Business Summary
TGNT is a full-service, integrated communications company that offers small and medium-sized business customers local, long-distance, high-speed data and dedicated Internet services over its Digital SmartWave(TM) local network. For the three months ended 3/99, revenues rose from $98 thousand to $1.5 million. Net loss rose from $38.6 million to $108.1 million. Results reflect the Co.'s first quarter of commercial communication services operations, offset by higher costs of network operations.
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Business Summary
Assoc. Group
trueposition.com
AGRPA engages in wireless communication services in the U.S and Mexico, radio broadcasting in OH, and retail art in NY. For the three months ended 3/31/99, revenues increased 48% to $10.9 million. Net loss totalled $87.4 million, up from $20.2 million. Revenues benefitted from Teligent, which launched commercial service in 1998. Higher loss reflects increased S/G/A expenses as a result of expenditures relating to the growth of Teligent's operations.
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TruePosition, Inc. and Shell Affiliate Announce Agreement
ERICSSON, TRUEPOSITION SIGN JOINT MARKETING AGREEMENT
TruePosition Releases series 2 Wireless Location System
TruePosition Releases TDMA Modules For Wireless Location System
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Wayne, PA, February 1, 1999 - TruePosition, Inc. announced today that it will release its series 2 TruePositionÒ Wireless Location System at the CTIA Wireless '99 convention in New Orleans. The series 2 System is an advanced hardware architecture designed to support all analog and digital air interface standards used by wireless carriers today.
The TruePosition Wireless Location System is designed to meet the requirements of the Federal Communications Commission's Wireless E-9-1-1 rules and other commercial location applications. The System, utilizing patented time difference of arrival (TDOA) algorithms, overlays existing wireless carrier networks and requires no changes to the existing wireless handset base of over 68 million subscribers.
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Under the agreement, Ericsson and TruePosition will work to accelerate the deployment of wireless location systems to support E-9-1-1 requirements and other commercial applications. The agreement initially focuses on Ericsson's TDMA/AMPS customers in the United States and Canada.
"Ericsson has impressed us with its Wireless Intelligent Network and Mobile Positioning Center technologies as a platform for supporting location-based applications," said Kent Sander, president and chief operating officer of TruePosition.
"After evaluating multiple network and handset location technologies, we concluded this joint effort will be the best approach for our large installed base of cell sites and wireless telephones," said Bo Dimert, president and chief executive officer, Ericsson Inc. "We think their system can best meet the requirements of the Federal Communications Commission's Wireless E-9-1-1 rules, as well as those of many service providers."
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Equiva Services LLC, an affiliate of Shell, and TruePosition, Inc. announced today they have signed an agreement to jointly develop and market location-based services and applications using
the TruePosition® Wireless Location System™. Under the agreement, the two
companies will combine their efforts to accelerate the deployment of
wireless location systems and related value-added applications across North
America for the motorist and the individual consumer.
To date, wireless location technology has been associated with the Federal
Communications Commission's mandate to locate wireless E9-1-1 callers.
However, both companies see a significant market opportunity in new
services, such as stolen vehicle recovery, automatic crash notification,
enhanced "concierge" information programs, and enhancements to the Shell
Motorist Club roadside assistance program.
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What is TruePosition Cellular Location System?
TruePositionTM is a hot new technology that can be used by cellular and PCS carriers to locate wireless telephones. Today, the only location information available about any telephone is the serving cell site, which can be an area ranging from 1/2 mile radius to over 20 miles. TruePosition can find a location to better than 500 feet most of the time.
TruePosition works by precisely timing the radio signals that are transmitted from the telephone to various cell sites. Then a technique known as Time Difference Of Arrival (or TDOA) is used to calculate a telephone's location, speed, and direction of travel.
TruePosition can be used by wireless carriers to provide location information to Emergency 911 operators, or for new wireless rate plans that can make a cellular telephone also work like a home cordless telephone, or for business services like Automatic Vehicle Location Systems.
TruePositions system architecture is closely analogous to a cellular/PCS architecture.
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ABSTRACT
Wireless location systems offer carriers the opportunity to enhance revenues, reduce unwanted costs, and meet public safety requirements. The primary applications include support for emergency 911 systems, support for arresting and prosecution fraud perpetrators, and location sensitive billing. Once a wireless location system has been built for any one major application, many incremental applications can be inexpensively added.
Trueposition system architecture (1.8MB)(After downloading, use space bar to run)
Keywords: cellular, mobile communication, location, time difference of arrival, TDOA, E911, billing systems, automatic vehicle location, fraud, applications
1. INTRODUCTION
In the old James Bond movies, they always had to put a special transmitter on the bad guy in order to track him. Today in real life, the cellular industry has its own version of the bad guys; these are fraudulent users and the transmitters that can be used to track them are the very cellular telephones that they have cloned. For this application and many others, wireless location systems are being developed for deployment over the next few years. These wireless location systems operate using the existing transmissions that cellular telephones already make.
There are various technologies in development for the location of cellular telephones; these are discussed in other articles and papers1. The most promising technology uses a time difference of arrival (TDOA) system to locate cellular telephones using the reverse control channel transmissions. This technology is capable of locating any existing analog cellular telephone (approximately 28 million in the U.S. alone, as of fall, 1995) and any dual mode digital cellular telephone. There are also handheld location systems that use direction finding to track telephones using the reverse voice channel transmissions when someone is engaged in a conversation. The TDOA technology permits carriers to automatically locate any cellular telephone to within a few hundred feet; in cases where accuracy to tens of feet is required, the carrier can send a search team out with one of the handheld units.
2. APPLICATIONS
Location systems for wireless telephones offer a key benefit for carriers. Carriers considering the addition of a location system to their network must find applications that offset the expense of installation and operation of the system. Fortunately, there are several applications that alone provide sufficient value to the carrier to justify the expense of installing the location system. In addition, once the location system has been installed for any one application, and the expense of operation covered, it is available for many incremental applications. The following applications seem to hold the most promise:
Emergency Management
Fraud Management
Location Sensitive Billing
Vehicle and Fleet Management
Inventory/Package Monitoring
Wireless System Design
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