CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-Lotus Development Corp. announced a new version of its Lotus Notes Pager Gateway, a wireless messaging solution for Lotus Notes that allows customers to filter and forward messages to mobile users carrying pagers.Lotus Notes Pager Gateway 2.0 improves the transmission of information from...
TULSA, Okla.-Axcess Global Systems of Metairie, La., has selected SpaceCom Systems and its FM Cubed satellite technology to provide the backbone for the paging carrier's new network of alphanumeric paging and information services, SpaceCom said.The network will use Radio Broadcast Data Service FM-subcarrier signals,...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has launched commercial Circuit Data Service in 35 new markets.CDS is now available to more than 70 percent of AT&T's cellular coverage area, according to Clayton Foster, the product manager for AT&T Wireless' wireless data division. "The growth of CDS...
NEW YORK-PageMart Wireless Inc., a Dallas-based wireless messaging company ranked among the largest in the nation, went public June 13 with the sale of six million shares of common stock priced at $13 each.Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc., New York, was lead underwriter of...
A U.S.-owned company is up against competition in its bid for digital dispatch radio spectrum in the United Kingdom, while also facing implementation of the never-deployed TETRA standard.National Band Three Ltd. is wholly owned by Geotek Communications Inc. of Montvale, N.J. The four-year-old company...
CHICAGO-After an inauspicious debut that sent it back to rehearsals, the latest wireless extravaganza from Motorola Inc. is ready to return to prime time.The Schaumburg, Ill., telecommunications equipment giant was expected to announce today that it has smoothed over the rough spots of its...
LITTLE CHUTE, Wis.-Airadigm Communications, which holds C-block personal communications services licenses in 13 basic trading areas comprising most of Wisconsin and part of Iowa, announced it has selected Global System for Mobile communications technology for its wireless telecommunications services."After a lot of deliberation and...
NEC Corp. of Tokyo has launched its new GSM phone in Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, with plans to expand sales and sell a million units during the first year.This is the Japanese equipment manufacturer's first product based on Global System for Mobile...
Deutsche Telekom AG has expanded its presence in Asia through a strategic alliance in Malaysia.Deutsche Telekom will buy 21 percent equity interest in Technology Resources Industries Berhad, which operates Malaysia's largest cellular network, Celcom. The purchase will be in the form of newly issued...
Digital TU-KA Chugoku Co. Ltd. launched commercial service in the Chugoku area of Japan, serving the capital city, major highways and the railway line. AirTouch Communications Inc. owns 4.5 percent of the Chugoku operator, as well as five other Digital TU-KA cellular companies offering...
NEW YORK-Group Communication Services, Canada's second-largest specialized mobile radio operator, plans an initial public offering of common stock to help finance most of a major expansion project to deploy digital technology.Known as CS Group, the Montreal-based company plans to spend $91 million (Canadian) to...
Telecom Finland has contracted with L.M. Ericsson to build a new DCS-1800 system and expand Telecom Finland's existing Global System for Mobile communications network.Ericsson values the contract at $105 million. The company said the contract is an indication of the "ever fiercer competition to...
It's quicker to list which countries do not use FLEX than to name those that do.That's how Larry Conlee, corporate vice president and director of worldwide markets, Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Division, described FLEX's rapid acceptance worldwide. In the United States, most one-way paging...
WASHINGTON-At a time when Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. is scraping for cash to determine whether pocket telephones pose a potential public health risk, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association is pumping hundreds of thousands of dollars annually into public affairs to convince consumers that the...
DALLAS-PageMart Inc. announced the completion of a fully redundant wireless messaging transmission network that will be able to recover quickly from network snags that may occur, including circuit, uplink or even total satellite failure.PageMart said it has invested $3 million in new equipment and...
TULSA, Okla.-SpaceCom Systems has formed an alliance with Redsat S.A. of Mexico and TeleComm de Mexico to market its FM Cubed satellite transmission technology and equipment in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and parts of South America.The new service called InfoSat Plus, will provide...
NEW YORK-Excel Communications Inc., which plans to begin offering nationwide paging services this summer, sold an initial public offering May 10 with the share price rising dramatically by the end of the first trading day.The company offered 10 million shares of common stock at...
NEW YORK-Preferred Networks Inc., a paging wholesaler that went public in March, experienced net losses of $1.5 million during the first quarter of 1996, the price for investment in rapid expansion, company officials said.At the same time, revenues increased by $1 million to $2.4...
The introduction of fully digital wireless networks means that marginal readings by portable test equipment are no longer acceptable."It's all ones and zeros now, so you have to be precisely tuned," said Jan Whitacre, spokeswoman for Hewlett-Packard Co.That reality lit a fire under the...
NEW YORK-If the trend in communications is bundling services to customers, then the key to exploiting the trend is in combined billing for those multiple services."Most of the research we've looked at and most of what our customers tell us is that local, long...
When MCI Communications Corp. asked him to build a radio tower on top of a mountain using a helicopter, 21-year-old wireless newcomer Michael Budagher said yes. Fifteen years later, his company is one of the industry's leading infrastructure builders.Budagher quit his job as a...
WASHINGTON-With the huge capital costs of spectrum, infrastructure and marketing playing a major part in the rollout of new personal communications services, PACS technology may become an attractive option for firms planning to bid on 10 megahertz licenses later this summer.PACS is a low-tier,...
Expenses were significant for Qualcomm Inc. in the second quarter, deeply affecting its earnings and sending its stock down 10 points.The San Diego company said it expects to build up its supplier side and manufacturing capabilities in coming quarters, and it defended the ability...
Rapid progress to market for Canada's personal communications services licensees is marked by Industry Canada's recent release of license conditions and Bell Mobility's announcement to use Code Division Multiple Access technology.Canadian Minister of Communications John Manley announced guidelines for PCS, including stipulations for the...
