Monthly Archives: November, 1995

AMERITECH DEPLOYS CDPD IN ST. LOUIS METRO AREA

ST. LOUIS-Ameritech Corp. said it has deployed its wireless packet data service, based on the Cellular Digital Packet Data standard, in the St. Louis...

NIB DEVELOPS KIT TO TRACK CONSUMER CREDIT HISTORY

PRINCETON, N.J.-The National Information Bureau Ltd. said it has begun developing an on-line repository of business and consumer information that will allow cellular carriers...

NORCOM NETWORK AIMS FOR NICHE IN SEGMENTED TRUCKING INDUSTRY

While neophytes view the commercial vehicle industry as a homogeneous market, Norcom Networks Corp. sees a way to provide a high-speed, packet-data communications network...

D.C. NOTEBOOK

Publishing mogul Steve Forbes, the newest GOP contender for the White House, has chosen FCC Chairman Reed Hundt as a sparring partner to prepare...

FARQUHAR IS NAMED CHIEF OF FCC WIRELESS BUREAU, KEENEY WILL HEAD CCB

WASHINGTON-Michele Farquhar is leaving the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to return to the Federal Communications Commission as head of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau,...

FIRMS MUST GUARD USER RECORDS TO PROTECT PRIVACY ON INFOBAHN

WASHINGTON-Every time a paging or cellular phone signal is sent over the airwaves what happens with the transactional information-the subscriber's name, address, billing information...

PRODUCTS

Datum Inc.'s Timing Division announced the release of a small high-performance Global Positioning Satellite system receiver. Datum said the StarTime GPS Clock is designed...

60 MILLION PLUS PEOPLE WILL SUBSCRIBE TO CELLULAR BY 2000, EMCI PREDICTS

WASHINGTON-More than 60 million people in the United States will be cellular subscribers by the end of this century, Economic and Management Consultants International...

APCO COMPELS FCC TO DEFEND PUBLIC-SAFETY RELOCATION POLICY

WASHINGTON-While the Federal Communications Commission has attempted to avoid getting drawn into skirmishes involving the relocation of 2 GHz microwave users by personal communications...

REAL ESTATE COMPANIES PROVIDE DATA LINKS FOR NETWORK PLANNING

Land management firms view the construction of wireless networks as a landscape of opportunity for which they can supply quick lists of potential properties...

PREPAID CELLULAR PHONE TARGETS PEOPLE WITH POOR CREDIT HISTORY

These days cellular phones are sold just about everywhere you turn, even the drug store. However, it may not be so easy to buy...

SMALLER SMR OPERATORS PROTEST AUCTION WITH HELP OF CONGRESS

Several uncertainties face small specialized mobile radio operators in the future if spectrum above 860 MHz is auctioned off next year-a plan that has...

SMR INDUSTRY EXPECTED TO PASS 2M MARK IN ’95

WASHINGTON-The specialized mobile radio industry will surpass two million subscribers by the end of this year, according to a new survey of operators and...

COMPUTER MAPPING HELPS PLAN BETTER CELLULAR, PCS NETWORKS

Several companies are moving into the network planning business, ready to offer computer-based design expertise to new wireless operators and existing operators faced with...

LOW-TIER SYSTEMS GATHER SPEED IN RACE TO PROVIDE PCS SERVICE

Low-tier systems that bill themselves as "the way PCS was supposed to be" are entering the market with the hope of providing low-power, low-cost...

EC REQUESTS INCUMBENT CARRIER PAY SAME PRICE AS NEW ITALIAN OPERATOR

BRUSSELS, Belgium-The European Commission has asked the government of Italy to create a level playing field between two cellular operators competing in Italy's digital...

DECEMBER AUCTION SET TO START (AGAIN) AFTER RADIOFONE TIFF

WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court has paved the way for the PCS entrepreneur block auction to begin Dec. 11, but bidding for 493 next-generation pocket telephone...

COMPANY INTRODUCES SOFTWARE FOR TRANSMITTING WIRELESS DATA

Photographs and medical data now can be sent on existing POCSAG paging networks to portable devices using a technology developed by Data Critical Corp.Data-Through-Paging...

SCOTT JOINS FLASH COMM

Flash Comm Inc. has named former Paging Network Inc. chief executive officer Terry Scott its president and CEO.Flash Comm, headquartered in Melbourne, Fla., offers...

AIRTOUCH POSTS EARNINGS OF $46 MILLION IN PERIOD

SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Communications Inc. posted $46.7 million, or 9 cents earnings per share, net income for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, compared with...

PCS HOPEFUL GO CHOOSES SIEMENS TO MANUFACTURE HANDSETS, ACCESSORIES

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-GO Communications Corp. has selected Siemens Wireless Terminals Division, a division of Siemens Rolm Communications, as its primary personal communications services handset and...

HYUNDAI ENTERS ALLIANCE WITH U.S. AIRWAVES INC.

MILPITAS, Calif.-Hyundai Electronics America announced it has partnered with U.S. AirWaves Inc. to build a nationwide personal communications services network.The agreement includes the opportunity...

IN-BUILDING COVERAGE IS BREAKING NEW GROUND IN CELLULAR INDUSTRY

Two kinds of private, in-building wireless systems are seeking the attention of today's large business customers-stand-alone systems that provide portable extensions of employee desk...

THE WORLD

Motorola Inc.'s North Asia Cellular Infrastructure Division has signed an agreement with the China Directorate General of Telecommunications and L.M. Ericsson to interconnect the...

ITA OFFERING INFORMATION TO SMR AUCTION BIDDERS

WASHINGTON-The Industrial Telecommunications Association said it is offering strategic 900 MHz specialized mobile radio incumbent reports to bidders for the 1,020 SMR licenses that...
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