Ericsson forms office mobility unitATLANTA-Ericsson Inc. announced the formation of the Wireless Services unit in response to the increasing need for wireless communications in the workplace.Ericsson said the new unit will provide a wireless office solution based on the Interim Standard-136 Time Division Multiple...
NEW YORK-A wide and growing array of handset choices has caused some carriers to evaluate whether to winnow down the number of makes and models sold at their own retail stores.Is this a case of product oversupply? No, it's only half the story.Telecommunications equipment...
Just less than a month before the Philippine government plans to hold an auction for new mobile phone licenses, Isla Communications Co. and Globe Telecom Gmcr both launched prepaid Global System for Mobile communications services.The launches represent the first shots of an aggressive nationwide...
Paragon Software Ltd. is approaching wireless consumers with the simple message that its FoneBook Plus product can help organize their lives by putting contact names and phone numbers on their wireless phones.That simple idea is one the company hopes will bridge the gap between...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Siemens Wireless Terminals began delivery of its first digital handset, the g1050, which features a high-resolution graphic display, noise-canceling microphone and voice memo for recording brief messages.The Global System for Mobile communications-based phone initially will be available through personal communications services operators Omnipoint...
VERNON HILLS, Ill.-Telular Corp. said it will begin delivering PhoneCell fixed wireless terminals to the West African Republic of Guinea this month, after being award an $8 million contract by Guinea Sotelgui S.A.The award from Guinea Sotelgui is part of a multiyear deployment to...
The National Telecommunications Commission in the Philippines announced it will issue one nationwide and four regional permits for new mobile phone operators there.Kari Roe, analyst for Asia and the Pacific Rim for International Technology Consultants in Bethesda, Md., said the tender is for an...
ALAMEDA, Calif.-Geoworks will expand its cooperation with Nokia to provide packaged content and services for Smart Messaging, the Nokia-developed Global System for Mobile communications wireless service architecture announced last month at the CeBIT '97 technology fair.Geoworks will provide wireless services using Nokia's newly proposed...
Siemens Wireless Terminals, a unit of Siemens Business Communication Systems Inc., will supply Global System for Mobile communications handsets to Western Wireless Corp. Siemens values the contract at $35 million.Siemens g1050 handset and accessory products will be available in June to customers of Western...
Alan Dick & Co. (USA) Inc. debuted its cross polarized antennas available for messaging, cellular and personal communications services. The XP base station panel is a dual polarized antenna with two orthogonal 45 degree slant radiators. This allows polarization diversity on the base station...
RICHARDSON, Texas-Siemens Wireless Terminals reached an agreement with IDG Books Worldwide to publish a user guide for its new personal communications services handset. IDG Books is known for its ...For Dummies series of books."We have found that the ...For Dummies approach can take the...
NEW YORK-Like the fabled elephant described by a group of blind men positioned near various points of its anatomy, equipment vendors at the recent "PCS-1900 in North America" conference gave widely different definitions of so-called "smart phones."The closest thing to a consensus reached was...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s International Cellular Infrastructure Group said it won a contract to supply a Code Division Multiple Access wireless local loop network to Yemen's Public Telecommunications Corp.The system will be deployed in three phases, with the first phase scheduled to be operational...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Dr. Nils Rydbeck, manager of Mobile Telephony research and development at Ericsson in the United States, was awarded the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences' Gold Medal for an outstanding contribution in the development of mobile telephones.The medal committee recognized Rydbeck for "significant...
The full-size SIM card may lend itself more easily to future services, said Powertel Inc., a U.S. wireless operator that has contracted to buy handsets from one of two manufacturers offering the feature.Two sizes of Subscriber Identity Modules are being deployed by U.S. operators...
Yet another European-based company is entering the U.S. digital handset market, trumpeting its communications and manufacturing expertise, particularly in Global System for Mobile communications technology.A U.S. division of Siemens A.G. hopes to eventually grab a double-digit slice of market share when it begins selling...
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. and Shanghai Posts & Telecommunications Administration have signed an agreement to trial Motorola's fixed wireless telephone system in Shanghai using Code Division Multiple Access technology.The CDMA digital wireless local loop system will operate at 1.9 GHz, said Motorola. The trial...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-GO Communications Corp. has selected Siemens Wireless Terminals Division, a division of Siemens Rolm Communications, as its primary personal communications services handset and accessory provider.During the first year of the multi-year contract, GO Communications will purchase approximately $40 million in PCS handsets and...
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Network Ventures Division and Telular Corp. have signed an agreement allowing Telular to become a preferred supplier of fixed wireless subscriber equipment to Motorola NVD's cellular joint ventures worldwide.Under the terms of the agreement, NVD cellular operations will have the...
