Monthly Archives: September, 1995

PICKING PROPER PCS TECHNOLOGY IS WEIGHTY CHOICE FOR OPERATORS

Nearly half of the 20 companies holding licenses for broadband personal communications services have made firm technology decisions, but others continue the difficult task...

WORLD CELLULAR EQUIPMENT RISES TO $14.4 BILLION IN 1994 SALES

The world cellular equipment market, including both switching and base station equipment, totaled $14.4 billion in 1994 with plenty of growth still ahead, according...

BELLSOUTH MOBILITY SELLS MARKETS TO ALLTEL MOBILE

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-With its most recent acquisition, Alltel Mobile Communications of the Carolinas Inc. said it will be able to provide continuous cellular coverage...

AMERICAN MESSAGING COMPETES WITH TWO-WAY PAGING CAPABILITY

Paging operators using an Israeli technology can plug a spread-spectrum return path into their present systems to facilitate low-end, two-way paging at a fraction...

SECRET SERVICE ATTACKS CELLULAR FRAUD AT SOURCE, STOPS COMPUTER HACKERS

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Secret Service arrested six alleged computer hackers and seized more than 20 computer systems during an undercover fraud investigation that encompassed seven...

GROWTH SPREADS IN ASIA-PACIFIC, MARKET WILL CLIMB TO 30 MILLION

NEW YORK-The Asia-Pacific cellular market is expected to hold 30 million subscribers by 1998, according to a new market research study from Northern Business...

AMERICAN PAGING RESTRUCTURES UNITS TO INCREASE ITS CASH FLOW

American Paging Inc. is restructuring three of its key operating areas - sales and marketing, administration and customer service - to achieve an improved...

VIEWPOINT

The wireless industry is certainly capturing a few people's attention these days.The House has designed legislation that would supersede arguments on the legalities of...

PCS SHOULD JUST GIVE RELOCATION A FAIR CHANCE, SAY INCUMBENTS

For more than 30 years, microwave communications systems have been used by utilities, oil and gas pipeline companies, railroads and municipalities to provide basic...

SBPCS GROUP SCHEDULES A MEETING DURING PCIA

PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif.-The Small Business PCS Association announced it will hold a national meeting with the theme "Small Business PCS (personal communications services)-Where are...

PRINCE AND SKYTEL AGREE TO FORM BUSINESS ALLIANCE

JACKSON, Miss.-Prince, the Holland, Mich., supplier of automotive interior systems, and SkyTel Corp., the Jackson, Miss., wireless messaging service provider, said they have agreed...

SKYTEL LAUNCHES SERVICE IN MARKETS ACROSS U.S.

True to its claim that it would launch two-way paging by mid-year, SkyTel Corp. is turning on commercial service Sept. 19 in 30 to...

COMPETITION AND SAFETY AMONG MERITS OF VOICE RECOGNITION USE

Fueled by increasing safety concerns and customer demand, the cellular market has become the fastest-growing segment for speech-recognition use in the United States, according...

AIRTOUCH RECEIVES HIGH RATING BECAUSE OF ITS DIVERSIFICATION

Editor's Note: The following information is from a Smith Barney Inc. analysis released Aug. 9. From time to time, RCR prints investment opinions and summaries...

38 GHZ TECHNOLOGY GETS CHANCE TO PROVE ITS PURPOSE WITH PCS

The latest step in the continuing march toward ever higher radio frequencies, 38 GHz point-to-point digital services, is providing a set of interesting, unique...

PCS TRAILBLAZERS TAKE ON RISKS FOR CHANCE AT BOUNTIFUL MARKET

ierre Dogan, David Patton and Ray Nettleton Two observations can be drawn from the recent personal communications services license auctions. First, PCS participants are...

NTT, ACCESSLINE TO OFFER A SINGLE-NUMBER SERVICE

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. and AccessLine Technologies Inc. have formed a joint venture to deliver AccessLine's single-number service in Japan. It will...

AT&T WIRELESS SERVICES ANNOUNCES PASSENGER GROUND-TO-AIR CAPABILITY

SEATTLE-The Aviation Communications Division of AT&T Wireless Services announced the domestic offering of new ground-to-air service on its all-digital, inflight telecommunications system."Consumers now have...

FINDER’S PREFERENCE PLAN FACES A SHAKY FUTURE AT COMMISSION

When the Federal Communications Commission began the "finder's preference" program late in 1991, it was hailed by the industry as a win-win situation. The...

CONGRESS INTERVENES ON AUCTION TO TRY ENSURE IT IS HELD THIS YEAR

WASHINGTON-Congress, in a move that has raised constitutional questions, is pushing legislation that would end entrepreneur block auction litigation and open the way for...

AIR COMMUNICATIONS INTRODUCES ALL-IN-ONE CELLULAR BUSINESS TOOL

Air Communications Inc. has unveiled an all-in-one cellular voice-data-facsimile telephone called the AirCommunicator that uses a proprietary protocol to transmit on circuit-switched analog cellular...

SATELLITE-CELLULAR TECHNOLOGY MIX USED IN CTI SYSTEM IN ARGENTINA

Scientific-Atlanta Inc. will supply its Skylinx.DDS Digital DAMA telephony system to help create a network to support cellular satellite communications in the interior of...

FRANCE TELECOM, TELINFO GROUP SCORES GSM LICENSE IN BELGIUM

Mobistar, a partnership of Belgian telecommunications manufacturer Telinfo and France Telecom Mobile International, won the second license to operate a Global System for Mobile...

APC RELATES STRUGGLES, TRIUMPHS AS IT BRINGS PCS TO WASHINGTON

The road to launching the first commercial personal communications services network in the United States, which American Personal Communications plans to do this fall,...

TRIO CLAIMS PACS EDGE DELIVERS WIRELINE QUALITY SOUND SOLUTION

Yet another wireless technology is knocking on the door of the U.S. personal communications services marketplace, with the promise of wireline quality voice service.Actually,...
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