ATLANTA-GTE Mobilnet and Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile announced they will offer Cellular Digital Packet Data services to customers in each other's markets.GTE said the services will be important to people and companies that conduct business on a national scale. For example, employees of a...
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Two long-distance telephone service rivals have announced initiatives to provide wireless data access to their high-speed transmission networks.MCI Telecommunications Corp. said it will implement circuit-switched cellular access to its HyperStream Frame Relay network by the end of March. "MCI's HyperStream remote LAN dial access...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. announced it will market turnkey systems based on the new personal air communications technology standard for the narrowband personal communications services market.The company said it signed a multimillion dollar contract to implement the technology for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. AT&T won...
Just as Cellular Digital Packet Data has been slow to take off in the United States, it looks like it will take a little pushing and shoving for the technology to thrive in Latin America as well.So far only a few hundred CDPD terminals...
A cellular network using Code Division Multiple Access technology is live in South Korea, but so far enduring only a lukewarm reception. Current analog operator Korea Mobile Telecommunications Corp. introduced CDMA service Jan. 1 in Inchon, a port city west of Seoul, and plans...
WASHINGTON-Where mobile satellite service policymaking is concerned, federal regulators are not promoting the friendly skies. Far from it.Competition is the name of the game at the Federal Communications Commission. The heavenly stage is being set for wireless Star Wars-close encounters of the unfriendly kind...
ORLANDO-Motorola Inc.'s Wireless Data Group business unit, AirMobile Software Products, announced it has extended AirMobile wireless software for Lotus cc: Mail and AirMobile wireless software for Lotus Notes to the Cellular Digital Packet Data network.Motorola said mobile cc: Mail and Notes users now have the flexibility...
ATLANTA-GTE Mobilnet announced a new pricing structure for its Cellular Digital Packet Data network that reflects a 40 percent to 60 percent reduction from previously published rates.GTE said the prices feature a flat monthly charge with bundled kilobytes, designed to suit different customer usage...
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New York City-based software developer Ex Machina Inc. wants to expand the utility of paging networks by using paging carriers' system capacity to broadcast critical corporate information-especially during off-peak hours.Founded in 1988 to develop and market products merging mobile computing with wireless technologies, Ex...
Ameritech Corp. announced it has formed a consortium with Singapore Telecom and Tele Danmark to pursue a partnership with Belgacom S.A., the national telecommunications operator in Belgium. The Belgian government this summer selected Ameritech as a final bidder for the consolidation of Belgacom. The...
WASHINGTON-The 900 MHz specialized mobile radio auction that begins tomorrow is expected to be characterized by a mixture of bidding by big companies like Geotek Communications Inc. and Ram Mobile Data USA L.P., which want to expand existing systems into national networks, and more...
Wynd Communications Corp. is pursuing the wireless data market with an integrated messaging and information service for the mobile professional called WyndMail.San Luis Obispo, Calif.-based Wynd is a subsidiary of Call America. The 13-year-old firm provides telecommunications services including paging, Integrated Services Digital Networks,...
BellSouth Wireless Inc. is prodding other cellular carriers to adopt its Cellemetry wireless telemetry solution by announcing it will only license the technology to one carrier per market-first come, first served."We don't want to get into the `wait-and-see game' that other wireless data technologies...
Datum Inc.'s Timing Division announced the release of a small high-performance Global Positioning Satellite system receiver. Datum said the StarTime GPS Clock is designed for applications that require not only high performance but small physical size and low price. The clock consists of an...
Photographs and medical data now can be sent on existing POCSAG paging networks to portable devices using a technology developed by Data Critical Corp.Data-Through-Paging technology, or DTP, is a protocol that compresses images or text, then slices it into packets. Compressed and packetized data...
Two Motorola Inc. wireless communicators, Marco and Envoy, will be offered from now until Dec. 29 at a reduced cost through a holiday-season marketing promotion by Motorola's Wireless Data Group and the Ardis wireless data network.Motorola said it is working with resellers to offer...
IFR Systems Inc. has named Dr. Samual Kyehung Lee director of business development for the Pacific Rim. He will also be the management contact for all IFR distributors in mainland Asia, Southeast Asia, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.Dr. Lee joined IFR in 1987 as...
AT&T Wireless Services has unveiled personal Air Communications Technology, a new open standards-based architecture for two-way messaging that the company expects will become an industry standard for narrowband personal communications services.Armed with pACT, AT&T is first to challenge Motorola Inc.'s FLEX technology in the...
ST. LOUIS-Ameritech Corp. said it has deployed its wireless packet data service, based on the Cellular Digital Packet Data standard, in the St. Louis metropolitan area.Ameritech said the new service is designed specifically for sending and receiving computerized information from remote locations. It enables...
MEMPHIS, Tenn.-Skywire L.P. announced it has enhanced its Vendview wireless data product to allow snack food vending machine operators to track inventory and monitor product sales.The product, originally developed for the cold-drink vending industry, is a remote monitoring system that wirelessly transmits sales and...
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...
ATLANTA-Pepsi-Cola Allied Bottlers Inc. has selected Norand Corp., Racotek Inc. and RAM Mobile Data USA L.P. to establish a wireless data communications solution for its sales people in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York.The Fast Access solution will support route sales and bulk delivery to...
