Monthly Archives: September, 1995

CELCORE FOCUS ON ARCHITECTURE DISTINGUISHES IT FROM THE PACK

Riding the "third wave" of the cellular industry, Memphis, Tenn.-based Cellcore is gaining ground as a wireless supplier, focusing on three key areas: cellular and...

MOBILECOMM SET TO OFFER READYTALK IN MARKETS

RIDGELAND, Miss.-MobileComm, the paging subsidiary of BellSouth Corp., and ReadyCom Inc. have entered an agreement whereby MobileComm plans to offer ReadyTalk service in its...

PRESSLER SEEKS TO AUCTION HDTV AS PART OF EFFORT TO RAISE $14B

WASHINGTON-Congress' desire to raise $14 billion over the next seven years from expanded spectrum auctions has turned into a fierce debate about whether that...

AT&T, MOTOROLA SHARE CONTRACT FOR PRIMECO’S $1 BILLION SYSTEM

PCS PrimeCo L.P. has chosen AT&T Network Systems Inc. and Motorola Inc. to be equipment manufacturers for its nationwide personal communications services network.AT&T and...

PEOPLE

Kathy Maloney has been named director of the New Product and Service Development Lab at BellSouth Cellular Corp. Maloney previously was with IBM Corp....

D.C. NOTEBOOK

I hereby nominate NBC President Robert Wright official spokesman of the cellular telephone industry. That's right, the same Bob Wright who warned lawmakers on...

MCI PROTESTS INVESTMENT IN SPRINT BY FOREIGNERS, CITING UNFAIR COMPETITION

WASHINGTON - MCI Communications Corp. filed with the Federal Communications Commission protesting a proposed investment by France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom AG in rival...

CZECH REPUBLIC TO ISSUE TENDER FOR SECOND GSM CELLULAR SYSTEM

The Czech Economics Ministry is firming its plans to issue a tender for companies interested in becoming partners in one of two groups that...

GLENAYRE SAYS FINANCIALS CREDIT TO WORLD ACTIVITY

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Ray Ardizzone pointed to activity in both domestic and foreign markets as responsible for the...

SMR AUCTION RULES COMPLETE

Federal regulators late last week approved final rules for the 900 MHz specialized mobile radio service auction on Nov. 28.The Federal Communications Commission said...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RCR Publications welcomes letters to the editor responding to articles and commentary presented in the newspaper or stating opinions on other topics relevant to...

THE WORLD

Beijing Nokia Mobile Telecommunications Ltd. has received a contract from the Zhejiang Post and Telecommunications Administration to supply a digital cellular network to the...

FCC TO SELL FREE-USE SPECTRUM, FIRST EFFORT TO PRIVATIZE INDUSTRY

WASHINGTON-Is this the future?The Progress & Freedom Foundation, the libertarian think tank of House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., that wants to abolish the Federal...

WESTERN WIRELESS PICKS PCS NETWORK ENGINEER

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Western Wireless Corp. has selected California Microwave Inc. as a contractor of microwave radio and engineering services for its personal communications services network.California...

SEATTLE COMPANY TO BUY CEL-TECH INTERNATIONAL, AN AT&T CELLULAR RESELLER

SEATTLE-Midcom Communications Inc. intends to acquire all the outstanding securities of Cel-Tech International Corp. of Bellevue, Wash., in exchange for about 142,000 shares of...

EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO STUDY EFFECTS OF MSS ON COMPETITION

BRUSSELS-The European Commission is investigating three consortia building mobile satellite systems to guage the effect those global systems will have on future competition in...

VEBA, CABLE & WIRELESS JOINT VENTURE IS APPROVED

BRUSSELS-The European Commission has approved the formation of two joint ventures by the German energy company Veba AG and London-based Cable & Wireless plc.The...

ERICSSON SNAGS CONTRACT FOR $60M TO IMPLEMENT TDMA/AMPS IN MALAYSIA

STOCKHOLM-Malaysian cellular operator Mobikom Sdn Bhd has placed an order with L.M. Ericsson, valued at $60 million, to expand its Mobifon 800 Time Division...

DATA TRANSFER SYSTEM PROVIDES WIRELESS NETWORK COMPATIBILITY

Padcom Inc. has developed a point-to-multipoint, transparent wireless data transfer system that the company says can overcome technical incompatibilities in wireless data systems and...

NTIA DEFENDS ROLE AS CONGRESS MULLS GIVING COMMERCE THE AX

WASHINGTON-William Roth, R-Del., chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, will offer legislation this week or next to abolish the agency that advises the...

D.C. NOTEBOOK

I recently read an interview with economist Paul Romer by Peter Robinson in a back issue of Forbes ASAP, the high-tech supplement to the...

NATIONWIDE SET TO MEET ON PROPOSED MCI MERGER

VALLEY STREAM, N.Y.-Nationwide Cellular Service Inc. has scheduled a special meeting of its stockholders for Sept. 19 to vote on the proposed merger of...

THE NATION

Westlink Paging has acquired the assets of Telecomm Systems Inc., a paging firm based in Portland, Ore., representing 85,000 additional paging units in Oregon,...

PRICELLULAR SELLING NOTES TO INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR

NEW YORK-PriCellular Corp. announced it entered into an agreement to sell about $60 million aggregate principal amount of PriCellular's senior subordinated convertible discount notes...

POWERTEL CHOOSES GSM FOR PCS NETWORK, SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH INTERCEL

WEST POINT, Ga.-Powertel PCS Partners L.P. has selected Global System for Mobile communications technology for the personal communications services network that will be built...
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