Teklogix International Inc. received a contract from Samson Transport A/S, a third-party warehouse and transport company with worldwide locations. Under the agreement, Teklogix will provide Samson with a narrowband wireless data communications network with Ethernet TCP/IP connectivity to an IBM AS/400 host platform, the company said. The system will be installed in 17 sites across Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, The United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands. The first site will be in Taastrup, Denmark, late this year.
The Telephone Organization of Thailand has issued a project tender for a company to engineer, furnish and install equipment for the country’s rural public long-distance telephone project. The system would operate in the 1.5 GHz, 1.9 GHz and 2.4 GHz radio frequency bands, covering 21,110 locations throughout the Southeast Asian nation. The project is divided into three zones, and is a part of the rural public long-distance telephone project of 1996-1998, funded by the Asian Development Bank.
Lucent Technologies Inc. launched a system based on the European Digital Enhanced Cordless Telephony standard called Definity. The Definity Wireless Business System provides site coverage of up to 1 million square meters and multiple location coverage for business park complexes with full mobility via microcell antennae handover, Lucent said. The system provides the same capabilities of a wired desk phone including transfer, hold, conference, speed dialing and high quality digital sound transmission, without airtime charges. The handset, the Definity C9110, is a pocket phone that can be a stand-alone telephone extension or can be bridged to a Definity wired desk phone to enable both phones to ring simultaneously, the company said. The system now is available in the United Kingdom, Benelux and Germany, with Spain, Italy, France, Poland and the Czech Republic coming soon.
Motorola Inc.’s Pan American Wireless Infrastructure Division signed a contract to deploy a Code Division Multiple Access fixed wireless telephone network in the Dominican Republic. Motorola values the agreement with Tricom S.A. at $24 million. The wireless local loop system will be deployed in phases, with the first phase scheduled to launch during the second quarter. Motorola said the system can be integrated into the landline network and deployed within a month of equipment delivery.
Telenor Mobil of Norway and Nokia Telecommunications signed a two-year frame agreement to expand Telenor Mobil’s Nordic Mobile Telephone networks. Nokia will supply base stations to Telenor Mobil’s NMT 450 and 900 networks. Nokia values the contract at approximately $7.5 million. Telenor Mobil operates NMT analog networks as well as a Global System for Mobile communications digital network. Telenor Mobil is a mobile operating unit of Norwegian Telecom.
