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Jato Communications Corp., a small Denver-based company, has big plans in the Local Multipoint Distribution Services market. “We think that there is going to be a bandwidth scarcity and LMDS …

NEW YORK-Point-to-multipoint equipment should be available in quantity by mid-1998, bringing the bandwidth on demand promise of last-mile wireless “fiber” closer to widespread deployment. “Where the heck did this market …

I wonder how many Americans fired up their cellular phones last Thursday morning to see if a call to 911 would go through. I know I did. If ABC’s Nov. …

NEW YORK-Hongkong Telecom showed strong growth in revenues, net income and earnings for the six-month period that ended Sept. 30, according to results the carrier released Friday. Compared with the …

Northern Telecom Ltd. won a $780 million contract with Teligent Corp. and offered to purchase all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Broadband Networks Inc. on a fully …

Business finally is taking off for some of the players with nationwide coverage plans in the enhanced specialized mobile radio arena. With technology bugs worked out, marketing and distribution strategies …

NEW YORK-Working with Ericsson Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc., Powertel Inc. has just completed a successful “beam firing antenna” trial. The beam firing antenna array, tested in Auburn, Ala., increases …

LONDON-Code Division Multiple Access technology is playing a key role in several leading technology contenders for third-generation wireless networks in Europe, but back-to-back industry shows held here last week underlined …

MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. announced the release of its EZT3 DS3 access multiplexer, which it said gives carriers the power of simple network management protocol and flexible capacity upgrades. ADC said …

Business and consumer market customers traditionally have been the focus of the paging industry’s marketing and sales efforts. But there is a hidden, some say ignored, segment of the population …

BETHESDA, Md.-Comsat Corp. said its new satellite-based tool will offer service providers access to advanced networking technologies normally associated with sophisticated wireline networks. The product, called Link One, is scheduled …

NEW YORK-NEC Corp. announced China’s Ministry of Post and Telecommunications awarded it a contract for a Synchronous Digital Hierarchy microwave system through the Chinese company Marubeni Corp. The contract, valued …

Erico Inc. introduced a new line of ground bar assemblies and related products designed for the personal communications services market. Erico ground bars are electrolyptic copper bars manufactured to individual …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. and PageMart Wireless Inc. announced a five-year strategic alliance that will allow Alltel to offer its customers PageMart’s numeric and text-based paging services. Alltel is a …

NEW YORK-Borrowing a tag line from a recently released report of the Paging Leadership Association, industry representatives and analysts say there is “no grim reaper for the beeper.” The association, …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group introduced a Code Division Multiple Access cellular base transmission system that supports about twice the capacity of current commercial CDMA networks, said the …

RESTON, Va.-Constellation Communications Inc. filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission to launch an additional 46 satellites to operate in the 2 GHz frequency bands. The satellites will allow …

IBM Corp. and Geotek Communications Inc. announced they will join forces to provide integrated mobile communications services, equipment and software to business customers in the United States and some international …

CEDAR CREST, N.M.-Specialty Teleconstructors Inc. signed letters of intent to acquire all of the capital stock of Microcell Communications of America Inc. and Ellis Tower Co. Inc. in exchange for …

NEW YORK-Notable by its absence amid the current merger mania in telecommunications is convergence across industry lines between transmission and content providers, according to a new study by Price Waterhouse …

WASHINGTON-Iridium L.L.C. launched seven satellites on a proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The satellites are part of a 66-satellite wireless personal telecommunications network designed to permit …

Two environmental health advocates in Boston and New York have initiated petitions to stop area launches of personal communications services networks and shut down existing networks pending a public hearing …

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-California Microwave Inc. announced it will sell its Satellite Transmission Systems and Microwave Networks business units. The company will retain its satellite modem and other wireless radio divisions. …

SAN DIEGO-General Instrument Corp., a supplier of end-to-end digital transmission systems, signed a letter of intent to co-produce digital DVB satellite receivers in China with joint venture partners Xi’an Yellow …

DALLAS-DSC Communications Corp. said it will demonstrate products designed to meet the requirements of the telecom act this week at SuperComm ’97 in New Orleans. Products designed to solve problems …