Mobile Phones

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson demonstrated a two-way hyperband hand-off between 1900 MHz and 800 MHz radio frequencies at the Universal Wireless Communications conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The demonstration means network operators using the Digital-Advanced Mobile Phone Service Interim Standard-136 digital …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. only now is receiving the dual-band handsets necessary to make its vision of a Digital PCS nationwide network a reality. “Things will start happening pretty quickly,” said AT&T Wireless spokesman Ken Woo. AT&T has not launched …

When billionaire John Kluge of Metromedia International Group Inc. sold his company’s film and television properties last month, he said the transaction would allow Metromedia to focus on its new mobile phone and paging ventures in Eastern Europe and the …

“The market for universal phones may prove more limited than trade hyperbole suggests,” argues one analyst in response to industry buzz about satellite-based global telephone service-fueled by the successful launch May 5 of the first group of Iridium Inc. satellites. …

LONDON-Prepaid card sales may fuel mobile phone growth, but they also will erode already declining margins, according to a new report by CIT Research Ltd. of London. Cards allow calling at typical consumer rates up to a fixed value and …

E.F. Johnson Co. introduced its 9840 model UHF multimode mobile radio. Part of the company’s 9800 Series radio platform, the 9840 operates in conventional, LTR trunking or talkaround modes. The UHF multimode mobile radio delivers up to 40 watts of …

Samsung Electronics Co. has sold more than 1 million Any Call digital Code Division Multiple Access phone sets and obtained more than 1.4 million new subscribers in one year. The company said its four CDMA handset models-SCH-100, SCH-100S, SCH-200 and …

AirTouch Cellular launched Caller ID service in the Puget Sound area of western Washington. The service is available using Motorola Inc., Audiovox Corp. and Nokia Corp. narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone Service `MegaPhones,’ said the company. The service is available for …

A producer of phone shield devices has agreed not to distribute its promotional brochure in the United States after Motorola Inc. warned the company not to make unsubstantiated claims about the safety of cellular phones. Motorola Inc. demanded an end …

WASHINGTON-Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) was informed by the Food and Drug Administration last week that neither federal government nor cellular industry-funded scientists have conducted large-scale radio frequency radiation bioeffects research in the four-and-a-half years since a lawsuit first linked cellular …

NEW YORK-“We have learned a lot in our first year,” Dennis Foster, president of 360

STOCKHOLM, Sweden- L.M. Ericsson’s first quarter financial results produced net sales of $4 billion, a 36 percent increase from $2.9 billion during the same period a year ago. Net income for the three-month period ended March 31, grew 30 percent …

IRVING, Texas-Nokia Mobile Phones introduced a service that allows direct Internet access from standard Global System for Mobile communications cellular phones. “The main idea behind Smart Messaging is to combine Internet access with wireless telephony in a seamless manner,” said …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. reported net sales for the first quarter ended March 31 of $2.2 billion, 43 percent more than first quarter 1996 net sales of $1.6 billion. Net profit for the quarter totaled $212.5 million, or 75 cents per …

WASHINGTON-A major Australian study has found significant cancer in rodents exposed to digital wireless phone radiation, dramatic findings that offer compelling new evidence of potential health risks from phones and further undercut long-standing cellular industry claims about phone safety. The …

WASHINGTON-As Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) examines replies due today from the Food and Drug Administration to questions on the agency’s oversight of a cellular industry-financed cancer research program that has produced no bioeffects studies after four years and $17 million, …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Pan American Wireless Infrastructure Division signed a contract to supply Code Division Multiple Access equipment to Virginia PCS Alliance L.C. The companies value the contract at $50 million. CFW Communications Co., managing partner for the alliance, …

Small- and medium-sized dispatch radio operators gathering at the 21st annual International Wireless Communications Expo this week in Las Vegas will recognize each other as the fierce competitors they are by day. But many, whether they know it or not, …

Ireland’s second mobile phone operator has launched service with two compact packages and a goal of acquiring 50,000 customers by the end of the year. Dublin-based Esat Digifone had hoped to be online by the end of 1996 with its …

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil-About 15 companies submitted bids last week for ten B-band cellular licenses in Brazil. One source reported that bids ranged from $200 million for more desolate Amazon basin states to at least $600 million for Sao Paulo …

NEW YORK-Legislation to require hands-free cellular telephone use while driving is scheduled for a hearing in the California Senate Transportation Committee April 15. In Illinois, a similar bill was scheduled as early as April 10 for a third reading and …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson won a contract to supply three new Advanced Mobile Phone Service and Digital AMPS networks in Russia. The contract with Millicom International Cellular calls for Ericsson to supply equipment for the systems, which will cover the Kemerovo …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson won two contracts to expand Advanced Mobile Phone Service analog cellular networks in Brazil. The first contract is with Telpe from the state of Pernambuco, and the second contract is with Telesp from the state of Sao …

NEW YORK-“Why pay for cellular phone service if you only want it for emergency use?” That’s the advertising slogan and the business concept for SOS Wireless Communications Inc., an Irvine, Calif., company that began selling its SOS Phone nationwide late …

Competition began in earnest last week in Singapore when the nation’s second operator launched service. To try to ensure even more competition, the government announced it expects to call for tenders later this year for two new 17-year licenses, under …