Monthly Archives: July, 1995

INDEPENDENT NUMBERING COUNCIL WILL BE FORMED TO MONITOR POLICY

WASHINGTON-New telephone number policies embraced by federal regulators will benefit the wireless telecommunications industry, which accounts for two of every three new telephone numbers...

HUGHES WINS CONTRACT

Hughes Space and Communications International was selected by the International Mobile Satellite Organization's Inmarsat-P affiliate to build 12 satellites. The deal is valued at...

WESTLINK COMPLETES BUY OF OREGON PAGER BUSINESS

San Diego-Westlink Paging Inc. announced completing its acquisition of Telecomm Systems Inc., a Eugene, Ore., paging company. The purchase forms the nation's largest privately...

DATA COMING INTO ITS OWN

While voice transmissions over the cellular network have reached a certain degree of maturity in the marketplace, data transmissions continue to alternately attract and...

PAGEMART OFFERS SERVICE TO RBOC CELLULAR CLIENTS

DALLAS-PageMart Inc. said it will offer paging services to Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems under a strategic alliance.Under terms of the contract, Southwestern Bell Mobile...

CELLULAR INDUSTRY ON THRESHOLD OF ENTERING NEW ERA OF SERVICES

As a continuing national success story, the cellular telecommunications industry for 12 years has enjoyed phenomenal growth in a duopoly market-highlighted in 1994 by...

WESTERN WIRELESS SELECTS NORTEL PCS INFRASTRUCTURE

DALLAS-Northern Telecom Ltd. said it will provide Western Wireless with PCS 1900 personal communications services network equipment and services under terms of a multi-year...

GEOTEK GARNERS FINANCING FOR NETWORK ROLLOUT PLANS

MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. signed a purchase agreement relating to a private placement of $207 million principal amount of units consisting of 5-year zero...

GSM HEARING-AID DEBATE IGNITES INTO WAR

WASHINGTON-A religious war of biblical proportions has broken out in the nation's capital between the dueling digital technologies that will occupy the wireless lane...

HEAVY HITTERS PROPOSING GLOBAL LOW-EARTH SYSTEM WITH $9 BILLION PRICE TAG

WASHINGTON-A global wireless computer communications system proposed by Craig McCaw, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates and AT&T Corp. is a step closer to receiving...

INTERCEL INCREASES STAKE IN WINNING PCS LICENSEE THROUGH MERGER ACTIVITY

WEST POINT, Ga.-InterCel Inc. said it will increase its stake in Powertel PCS Partners L.P., a company that won broadband personal communications services licenses...

FCC DROPS DE BIDDING CREDITS FOR AUCTION

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt said the proposed removal of race- and gender-based bidding credits in next month's entrepreneur block auction for personal...

VIEWPOINT

All's fair in love and war.And wireless telecommunications competition is beginning to look like a battlefield. But not necessarily the "level" playing (battle)field government...

IMTA FORMED TO DEVELOP WORLDWIDE SMR INDUSTRY AS SISTER GROUP TO AMTA

WASHINGTON-The International Mobile Telecommunications Association has been formed to foster the development of specialized mobile radio service and related trade associations throughout the world.IMTA...

D.C. NOTEBOOK

Forget about the Tom and Wayne Show. Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association President Tom Wheeler and American Personal Communications Chairman Wayne Schelle stopped feuding a...

CELLULAR, LANDLINE SERVICE DEPLOYED ON ONE SWITCH

ONEONTA, Ala.-Cellular and landline telephone service has been deployed on a single switch in Oneonta, Ala., by AT&T Network Systems, the Oneonta Telephone Co....

PAGEMART HITS 1M UNITS TWO YEARS AHEAD OF GOAL

DALLAS-PageMart Inc. said it now has one million units in service, nearly two years ahead of its strategic business plan.The Dallas-based company launched service...

RBOCS PLAY `HURRY UP AND WAIT’ WHILE FEDS DABBLE WITH DETAILS

Just two months after U.S. District Court Judge Harold Greene ruled cellular affiliates of regional Bell operating companies would be eligible to provide long-distance...

GOP TRIES TO FREEZE FCC BUDGET AS AGENCY WORKS TO SHOW VALUE

WASHINGTON-GOP lawmakers have taken steps to freeze the Federal Communications Commission's budget next year at the current year's $186 million level, waiting until later...

GOP CONTINUES TELECOM REFORM EFFORTS IN SUMMER SESSION HEAT

WASHINGTON-The House GOP leadership's drive to make telecommunications reform legislation more deregulatory is not expected to threaten the antenna siting provision that wireless carriers...

THE RCR TOP 20 WIRELESS EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS

Editor's Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of the 20 largest wireless equipment dealers in the United States from survey...

ERICSSON INTRODUCES UPT FOR WORLDWIDE SERVICES

NEW YORK-Following a one-year system trial, Ericsson Inc. and Telenor AS (formerly Norwegian Telecom) implemented a Universal Personal Telecommunications system, providing users one personal...

TELULAR SEEKS FINANCIAL PARTNER FOR MERGER OR SALE OF COMPANY

Telular Corp. is seeking a strategic partner to help it take advantage of the burgeoning fixed wireless market worldwide and, eventually, the U.S. personal...

RAND MCNALLY LICENSES MTA DEFINITIONS TO FCC

WASHINGTON-The American Mobile Telecommunications Association announced signing an agreement with Rand McNally Corp. to allow the Federal Communications Commission to use Rand's proprietary major...

FCC SEEKS INDUSTRY CONSENSUS ON REVISING SMR AUCTION PLAN

WASHINGTON-American Mobile Telecommunications Association President Alan Shark said negotiations among business and government leaders could lead to a new 800 MHz specialized mobile radio...
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