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Motorola Inc.'s Paging Products Group signed a licensing agreement with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute to manufacture and sell Motorola FLEX chip sets. Motorola said it plans to license key semiconductor houses worldwide to manufacture and distribute FLEX chip sets. ITRI is the first...

Editor's Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of the 20 largest specialized mobile radio operators based on survey responses and interviews with industry sources, including the American Mobile Telecommunications Association.Nextel Communications Inc. has completed its acquisitions of Dial Call Communications...

Editor's note: Following are five charts ranking major players in the wireless telecommunications industry according to revenues, net incomes, percent change in revenue from 1994 to 1995, percent change in net income from 1994 to 1995 and two-year total return on investment to shareholders.Nordby International...

RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. announced it will market turnkey systems based on the new personal air communications technology standard for the narrowband personal communications services market.The company said it signed a multimillion dollar contract to implement the technology for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. AT&T won...

Armed with about 4,000 users on its digital specialized mobile radio system, the Southern Co. is marketing its services to businesses in the southeastern United States, going head-to-head with the nation's largest SMR operator, Nextel Communications Inc.Southern is the parent corporation for five utility...

In a Feb. 9 letter to Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.), Personal Communications Industry Association President Jay Kitchen volunteered his group's help as Congress begins to formulate its broadcast analog spectrum-auctioning policy next month, exhorting that "the days of spectrum being given free...

The Harris NovAtel Division of Harris Canada Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc. have signed an original equipment manufacturing agreement that will enable Harris NovAtel to incorporate Glenayre's Modular Voice Processing System platform in its cellular equipment networks worldwide, Glenayre announced. The platform will provide...

When it comes to the bottom line, AT&T Corp. and British Telecommunications plc dominate the top two positions for 1995, with equipment manufacturers NEC Corp. and Motorola Inc. right behind them.According to Motorola's year-end report, downward pressure on prices has had a negative impact...

L.M. Ericsson said it has received an order to supply switches and base stations to Westel 900 GSM to expand the carrier's Global System for Mobile communications network in Hungary. The new contract continues the relationship the two companies began in 1990 when Ericsson...

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s International Cellular Infrastructure Division said it is supplying digital Global System for Mobile communications cellular phone equipment to Tanzania and Lesotho, Africa.Motorola said it recently deployed GSM self-contained compact In-Cell base stations in Tanzania as part of the digital cellular...

As part of AT&T Corp.'s plan to spin off its system and technology business, newly named Lucent Technologies Inc. filed last week for an initial public stock offering, aiming to sell between 15 percent and 20 percent of the company.Lucent also cautions that it...

This year promises to be a transition period for the Latin American wireless market, a year hosting key events necessary to drive the subscriber growth that is projected by the end of the decade.Impending introduction of competition in Brazil and Central America, as well...

WASHINGTON-After more than 30 rounds of bidding, it looks like the current auction of 900 MHz specialized mobile radio spectrum may be entering the home stretch. Because of competitive reasons, however, the players aren't talking.Net revenues excluding withdrawal payments at the end of Round...

Pockets of wireless local loop operations and fixed cellular services are emerging throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Small-scale operations and field trials are underway in Argentina, Belize, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay. But many of these areas may...

Having grown weary of competing in the increasingly commoditized market for analog cellular telephones, Fujitsu Network Transmission Systems Inc. is retrenching and restructuring its phone division in hopes of making a comeback with digital.The Richardson, Texas-based company will wind down the production of its...

Grupo Iusacell S.A. de C.V., a cellular provider in Mexico, announced it has registered an average rate increase of 30 percent with the Secretariat of Communications and Transport. The price increase, which takes effect this month, is a result of rising inflation and is...

WASHINGTON-The federal budget will play a large role in determining the future of spectrum auctions, according to several panelists taking part in "Spectrum Auctions: Pay or No Play?" last week during the ComNet '95 conference."The budget will be the driving issue in American politics for...

Central America's cellular market, although smaller and representing somewhat riskier investment than other parts of Latin America, remains largely untapped and is expected to present a bundle of cellular opportunities in the near future.Cellular subscribers numbered less than 50,000 for the whole region at...

Despite overall slow growth in the Mexican cellular market due to the economic crisis in 1995, Telcel posted a 30.6 percent increase in subscribers for the year.As the largest cellular carrier in Mexico with about 57 percent of the market, Telcel said its subscriber...

The impending liberalization of Brazil's cellular services sector has attracted interest from a host of global carriers clamoring to position themselves in the region's fastest growing telecom services sector.The lucky few that win private cellular operating licenses in Brazil may be jockeying, as well,...

WASHINGTON-After five years of research and development, and three tries on the keypad, the inaugural call on American Mobile Satellite Corp.'s SkyCell satellite telephone service was made Jan. 24 between a Red Cross flood-disaster site in Harrisburg, Pa., and Washington, D.C."Five years ago, I...

A galaxy of new wireless services may soon beam down on the telephony-poor regions of the world.Mobile satellite systems-just like terrestrial-based wireless networks-are evolving from serving specialized markets to providing consumer pocket telephony as well as plain old telephone service. Right now, many of...

ORLANDO-Motorola Inc.'s Wireless Data Group business unit, AirMobile Software Products, announced it has extended AirMobile wireless software for Lotus cc: Mail and AirMobile wireless software for Lotus Notes to the Cellular Digital Packet Data network.Motorola said mobile cc: Mail and Notes users now have the flexibility...

Specialized aftermarket products and new marketing strategies have kept the decline in U.S. cellular telephone sales from affecting accessory product sales, according to several cellular accessory manufacturers and distributors.There has been a slight decline in point-of-purchase accessory sales in recent years, said Gershon Cooper,...