NEW YORK-Aided by strong growth in its mobile phones and telecommunications business groups, Nokia Corp. reported strong second-quarter net sales Aug. 8 of nearly $1.9 billion, a 17 percent increase from the same period 1995.Operating profits for the quarter, which ended June 30, were...
AVON, Colo.-NSN Network Services introduced Broadcast TNPP for paging networking, technology that combines Telocator Network Paging Protocol sources from a number of locations into one data stream, enabling point-to-multipoint communications between terminals.TNPP is the protocol that allows paging terminals to talk to one another....
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Mobile Phones K.K. (Japan) has introduced the Nokia Digital Data/Fax Card to the Japanese digital cellular networks.The card enables wireless data transmission linking Nokia's digital mobile phones and portable computers with the PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) slot. A user...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's adoption last week of a sweeping local-competition docket at best opens the door for some wireless carriers to become true head-to-head competitors with local exchange carriers, and at least will help lower prices wireless carriers and subscribers pay for service.Aug....
The telecommunications landscape has been changing so fast lately that it has been hard to keep up with all the new technologies, the new regulations and the new spectrum allocations. That was before Congress added the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to the picture.Underlying all...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.- Glenayre Technologies Inc. said it is working with the Chinese Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, various MPT design institutes, the Research Institute of Telecommunications Transmission and the Mobile Communications Bureau in China to help establish the country's national standard for interswitch paging...
E.F. Johnson Co. has signed a $3.6 million contract to build a trunked radio system for Campanhia Energetica de Minas Gerias (CEMIG), an electrical power generation and distribution company in Brazil. The 900 MHz Multi-Net trunking system will cover the metropolitan area of Belo...
TULSA, Okla.-SpaceCom Systems announced the rollout of HyperCubed, the company's newest satellite technology for point-to-multipoint distribution of high speed data.This latest offering, which will be completed by October using the Galaxy IV satellite, will reduce the transmission costs of high speed data channels via...
TORONTO, Ontario-Paging Network Inc. of Canada said it started service in Ottawa and Quebec City. The company first introduced one-way paging services April 1 in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal.Toronto-based PageNet Canada uses nationwide spectrum and a transmission system owned by Madison Telecommunications Inc.PageNet of...
PARIS-Alcatel Telecom has signed a cooperative agreement with GE Americom. Alcatel said the agreement gives it the exclusive European distribution rights for the satellite data transmission services of the GE Starsys system.GE Americom recently selected Alcatel as the prime contractor for the largest civil...
PCS eyes cable TV's lineCompetitive times call for innovation.During the energy crunch of the mid-1980s, The Williams Cos. of Tulsa, Okla., wanted to take advantage of its unused gas pipelines. The company ran fiber optic cable through its pipes and marketed it to telecommunications...
Nokia Mobile Phones announced it has teamed with computer manufacturer Psion to enable wireless users to send and receive short messages over a Global System for Mobile communications-based PCS-1900 network using a Nokia PCS phone, Psion's palmtop computer and Palmtop BV's Messenger software. Messenger...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. has signed agreements with Vanguard Cellular and Uplink Technologies Inc. to deploy Cellemetry. Cellemetry is BellSouth's wireless data technology that enables alarm equipment to use the existing cellular networks to provide alarm transmission from an alarm panel to any cellular base station."A...
After rescuing one of its core patents from bankruptcy court, Telular Corp. is charging back into the wireless data market with a new strategic alliance.The Buffalo Grove, Ill.-based company's AXCELL wireless data interface provides for portable fax and data transmission over the cellular network."We...
PCS eyes cable TV's lineCompetitive times call for innovation.During the energy crunch of the mid-1980s, The Williams Cos. of Tulsa, Okla., wanted to take advantage of its unused gas pipelines. The company ran fiber optic cable through its pipes and marketed it to telecommunications...
A Canadian company believes it is backing a revolutionary antenna that will advance the wireless industry."There is no antenna to outperform it currently," said John Robertson, president of IAS Communications Inc. of Richmond, British Columbia.The Contrawound Toroidal Helical Antenna (CTHA) was developed at the...
Does anyone have any common sense any more? (And if they do, are they willing to auction it off to the highest bidder?)While the GOP-led Congress debates what to do with TV channels 60-69-should they auction them, should they keep them for broadcast transmission...
NEW YORK-Measures of Olympic proportions undertaken by the heavyweights of industry have gone into developing the communications systems for the Summer Games, which begin July 19 in Atlanta. But amid the titans, Centennial Communications Inc., a small virtual company with access to coveted virgin...
NEW YORK-Electric utilities are taking a close look at wireless communications as a means to enhance revenues and operating efficiencies in their recently deregulated and competitive business environment.A variety of wireless opportunities and applications are under review or newly in use among electric power...
WinStar Communications Inc. intends to acquire Milliwave L.P. and has signed definitive agreements that will allow it to manage Milliwave's 38 GHz licenses until WinStar acquires the company next year.New York-based WinStar is a competitive access provider that has licenses for 38 GHz spectrum...
Casio PhoneMate Inc. has introduced a new product that combines an answering machine with Pager Link, a device that automatically calls a user's pager whenever a new message is received and lets users choose between being paged after every new message or only if...
U.S. Robotics is mounting a three-pronged campaign for the emerging wireless data industry.The Skokie, Ill.-based company's Mobile Communications division is a leader in PC Card modem technology with its Megahertz brand modem for circuit-switched cellular and packet radio networks. The company now wants to...
Just when every conceivable type of transmission site on earth and in orbit seems to have been recruited for wireless telecommunications, the industry now is taking to the stratosphere with lighter-than-air platforms.Sky Station International Inc. of Chantilly, Va., applied to the Federal Communications Commission...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies announced a new addition to its current Cellular Digital Packet Data system that enables cellular operators to cost-effectively offer data transmission service wherever voice service is offered.Lucent said its new addition, circuit-switched CDPD, extends the company's open systems CDPD implementation...
