Siemens Components Inc. introduced its Model CMY210, a GaAs MMIC that can be used for designing cellular or personal communications services handsets based on Time Division Multiple Access or Code Division Multiple Access standards. The company said it functions as an up/down converter for...
SAN RAMON, Calif.-GTE Wireless announced it has expanded its digital wireless network to include San Francisco's East Bay.The company's digital wireless service now is available in the majority of the San Francisco Bay area, with plans to expand to the North Bay by mid-year.The...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration has overestimated by $12 billion the amount of revenue from spectrum auctions over the next five years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.CBO's numbers, prepared at the request of the Senate Appropriations Committee, appear to confirm growing suspicions about devaluation of...
FORT WORTH, Texas-The Sabre Group is offering a flight paging service, which alerts business and leisure travelers of departure and arrival times, gate changes and delays. Alphanumeric paging subscribers can register for the service at Sabre's Web site.The paging service is part of Sabre's...
In January, Greg Rosston and Jeff Steinberg released a staff working paper that clearly articulated how a market-based approach to spectrum management would maximize the public interest. That report informed my congressional testimony on spectrum management in February. The article below illustrates the principles...
Link Telecommunications of Australia is gearing up to launch a two-way messaging network in Sydney, using technology supplied by Nexus Telecommunications Ltd. of Israel.The system trials began in the third quarter of last year and are expected to culminate by the end of this...
ACT Communications Inc. developed two personal communications services and cellular protection products. The ACT 452-120-400L is a two-line, single phase surge arrestor that provides all-mode protection. The company said it is ideal for cabinet and PCS applications. It is rated to withstand up to...
PageMart Wireless Inc. has crossed all borders in North America and some in Central America with its formation of the PageMart Network.The international network is supported by affiliate carriers in Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas and areas of Central America to enable roaming...
Metawave Communications Corp. named Vito Palermo senior vice president and chief financial officer, with responsibility for the company's financial and administrative operations including accounting, treasury, financial planning, investor relations and human resources. Most recently, Palermo served as vice president and corporate controller for Bay...
DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. said it will begin international service during the second quarter, allowing subscribers to roam in Canada, Mexico and Central America.International numeric roaming will cost $15 per month for 400 messages. International text messaging, including 400 numeric and 100 alphanumeric, will be...
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 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel here and hosted by industry consultant Gerry Purdy and his Mountain...
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 Elling, senior analyst in Prudential Securities Inc.'s telecommunications group.Carriers are beginning to rationalize capital spending,...
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 Feb. 27.The new nationwide offering, provided over a proprietary narrowband personal communications services system,...
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, pause, lock and delete messages. Messages are stored in the network so they are...
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 antiquated conventional system and also those who were losing their service in favor of digital-based...
ReadyCom Inc. is in line to launch two-way voice paging services over networks already built, offering nationwide coverage and roaming capability. Its secret is cellular.The Chapel Hill, N.C., company is amidst customer trials for three new ReadyTalk products that make it possible to receive,...
LONDON-Orange plc signed a contract with Inference Corp. for its customer service software.Inference's case-based reasoning (CBR) products will assist staff in responding to customers' inquiries on the phone, said Inference. CBR gives staff of all levels access to specialist knowledge and guides them to...
WASHINGTON-A settlement agreement between seven radio common carriers that have been squabbling since 1988 over a 931 MHz paging channel in New York City finally was cleared by the Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Feb. 19.The slate of 931 MHz winners has been...
NEW YORK-Glenayre Technologies Inc. acknowledged Feb. 26 that a second shareholder lawsuit has been filed against the company and certain of its current and former board members.The lawsuit, filed Feb. 20 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, "alleges...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's second report and order that codifies new auction rules for common carrier and private carrier paging along with partitioning of geographic licenses follows in most cases auction rules set up for other wireless commercial services.However, the commission order is designed...
MEXICO CITY, Mexico- The Mexican government plans to resume auctioning of radio spectrum this year after defining frequency blocks for services that include personal communications services.According to the Mexican Government Gazette, 1850 MHz to 1990 MHz will be allocated for fixed or mobile wireless...
NEW YORK-In a record-breaking year for domestic mergers and acquisitions, telecommunications transactions accounted for four of the five largest deals announced or concluded in 1996. This year also promises a great deal of M&A activity by carriers and other companies in related industry sectors,...
LaBarge Inc.'s telecommunications unit has found a way to offer its products and services to several parts of the wireless industry.The St. Louis-based company concentrates on designing and manufacturing products that require ruggedization, high reliability and high performance. These products include custom designed coaxial...
SAN FRANCISCO-GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. announced it will begin distributing AccessLine Technologies Inc.'s personal one-number services."This is the first time personal number services like AccessLine have been made available on a nationwide service bureau basis," said Todd Eliason, president of GTE TSI.AccessLine's personal one-number...
