TORONTO-Bell Mobility said Hughes Network Systems Inc. agreed to provide equipment for a test of Personal Access Communications technology in Toronto and Montreal.The Canadian operator is testing three proposed personal communications services technologies to prepare for the release of new spectrum at 2 GHz...
Competition is expected to be fierce for the second cellular license for a Global System for Mobile communications network in Austria. The three cellular systems now serving the nation of 8 million people are operated by the government-owned Austrian Post, Telephone and Telegraph.Austria became...
Targeting a wireless industry with complicated network management needs, Sun Microsystems Inc. said it has introduced its Solstice family of products to wireless manufacturers and operators as an easier way to manage their networks.Sun said it plans to offer network management via software-based solutions...
After 13 years helping grow what today is the nation's largest paging company, Terry Scott, Paging Network Inc.'s president and chief executive officer, is stepping down, disclosing no future career plans."It's a great company," said Scott. "But it's a very different company today than...
WHEATON, Md.-The threat of personal communications services encroaching on the cellular telephone industry and a good economy with an expanding consumer market led to accelerated growth in the cellular phone industry last year, according to a report by Hershel Shosteck Associates Ltd.Shosteck recently released...
Cellular telephones improved communications at the Oklahoma City tragedy when public-safety groups' two-way radios-all on different frequencies-couldn't connect."At the site of a disaster, radio channels max out immediately with just tactical communication," said Ron Baker, director of wireless services for McCaw Cellular Communications Inc.'s...
ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Telecommunications Corp. will supply Global System for Mobile communications-based digital cellular equipment in the Fujian province of China.Under a contract valued at more than $20 million, Nokia will deliver infrastructure equipment and an operations and maintenance center to the Fujian Posts and...
RUTHERFORD, N.J.-A definitive merger agreement between Nextel Communications Inc. and American Mobile Systems Inc. replaces a previously announced stock purchase agreement between the companies.Terms of the tax-free merger dictate each AMS share not currently held by Nextel be exchanged for .62 of a share...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-McKenzie Telecommunications Group Inc. has contracted to provide engineering and construction for PCS PrimeCo L.P.'s personal communications services network in the Tampa, Fla., major trading area.MTG will provide the consortium-comprising Bell Atlantic Corp., Nynex Corp., AirTouch Communications and U S West Inc.- with...
WASHINGTON-A new government study says minorities may have to adopt nontraditional financing strategies to break into the telecommunications market. The report, issued by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, concludes accessing capital through traditional sources, like banks, continues to be the major barrier to...
After much trepidation, you have just purchased a new luxury vehicle. The first few moments with the car are spent testing the sun roof, the stereo and envisioning just where you will go in your sleek new automobile. In the excitement of your first...
MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. is beta testing its recently constructed Philadelphia spread spectrum network to offer integrated digital radio service for commercial fleet management and mobile work groups."It's not completely built out, but will be within a month or so," said Yaron Eitan, Geotek...
WASHINGTON-The big budget battle of 1995 now unfolding in Congress will shape wireless telecommunications policy in a fierce debate expected to test the resolve of the new Republican majority and the resiliency of the sputtering Clinton presidency.Budget politics will touch almost everything in sight,...
WASHINGTON-A government plan limiting bidding credits in 900 MHz specialized mobile radio auctions to small businesses has drawn the wrath of Federal Communications Commission member Andrew Barrett."It appears the commission is abandoning its policy and rules designed to enhance ownership opportunities in other technologies...
WASHINGTON-The telecommunications reform bill introduced in the House last week would give the seven regional Bell telephone companies more freedom to offer wireless long-distance service than offered by the waiver granted late last month by U.S. District Judge Harold Greene.The House measure, sponsored by...
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif.-Micro-Quick Systems Inc. announced it has changed its name to Access Rating and Information Systems Inc. to better reflect the company's mission."Looking towards the future, ARIS more accurately reflects the company's position in the global billing, point-of-sale and information systems marketplace," the...
In pursuit of providing consumers with voice paging service, Paging Network Inc. announced its new VoiceNow advanced messaging service will use Motorola Inc.'s InFLEXion technology.InFLEXion is the fastest paging protocol available, enabling two-way voice and data communications at speeds up to 10 times faster...
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Paging, a subsidiary of AirTouch Communications, introduced Weather-Watch, an emergency information planning service. The service provides information on severe weather conditions as they develop throughout the state of Florida.Weather-Watch uses wireless communications to report National Weather Service advisories within seconds of transmission,...
MELBOURNE, Fla.-Skydata Inc. will deliver satellite data broadcast equipment to EuroCall's paging network in the Republic of Hungary, Skydata announced.The paging network, which uses Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s ERMES paging system, will include as many as 100 remote paging transmitters. A Skydata satellite paging receiver...
Scott Schelle has been appointed teh chief executive officer of American Personal Communications, replacing Gerald T. Vento, who left to pursue personal interests. Vento will provide external consulting.Schelle formerly was APC's executive vice president. He joined the company when it started in November 1989....
Cutting-edge graphic data software that allows en-route firefighters to wirelessly access images of building layouts using a laptop computer is just one mobile remedy offered by a new Motorola Inc. business.Motorola's RadioWare Software Solutions are made possible through alliances between Motorola's Land Mobile Products...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it agreement with Orbcomm US, an affiliate of Orbital Sciences Corp., giving Qualcomm the right to resell Orbcomm's new mobile satellite communication services with Qualcomm's OmniTracs trailer tracking and cargo monitoring applications.Orbcomm said it successfully launched its first two satellites...
Telecom International, Fairfield, Iowa, is introducing a new cellular add-on service technology called Power Number. It provides Follow-Me Number service, designed to locate a person anywhere and voice mail with pager interaction and caller identification included. Real estate agents can use the service to...
NEW YORK-PriCellular Corp. and Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems Inc. have formed a joint venture in which PriCellular will contribute its cellular properties in the Laredo, Texas, metropolitan statistical area and Southwestern Bell will contribute its properties in Illinois 4 and 6 rural service areas.Under...
