BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile said it has introduced new AirBridge Cellular Digital Packet Data price plans, reducing usage charges by more than 70 percent from previously published rates.Bell Atlantic Nynex said the new rates range from 4 cents to 15 cents per kilobyte,...
ATLANTA-Motorola Inc.'s Messaging, Information and Media Sector is forming a new Platform Software Division.The Atlanta-based division is chartered to develop and deliver an open software platform, including an operating system and development tools as well as applications for the wireless industry."The establishment of an...
SKOKIE, Ill.-U.S. Robotics is entering the wireless data communications infrastructure market with its new Wireless Access System for the company's Total Control Enterprise Network Hub high-speed access platform. The platform integrates local and wide area networks.The access system, initially developed for analog circuit switched...
WASHINGTON-The best near-term opportunities for cellular and personal communications services carriers to sell data services are in the utilities and transportation industries, according to a new study from Economic and Management Consultants International Inc. and Zsigo Wireless Data Consultants.In "Demand and Outlook for Cellular/PCS...
The cellular telecommunications industry is making steady progress introducing advanced mobile data services as it works to overcome its own fragmented nature as well as the competition.According to the most recent "Report Card" issued by the CDPD Forum, carriers are deploying Cellular Digital Packet...
Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Group announced that PacLink has become the first to launch Motorola's FLEX paging protocol and distribute FLEX protocol-based pagers in Thailand. PacLink is investing more than $1 million in the FLEX protocol-capable infrastructure system and plans to launch the latest...
NEW YORK-If the trend in communications is bundling services to customers, then the key to exploiting the trend is in combined billing for those multiple services."Most of the research we've looked at and most of what our customers tell us is that local, long...
MAY6 The Emerging Market for Wireless Location-based Products and Services, by Telestrategies Inc. Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, Arlington, Va. (703) 734-7050.6-9 Inside Washington: Business and Public Policy Focus on the Information Superhighway, by The Brookings Institute. Embassy Row Hotel, Washington, D.C. Call Joan Milan at...
APRIL28-1 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference '96, by IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. The Westin Peach-tree Plaza, Atlanta. (908) 562-3870.30 The Telecom Act of 1996: Myths and Markets, by Creamer Dickson Basford. Sheraton Hotel, Needham, Mass. Call Christine Campbell at (617) 467-1521.MAY6 The Emerging Market for Wireless...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada-PCS Wireless Inc. has appointed Rob Milne director of engineering. Milne formerly was head of product marketing at Motorola Inc.'s Wireless Data Systems Division. Prior to joining Motorola, he spent 11 years with Mitel Corp., most recently as vice president and...
APRIL14-16 Technology Forecasting for the Telecom Industry, by Technology Futures Inc. Grand Kempinski, Dallas. Call David Solomon at (800) 835-3887.16-18 Universal Wireless Communications International Conference, Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Center, Singapore. Call Gwen Carlson at (619) 535-9500 ext. 2071.17-18 Building the PCS Market,...
Eon Corp. of Chantilly, Va., said it plans to offer a low cost wireless two-way messaging service and a host of other consumer-priced wireless services to jump start the lagging interactive video and data services market.Having completed its research and development program for its...
"The Internet is the killer app!" declared futurist George Gilder at the Wireless Apps '95 show hosted by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last fall in Las Vegas.He was referring to the long-sought application for wireless data-a Holy Grail of sorts-that would be so...
The Personal Mobile Communications Division of Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc. announced the MobileAccess smart phone. The phone integrates a cellular telephone with broad messaging and data capabilities in a lightweight, handheld unit, the company said. The model relies on cellular digital packet data technology...
AirTouch Communications Inc. announced its cellular ventures in Germany and Italy have continued to experience strong customer growth. AirTouch said its German cellular venture, Mannesmann Mobilfunk, currently has more than 1.6 million customers. During 1995, Mannesmann Mobilfunk grew by more than 70 percent, ending...
Spectrum Information Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. announced they have reached an agreement to settle the patent litigation that has been pending between the two companies since December 1984. The agreement is subject to U.S. Bankruptcy Court approval. Spectrum's bankruptcy is pending in the...
ATLANTA-GTE Mobilnet Inc., Hughes Network Systems Inc. and Pacific Communications Sciences Inc. completed field trials using circuit-switched Cellular Digital Packet Data technology. CS-CDPD allows CDPD users to transmit packet data over existing circuit-switched networks and gain nationwide wireless data coverage.GTE said it expects to...
The Big Mac of wireless devices has arrived. Shaped like a regular cellular phone, the Nokia 9000 Communicator opens to expose an interactive digital world of voice, data, fax, e-mail, computer, on-line and organizer features to appease the cravings of today's business professionals.Nokia Mobile...
Tellabs Inc. has agreed to acquire Steinbrecher Corp. for about $76 million. The agreement is subject to regulatory approval and approval by Steinbrecher's stockholders.Founded in 1973, Burlington, Mass.-based Steinbrecher supplies wideband base station products for digital cellular and wireless data applications. The company reported...
Robert Franke is now director of distribution for AirTouch Cellular, a subsidiary of AirTouch Communications Inc. In his new position, Franke will be responsible for customer acquisition and dealer development through the distribution and retail channel for AirTouch inland California and northern Nevada markets....
Location technology is taking its place in the wireless communications industry as Global Positioning System products begin to mesh with radio and cellular networks, spawning several potentially lucrative businesses.A system of 24 satellites launched by the U.S. Department of Defense beginning in the late...
MARCH6-7 PCS Seminars for ITCs Only, U.S. Intelco Wireless. Doubletree Grand Hotel, Bloomington, Minn. (360) 493-6241.6-7 Re-engineering Billing Systems in the Telecommunications Industry, by the International Quality & Productivity Center. Radisson Barcelo Hotel Washington, Washington, D.C. (800) 882-8684.7-8 AMTA Specialized Wireless (SMR) Management Conference,...
WEST POINT, Ga.-InterQuest Inc. announced it is offering a new service that allows wireless carriers to offer unregistered roamers in their market to complete a cellular call.Instead of connecting unregistered roamers to a recording that ultimately prevents the user from completing a cellular call,...
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill.-The Wireless Data Division of AT&T Wireless Services and Ameritech Cellular Services have signed an intercarrier agreement that allows each carrier's Cellular Digital Packet Data customers to use CDPD within the other's cellular network.The carriers' customers will be able to use CDPD...
