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 Eastern District Court of New York. The settlement agreement provides for Spectrum and Motorola to cross license each other for use of specified intellectual property, the companies said.
Ortel Corp. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Avitec AB, a manufacturer of wireless equipment for the European personal communications services marketplace. Avitec, based near Stockholm, Sweden, specializes in manufacturing radio frequency repeaters.
A+ Network Inc. announced an agreement calling for Alabama-based Touch 1 Communications, a long-distance services provider, to market A+ Network’s paging services. A+ Network said Touch 1 will market paging services to its existing and potential customers throughout the Southeastern region of the United States. Touch 1 currently provides long-distance service to more than 700,000 subscribers in 44 states, of which about 276,000 subscribers are located in the nine-state market area where A+ Network owns and operates paging transmission networks.
Attachmate and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced an agreement to jointly market Attachmate’s Remote Land Area Network Node in conjunction with Cellular Digital Packet Data services from the Wireless Data Division of AT&T. RLN allows organizations to provide consistent LAN extensions to remote users, regardless of their connectivity requirements as well as complete interoperability with the other land-based connectivity options supported by RLN.
Celcore announced an agreement to supply its GlobalHub product to Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems for use in its FreedomPlus service offering. Motorola Inc.’s Personal Phone Series product, FreedomLink’s wireless private branch exchange and Celcore’s GlobalHub will allow Southwestern Bell to offer one phone that can be used at home, work or on the road using a single cellular phone number, Celcore said. Celcore said its GlobalHub is an intelligent network platform that provides mobility management functions and public switched telephone network interfaces using industry standard protocols. The GlobalHub updates a subscriber’s location with the cellular network through IS-41, a cellular industry networking standard, to allow cellular calls to follow the subscriber.
E.F. Johnson Co. said it has increased its staff of its telemetry business and created a separate Data Telemetry Division within the company. The company said it made the changes in response to a growing telemetry market. The division will focus on the needs of original equipment manufacturers and end-user telemetry customers.
