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Philips Consumer Communications announced Osmo Hautanen, president of the Americas region, will leave the company March 15. Michael Lang, vice president of marketing for the Americas, immediately will assume operational responsibilities for the North American organization on an interim basis. …

LCC International Inc. last week made two moves that appear to be pointing toward an increasing importance of international markets to its radio frequency engineering and network implementation services and products business. The company appointed Geoffrey Carroll president and chief …

With the introduction of the Windows CE operating system designed by Microsoft Corp.-expected to revolutionize the mobile computing industry much like the company’s Windows 95 operating system changed the computing world-wireless communications companies are hot to secure strategic agreements with …

Paging Network Inc. will be the primary network provider for a remote automotive vehicle security system developed by Adaptive Vehicle Systems, according to an agreement signed between the two companies. Using PageNet’s network, motorists can “page” their automobiles with messages …

Qualcomm Inc. announced it promoted Dr. Mark Epstein to senior vice president of development. Epstein will lead Qualcomm’s international standards activities and develop corporate relationships to support the company’s next-generation wireless products. With more than 30 years in the communications …

WOOD BRIDGE, N.J.-Ram Mobile Data USA L.P. announced it will join with Microsoft Corp. to familiarize programmers with applications development for the Windows CE platform by distributing some 25,000 compact discs at COMDEX ’97, with Microsoft’s Windows CE Toolkit. The …

LOS GATOS, Calif.-Metricom Inc. announced it expanded its Ricochet line of products, which provide unlimited wireless access to the Internet, intranets, e-mail and other online services. The Ricochet SX modem provides fast, affordable wireless connectivity to all portable and fixed …

PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Philips Consumer Communications L.P. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said that Philips will provide AT&T with multifunction, digital wireless handsets under an agreement previously entered into with Lucent Technologies Inc. Philips Consumer Communications is a joint venture of Lucent …

PARSIPPANY, N.J.-Philips Consumer Communications L.P. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said that Philips will provide AT&T with multifunction, digital wireless handsets under an agreement previously entered into with Lucent Technologies Inc. Philips Consumer Communications is a joint venture of Lucent …

WETHERSFIELD, Conn.-Shared Technologies Cellular Inc. announced it signed an agreement appointing Worldwide Direct Inc. an exclusive authorized distributor of STC’s prepaid service, called CellEase. Under the agreement, Worldwide Direct will develop, produce and maintain a national television marketing campaign for …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association announced Philips Consumer Communications’ Trapeze Global System for Mobile communications 1900 MHz wireless mobile phone has been certified by the association. Philips’ Trapeze, model TCD-718, was granted CTIA certification based on its successful compliance with …

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it has expanded its distribution arrangement with Eckerd Drug Stores Inc. for its paging products and services to be offered in an additional 1,126 locations-up from 613-to a total 1,739 in all. The expansion comes as …

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. reached an agreement to carry Philips Consumer Communications’ Cobalt numeric pagers. The Cobalt pager has a three-button interface, large backlit display screen with 20-digit message, 12-digit display and 32-message memory. It also features nine silent vibration options, …

Consolidation as a means to expansion has been the tradition in the wireless industry. Look no further than Craig McCaw, amassing a wireless fortune one cellular license at a time. Each merger, each alliance, each buyout, has been greeted with …

Lucent Technologies Inc., the equipment division spun off by AT&T Corp. last year, and Netherlands-based Philips Electronics N.V., one of the world’s largest electronic companies, announced plans to combine their consumer phone equipment operations in a joint venture sure to …

NEC Corp.’s Wireless Message Terminals division recently reduced its sales staff, an action the company and some carriers say reflects the paging industry’s changing structure. “We’re changing internally to better address the way the market is changing,” said Beth Anderson, …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court in San Diego seeking a judicial determination that Qualcomm does not infringe on three patents held by U.S. Philips Corp. The complaint says a dispute arose from Philips’ contention …

Cellemetry Data Service has signed eight new contracts since it was launched almost a year ago, and now provides total coverage to 125 million pops in North America. The service was developed by BellSouth Corp. in the early 1990s, and …

Contactless smart cards are becoming hot business. Motorola Inc. announced last month its plans to be a leader in the business of contactless smart cards. Meanwhile, the France-based Gemplus Group claims to have already achieved “world leadership in the area …

Geotek Technologies Inc. said it will supply trunked mobile radio equipment and services based on its Frequency Hopping Multiple Access technology to Hyundai Electronics Industries Co. Ltd. The company values the purchase order at $18 million. The agreement calls for …

“The world’s smallest PCS phone.” “The world’s lightest mobile phone.” “The smallest and lightest CDMA phone in existence.” The battle for the tiniest phone is no longer just a matter of shape and size. The technological standard used by the …

CAMBRIDGE, England-During a visit to Simoco International Ltd., Ole Lauridsen, chairman of the TETRA MoU, was given a demonstration of Simoco’s Trans European Trunked Radio Access equipment. The demonstration included mobile and portable phones in full duplex mode, the first …

After a year of sweeping talented executives away from competing companies and setting the stage for strongly anticipated success, Philips Consumer Communications doesn’t blink when it says it expects to be one of the top three handset providers by 2000. …

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-Arguments will begin Thursday in the appeal by InterDigital Communications Corp. of its 1995 patent infringement case against Motorola Inc. InterDigital’s patent protection arm, InterDigital Technology Corp., sued Illinois-based Motorola in 1993 regarding patents for Time Division …

Simoco International Ltd. of the United Kingdom and German-based De Te We and Rhode & Schwarz Bick have formed a consortium to market Trans European Trunked Radio systems in Germany, a move that may give the group leverage against its …