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...
NEW YORK-Skywire Corp., a provider of wireless data products and services, announced Sept. 3 it completed a $12 million private placement.Marketed by Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., New York, the private placement generated $6 million from Chancellor Capital Management, $4 million from other domestic...
LEXINGTON, Mass.-Wildfire Communications Inc. said Robert G. Mechaley Jr. has been named president and chief executive officer of the company.Mechaley, 45, most recently was a senior vice president with AT&T Wireless Services Inc. While at McCaw Cellular Communications Inc., Mechaley spearheaded development of a...
NEW YORK-Venture capitalists invested more than $160 million in 30 wireless industry companies during the second quarter, according to a survey by Price Waterhouse Technology Industry Group, Dallas.Overall, venture-backed investments jumped by nearly a third compared with the same period last year, totaling $2.43...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Thorn Security Ltd., a security services provider, has signed an agreement with L.M Ericsson for 5,000 Mobidem M2050 radio modems to be used for the company's new Siteguard Smart Signaling alarm services.The system uses a self-checking alarm signaling technique that provides intelligent mutual...
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NEW YORK-Investors who want up-to-the-minute financial information beamed directly to them will benefit from two recently introduced products from PageMart Wireless Inc., Dallas, and Wireless Financial Services Inc., New York.PageMart announced Aug. 20 the introduction of infoQuotes, a flat-rate service that allows individual investors...
The colossal growth of the wireless industry, in particular the buildout of personal communications services and digital cellular networks, has created a supply-and-demand problem-too many jobs and not enough people."It took a period of 10 years to build out the cellular networks, 11,500 facilities....
Preferred Networks Inc. said it has signed an agreement with NationsBank for a $20 million revolving credit facility. The money will be used primarily to finance the acquisition of paging networks and capital expenditures for the company's nationwide network construction, said Atlanta-based Preferred.Carlson Design/Construct...
Comsat RSI Mark Antennas signed agreements with several contractors to supply antennas for Sprint Spectrum L.P.'s personal communications services network. The contractors include Black & Veatch and MFS Network Technologies, said Comsat.Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile has signed intercarrier agreements with Southwestco, its wholly owned...
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Mobile Phones K.K. (Japan) has introduced the Nokia Digital Data/Fax Card to the Japanese digital cellular networks.The card enables wireless data transmission linking Nokia's digital mobile phones and portable computers with the PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) slot. A user...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and GTE Mobilnet Inc. signed an agreement to interconnect their wireless data networks.Both networks use Cellular Digital Packet Data technology and combined can provide data service to more than 65 million potential customers in 34 cellular markets, AT&T said. Account...
Enhanced services deliver greater convenience, mobility and security to cellular customers, but how much value these "value-adds" provide carriers is uncertain.Depending on the sophistication and expandability of the platform, enhanced services can be expensive for carriers to implement in their networks. But customers who...
DALLAS-MobileWare Corp. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced an agreement to participate in joint sales and marketing activities for MobileWare software and wireless data services from AT&T's Wireless Data Division.Under the agreement, MobileWare and AT&T Wireless will train sales and technical field support, as...
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. has signed agreements with Vanguard Cellular and Uplink Technologies Inc. to deploy Cellemetry. Cellemetry is BellSouth's wireless data technology that enables alarm equipment to use the existing cellular networks to provide alarm transmission from an alarm panel to any cellular base station."A...
After rescuing one of its core patents from bankruptcy court, Telular Corp. is charging back into the wireless data market with a new strategic alliance.The Buffalo Grove, Ill.-based company's AXCELL wireless data interface provides for portable fax and data transmission over the cellular network."We...
Software developer Unwired Planet Inc. introduced an Internet access solution that promises to be a "Killer App" for wireless data services, beginning with Cellular Digital Packet Data.The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company said its UP.Link open software platform will enable cellular phone and two-way pager...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Wireless Data Group has launched a business unit that will develop and test market limited-edition wireless hardware and software to customers.The Air Ventures unit's objective is to accelerate the delivery and acceptance of wireless solutions by incorporating extensive customer feedback into...
U.S. Robotics is mounting a three-pronged campaign for the emerging wireless data industry.The Skokie, Ill.-based company's Mobile Communications division is a leader in PC Card modem technology with its Megahertz brand modem for circuit-switched cellular and packet radio networks. The company now wants to...
Preferred Networks Inc. announced Victor L. Jackson has joined the company as vice president of interconnection. Prior to joining PNI, Jackson was director of interconnection for Paging Network Inc. His previous positions include regional technical adviser for Ameritech Mobile Communications Inc., founder and president...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is offering a 60 percent price reduction for its Packet Data Service, which uses Cellular Digital Packet Data technology, which is optimized for short "bursty" data transmissions.AT&T is offering five service plans: $22 for an allowance of 200 kilobytes per month,...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has launched commercial Circuit Data Service in 35 new markets.CDS is now available to more than 70 percent of AT&T's cellular coverage area, according to Clayton Foster, the product manager for AT&T Wireless' wireless data division. "The growth of CDS...
BOSTON-The typical cellular phone user now makes 10 calls every week but only 15 percent of subscribers would increase usage significantly if prices were cut by 10 percent, according to a new study from the Yankee Group.In its "1996 Mobile User Survey" the market...
SAN FRANCISCO-Cellular One in San Francisco and AT&T Wireless Services Inc's. wireless data division announced an agreement to deliver AT&T wireless packet data service to Cellular One customers.Under the terms of the agreement, AT&T Wireless and Cellular One will design and deploy a Cellular...
