Monthly Archives: May, 1996
LG TO PUT DOWN STAKES IN SAN DIEGO: KOREAN KINGPIN TO PLAY IN U.S. PCS
LG Information & Communications Ltd. of South Korea is wagering its hand in the U.S. personal communications services market with plans to begin large...
GEOTEK USES UNIQUE DISTRIBUTION STRATEGY FOR UNIQUE TECHNOLOGY
Geotek Communications Inc. is a new kid on the block, not tied to any traditional distribution system and not bound by "this is the...
ONE-WAY PAGING REMAINS SOLID AS SEXY TWO-WAY ENTERS MARKET
It is said that when you provide a valuable service at a fair price, you'll always have customers. Such is the personality of paging.In...
CTIA REQUESTS DATA ON AUTHENTICATION
WASHINGTON-Paralleling the start of authentication service in several markets, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association issued a Request for Information to wireless equipment manufacturers, fraud...
MARKET-AREA LICENSING COULD LEAD PAGING DOWN AUCTION PATH
The paging industry is undergoing a major regulatory overhaul.The question is why?As the most competitive sector of the wireless telecommunications industry, it is not...
CHALLENGE OF TWO-WAY NETWORKS IS TO EMULATE ONE-WAY’S STABILITY
Paging operators have different ideas about what will be the killer application that attracts paging customers to two-way service. But they do agree about...
NORTHERN TELECOM TO INCLUDE JAVA CHIPS IN FUTURE PHONES
DALLAS-Northern Telecom Inc. plans to incorporate Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java Software Platform and Java Powered chips into its future telephones for residential, enterprise and...
CONDUCTUS FIELD TESTS OF RECEIVERS COMPLETE
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. announced it has successfully completed two additional rural field tests of its ultra-low-noise receiver subsystem for cellular base stations.The Conductus subsystem...
D.C. NOTES
While Republicans and Democrats argue about encryption policy, the Pentagon is getting hacked up.The General Accounting Office says up to one-quarter of a million...
AIRTOUCH PAGING ADDS ALBUQUER QUE SERVICE
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Paging, a subsidiary of AirTouch Communications, said it has begun service in Albuquerque, N.M., and its surrounding communities."Albuquerque is a key market...
WORLD BRIEFS
Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it has been awarded a $107 million contract by Escotel to build and maintain a Global System for Mobile communications...
QUESTCOM DEFAULTS ON PCS DOWN PAYMENT
WASHINGTON - C-block personal communications services auction winner BD-PCS Inc. has several legal channels open to it before it is forced to give up...
PCIA ELECTS COLLINS ITS BOARD CHAIRMAN
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The Personal Communications Industry Association has elected William L. Collins III chairman of its board of directors. Collins is president and...
GEOTEK STARTS SERVICE IN DALLAS/FORT WORTH
DALLAS-Geotek Communications Inc. reported the commercial start-up of its Frequency Hopping Multiple Access digital wireless communications network in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas.The new network mirrors...
GLENAYRE INSTALLS FIVE MVP SYSTEMS
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced it has completed the installation of five Modular Voice Processing Systems for Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile's cellular subscribers in...
PREPAID FIRM AIMS FOR CARRIER SEN SITIVE APPROACH
The newest arrival in one of cellular's newest markets-prepaid-is Go Wireless International Ltd., led by an entrepreneur banking his dollars on consumers with damaged...
MOTOROLA CONTRACTS $100M GSM NETWORK
Motorola Inc. has been contracted to build a Global System for Mobile communications network in the Czech Republic for operator Radiomobil. The deal is...
ROGERS CANTEL REFINANCES AT LOWER INTEREST RATES
NEW YORK-Rogers Cantel Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications Inc., sold an $800 million debt issue May 22 to refinance...
AIRMEDIA WILL USE MOTOROLA CHIPSETS
NEW YORK-In its first application outside paging, Motorola Inc.'s FLEX chipsets will be used in Ex Machina Inc.'s AirMedia Live information services product, the...
CALENDAR
MAY27-28 High Speed Information Services: Strategies to Win the Race to the Home, by ICM Conferences. The Mart Plaza, Chicago. Call Thomas Serafine at (312)...
ADC BUYS SHARES IN PCS WIRELESS
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. announced it has completed the purchase of an additional 1.7 million common shares of PCS Wireless Inc. based in Vancouver, British...
ENHANCED SERVICES ALLOW `BEEFIER’ PAGING INDUSTRY
New protocol-based paging technologies may not only alleviate carrier capacity problems but also may transform the nature of service offerings from "cheap beeps" to...
`VIRTUAL TESTING’ BY NOKIA SPEEDS PROTOTYPE PROCESS
NEW YORK-Mentor Graphics Corp. plans this summer to begin selling a new generation of electronic design automation software, developed with Nokia Corp., that officials...
CELLULAR LOCATION SYSTEM TRIAL TO BE CONDUCTED THIS SUMMER
BALA CYNWYD, Pa.-The Associated Group Inc. and Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. announced they will launch a trial this summer in New Jersey of the...
ERMES STANDARD LIKELY TO REMAIN VIABLE IN EUROPE
While Motorola Inc.'s FLEX paging technology begins to dash across the globe, POCSAG remains the de facto standard in the international paging world, said...