AT&T Corp. last week stepped outside of the telecommunications industry to buy the nation's second-largest cable company, Tele-Communications Inc. The move is the latest in a string of mega-mergers involving communications companies.The stock transaction, valued at $48 billion including debt, is thought mainly to...
Boulder, Colo., is set to become a test bed for recently licensed Local Multipoint Distribution Services systems under the direction of the National Wireless Electronic Systems Testbed.N-WEST is a project of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Institute for Telecommunications Sciences,...
NEW YORK-Due to unfavorable market conditions, Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. said May 28 it postponed indefinitely its attempt to place privately a $125 million, 10-year debt issue that was scheduled for sale in late May."The company intends to pursue other financing alternatives and may...
They say a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, a lesson paging carriers learned in a painful way last Tuesday evening when an estimated 90 percent of all paging subscribers in the country found themselves without service due to a faulty...
PRINCETON, New Jersey, United States-United States-based Intek Global Corp. announced its Linear Modulation Technology subsidiary entered into a five-year technology, development and supply agreement from Nokia Telecommunications, a unit of Nokia Corp.Linear Modulation (LM) technology is a patented narrowband technology that can overlay digital...
PRINCETON, N.J.-Intek Global Corp. announced that its linear modulation technology subsidiary entered into a five-year technology, development and supply agreement with Nokia Telecommunications, a unit of Nokia Corp.Linear modulation technology is a patented narrowband technology that can overlay digital and analog radio transmissions to...
The use of mobile data products by police departments has gained such rapid acceptance across the country this year that it may be emerging as the most popular current application of wireless data technology, according to wireless data carriers and vendors.Cellular Digital Packet Data...
NEW YORK-Point-to-multipoint equipment should be available in quantity by mid-1998, bringing the bandwidth on demand promise of last-mile wireless "fiber" closer to widespread deployment."Where the heck did this market come from and why is it here today?" David Graves, chief executive officer of Broadband...
AirCell Inc., a Boulder, Colo.-based company that has developed a system to provide ground communications for aircraft using cellular channels, has been in a holding pattern since early this year.The company, which for two years had been testing its system under experimental authority from...
NEW YORK-Working with Ericsson Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc., Powertel Inc. has just completed a successful "beam firing antenna" trial.The beam firing antenna array, tested in Auburn, Ala., increases efficiency by more than 20 percent and maximizes the linear distance that transmissions can travel,...
WASHINGTON-Rep. Billy Tauzin (R-La.) revamped his previously proposed bill aimed at strengthening and clarifying rules against electronic eavesdropping via scanners and other devices to include language that protects all wireless equipment from intrusions on conversations.During the markup of the Wireless Privacy Enhancement Act of...
Two environmental health advocates in Boston and New York have initiated petitions to stop area launches of personal communications services networks and shut down existing networks pending a public hearing and epidemiologic studies on potential health effects.The Boston petition, introduced by Susan Clarke, has...
WASHINGTON-"This is not an inscrutable, hard-to-figure-out issue," said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) at a hearing last week to discuss problems with his proposed Law Enforcement and Public Safety Telecommunications Empowerment Act. "It ain't over 'til it's over. Simply put, I want to make sure...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc. offers several new communications solutions for the manufacturing environment through the SiteComm portfolio.One solution is a pre-packaged, trunked radio system that includes a portable, self-contained housing for plug-and-play capability.The computer-controlled, automatic channel-sharing ability of trunking provides fast, clear connections, Motorola said....
Only two innovative paging systems have been launched since new licenses were granted for narrowband personal communications services in 1994.SkyTel Corp. operates a two-way paging system aimed at elite users. Subscriber numbers have been low and the monthly price is well above other paging...
WASHINGTON-Somewhere in southern Louisiana, Mama Tauzin lives alone, and her son, the congressman, worries about her. He wants to buy her a wireless device that would alert someone should she become disabled in some way, but Mama Tauzin won't do it. She, like many...
WASHINGTON-A major Australian study has found significant cancer in rodents exposed to digital wireless phone radiation, dramatic findings that offer compelling new evidence of potential health risks from phones and further undercut long-standing cellular industry claims about phone safety.The research results, which have been...
DENVER-Personal communications services operator Western Wireless Corp. launched its VoiceStream service last Thursday in Denver, promising rates at least 20 percent lower than AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s digital cellular rates.The company said it's Global System for Mobile communications network, supplied by Northern Telecom Inc.,...
A Minnesota cryptographer said the cellular industry knows the cryptographic algorithms used in U.S. cellular digital systems are inadequate and were watered down by U.S. military pressure-and the industry is trying to hide that information.Bruce Schneier, president of Counterpane Systems, and several colleagues last...
ACT Communications Inc. developed two personal communications services and cellular protection products. The ACT 452-120-400L is a two-line, single phase surge arrestor that provides all-mode protection. The company said it is ideal for cabinet and PCS applications. It is rated to withstand up to...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt has signaled concerns to the industry about potential disruptions to public telecommunications networks as a result of the Internet's growing popularity.The FCC said Ivan Seidenberg, chairman of Nynex Corp. and head of the Network Reliability and Interoperability Council-a...
Some Personal Communications Services contenders are looking to differentiate themselves in the new age of wireless competition with data services based on the established Global System for Mobile communications standard."We see this as a strong differentiator for us and plan to offer it very...
Using cellular and intelligent satellite technologies, Telecel International Ltd. of New Canaan, Conn., is on track to rehaul communications in Africa.The company was first to introduce cellular service in Africa 10 years ago, said Justin Dudley, Telecel's vice president of engineering and research development....
WASHINGTON-A newly authorized low-power radio service in the 216-217 MHz band will accommodate planned short-range communications devices for the hearing impaired, health-care telemetry services and stolen-merchandise tracking by public-safety entities.At its July 25 open meeting, the Federal Communications Commission adopted new rules that changed...
