Boasting a 65 percent increase in first quarter earnings, Ericsson Inc. reported its radio communications sector is largely accountable for the company's financial results.For the period ended March 31, Ericsson's net income totaled $114 million, compared with $69 million for the same period in...
WASHINGTON-U.S. District Judge Harold Greene will decide whether AirTouch Communications Inc., a wireless spin-off of Pacific Telesis Group, is held to restrictions imposed on the seven regional Bell telephone companies by the 1982 consent decree that broke up AT&T.San Francisco-based AirTouch, a top paging...
Federal regulators overseeing the fast-growing paging industry these days have a "good problem" that could easily turn into a bad problem with a few missteps by Washington officials in the coming months.Here's the good problem: Paging, the most competitive sector of the wireless telecommunications industry,...
PLANO, Texas-ProNet Inc. announced it has completed the stock purchase of Metropolitan Houston Paging Services Inc. for $21 million cash.The Houston paging operation is owned by GTE Southwest Inc., SLT Communications Inc. and Lufkin-Conroe Telecommunications Corp. GTE is reorganizing its paging business to concentrate...
Personal Communications Technologies Ltd. announced a new patent-pending product to enhance the capabilities of portable cellular telephones. Porta-Boost transforms a low-power portable cellular phone into a full powered 3-watt transportable cellular telephone system. The product is manufactured from original equipment manufacturer parts and is...
DALLAS-Polish Telephones and Microwave Corp. signed an agreement to distribute DSC Communications Corp.'s Airspan product in Poland.Airspan is a point-to-multipoint wireless access solution that helps provide basic telephone service to buildings in low-density suburban areas.It reportedly has a range of up to 20 kilometers...
Thomas A. Barlett was named president of the Northeast regional territory for the Bell Atlantic Mobile and Nynex Mobile joint venture. Barlett will be responsible for sales, marketing, engineering, asministration, finance and network systems in the region, which includes all of New England and...
DEER PARK, N.Y.-O'Gara Satellite Networks, Morsviazsputnik and MVS-USA have formed a new company to provide satellite communications equipment and service worldwide.OGM Communications Ltd. will provide "total solutions for the growing mobile satellite communications market," according to Neil Saldin, OGM's new president. OGM will offer...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Air Apparent for NetWare, a wireless software application, was introduced by Motorola Inc.'s Personal Communicator Systems and Software division.Air Apparent is an enterprise-wide wireless software application integrating paging technology with Novell NetWare and NetWare Directory Services. By uniting the network server with...
BellSouth Cellular Corp. is marketing cellular phones in Kroger supermarkets. Once purchased, the phnoes can be activated within 10 to 20 minutes in the store. Kiosks and cellular salespeople already are stationed in stores throughout BellSouth's Indianapolis, Nashville, Huntsville, Ala., and Clarksville, Tenn., markets....
Although Motorola Inc. has been actively refining its worldwide focus to be solely an equipment manufacturer, the Schaumburg, Ill.-based company holds ownership interests in cellular operating companies in three blooming Asian markets-Pakistan, Thailand and Hong Kong."Our objective in opportunities worldwide is to be an...
WASHINGTON-Industry negotiations aimed at clearing fixed microwave licensees off the 2 GHz band that next-generation pocket telephone systems will soon occupy have begun with a bang.Personal Communications Industry Association President Jay Kitchen fired the opening discharge late last month, stating in a letter to...
DENVER-Beverly Mang, a former RCR associate editor, died April 30 in Denver after a six-year battle with cancer.Mang, 47, was exceptionally successful at arranging interviews with high-profile executives and was well regarded throughout the wireless telecommunications industry. She continued her involvement in the industry...
Growth in the paging industry exploded this year, led by public companies that have pushed boldly across market borders, stepped confidently into marriages of convenience and reaped tremendous opportunities from serving a new consumer-oriented market.The result is a 38 percent industry growth rate at...
As the telecommunications industry continues to blur lines that traditionally have separated different trade segments, competitive access providers are poised to be active players. But CAPs already are distinguishing themselves through a variety of niche-market, wireless endeavors.Denver-based IntelCom Group Inc. offers teleport and competitive...
LOS ANGELES-Roamer One Inc., a 220 MHz specialized mobile radio operator, will receive financing worth $7 million from Linear Modulation Technology Ltd. of Surrey, England.Roamer One is wholly owned by Intek Diversified Corp. LMT is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Securicor Group, a...
As the onset of narrowband personal communications services nears, the industry is abuzz about what promises to be the next wave of wireless wonder. But for many narrowband providers-to-be, it is only a natural extension of one-way paging.Two camps have emerged among advanced messaging...
PURCHASE, N.Y.-Spectrum Information Technologies Inc. signed an agreement to sell its AXCELL cellular interface business along with its rights from a related patent license agreement back to Telular Corp.Telular originally licensed the patent rights to Spectrum in an agreement dated March 23, 1992. Spectrum...
Editor's Note: The following information is a Smith Barney Inc. analysis released April 28. From time to time, RCR plans to print investment opinions and summaries about publicly traded telecommunications companies as a service to its readers.Dial Page Inc. recently reported its first quarter 1995...
By awarding licenses for public cellular and paging services earlier this month, the Telecommunications Authority of Singapore joins the growing tide of countries sweeping the Asia-Pacific region to bring competition to telecommunications and liberalize the economy.Coming out on top was MobileOne Pte Ltd., the...
Reports are circulating that some within the Republican Party are organizing to dismantle the Federal Communications Commission, citing there is no longer a need for a government organization to regulate spectrum and communications services. I hope those who agree with them will take the...
WASHINGTON-While most of the population is at least aware of the cyberworld, more than 90 percent of American classrooms are cut off from the information revolution because they are without a phone.Earlier this year, U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich challenged the industry...
DUARTE, Calif.-Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. has awarded more than $1.5 million to the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, Calif., to conduct initial research on human exposure to the radio waves of cellular telephony.WTR, formerly the Scientific Advisory Group, is funded by...
CHEBOKSARY, RussiaAT&T Corp. and Global TeleSystems Group Inc. have built a wireless network in Cheboksary, Russia, that connects with the existing local network as well as the international network.Cheboksary is about 350 miles east of Moscow. The companies will build the same kind of...
