September 1995

Nearly half of the 20 companies holding licenses for broadband personal communications services have made firm technology decisions, but others continue the difficult task of weighing options. “It is like …

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 to a new study from Northern …

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 from central North Carolina to central …

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 of the cost of full two-way …

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 states. Agents targeted people using the …

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 Information. Cellular service market analyses and …

American Paging Inc. is restructuring three of its key operating areas – sales and marketing, administration and customer service – to achieve an improved customer mix, reduced administrative costs and …

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 an entrepreneur auction. If the …

For more than 30 years, microwave communications systems have been used by utilities, oil and gas pipeline companies, railroads and municipalities to provide basic services to the American public including …

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 we now?” held in conjunction with …

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 to form an alliance to develop …

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 50 markets throughout the country. With …

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 to industry analysts. Being able to …

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 about publicly traded telecommunications companies …

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 products. The 38 GHz technology has …

ierre Dogan, David Patton and Ray Nettleton Two observations can be drawn from the recent personal communications services license auctions. First, PCS participants are willing to assume enormous financial risk, …

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 be offered to customers in metropolitan …

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 the option of being reached …

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 FCC would receive help in the …

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 the sale of more personal communications …

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 networks. “We’ve pioneered a product that …

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 Argentina-South America’s second largest country. While …

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

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

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, the low-power, microcellular PACS Edge …