L.M. Ericsson said Digital Tuka Kyushu ordered equipment, including AXE switching and radio base station infrastructure, to expand its Personal Digital Cellular mobile telephone system. Ericsson values the contract at $75 million. The company expects the capacity increase for the southwestern Japanese region to...
Bouygues Telecom chose the partnership of Nokia Telecommunications and Dassault A.T. of France to provide a DCS 1800 cellular system in northern France. Nokia and Dassault will provide base stations, base station controllers, operation systems, cellular transmission equipment and antennas. In addition, the pair...
SAN DIEGO-Sony/Qualcomm CDMA sales, a division of Qualcomm Personal Electronics, will supply Sony CM-D500 handsets for GTE Inc.'s launch of Code Division Multiple Access digital service in Austin, Texas.The dual-mode phones use Sony's lithium ion battery technology to increase talk and standby times. The...
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Canada-Teklogix International Inc. was awarded a contract by Montreal-based Canadian National Railways to provide it with narrowband wireless data communication networks.The networks will include the Ethernet Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol connectivity and 85 vehicle-mounted data terminals. They will be installed at Canadian...
NEW YORK-Russia's largest cellular carrier, Vimpel-Communications, plans to go public with an international offering that will make it the first Russian company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.Through an underwriting syndicate led by Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corp., New York, Vimpel-Com has...
The new telecommunications arm of Black & Veatch is the fastest growing segment of the Kansas City, Mo.-based engineering company, and is expected to bring in 20 percent of the firm's annual $1.1 billion in revenue this year."We believe we'll be extremely busy doing...
MCKINNEY, Texas-Comsat RSI JEFA Wireless Systems announced agreements with Stellar Communications Inc. and Nextel Communications Inc. for communications towers.The deals resulted in two new products with patents pending. The TrussPole is a self-supporting structure designed to be used in place of a monopole, and...
COLUMBUS, Ohio-American Electric Power formed a new subsidiary to offer personal communications services licensees assistance in establishing and maintaining their networks.The non-regulated company is named AEP Communications Inc.AEP will primarily offer services such as location and construction of antenna facilities and management of PCS...
NEW YORK-Sun Microsystems Computer Co. plans to target infrastructure monitoring in the wireless sector with its recently unveiled JavaStation network computer.A lower-cost alternative to the personal computer, the JavaStation network computer is available for between $750 and $1,500. Java is Sun's programming language that...
NEW YORK-Will hardware yield to software for prepaid wireless services? Tecore, a Columbia, Md., technology company, is in business to facilitate the transition, which it believes is inevitable.The euphemistically named class of customers called "credit challenged" comprises as much as one-third of the wireless...
WASHINGTON-For years, wireless resellers have been fighting carriers, regulators and Congress for a little respect.In the future, they may command it.The infusion of spectrum, deregulation and competition is changing marketplace dynamics, making resale an increasingly attractive distribution channel in the new world of one-stop...
NEW YORK-Transcrypt International Inc., a designer and manufacturer of information security products for wireless and wireline voice and data communications, plans to go public.The company, headquartered in Lincoln, Neb., has registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell 3.75 million shares of common...
OLYMPIA, Wash.-Illuminet and Columbia Spectrum Management said they are helping small personal communications services providers clear spectrum using Columbia Spectrum's services. PCS license winners must relocate microwave systems that currently occupy spectrum allocated to PCS by the Federal Communications Commission.According to the agreement, Columbia...
Powertel, a wholly owned subsidiary of InterCel Inc., launched its personal communications services network in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and plans to launch service by Oct. 30 in Memphis, Tenn. PCS service began in Montgomery, Ala., and Jacksonville Fla., earlier this month, the company said. Several...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-GooItech L.P. has introduced its wireless automatic teller machine solution, which replaces phone line links to ATMs with a digital airlink, resulting in both lower costs and improved transmission speeds, the company said.The new ATM machines were recently tested on the Alton Bell...
LAS VEGAS-Telemetry applications made a strong showing at last week's Wireless Apps '96 show hosted by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association.Skywire Corp. announced a trial to monitor several hundred soda vending machines throughout Southern Nevada for J.W. Costello Beverage Co. in partnership with cellular...
A funny thing happened on my way out of the exhibit area at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's Wireless Apps '96 conference last week in Las Vegas.When I left Sunday evening, I could have sworn the backside of the entryway banner announced next year's...
International consortium Polkomtel started Global System for Mobile communications cellular service in Poland just seven months after receiving its license and two weeks after its key competitor, Polska Telefonica Cyfrowa, introduced GSM service.Polkomtel, operating as Plus GSM, launched service in Warsaw and is expected...
CLEVELAND-The private banking division of Cleveland-based KeyCorp is introducing a cellular phone that lets customers do banking and investing anytime and anywhere they want.The KeyMobile phone was developed by Realogic Inc. and is based on Pacific Communications Sciences Inc.'s PAL phone and Unwired Planet...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies' Wireless Messaging Group introduced the GL3200, which is a gateway from the Internet to both one- and two-way paging, delivering text messages to alpha pagers and providing new two-way paging services such as multistage e-mail transmission with multiple response capabilities.The GL3200...
American Tower Corp. is expected to close soon on the acquisition of Prime Communication Sites L.L.C., which will give Texas-based American nearly 200 additional tower sites and complete the company's goal of creating "the first nationwide rental tower company."American Tower is the nation's largest...
SAN FRANCISCO-Philips Electronics NV of the Netherlands and Motorola Inc. announced a cross-licensing agreement giving Philips access to the FLEX family of messaging technologies, including the FLEX one-way, ReFLEX two-way and InFLEXion voice messaging protocols.In addition, Philips Semiconductor Division, a worldwide supplier of paging...
The futuresque communications previously only envisioned by StarTrek's writers are reality in the here and now as demonstrated at PCS '96 by students of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, in conjunction with Motorola Inc.The communications technology projects exhibited by MIT use Motorola's FLEX...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Alcatel Telecom and Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group will purchase each other's wireless equipment according to a memorandum of understanding announced Thursday.According to the agreement, Alcatel will be allowed to purchase and distribute Motorola's Code Division Multiple Access radio systems, while it...
