Total Access Communications

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group won a contract to expand the analog cellular Total Access Communications System in China’s Shandong province. Motorola values the contract at more than $50 million. The contract with Shandong Posts and Telecommunications calls …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson signed two contracts to expand Global System for Mobile communications and Total Access Communications System mobile networks in the Hebei province of China. The company values the contracts with Hebei Post & Telecommunications Administration at $71 million. …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Asia Pacific Cellular Infrastructure Group agreed to supply Total Access Communications System equipment and services to Eastern Communications Company Ltd. of China and Zhejiang Technical Import and Export Corp. Motorola values the agreement at $200 million. …

Austria’s Ministry for Science and Transport announced a tender for a Digital Cellular System 1800 personal communications network license, according to the U.S. Embassy in Vienna. Interested parties that requested tender documents and submitted a $2,200 fee by March 27 …

Simmonds Capital Ltd. said its wholly owned subsidiary, Midland International Corp., sold an 80 percent controlling interest in its European business to an undisclosed buyer. The transaction includes a license to distribute Midland two-way radio products in Western Europe, Africa, …

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. will supply digital cellular network equipment to Total Access Communications Public Co. Ltd. to expand its Digital Cellular System 1800 network in Thailand. Nokia values the agreement at $50 million.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Asia Pacific Cellular Infrastructure Group won a contract to expand Total Access Communications Public Co. Ltd.’s narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone Service network in Thailand. The contract, which Motorola values at $120 million, includes expanding overall network …

A few more pieces have fallen into place for the Philips Consumer Communications division as it pulls together its wireless handset sales machine to build a brand name in the United States. The Philips brand is well known in Europe, …

SAN DIEGO, Calif.-Qualcomm Inc. signed a letter of intent with Asahi Kasei Microsystems to provide a triple-mode chipset for the Code Division Multiple Access market in Japan. Qualcomm said its CDMA digital baseband technology will be integrated with AKM’s analog …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Asia Pacific Cellular Infrastructure Group signed three agreements with the Fujian Posts and Telecommunications Administration to expand its analog and digital mobile telephone systems in China’s Fujian province. Motorola values the contracts at $108 million. Motorola …

While AirNet Communications Corp. is busy this week demonstrating its PCS 1900 base station system at PCS ’96, the company’s new Korean joint venture, AirCom, is busy demonstrating AirNet’s software driven and protocol independent base station technology in Korea. Communications …

France Telecom Mobiles International has signed two digital cellular phone contracts with Chinese operator China United Telecommunications Corp. (China Unicom). The contracts call for the expansion of a 1995 system to add an additional 41,000 subscribers in the city of …

L.M. Ericsson has signed a three-year contract with JT Mobiles Ltd. to supply digital cellular Global System for Mobile communications systems in India. Ericsson said it will supply and install complete GSM systems for JT Mobiles’ cellular operations in Karnataka …

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 …

Safco Corp.’s Electronic Systems Division has opened a third satellite office in Boca Raton, Fla., to serve the Latin American market. David Neumann will lead the new office. Neumann joined Safco in 1991, and previously served as a systems engineer …

Japanese telecom leaders suggest they will lift some foreign investment restrictions in cellular if they can get greater access to Western markets in return. Fifty-one countries are negotiating trade rules for their telecommunication businesses at the World Trade Organization meeting …

Telex Communications Inc. has introduced a lightweight headset specifically for cellular phones and other mobile applications. The company said its Telex Nomad Headset is a lightweight, ear-worn device with an adjustable boom microphone and high-fidelity speaker. The headset is designed …

L.M. Ericsson said it surpassed the 1 million subscriber milestone in February for its CMS 30 system for Pacific Digital Cellular, making Japan one of the fastest growing markets for cellular telephony. The number of cellular subscribers in Japan has …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson Company Ltd. said it has signed a Global System for Mobile communications digital network expansion contract with Jiangsu Posts and Telecommunications Administration in the Jiangsu province of China. The expansion includes equipment and services, Ericsson said. Ericsson said …

Telecommunications experience, a plan to charge low fees and a promise of $400 million won Oe-Call a Global System for Mobile communications digital cellular license in Austria, according to Waltraud Augesky, commercial specialist for the United States Embassy in Vienna, …

YORBA LINDA, Calif.-Comarco Inc. announced it has received its first major European purchase order to provide Italy with wireless communications field measurement equipment. The company said the purchase order is valued at nearly $1 million. Delivery of the equipment is …

Motorola Inc.’s North Asia Cellular Infrastructure Division has signed an agreement with the China Directorate General of Telecommunications and L.M. Ericsson to interconnect the nationwide cellular network in China. Motorola and Ericsson will provide more than 3 million Chinese subscribers …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s International Cellular Infrastructure Division will expand and upgrade cellular phone service in Thailand under a contract valued at $160 million. Total Access Communications Public Co. Ltd. ordered the expansion to increase overall network capacity and extend …

VIENNA, Austria-The licensing process for Austria’s second digital wireless phone system has been put on hold temporarily due to the government crisis in that country. Six bidders met the Oct. 13 application deadline for the Global System for Mobile communications …

SNET Cellular Inc. awarded AT&T Network Systems Inc. a contract valued at $35 million to supply and install an Autoplex System 1000 for SNET in its Rhode Island and the Bristol, Mass., area markets, which operate under the Cellular One …