Yearly Archives: 1995

THE WORLD

Olivetti SpA and Northern Telecom Ltd. have formed a joint venture to distribute and service Nortel telecommunications products in Italy. As part of the...

HILL HEATING UP AS TELECOM BATTLE BREWS

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...

EAST COAST FIGHTS PHONE FRAUD WITH BELL ATLANTIC NYNEX MOBILE

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...

PCS REALITY DELAYED, MANY HURT BY GREED OF SOME INCUMBENTS

Hindsight is best. Had I been able to anticipate what I call the Greed Factor-the behavior of a growing number of microwave incumbents in...

GLENAYRE DELIVERS PRODUCT FOR EX PANSION IN THAILAND

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Shinawatra Paging of Thailand has chosen Glenayre Technologies Inc. to supply infrastructure equipment for the second phase of its system expansion.Glenayre said it...

ASIAN MARKET TRANSMITTER IS INTRODUCED BY GLENAYRE

GENEVA-Glenayre Technologies Inc. has introduced a series of transmitters specifically designed for operation in Asia's 280 to 320 MHz band.The transmitters, GL-T8521 and GL-T8321,...

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...

SEPTEMBER

20-21 Wireless Telecom Values & Finance, by Kagan Seminars. Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. For information call Kristen Roelofs at (408) 624-1536.20-23 PCS '95, by...

NAWI CHOOSES UTILITY COMPANY TO TAKE CABLE & WIRELESS’ SPOT

North American Wireless Inc. has yet to announce the name of a U.S. utility company expected to take the place of Cable & Wireless...

AT&T ENTERS BRAZILIAN RELATIONSHIP TO PROVIDE CELLULAR SERVICE TO NATION

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil-AT&T Corp. and two prominent Brazilian groups are forming a joint venture to pursue wireless telecommunications opportunities in Brazil. The Bradesco...

BOGOTA’S PAGING SYSTEM COURTESY OF NSN NETWORK

BOGOTA, Colombia-NSN Network Services Ltd. said it installed Colombia's nationwide satellite paging system for Vipertronic of Bogota.Vipertronic will provide local and national paging services...

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...

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...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

ProNet Inc. signed letters of intent to acquire four paging operations for a combined purchase price of $20.2 million. ProNet said it plans to...

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...

PCS TRAILBLAZERS TAKE ON RISKS FOR CHANCE AT BOUNTIFUL MARKET

ierre Dogan, David Patton and Ray Nettleton Two observations can be drawn from the recent personal communications services license auctions. First, PCS participants are...

CELLULAR LINKING BRINGS ADVERTISERS IN CONTACT WITH MOBILE CONSUMERS

CHICAGO-Cellular Linking, an airtime free service for cellular users, has been launched by Jeman Communications as an interactive advertising service. The company said the...

PARIS BUS COMPANY USES GPS TO HELP TRACK VEHICLE LOCATIONS

A French transportation company is using global positioning system technology to track the locations of its busiest buses, which not only helps dispatchers do...

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...

QUALCOMM AND SCT JOINTLY TEST TECHNOLOGY IN PCS BASE STATION

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and Superconducting Core Technologies Inc. have completed the first field test of a cryoelectronic base station receiver for personal communications services.The...

KEY FINISHES AGREEMENTS WITH DENVER BUSINESSES MOBILE ONE, OMNI RANGE

AURORA, Colo.-Key Communications Group Inc. said it completed agreements with Denver-based specialized mobile radio companies Mobile One Communications and Omni Range Communications LLC.Key Communications,...

MOTOROLA AND CNBC JOIN TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL NEWS IN WIRELESS SERVICE VENUE

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc.'s Embarc Communication Services division and CNBC have formed a 10-year, multimillion dollar alliance in which the companies will develop and...

FONTES HEADS DELEGATION TO WRC-95 CONFERENCE, REPLACING ILL MIKE SYNAR

WASHINGTON-Brian Fontes has been named head of the United States delegation at the Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva next month.Fontes, senior vice president for policy...

MOTOROLA CONTRACTS FLEX FOR TWO CLIENTS IN CHINA

HONG KONG-Two Chinese paging operators have chosen Motorola Inc. to provide a paging network using the Illinois-based company's high-speed FLEX paging protocol.Chinese paging provider...

MISSISSIPPI 2 ACQUISITION IS COMPLETED BY CENTURY

MONROE, La.-Century Telephone Enterprises Inc. said it completed its acquisition of the Mississippi 2 rural service area nonwireline cellular operation. The RSA is located...
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