September 1995

U.S. telecom companies have the chance to buy into one of Indonesia’s cellular operators, PT Telkomsel, which is seeking a strategic partner to help combat the $586 million investment Deutsche …

Reflection Technology Inc. said it has increased staffing in its engineering, marketing, finance and sales departments by 25 percent in anticipation of shipping its FaxView personal facsimile reader in this …

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint will unveil the first offering of its Total Number service to customers in the Las Vegas market. Total Number is a single number service which allows customers …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Kathy Maloney has been named director of the New Product and Service Development Lab at BellSouth Cellular Corp. Maloney previously was with IBM Corp. for more than 20 years, most …

Incidents of cloning fraud and associated revenue loss have dropped more than 80 percent in Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile’s cellular markets since the company started aggressively using personal identification numbers …

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 …

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 …

With the dramatic changes that are occurring in every sector of the telecommunications industry, analysts and investors on Wall Street and elsewhere are re-evaluating the industry, its sectors and its …

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 …

WASHINGTON-The GOP-led Congress this fall will tackle landmark budget and telecommunications bills as part of a legislative agenda so sweeping and historic in scope that the outcome may well determine …

WASHINGTON – The structure of the wireless telecommunications industry will be in a constant state of flux for the near future due to evolving regulatory, technological and economic changes, according …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Pilipino Telephone Corp. awarded Motorola Inc.’s International Cellular Infrastructure Division a $270 million contract to expand and enhance its Mobiline cellular phone system, said Motorola. The initial phase …

Olivetti SpA and Northern Telecom Ltd. have formed a joint venture to distribute and service Nortel telecommunications products in Italy. As part of the agreement, Nortel has acquired 49 percent …

On the eve of introducing a brand new wireless local loop product, Diva Communications Inc. already is placing a priority on forging strategic relationships in newly industrializing countries to jointly …

WASHINGTON-The government of Taiwan has licensed nine groups to operate CT2, second-generation cordless telephone service in the nation’s three telecommunications regions. Observers say it may give the operators a chance …

Solectek Corp. of San Diego offers a high-speed wireless bridge system that can link local area networks up to 25 miles apart in an ideal setting, or 7 miles apart …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Tonawanda, N.Y.-based Sinclabs, a division of Sinclair Technologies, announced its Excelsior antenna line, which consists of low band, 1/4 wave, 220 MHz, wideband UHF/VHF, cellular trunking, no ground plane and …