Underlining how serious it is about its plan to offer a mobile telecommunications service using satellites to compete with terrestrial cellular networks (CI No 779), General Motors’ Hughes Aircraft has bought M/A-Com’s M/A-Com Telecommunications unit in Germantown, Maryland for $105m. The M/A-Com unit manufactures some of the satellite communications equipment that would be needed for […]
Underlining how serious it is about its plan to offer a mobile telecommunications service using satellites to compete with terrestrial cellular networks (CI No 779), General Motors’ Hughes Aircraft has bought M/A-Com’s M/A-Com Telecommunications unit in Germantown, Maryland for $105m. The M/A-Com unit manufactures some of the satellite communications equipment that would be needed for the proposed telephone network. The unit, which currently makes equipment for private line satellite nets, will be renamed Hughes Network Systems.
