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Matrix Systems introduced the Model 7000 Series Coaxial Relay Modules, designed to maintain coaxial switching continuity over a wide range of critical and severe environments and applications. The relay modules …

Metrocall Inc. announced it has filed formal complaints with the Federal Communications Commission’s Common Carrier Bureau enforcement division, charging several regional Bell and independent telephone companies with continuing to violate …

LAS VEGAS-Manufacturers at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas may have been hinting at things to come with a handful of launches and plenty of promises of phones …

ArrayComm Inc. announced its next-generation IntelliCell-enhanced Personal Handyphone System cell stations are operating in Tokyo’s PHS network, following months of field trials conducted with DDI Pocket Telephone. DDI holds a …

The Institute for Wireless Education, a nonprofit corporation that has been training wireless engineers and technicians for about a year, recently added a segment dedicated to Code Division Multiple Access …

ArrayComm Inc. announced the opening of a liaison office in New Delhi, India, to serve a growing interest in its proprietary IntelliCell processing technology and IntelliWave wireless local loop system. …

Paging industry veteran George Perrin, founder of Paging Network Inc., announced his retirement last week, effective Jan. 31-ending a 17-year reign as head of the world’s largest paging company. Perrin …

Giving the wireless data industry some important momentum to start the new year, American Mobile Satellite Corp. announced it plans to acquire Motorola Inc.’s Ardis data messaging business, which combined …

In an initial victory for paging carriers nationwide, the Federal Communications Commission’s Common Carrier Bureau announced its current rules do not allow local exchange carriers to charge paging carriers for …

NEW YORK-World Access Inc., Atlanta, announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Advanced TechCom Inc., a Wilmington, Mass., designer and manufacturer of digital microwave and millimeter wave radio systems. …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-California Microwave Inc. has agreed to sell its Satellite Transmission Systems division to L-3 Communications Corp. for $27 million in cash, the company announced. California Microwave decided to …

21st Century Telesis Inc. said it is making a significant step toward becoming the first U.S. wireless carrier to commercially deploy Personal Access Communications System technology. Costa-Mesa, Calif.-based 21st Century, …

Homeowners in California soon will have the capability to run their entire house by remote control-using only a computer, two-way pager, or telephone-thanks to utility deregulation efforts and agreements signed …

NEW YORK-By 2000, some 22 million devices other than personal computers will be accessing the Internet, according to IDC-Link Resources projections cited at a recent Internet World ’97 conference. Although …

MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill.-Illinois Superconductor Corp. will begin the first three installations of its RangeMaster filter system this month, under a planned 15 cell site purchase by a regional Bell company …

MT. OLIVE, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said it completed its prototype base station that will be used by NTT DoCoMo of Japan in experiments on a wideband Code Division Multiple Access …

WASHINGTON-After 235 rounds of bidding, Nextel Communications Inc. ended up paying $88.8 million for 475 licenses covering 97 percent of the country in the 800 MHz specialized mobile radio auction. …

The Personal Communications Industry Association and a coalition of alphanumeric paging dispatchers have filed petitions to either stay or reconsider, respectively, the Federal Communication Commission’s Pay Telephone Compensation Remand Order. …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-The city of Hialeah, Fla., approved the $6.4 million purchase of a trunked, two-way public-safety radio system from Motorola Inc.’s Land Mobile Products Sector, announced Motorola. Motorola’s SmartZone analog …

ATLANTA-Digital Transmission Systems Inc., a telecommunications equipment maker, recently announced that it received a $5.4 million order from a national wireless carrier. The order, which the company says is the …

DALLAS-SpaceCom Systems said it plans to install an additional geographically diverse uplink system at the Dallas-Fort Worth Teleport so its customers can achieve a quick recovery for their satellite networks …

TULSA, Okla.-Arch Communications Group Inc. said it bought a fourth satellite channel from SpaceCom Systems to expand its transmission capacity. The company said it expects to require added capacity once …

WASHINGTON-The predicted growth areas for wireless services will not be dominated by voice, according to a Commerce Department 1998 outlook report. Rather, current and prospective carriers will try to develop …

ArrayComm Inc. announced that G. John Gruen III will fill the newly created position of director of corporate development. Gruen will be responsible for building and enhancing strategic partnerships and …

Dataradio introduced T-Base, a transparent integrated radio modem base/repeater unit. It features vir-tually no bit dribble and is compatible with most protocols, including Modbus binary, and also is capable of …