DALLAS-The Toronto-based subsidiaries of Paging Network Inc. and PageMart Inc., both headquartered in Dallas, started offering paging services in Canada.PageNet said this is its first entrance into a market outside the United States and its territories, the company said.PageNet Canada uses nationwide spectrum and...
BellSouth Mobility said it expects to sell an additional 1 million minutes of airtime per day during the 1996 Olympic Games that begin in three months in Atlanta.The symbolic torch is scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles from Greece on April 27. Then after...
NEW YORK-When it comes to siting wireless communications towers, passing "Go" means collecting a lot more than $200.Tower placement ease got a boost from Section 704 of the new federal telecommunications law which, "sets explicit national (tower) siting standards resulting from a negotiated rulemaking...
After three enterprising decades at Motorola Inc.-during which he pioneered high-capacity paging and the first radiotelephone-succeeded by several telecom start-up firms, Martin Cooper was ready to hang up his spurs.That was four years ago. Today Cooper, along with the esteemed scientist and engineer who...
DALLAS-Air Communications Inc. is offering an automatic personal identification number security solution for its all-in-one AirCommunicator cellular telephone.The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company introduced the phone last fall. It uses the company's proprietary AirTrue transmission protocol to offer voice, fax and circuit-switched data service on...
"The Internet is the killer app!" declared futurist George Gilder at the Wireless Apps '95 show hosted by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last fall in Las Vegas.He was referring to the long-sought application for wireless data-a Holy Grail of sorts-that would be so...
STAMFORD, Conn.-GTE Corp. has announced it intends to get a foothold in the Brazilian cellular phone market through an alliance with a Brazilian investment group and a Brazilian equipment manufacturer.The trio has its eyes on one of the B-band cellular licenses the Brazilian government...
I've got a scoop! I think I now know how President Clinton plans to balance the budget. By selling the budget-all five volumes of the fiscal '97 spending plan for $100.Reporters, lobbyists, trade associations and think tanks eat this stuff up. What fools we...
AirTouch Communications Inc. announced its cellular ventures in Germany and Italy have continued to experience strong customer growth. AirTouch said its German cellular venture, Mannesmann Mobilfunk, currently has more than 1.6 million customers. During 1995, Mannesmann Mobilfunk grew by more than 70 percent, ending...
DENVER-ICG Satellite Services said it plans to acquire about 90 percent of Maritime Cellular Tele-Network Inc., a West Palm Beach, Fla.-based provider of cellular communications for commercial shipping.MCN will allow ICG to provide mobile satellite communications services to freighters, yachts, tankers and off-shore platforms...
REDMOND, Wash.-Data Critical Corp. announced it has been awarded two patents for its Data-Through-Paging technology. One patent covers the "packetizing" component of the company's protocol, whereby textual and/or graphical data is compressed and divided into packets for transmission via paging networks, the company said.The...
NEW YORK-Wireless links may play a crucial role for long-distance, regional Bell operating companies and cable TV firms seeking competitive advantage in the newly deregulated landscape.Deregulation is occurring in an environment of technological convergence of voice, data and video communications, said speakers at "The...
Spectrum Information Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. announced they have reached an agreement to settle the patent litigation that has been pending between the two companies since December 1984. The agreement is subject to U.S. Bankruptcy Court approval. Spectrum's bankruptcy is pending in the...
NEW YORK-In the short run in the U.S. analog cellular phone equipment market, Nokia Corp. and, to a lesser extent, L.M. Ericsson, have gained ground on industry giant Motorola Inc. But the bigger question over the longer run is how meaningful this market share...
Tellabs Inc. has agreed to acquire Steinbrecher Corp. for about $76 million. The agreement is subject to regulatory approval and approval by Steinbrecher's stockholders.Founded in 1973, Burlington, Mass.-based Steinbrecher supplies wideband base station products for digital cellular and wireless data applications. The company reported...
The president of a Colorado-based rural cellular operator "emphatically refutes" claims by analog handset manufacturers that cellular growth is slowing, suggesting instead that low phone prices and the battle for market share are responsible for unwelcome pressure on manufacturing revenue."The number of subscribers continues...
PHOENIX-Pacific Communication Sciences Inc. unveiled the first product in a new line of Personal Access Links at the recent Mobile Insights '96 conference.The PAL telephone can make calls over the analog cellular network and transmit fax and data via circuit-switched cellular or emerging Cellular...
NEW YORK-Faced with falling cellular phone prices and formidable competition by the four heavyweight handset manufacturers, smaller, Japanese-based players are pursuing other options in the U.S. marketplace."It's going to be a brutal year," said Francis McInerney, a principal of North River Ventures, New York....
Florida cellular customers may soon see a 50-cent increase in their monthly bill, in the form of a fee to fund 911 technology and distance learning. Some cellular carriers indicated they are vehemently opposed to the fee, which is included in Gov. Lawton Chiles'...
DALLAS-PageMart Inc. announced its wholly owned subsidiary, PageMart International, has teamed with Canadian partners to launch PageMart Canada Ltd., a new nationwide Canadian paging company that will operate on the same 900 MHz frequency that PageMart uses in the United States.The two carriers will...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Systems Division announced three contracts for paging infrastructure equipment in China from Hunan Post and Telecommunication Administration, the Shaanxi PTA and the Hainan PTA.Motorola said each province has chosen its Nucleus radio frequency transmission base stations, C-Net control...
Omnitel Pronto Italia, Italy's first private Global System for Mobile communications cellular provider, said it has reached a roaming agreement with government-owned Telecom Italia Mobile SpA and announced three additional pricing plans to help it compete with TIM.Omnitel, a consortium comprised of Italy's computer...
MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced a software upgrade for its Autoplex System 1000 Cellular Digital Packet Data system.Lucent said its software, designated 3.0, supports features defined in CDPD Specification 1.1, a standard defined by a consortium of cellular service providers for packet data...
Two long-distance telephone service rivals have announced initiatives to provide wireless data access to their high-speed transmission networks.MCI Telecommunications Corp. said it will implement circuit-switched cellular access to its HyperStream Frame Relay network by the end of March. "MCI's HyperStream remote LAN dial access...
