Motorola Inc.’s Paging Products Group signed a licensing agreement with Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute to manufacture and sell Motorola FLEX chip sets. Motorola said it plans to license key semiconductor houses worldwide to manufacture and distribute FLEX chip sets. ITRI is the first company in Asia to be awarded a FLEX chip set license.
L.M. Ericsson announced it has signed a contract with Mobitel d.d. to deliver and construct a Global System for Mobile communications digital cellular system in Slovenia. Government-owned Mobitel, having operated an analog system since 1992, plans to have 150,000 subscribers on the GSM system within five years, Ericsson said.
RJSC Gasprom, RSC Energia, JSC Gascom and Loral Corp. have signed a joint venture agreement to manufacture, launch and operate communications satellites, announced Loral. The venture will manufacture and sell geostationary and high elliptical orbiting communications satellites using Energia’s Yamal satellite bus and Loral’s space systems, Loral said. Gasprom is a natural gas producer, Energia is Russia’s leading rocket and space enterprise and Gascom is the communications arm of Gasprom, Loral said.
Entel, the Chilean telecommunications company, will invest $273 million to develop telephone services as part of its partnership with Stet, which owns a stake in the company. Entel will be responsible for personal communications services.
British mobile operator Cellnet plans to add 700 cellular base stations in 1996, said the company. The additions will bring its GSM digital network to nearly 2,000 stations. Finland’s Nokia Oy will handle part of the contract. Cellnet is owned by British Telecommunications plc and Securicor.
Nokia Mobile Phones announced it has reached a licensing agreement with Gradiente Electronica S/A, to manufacture cellular telephones in Brazil. The agreement calls for the expansion of Gradiente’s existing production facilities, with investment in its plant and equipment, and construction of a new factory dedicated to cellular phone production, Nokia said. Nokia will provide the cellular phone design and software framework and technical support for the new factory. Gradiente is Brazil’s second largest assembler of cellular phones, Nokia said.
Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced it will provide advanced paging equipment to Pronto Beepers of Puerto Rico for its island-wide alphanumeric paging network. Glenayre said the equipment includes a remote encoder, transmitter and transmitter controllers, receivers and digital link repeaters, and will allow Pronto Beepers to offer enhanced paging capabilities and services, including voice mail.
