AOZT Tele-North.Nokia will provide equipment including a DX 200 MTX mobile switch, base stations and transmission equipment. Tele-North currently is operating with NMT...
Tough competition from other operators has led to increased costs for cellular carrier Palmer Wireless Inc., fueling speculation that the carrier is up for sale.Fort Myers, Fla.-based Palmer won't comment on what it calls "a market rumor" that it is looking for a buyer....
ATLANTA, Ga.-Digital Transmission Systems Inc. will provide its FlexSentry network management control product to PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P., said the company.DTS said its equipment at cell sites and at mobile switching centers is linked with FlexSentry to allow operators to monitor the status of...
Advanced network performance is a key factor for wireless carriers trying to pull ahead of the competition, says a Westford, Mass., producer of transmission equipment.Intraplex Corp. said it has the technology to keep transmission signals running on a network when transmission links are not...
NEW YORK-Amid an expanding arsenal of competing fraud detection and prevention options, just two radio frequency fingerprinting companies have staked out a potentially lucrative niche in the analog cellular arena.Cloning, the illegal interception and reuse of a legitimate cellular customer's electronic information, will cost...
RF Connectors, a division of RF Industries, released several BNC, N and UHF connectors for use with RG-8/U type plenum cable having .108 solid center conductors and .355 outer jacket dimensions. The cable can be used in computer, instrumentation or broadcast installations. (800) 233-1728.Two...
OLYMPIA, Wash.-Illuminet, a consortium of telecommunications companies formed to take advantage of volume buying prices, signed an agreement with Harris Corp.'s Farinon Division, a provider of microwave radio equipment and systems for voice, data and video applications.Illuminet consortium members may purchase products and services...
