The groundwork for a head-to-head duel between factories is being laid in Brazil, where Nokia Group and Motorola Inc. both are establishing handset manufacturing plants. Brazil has 1.2 million cellular …
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced it has been awarded an $8 million contract by Celtel to install a cellular telephone system in Honduras. The Advanced Mobile Phone …
Socket Communications Inc. has introduced PageSoft for ACT!, an add-on software package that employs existing wireless paging networks to deliver time-critical text and data to ACT! mobile users. ACT! is …
NEW YORK-Prime Cellular Inc. announced it has acquired, by merger, Bern Associates Inc., a privately held Internet systems integrator. Under the terms of the merger, 4.1 million shares of Prime …
Netherlands-based electronics giant Philips Electronics NV is mounting a new campaign to become one of the top three vendors to the global cellular handset market. Philips Mobile Phones launched a …
American Mobile Satellite Corp. appointed Patrick C. FitzPatrick vice president and chief financial officer. Prior to joining AMSC, FitzPatrick was senior vice president and CFO of PRC Inc., a wholly …
Phoenix Wireless Group has installed a wireless local loop network in Paraguay to provide rural dwellers in the town of Pirapou with basic telephone service. Communications access is limited in …
NEW YORK-Palmer Wireless Inc., a cellular carrier based in Fort Myers, Fla., sold an add-on offering June 12 of five million shares of Class A common stock at $20 per …
NEW YORK-PageMart Wireless Inc., a Dallas-based wireless messaging company ranked among the largest in the nation, went public June 13 with the sale of six million shares of common stock …
NEW YORK-Pasifik Satelit Nusantara, the first non-governmental Indonesian satellite company, went public June 11 with the sale of 3.65 million American Depository Shares representing 10.95 million shares of common stock. …
Geez, what a week of winners, losers and schmoozers. A three-judge panel in Philadelphia overturned the Internet indecency ban in the new telecommunications law, a big victory for free speech …
WASHINGTON-In an address with major policymaking implications, Federal Communications Commissioner Susan Ness said government-endorsed wireless standards could improve U.S. competitiveness abroad and cautioned against spectrum reform based entirely on market …
TETRA is a new European standard for digital trunked mobile radio. It can transmit up to four independent voice channels, real-time or packetized data up to 28 kilobits per second, …
A U.S.-owned company is up against competition in its bid for digital dispatch radio spectrum in the United Kingdom, while also facing implementation of the never-deployed TETRA standard. National Band …
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill.-A new Cellular Impact Survey commissioned by Motorola Inc. and conducted by the Gallup Organization found differences and similarities between cellular phone users in Canada, Great Britain, Hong Kong, …
MEXICO CITY-Motorola Inc.’s Advanced Messaging Group announced that TelMex has signed a $5 million contract for Motorola’s FLEX protocol-based infrastructure systems equipment. TelMex has purchased 75 Nucleus base stations and …
REDMOND, Wash.-Antenna manufacturer Metawave Communications Corp. announced it has completed a new round of investment capital financing totaling more than $9 million, bringing the company’s total investment to $14.5 million. …
WASHINGTON-Wireless services still haven’t figured into the unserved, underserved, high-cost and rural area matrix in a significant manner when it comes to universal service. Meeting at the Federal Communications Commission …
Researchers at the University of Oklahoma are distributing a report advising hospital administrators and clinical engineers how to manage electromagnetic interaction between wireless devices and medical equipment. It is published …
MONTREAL-Transys Networks Inc. said it has developed a fax solution that lets mobile and remote workers send faxes through satellite networks. The product, Mobilis, consists of a store-and-forward fax switch …
