It’s been more than a year since Glenayre Technologies Inc. first announced its intention to divest the Western Multiplex microwave business unit, yet the company continues to search for a …
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Mobile Phones announced a new mobile phone for Japan’s PDC market. Nokia said the phone is the first in Japan to have built-in infrared connectivity and a slide …
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Microwave Power Devices Inc. announced it received a $12.4 million follow-on order from Lucent Technologies Inc. for highly linear, single-channel, high-power PCS-CDMA amplifiers. The amplifiers are for use in …
LAFAYETTE, Calif.-Mobex Communications said it will centralize mobile phone services for San Francisco-based Pacific Gas and Electric Co. The first phase of the project will consolidate about 8,000 of the …
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. said its proprietary Integrated Resource Management System is now commercially available. The IRMS allows corporate customers to control wireless messaging activities in their organization by using local-area-network …
Lucent Technologies Inc.’s Microelectronics Group introduced a new platform for Global System for Mobile communications handsets. The platform, which is slightly larger than a business card, can provide standby times …
WASHINGTON-While this week’s election of Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Livingston (R-La.) to speaker of the House is not expected to dramatically change the course of telecom policy making in Congress, …
Alcatel to deliver network to Pegaso SAN DIEGO-A subsidiary of Mexico’s Pegaso Telecomunicaciones S.A. de C.V. and Alcatel Althsom signed an agreement that calls for Alcatel to provide up to …
SEATTLE-Qualcomm Inc. and Microsoft Corp. made good on their promise to converge the computing and wireless industries when they announced the formation of WirelessKnowledge L.L.C. last week, a joint venture …
Information Storage Devices Inc., San Jose, Calif., introduced a single-chip, fully integrated voice storage solution designed for digital cellular handsets. The ISD5008 eliminates external analog circuitry, such as automatic gain …
BOSTON-The North American GSM Alliance L.L.C. announced more than 2.3 million Global System for Mobile communications customers exist in the United States and Canada. “GSM’s growth continues to outpace rival …
United Kingdom CellPoint Systems AB and its partner Wasp International of South Africa demonstrated a Global System for Mobile communications phone positioning system at the 2nd International Conference on Mobile, …
BEIJING-Six wireless operators with 11 networks is the daunting choice offered to Hong Kong’s techno-savvy consumers. The mobile phone scene here is a lot brighter than one would have expected …
MONTREAL-Harris Corp. announced research and development plans to create new point-to-multipoint and wireless local loop systems to serve global markets. The R&D program is being initiated by Harris’ Microwave Communications …
ORLANDO, Fla.-GTE Telecommunication Services Inc. said its FraudX product is commercially available. FraudX, the company’s second-generation wireless fraud detection system, addresses fraud in both home and roaming markets as well …
LONDON-The Wireless Application Protocol Forum announced 11 new companies have joined the organization, and it appointed three additional members to its board of directors. New to the board are Hiroshi …
NEWBURY, Berskshire, England-Vodafone Group plc said it purchased from BellSouth New Zealand the national New Zealand GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) cellular network and related assets. BellSouth New Zealand …
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Telecommunications Industry Association said U.S. factory sales of telecommunications equipment rose to $55.6 billion at the close of third quarter, an 11-percent increase from the same period of …
Collocation has evolved from something wireless carriers used to resist to something they do as a matter of course. The idea of collocation increasingly becomes important to independent tower companies, …
HOUSTON-Equiva Services L.L.C., an affiliate of Shell, and TruePosition Inc. signed an agreement to jointly develop and market location-based services and applications using the TruePosition Wireless Location System. Under terms …
