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E.F. Johnson Co. has signed a $3.6 million contract to build a trunked radio system for Campanhia Energetica de Minas Gerias (CEMIG), an electrical power generation and distribution company in …

TULSA, Okla.-SpaceCom Systems announced the rollout of HyperCubed, the company’s newest satellite technology for point-to-multipoint distribution of high speed data. This latest offering, which will be completed by October using …

TORONTO, Ontario-Paging Network Inc. of Canada said it started service in Ottawa and Quebec City. The company first introduced one-way paging services April 1 in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. Toronto-based …

PARIS-Alcatel Telecom has signed a cooperative agreement with GE Americom. Alcatel said the agreement gives it the exclusive European distribution rights for the satellite data transmission services of the GE …

PCS eyes cable TV’s line Competitive times call for innovation. During the energy crunch of the mid-1980s, The Williams Cos. of Tulsa, Okla., wanted to take advantage of its unused …

Nokia Mobile Phones announced it has teamed with computer manufacturer Psion to enable wireless users to send and receive short messages over a Global System for Mobile communications-based PCS-1900 network …

ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. has signed agreements with Vanguard Cellular and Uplink Technologies Inc. to deploy Cellemetry. Cellemetry is BellSouth’s wireless data technology that enables alarm equipment to use the existing cellular …

After rescuing one of its core patents from bankruptcy court, Telular Corp. is charging back into the wireless data market with a new strategic alliance. The Buffalo Grove, Ill.-based company’s …

PCS eyes cable TV’s line Competitive times call for innovation. During the energy crunch of the mid-1980s, The Williams Cos. of Tulsa, Okla., wanted to take advantage of its unused …

A Canadian company believes it is backing a revolutionary antenna that will advance the wireless industry. “There is no antenna to outperform it currently,” said John Robertson, president of IAS …

Does anyone have any common sense any more? (And if they do, are they willing to auction it off to the highest bidder?) While the GOP-led Congress debates what to …

NEW YORK-Measures of Olympic proportions undertaken by the heavyweights of industry have gone into developing the communications systems for the Summer Games, which begin July 19 in Atlanta. But amid …

NEW YORK-Electric utilities are taking a close look at wireless communications as a means to enhance revenues and operating efficiencies in their recently deregulated and competitive business environment. A variety …

WinStar Communications Inc. intends to acquire Milliwave L.P. and has signed definitive agreements that will allow it to manage Milliwave’s 38 GHz licenses until WinStar acquires the company next year. …

Casio PhoneMate Inc. has introduced a new product that combines an answering machine with Pager Link, a device that automatically calls a user’s pager whenever a new message is received …

TULSA, Okla.-Axcess Global Systems of Metairie, La., has selected SpaceCom Systems and its FM Cubed satellite technology to provide the backbone for the paging carrier’s new network of alphanumeric paging …

U.S. Robotics is mounting a three-pronged campaign for the emerging wireless data industry. The Skokie, Ill.-based company’s Mobile Communications division is a leader in PC Card modem technology with its …

Just when every conceivable type of transmission site on earth and in orbit seems to have been recruited for wireless telecommunications, the industry now is taking to the stratosphere with …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies announced a new addition to its current Cellular Digital Packet Data system that enables cellular operators to cost-effectively offer data transmission service wherever voice service is …

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-Lotus Development Corp. announced a new version of its Lotus Notes Pager Gateway, a wireless messaging solution for Lotus Notes that allows customers to filter and forward messages to …

CHICAGO-After an inauspicious debut that sent it back to rehearsals, the latest wireless extravaganza from Motorola Inc. is ready to return to prime time. The Schaumburg, Ill., telecommunications equipment giant …

LITTLE CHUTE, Wis.-Airadigm Communications, which holds C-block personal communications services licenses in 13 basic trading areas comprising most of Wisconsin and part of Iowa, announced it has selected Global System …

NEC Corp. of Tokyo has launched its new GSM phone in Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, with plans to expand sales and sell a million units during the first …

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. has launched commercial Circuit Data Service in 35 new markets. CDS is now available to more than 70 percent of AT&T’s cellular coverage area, according to …

NEW YORK-PageMart Wireless Inc., a Dallas-based wireless messaging company ranked among the largest in the nation, went public June 13 with the sale of six million shares of common stock …