Nokia Corp. reported solid financial results for the first eight months of 1994, particularly in its telecommunications and mobile phone divisions, with net sales increasing 54 percent and 62 percent, respectively.Accounting for structural changes within the group, as well as fluctuating exchange rates, the...
ATLANTA-The CDMA Development Group has completed specifications for Code Division Multiple Access asynchronous data and short message services.Services conforming to these standards are expected to be among the first offerings available when CDMA is rolled out in 1995, CDG said."We intend not only to...
GTE Mobilnet named two new general managers in its florida region. Doug Meyn manages the north area of the state, while Jane Clements manages the south area. Each of the general managers is responsible for sales distribution and service in their repecttive areas, including...
BEDMINSTER, N.J.-The ability to transmit video over cellular will give two U.S. television stations the edge in receiving breaking news from remote sites, according to two cellular carriers.Bell Atlantic Mobile said it has teamed up with cable station Newschannel 8 in the Washington, D.C.,...
SEATTLE-U S West Cellular Inc. said it has launched its wireless data service across the company's 13-state service area, offering end-to-end data solutions.Products offered include data-capable cellular phones, cellular modems and cellular facsimile machines. U S West Cellular said it has made adjustments throughout...
As a product, cellular voice has been a spectacular exception to the current slow growth rate for most industries. In fact, some experts claim that cellular's coming of age is unparalleled in consumer electronics."I think it's terribly significant that this industry has gone out...
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. said it will procure products from Motorola Inc.'s Paging Products Group to test its VoiceNow technology next year in three cities-Dallas-Fort Worth, San Francisco and New York City.Under the contract, valued at more than $250 million, PageNet will have a first...
Alcatel has received approval from Satelindo PT. Satellite Palapa Indonesia to implement the second phase of its Global System for Mobile communications digital cellular infrastructure deployment plan, which will cover 18 major cities in Indonesia and offer a capacity of 130,000 mobile subscribers. The...
With three new investors injecting a fresh $310 million into its low-earth-orbiting satellite project, Iridium Inc. said it has completed its planned equity financing.That means the Motorola Inc.-led international group now can make debt financing arrangements to fund the remainder of its commitments.Iridium seeks...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-California Microwave Inc. reported a 50 percent increase in net income for fiscal year 1994, ended June 30 for a record $15.1 million, or $1.20 per share.Fiscal 1994 results include eight months of operating results for California Microwave-Telecom Transmission Systems, which the company...
DALLAS-PageMart Inc. will launch the new Flex Signaling System nationwide early in the first quarter of 1995.Flex is able to increase the number of pagers a transmission channel can accommodate, enhance the reliability of paging signals and Flex pagers automatically adjust to variable transmission...
Itronix Corp. has introduced two mobile work stations that provide a complete portable computing platform for users in the trucking industry. The new Transportation Computing and Communications System has cellular digital packet data-based communications capability. Itronix's TCCS I consists of a T3500 mobile work...
According to the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, approximately a half million 911 calls are placed over U.S. cellular networks each month. With the cellular subscribers growing at an annual rate of 48 percent, the number of cellular 911 calls is increasing, creating a serious...
Two-way communications on devices the size of a pager will likely be the first service offered on recently purchased nationwide narrowband PCS frequencies."We're just starting down the path of what will be a whole array of new devices. Three years from now, there will...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-A subsidiary of California Microwave Inc. recently won a $2.2 million contract to provide satellite communications technology to China's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications.The subsidiary, Satellite Transmission Systems Inc., will supply a new satellite earth station, as well as upgrade an older one,...
