Yearly Archives: 1995

GOVERNMENT PLAN SAYS ALL PCS WILL SHARE BURDEN OF RELOCATION

WASHINGTON-A government plan for personal communications services licensees to share microwave relocation costs has received qualified support from both carriers and fixed users, while...

SPRINT PCS VENTURE WILL DELIVER MESSAGING SERVICE VIA PAGENET

Sprint is the newest name in pag ing. Sound familiar? Yes, well that's the idea. Through a reseller agreement be tween Sprint Telecommunica tions...

LATIN CELLULAR GROWTH CONTINUES WITH PCS BUILDOUT COMING SOON

Large markets in Latin America are serving as test beds for a range of digital cellular and personal communications services standards, according to a...

THE WORLD

Comsearch announced it was awarded a contract from MRCB Telecommunications Sdn Bnd to license Comsearch microwave design engineering software. The software, called Interconnect, is...

ASIAN FIRMS ENTER PCS AUCTION AS INVESTORS IN U.S. COMPANIES

Lured by a chance to swim in the next wave of wireless telephony and reeled in by entrepreneurs casting about for financial support, some...

PAC BELL JOINS WITH IBM TO OFFER PCS MOBILE DATA

PLEASANTON, Calif.-Pacific Bell Mobile Services and IBM Corp. announced a joint marketing agreement to provide a mobile office solution that will allow people on...

DEALERS LOOK AT TELECOM FUTURE AND HOW NEW TECHNOLOGIES FIT

HUNT VALLEY, Md.-Private carriers are not the only entities wrestling with an uncertain competitive future. Dealers from large to small are wondering what role...

JAI BHAGAT

Over a cup of coffee one Saturday morning, Jai Bhagat decided to try his luck with a new spinoff company called Mtel. That was...

CRIMINAL CHARGES FILED AGAINST MAN IN CELLULAR EMULATION CASE

A federal case against a Kentucky man accused of creating cellular extension phones is expected to go to trial in what may be the...

CALENDAR

JANUARY5-8 1996 Winter International Consumer Electronics Show, by the Consumer Electronics Group of the Electronics Industry Association. Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas Hilton,...

C-BLOCK FIRMS (FINALLY) GET CHANCE TO BID

Unless there is court action, a government shutdown or some cataclysmic event, the auction of C-block broadband personal communications services licenses is scheduled to...

PRONET PAGING ACQUIRES APPLE, BEST PAGE ASSETS

DENVER-ProNet Inc. has acquired Apple Communication Inc. and the assets of Best Page Inc., announced Communications Equity Associates.Since 1993, ProNet has acquired 13 paging...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Palmer Wireless Inc. said it signed up its 200,000th cellular phone customer. Eight years ago, Palmer began operating its first cellular system in Fort...

AT&T, HEWLETT-PACKARD BUILDING OPEN PLATFORM FOR DATA TRANSMISSION

MORRISTOWN, N.J.-AT&T Network Systems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. have signed an agreement to build an open software platform they will jointly market to telephone...

BIG LEO OPERATORS BIG WINNERS AT WRC CONFERENCE IN GENEVA

WASHINGTON-The United States had mixed success in securing more spectrum for next-generation global satellite systems at the World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva, an event...

NEW GSM MOU HEAD WILL WORK TO SPREAD STANDARD WORLDWIDE

The upcoming chairwoman of the GSM MoU Association is confident that Global System for Mobile communications technology will figure prominently in the U.S. personal...

BCI, TATA GROUP CLAIM INDIAN LICENSE TO OFFER GSM CELLULAR TELEPHONY

MONTREAL, Quebec-A consortium formed by Bell Canada International and the Tata Group of India has been offered a license by the government of India...

AT&T NAMES NEW HEADS FOR WIRELESS NETWORK UNIT, SET TO OFFER STOCK IN ’96

NEW YORK-AT&T Corp. appointed key executives to head its new $20 billion wireless equipment business, one of the three independent publicly traded companies AT&T...

TEXAS PAGING COMPANIES SEEK EQUITABLE ALLOTMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDS

AUSTIN, Texas-A group of paging carriers and resellers filed a lawsuit in Texas accusing the state of forcing wireless companies to contribute disproportionately to...

PCS AUCTION A `GO,’ RADIOFONE IS SUE REMAINS

WASHINGTON-Radiofone Inc., in what amounts to a new stay request, wants the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati to decide...

CZECH REPUBLIC BEGINS EFFORTS TO EXPAND WIRELESS COMPETITION

A total of 36 companies have declared interest in bidding for 49 percent of a wireless license offered by the Czech Republic, confirming the...

FORMER GTE CELLULAR CUSTOMERS CONTESTING CANCELLATION CLAUSE

Three Texas cellular customers have brought a class-action lawsuit against GTE Mobilnet, maintaining the company's $200 cancellation fee is an unfair penalty for discontinuing...

BRITE INKS PACT TO DELIVER CELLNET ADDED VOICE-MAIL

WICHITA, Kan.-Brite Voice Systems Inc. announced it has signed a contract to provide additional voice-mail capacity to Cellnet, a mobile communications network operator in...

DUTCH COMPANY OFFER `MAXERS’ TO INCORPORATE PAGING, INTERNET

A private Dutch company has combined traditional paging with high-tech messaging to produce "Maxing," an advanced wireless service that Eindhoven-based CallMax bv hopes to...

NEW FCC ANTENNA RULES TRANSFER RESPONSIBILITIES FROM LICENSEES

WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission last week approved streamlined antenna structure registration procedures that make owners rather than licensees primarily responsible for complying...
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