MOTOROLA UPDATES MULTIPLE-USE PHONE TECHNOLOGY.Byline: James Webb James Webb or Jim Webb may refer to: Politics
Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Motorola Inc. on Monday announced its reworked iDEN technology, which offers cellular phone, paging and two-way radio A voice network that provides an always-on connection enabling the user to just "push the button and talk." Also called "dispatch radio," two-way radio has traditionally been used by police, fire, taxi and other mobile fleets. communications in a single handset. The company said it had worked the bugs out of earlier technology and is selling about $100 million worth of the equipment to Nextel Communications Nextel Communications, styled NEXTEL, (Former NASDAQ: NXTL) which is now known as the Sprint Nextel Corporation was a telecommunications firm based in the United States. Known for providing a nation-wide mobile communications system. Inc., which will pitch the service to business users. Motorola owns about 24 percent of Nextel. Motorola introduced iDEN - which stands for integrated dispatch enhanced network - in 1994, but it was hampered by complaints about poor telephone sound quality and the size of the bulky handset. ``It just never took off, and I'm not sure that it was for any one reason,'' said analyst John Geraghty at CS First Boston in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . Software changes have made the sound quality comparable with that of digital cellular phones, Motorola officials said. The new i360 handset weighs 8.7 ounces, about half of the old handset, and measures 5-1/2 inches long and 2-1/4 inches wide. Slim, standard and extended life batteries are available. Daniel Ackerson, Nextel chairman and chief executive, described a scenario where an office machine repairman re·pair·man n. A man whose occupation is making repairs. Noun 1. repairman - a skilled worker whose job is to repair things maintenance man, service man would receive a page message on his phone in the morning, make a call to the customer, and then switch to radio service to talk with five other technicians. Ackerson said he was ``cautiously optimistic'' about tests of the system that Nextel has been running in five markets since last fall. |
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