LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.-Laissez-faire capitalists repeatedly faced off with supporters of de facto or government-mandated high-technology standards during last week’s Mobile Insights ’97 conference on mobile computing. The three-day meeting, held …
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Synopsys Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc.’s microelectronics group have agreed to jointly develop hardware and software design tools and services for Global System for Mobile communications cellular telephone …
After a year of declining prices on paging stocks, market values among the industry’s leaders are starting to stabilize. “The bottom is here, the worst is behind us,” stated Michael …
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Standard Communications Corp.’s Wireless Datacom Division announced it will show its new cellular modem module and cellular radiofrequency module at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association’s Wireless ’97 trade …
BOULDER, Colo.-SpectraLink Corp.’s board of directors authorized a repurchase of up to 500,000 shares of the company’s common stock. The shares will be repurchased in the open market. The company …
CEDAR CREST, N.M.-Specialty Teleconstructors Inc. announced it intends to redeem all outstanding common stock warrants March 26. Holders of the warrants may exercise the warrants until March 25. Headquartered in …
WASHINGTON-In a four-pronged simultaneous marketing announcement McLean, Va.-based Nextel Communications Inc. will unveil today a $35 million nationwide advertising campaign, the introduction of enhanced specialized mobile radio service in San …
Qualcomm Personal Electronics reported it has shipped more than 1 million Code Division Multiple Access portable phones. Qualcomm Personal Electronics, a joint venture of Qualcomm Inc. and Sony Electronics Inc., …
ELGIN, Ill.-The National Cellular Safetalk Center, a nonprofit wireless industry advocate, has introduced a car phone safety public education program. The new program is based on Safetalk’s successful high school …
NEW YORK-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. “is right on target for the (late) April introduction of its SkyWord Plus caller acknowledgement paging,” John T. Stupka, president and chief executive officer, said …
DALLAS-Motorola Inc. and Paging Network Inc. introduced Motorola’s Tenor voice pager to the Dallas/Fort Worth market through PageNet’s VoiceNow service.The tenor pager has the ability to play, rewind, fast forward, …
WASHINGTON-Motorola Inc. planned two years ago to collaborate with the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. to downplay potentially damaging scientific findings on possible health risks from …
MONROE, La.-Century Telephone Enterprises Inc. announced it completed the acquisition of the Mississippi rural service area 7 cellular operation located in central Mississippi. The RSA is adjacent to Century’s Jackson, …
DENVER-More than half of SMR Direct’s new subscribers are switching to two-way radio from cellular and paging, the company said. “We expected our customer base to be two-way users of …
MARLBORO, Mass.-Orange Personal Communications Services Ltd. implemented a platform that it says enables it to use network resources more efficiently. The carrier says the Service Location Register platform allows it …
ROGERS, Conn.-Rogers Corp. said its board of directors declared a dividend distribution of one right to purchase common stock of the company for each outstanding common share. The declaration is …
TUSTIN, Calif.-Activator Systems Inc. said its robotics-controlled automated phone programming module now is available. The A-Key uses ASI’s patented programming process, using only encrypted data. Accuracy is ensured and secure. …
Four years ago Systems/Link Corp. introduced RoamEx, which “allowed carriers with fraud problems in big cities access to what was going on,” said Diane Sammer, president of Systems/Link. Today RoamEx …
CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. signed international roaming agreements with 26 Global System for Mobile communications carriers, mainly in Europe and the Pacific Rim. The agreements cover the United Kingdom, …
Operators with new 1900 MHz personal communications services networks need add-on services that are meaningful revenue generators and offer something customers repeatedly need, says one such service provider. “The cost …
