Mobile Phones

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 subscribers, making it the most prolific cellular market in Latin …

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 Service network initially will provide service to customers in the …

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 new business group in January called Philips Consumer Communications based …

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 Paraguay, a country whose land mass is comparable in size …

MUNICH-Siemens AG won contracts worth $64.7 million from the Iridium mobile phone network. Siemens said that Motorola Inc., which founded and leads the Iridium project, placed an order for 12 switching systems with Siemens’ public communications networks division. The Iridium …

Digital TU-KA Chugoku Co. Ltd. launched commercial service in the Chugoku area of Japan, serving the capital city, major highways and the railway line. AirTouch Communications Inc. owns 4.5 percent of the Chugoku operator, as well as five other Digital …

Eastern European countries and those of the former Soviet republics launched cellular services in the early 1990s using the Nordic Mobile Telephone-450 standard, an analog technology developed to operate at 450 MHz. Most nations initially selected NMT- 450 instead of …

Boston Communications Group Inc. announced it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of about 3.8 million shares of its common stock. The offering will be managed by Alex, Brown & …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced it has deployed its wireless local loop network in Benin, Africa, providing phone service for the first time to many remote customers. The network uses a narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone Service radio …

The Nokia Group is expanding an analog system in Indonesia, in the face of the deployment of digital systems by numerous other operators there. Earlier this year, Indonesia’s government gave the state-owned operator the nation’s first license for personal communications …

SINGAPORE-Numerous announcements about Code Division Multiple Access technology came out of last week’s CDMA World Congress in Singapore. The event was attended by about 600 people from 40 countries. Motorola Inc. has formed a joint venture with two Chinese entities …

Nexus Telecommunication Systems Ltd. announced it has granted a license to operate its wireless messaging system over 2 MHz in the 900 UHF to Eden, a fully owned subsidiary of Nexus set up to operate the messaging system and provide …

NEW YORK-If the trend in communications is bundling services to customers, then the key to exploiting the trend is in combined billing for those multiple services. “Most of the research we’ve looked at and most of what our customers tell …

Cloners beware, Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. are active with authentication technology-each carrier in two markets. “We’ve taken the next step from protection to prevention. It’s like a little Fort Knox for your phone,” said Steve …

Nokia profits down in first quarter A 62 percent decrease in operating profit reported by the Nokia Group has been attributed to Nokia Mobile Phones. The Finnish manufacturer’s handset division struggled with low phone prices and slow sales during its …

Kevin Mitnick, a convicted computer hacker, recently plead guilty to charges of illegally using stolen mobile phone numbers. Federal prosecutors in North Carolina arranged the plea as part of an agreement when he was arrested last year after three years …

WICHITA, Kan. – Brite Voice Systems has introduced a cellular phone enhanced service designed to improve the safety of mobile phone use in automobiles. The company has developed a voicemail service that integrates speech recognition into the VSDmail application. The …

Millicom International Cellular S.A. signed a seven-year $200 million credit facility agreement arranged by ABN-AMRO Bank and ING Bank. Millicom said the facility will be used to refinance $125 million of existing short term credit facilities at the parent level …

Steinbrecher Corp., which was recently acquired by Tellabs Wireless, announced the MiniCell Wireless Access System, a complete cellular system utilizing software-programmable radios with remote and local transceivers. Based on industry standard protocols, the MiniCell system is interoperable with other networks. …

The fusion of wireless telecommunications and computer processing power into a device that fits your hand ought to be a slam-dunk proposition. It lets time-critical information go unobtrusively to where it can be most productive-in the field-rather than requiring the …

WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court’s consideration of whether manufacturers of medical devices that malfunction can be sued in state court potentially adds a new twist to the wireless interference issue. Up to now, the issue has been largely framed by consumer advocates …

CALGARY, Alberta, Canada-Isotel Research and Steinbrecher Corp. announced Isotel has been selected to provide digital cellular software based on the North American Interim Standard-136 Time Division Multiple Access technology for use in Steinbrecher’s base station products. Steinbrecher is developing proprietary, …

WASHINGTON-Public alarm over potential health risks from mobile telephones that reached fever pitch in the United States several years ago may be about to seize Great Britain, following publication in the London Sunday Times of new evidence that radio frequency …

WASHINGTON-A report in the May issue of Epidemiology cast doubt on whether pocket telephones pose fatal health consequences for consumers in the short run, but leaves open the question of whether long-term use of phones can cause cancer or other …

The Personal Mobile Communications Division of Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc. announced the MobileAccess smart phone. The phone integrates a cellular telephone with broad messaging and data capabilities in a lightweight, handheld unit, the company said. The model relies on cellular …