American Personal Communications has cracked a deal with Baltimore Gas & Electric that will allow APC to put full-sector antenna configurations on electric transmission towers.The relationship could help APC leap over some of cellular's long-time site acquisition hurdles-zoning board battles. Electric utilities are well...
While the personal communications services industry in general remains locked in a three-way split over an airlink standard for systems deployment, cable TV operators in the PCS business so far have pitched their tents in the Code Division Multiple Access camp.CDMA got a large...
As the entrepreneurial block auctions for broadband personal communications services get underway this December, the first broadband PCS services also are scheduled to become reality. But a later rollout schedule is par for the course among major PCS license holders, resulting in part from...
Standard Telecom America Inc. introduced a line-up of Nixxo pagers including Nixxo Tutti, Nixxo AirFly and the alphanumeric Nixxo, to American and Latin American markets. The company is a new player in the U.S. paging market but is a leading manufacturer in South Korea...
The prime movers behind the recent rollout of Personal Handyphone System services in Japan are not losing any time promoting the digital technology in other Asia-Pacific markets.Cable & Wireless plc joined with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc., Hongkong Telecom...
No, I'm not saying personal communications services are here yet. Obviously they're not. But, by any reasonable standard, Ubiquity-anytime, anywhere communications-is already here, delivered by one network or another or a network of networks to those who are willing to pay the toll.The arrival...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments has introduced a new digital signal processing solution designed to give cellular telephone users the safety of hands-free operation in the car along with the audio quality associated with handheld phone use.TI said its TMS320WP010 enhances hands-free cellular communications with a combination...
Allen Telecom Group Inc. announced it has reached a purchase agreement with Pacific Bell Mobile Services. The three-year, non-exclusive agreement allows Pac Bell to purchase Allen's omni-directional and panel antennas and accessories in preparation for building its personal communications services infrastructure for its base...
A Richardson, Texas, business is offering utility companies the chance to have a two-way wireless communications network with automated meter reading without the full capital expense of building a network."Because utility companies are facing competition today, they have to protect their market as well...
A new industry association has been formed to promote and advance the Personal Access Communications System standard as the preferred solution for the emerging 1.9 GHz personal communications services market in the United States.The PACS standard is based on Time Division Multiple Access digital...
DALLAS-Westlink Paging Inc. and Paging Network Inc. have entered into reciprocal agreements to provide the other's paging services in specific market areas, announced PageNet.PageNet's network covers broad geographic areas covering more than 90 percent of the U.S. population, said the company. But while its...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-The U.S. mobile communications services market is projected to more than triple from $26.3 billion in 1994 to $92.5 billion by the year 2001, according to a new study from Frost & Sullivan Inc.The share of total mobile market revenues going to...
On a recent trip across Europe to visit some of the major operators and manufacturers of the blossoming cellular industry there, I was asked to describe the state of the industry in the United States. Of course I spoke of the great advancements we...
The Czech Economics Ministry is firming its plans to issue a tender for companies interested in becoming partners in one of two groups that will hold licenses to operate Global System for Mobile communications cellular networks in the Czech Republic.The U.S. Embassy in Prague...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission said it will concentrate on making wireless regulations more flexible and streamlining licensing procedures in the coming months.The emphasis on the two areas will be seen in new service rules and administrative procedures, according to the agency."I believe is...
Fueled by increasing safety concerns and customer demand, the cellular market has become the fastest-growing segment for speech-recognition use in the United States, according to industry analysts.Being able to command a cellular phone to "call office"-instead of requiring users to fumble for their handsets...
The road to launching the first commercial personal communications services network in the United States, which American Personal Communications plans to do this fall, began at the Personal Communications Industry Association (then called Telocator) annual convention in Washington, D.C., in 1989. It is fitting...
Air Communications Inc. has unveiled an all-in-one cellular voice-data-facsimile telephone called the AirCommunicator that uses a proprietary protocol to transmit on circuit-switched analog cellular networks."We've pioneered a product that works as a fully featured data communications tool-in essence, replicating the user's desktop environment," said...
The latest step in the continuing march toward ever higher radio frequencies, 38 GHz point-to-point digital services, is providing a set of interesting, unique products.The 38 GHz technology has been proven in Europe and now a few American companies are introducing it and a...
Padcom Inc. has developed a point-to-multipoint, transparent wireless data transfer system that the company says can overcome technical incompatibilities in wireless data systems and establish pathways between any remote device and land-based wireline networks."Transparent technology is a major breakthrough for the wireless data industry...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Western Wireless Corp. has selected California Microwave Inc. as a contractor of microwave radio and engineering services for its personal communications services network.California Microwave will provide network design, transmission engineering and equipment installation. California Microwave also will provide engineering re-design assistance to companies...
German powerhouse RWE Energie AG has its telecom engine revving, awaiting a license to drive. The diversified conglomerate has an extensive telecom network already in place and is gearing up to compete head-to-head with Deutsche Telekom, currently the monopoly telephone operator.As a European Union...
If you were one of the many who stood in line to buy a copy of Windows 95 at midnight Aug. 24, (or even if you're not one of them), you'll appreciate this look at what happened to the great "cellular data rush" of...
Paging Network Inc. completed the purchase of the paging assets of California-based International Paging Corp. effective Sept. 1. PageNet said it will acquire 50,000 IPC paging customers in California, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Washington and Utah for a cash purchase price of $15 million. "We...
