Monthly Archives: October, 1995

POLICYMAKERS PONDER HOW PCS WILL FIT INTO TELECOM BIG PICTURE

WASHINGTON-The regulatory environment for personal communications services is still evolving as policymakers try to determine how next-generation pocket telephone systems fit into a telecommunications...

PLAYING FIELD IS NOT LEVEL FOR SMALL SMR BUSINESS

Editor's Note: This letter was sent to several U.S. Congressmen by the owners of Americell Communications.To the Editor: Americell Communications is a medium- to small-sized specialized...

D.C. NOTEBOOK

If the Federal Communications Commission were eliminated, as some self-proclaimed know-it-alls advocate, who would figure out how the nation's 4 million hearing aid wearers...

THE WORLD

Telemac Cellular Corp. agreed to license its patent-pending debit technology to Trimax Inc. of Taiwan. Trimax will use the technology to manufacture a switch...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Specialty Teleconstructors Inc. announced its purchase of Orlando Tower Service Inc., an Orlando, Fla.-based builder of transmitting and receiving facilities for wireless telecommunications providers....

AUCTION DELAYED

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati last week stayed the entrepreneur block auction for broadband personal communications services licenses...

PEPSI-COLA IMPLEMENTING A WIRELESS ORDER SYSTEM FOR ITS FIELD SALES PEOPLE

ATLANTA-Pepsi-Cola Allied Bottlers Inc. has selected Norand Corp., Racotek Inc. and RAM Mobile Data USA L.P. to establish a wireless data communications solution for...

TIME WARNER CLAIMS U S WEST USED DEAL TO STOP PCS ALLIANCE

Stung by a Sept. 22 lawsuit from its erstwhile strategic partner U S West Inc., Time Warner Inc. shot back with its own bitter...

REPLACEMENT HANDSETS BRING NEW OPPORTUNITY TO CELLULAR MARKETPLACE

WHEATON, Md.-Replacement sales of cellular phones has emerged as a key market segment, yielding profit opportunities, according to market research analyst Herschel Shosteck Associates...

APC ATTACKS TOWER SITING SPATS BY PLAYING ITS TECHNOLOGY CARDS

American Personal Communications has cracked a deal with Baltimore Gas & Electric that will allow APC to put full-sector antenna configurations on electric transmission...

N.Y. TOWER FIGHT FINISHED

The summer's battle between the adjoining New York cities of White Plains and North Castle has ended, with the state Supreme Court ruling in...

NOT ALL MICROWAVE INCUMBENTS ARE ONEROUS ABOUT RELOCATIONS

While some microwave incumbents are being unreasonable, others are negotiating fairly, reaching agreements and making plans to move their microwave links from the 2...

UBIQUITY HAS ARRIVED!

No, I'm not saying personal communications services are here yet. Obviously they're not. But, by any reasonable standard, Ubiquity-anytime, anywhere communications-is already here, delivered...

PCS PLAYERS MIGHT BE LET DOWN BY ACTUAL PICTURE OF THE MARKET

Personal communications services developers-both veterans and rookies-are preparing to gorge themselves on the mass market for anytime, anywhere communications. It certainly is a time...

INTERNATIONAL PHS GROUP READY TO SPREAD TECHNOLOGY IN ORIENT

The prime movers behind the recent rollout of Personal Handyphone System services in Japan are not losing any time promoting the digital technology in...

VLSI CHIPSET OFFERING PROVIDES DESIGN SOLUTION FOR DEVELOPERS

VLSI Technology Inc. is bolstering its modem chipset offerings with a complete reference design solution to enable developers to quickly enter the market for...

FCC SAYS TDS IS ELIGIBLE TO BE CELLULAR LICENSEE

CHICAGO-Telephone and Data Systems Inc. and its subsidiary, United States Cellular Corp., announced that a Federal Communications Commission administrative law judge issued a ruling...

WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY TO IMPACT LEC LANDLINE TELECOM BUSINESS

Wireless technologies are critical to introducing true competition into the country's last bastion of telecommunications monopoly, according to market research by Action Information Services....

KOREA POSTPONES AWARD OF PCS UNTIL SPRING ’96

SEOUL, South Korea-The Republic of Korea has postponed selection of licensees for seven new telecommunications services including personal communications services, second-generation cordless telephony and...

NYNEX ENTERS CELLULAR VENTURE FOR GSM NETWORK IN INDONESIA

Nynex Corp., in its largest-ever international cellular venture, said it will become a 23 percent owner and the strategic operating partner in Excelcomindo, an...

GEOTEK TURNS ON NETWORK TO SERVE BOSTON MARKET

MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. said it has activated its third digital communications network in the United States. The system will serve the Boston metropolitan...

BROOKLINE SUPPORTS ADC IN SMR SYSTEM BUILDOUT

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Brookline Minerals Inc. announced it has funded Denver-based American Digital Communications Inc. for the construction of about 20 specialized mobile radio systems...

AUSTRIA LICENSING ON HOLD DUE TO GOVERNMENT CRISIS AS PARLIAMENT DISSOLVES

VIENNA, Austria-The licensing process for Austria's second digital wireless phone system has been put on hold temporarily due to the government crisis in that...

GLOBALSTAR SETS SITES ON AFRICA WITH 3 SEPARATE JOINT VENTURES

Globalstar L.P. has landed three separate agreements to deliver mobile satellite service in 18 African nations. The company expects its global roaming services will...

PCS FIRMS PREPARE FOR ROLLOUT, PLANS ARE BASED ON TECHNOLOGY

As the entrepreneurial block auctions for broadband personal communications services get underway this December, the first broadband PCS services also are scheduled to become...
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