Just as Cellular Digital Packet Data has been slow to take off in the United States, it looks like it will take a little pushing and shoving for the technology to thrive in Latin America as well.So far only a few hundred CDPD terminals...
Dear Editor: I feel I must respond to Mr. Valentine's response to your Viewpoint column.First of all, I think Mr. Valentine is certainly keeping in line with his comments to several members of the industry Chief General Counsel that his main concern regarding the whole...
Grupo Iusacell S.A. de C.V., a cellular provider in Mexico, announced it has registered an average rate increase of 30 percent with the Secretariat of Communications and Transport. The price increase, which takes effect this month, is a result of rising inflation and is...
Having grown weary of competing in the increasingly commoditized market for analog cellular telephones, Fujitsu Network Transmission Systems Inc. is retrenching and restructuring its phone division in hopes of making a comeback with digital.The Richardson, Texas-based company will wind down the production of its...
ALAMEDA, Calif. - Geoworks and Ericsson Inc. announced an alliance to deliver a range of afforadable "smart phone" next-generation cellular phones combining voice and data transmission capabilities.Under the terms os the agreement, Ericsson has licensed Geoworks' Geos open operating system platform.Ericsson smart phones are...
NEW YORK-Provided technological breakthroughs occur to improve transmission quality and quantity, wireless communications could become a substitute for fixed wireline communications within a decade.That assessment was offered Jan. 25 by Michael Minter, managing director of Smith Barney Inc. of New York, at the fourth...
In her Jan. 15 "Viewpoint" column, Tracy Anderson Ford presented her views regarding the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's new certification requirements for personal communications services handsets, which are designed to prevent interference to hearing aids. Ms. Ford discussed her interpretation of my position on...
ATLANTA-GTE Mobilnet announced a new pricing structure for its Cellular Digital Packet Data network that reflects a 40 percent to 60 percent reduction from previously published rates.GTE said the prices feature a flat monthly charge with bundled kilobytes, designed to suit different customer usage...
AirTouch Communications Inc. announced that its cellular venture in Kyushu, Japan, has launched commercial service. Digital TU-KA Kyushu Co. Ltd. initially will serve the capital city, major highways and the railway line in the Kyushu area, reaching 80 percent of the region's 14 million...
SINGAPORE-Singapore Telecom has signed interconnect agreements with each of the three operators awarded licenses to operate mobile communications services in Singapore beginning April 1, 1997.The new operators are cellular carrier MobileOne Pte Ltd. and paging carriers Singapore Technologies Paging Pte Ltd. and IntraPage Pte...
WASHINGTON-Hearing disability advocates are privately furious with the wireless telecommunications industry over the agenda for this week's conference on hearing aid interference from next-generation pocket phones and with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt for suggesting the problem can be solved by the marketplace.Publicly,...
WASHINGTON-Wireless-wireline interconnection reforms proposed by federal regulators mark the beginning of a revolutionary process to redefine the relationship between commercial mobile radio service providers and local telephone companies, an exercise tied to the broader policy goal of local competition.In addition to establishing interconnection parity,...
Over a cup of coffee one Saturday morning, Jai Bhagat decided to try his luck with a new spinoff company called Mtel. That was eight years ago. Today he is president and chief executive officer of Mobile Telecommunications Technologies Corp.'s $170 million paging subsidiary,...
Comsearch announced it was awarded a contract from MRCB Telecommunications Sdn Bnd to license Comsearch microwave design engineering software. The software, called Interconnect, is being used to support the design, licensing and implementation of the MRCB microwave network for its personal communications network service...
Alphanumeric paging is making a turnaround in the U.S. marketplace. It's easier to use, more spectrum-efficient and may open a gateway for service providers to sign on two-way messaging customers.Alphanumeric paging is on the rise. According to Roberta Wiggins, director of wireless/mobile communications for...
With plans to offer commercial tracking services in North America in February, Orbcomm Global L.P. has two satellites in orbit and is beta testing its global data-only communication system.The Dulles, Va.-based company is licensed to create a 34-satellite system to provide worldwide data and...
While leading companies in all segments of the wireless industry are growing through consolidation, Dallas-based PageMart Inc. is flourishing by concentrating on the internal growth of its paging operations.Although PageMart started out as a private carrier paging company, it ranked sixth on RCR's list...
IRVING, Texas-Nokia Corp. announced the personal communications services 1900 market in the United States has selected the Enhanced Full Rate voice codec developed by Nokia and the University of Sherbrooke in Canada as the industry standard codec for PCS-1900.The EFR codec is a coding...
Wynd Communications Corp. is pursuing the wireless data market with an integrated messaging and information service for the mobile professional called WyndMail.San Luis Obispo, Calif.-based Wynd is a subsidiary of Call America. The 13-year-old firm provides telecommunications services including paging, Integrated Services Digital Networks,...
Datum Inc.'s Timing Division announced the release of a small high-performance Global Positioning Satellite system receiver. Datum said the StarTime GPS Clock is designed for applications that require not only high performance but small physical size and low price. The clock consists of an...
Photographs and medical data now can be sent on existing POCSAG paging networks to portable devices using a technology developed by Data Critical Corp.Data-Through-Paging technology, or DTP, is a protocol that compresses images or text, then slices it into packets. Compressed and packetized data...
While neophytes view the commercial vehicle industry as a homogeneous market, Norcom Networks Corp. sees a way to provide a high-speed, packet-data communications network to transportation companies in a way that treats each segment as unique."We are pioneering a new generation of wireless mobile...
DALLAS-PCS PrimeCo L.P. announced it has made the world's first wireless phone call on a carrier-based personal communications services system using Code Division Multiple Access digital technology at 1900 MHz.The company said the calls, which were made in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, are technologically...
AT&T Wireless Services has unveiled personal Air Communications Technology, a new open standards-based architecture for two-way messaging that the company expects will become an industry standard for narrowband personal communications services.Armed with pACT, AT&T is first to challenge Motorola Inc.'s FLEX technology in the...
