Yearly Archives: 1995

METROCALL’S BROCK FILES LAWSUIT IN DISPUTE OVER HIS ROLE IN FIRM

After a majority vote Aug. 2 by Metrocall Inc.'s board of directors not to reappoint Harry L. Brock Jr. as president of the company,...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

The Intercarrier Service Bureau of GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. and Radio Shack have teamed up to offer consumers out-of-market cellular network activation, GTE announced....

CALENDAR

AUGUST21-22 Cyberspace and the American Dream II, by The Progress & Freedom Foundation. Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Aspen, Colo. For information call Katherine Epler at (202)...

CELLAIR SAVER OFFERS ALTERNATIVE TO ACCESSING CELLULAR NETWORKS

A small Colorado company has reduced the cost of an average cellular call to the price point of a soda.CellAir Saver is an alternative...

PRODUCTS

Motorola Inc.'s Land Mobile Products Sector introduced the MCS 2000 line of mobile radios. The radios are built on a flexible platform that the...

TAIWAN COMPANY LICENSED TO USE TELEMAC PRODUCT

DANVILLE, Calif.-Telemac Cellular Corp. said it has agreed to license its patent-pending debit technology to Trimax Inc. of Taiwan.The contract allows Trimax to manufacture...

THE NATION

Noting the Federal Communications Commission recently ended state regulation of cellular service rates in California, AirTouch Cellular Communications Inc. announced lower prices and new...

WITH UNIQUE HYBRID TECHNOLOGY, OMNIPOINT PLANS TO PLAY IN PCS

Omnipoint Corp. is one among a handful of PCS innovators promised a reward by the Federal Communications Commission for enterprising work in personal communications...

INSIDE RCR: MUSICAL CHAIRS PAGE 3

George Schmitt jumped ship as PCS PrimeCo L.P. leader to join the personal communications services team at Omnipoint Communications Inc. Schmitt will be its...

PEOPLE

PriCellular Corp. has appointed Mary Tavernini as director of sales and marketing for Cellular One of the upper peninsula of Michigan. She formerly worked...

PAGENET WILL PURCHASE CELPAGE FOR $7.5M CASH

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. expects to gain 8,000 paging subscribers through a $7.5 million cash purchase of Celpage Inc., as specified in definitive agreements between...

ISRAELI INVESTOR INCREASES ITS EQUITY STAKE IN GEOTEK

MONTVALE, N.J.-Israel-based RDC-Rafael Development Corp. said it will exchange its interest in PowerSpectrum Technology Ltd. for 1.8 million shares of common stock of Geotek...

REFARMING HITS EARLY PROBLEMS; FCC, INDUSTRY TRY TO HASH IT OUT

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's effort to promote narrowband technologies in congested private wireless bands below 800 MHz by adopting flexible channeling schemes and market-driven...

FCC ATTEMPTS TO MEND FENCES WITH PUBLIC-SAFETY COMMUNITY

WASHINGTON-The federal government is trying to mend its rocky relationship with the public-safety community, following a series of flare-ups between the two during the...

SBC BUYS EQUITY IN MTN TO OBTAIN CELLULAR ACCESS IN SOUTH AFRICAN MARKET

SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. said it will enter South Africa's cellular communications market through an equity investment in MTN, one of the country's two...

SCHMITT VACATING PRIMECO POST FOR OMNIPOINT, SCOTT TAKES JOB

Kicking off a game of wireless executive leapfrog, George F. Schmitt jumped ship from PCS PrimeCo L.P. to join the personal communications services team...

HANDHELD PORTABLE GETS TYPE APPROVAL FROM FCC

MOUNTLAKE TERRACE, Wash.-SEA Inc. said the Federal Communications Commission has type accepted the SEA700 hand-held portable transceiver for use in the new 220-222 MHz...

SATELLITE-BASED DISPATCH RADIO SERVICE ANNOUNCED SERVING ENTIRE CONTINENT

RESTON, Va.-American Mobile Satellite Corp. has introduced Skycell Satellite Dispatch Service, a digital point-to-multipoint broadcast system that can operate throughout North America, Hawaii, Alaska,...

AUSTRALIA’S STANILITE IS TARGETING SMALL MUNICIPALITIES FOR WIRELESS

An 18-year-old Australian emergency lighting systems manufacturer plans to beam into the global, wireless communications marketplace with products company leaders say are ideal for...

PAGEMART SELECTS SUN FOR NETWORK COMPUTING

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-PageMart Inc. has selected Sun servers, from Sun Microsystems Co., as the network computing platform for a new corporate information system that...

CELLSTAR SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH INDIAN CELLULAR FIRM TO SELL SERVICE IN CALCUTTA

DALLAS-CellStar Corp. has signed an agreement with Usha Martin Telekom Ltd. that will allow a CellStar joint venture company to sell cellular phone service...

CONGRESS PONDERS SPECTRUM POLICY

WASHINGTON-Congress is studying different approaches to spectrum reform in light of the $14 billion that lawmakers and the Clinton administration hope to extract from...

NDC TO PROVIDE GATEWAY FOR INTERNATIONAL ROAMING BETWEEN U.S. AND EUROPE

SAN DIEGO-The National Dispatch Center Inc. said it will provide international call routing for GlobalRoam, the international cellular roaming service scheduled to be introduced...

RCR TOP 20 MOBILE SATELLITE CARRIERS

Editor's Note: The RCR research and editorial departments have compiled this list of mobile satellite carriers based on survey responses and interviews with industry contacts....

CELLULAR SPINOFF STRATEGIC MOVE TO SHOWCASE SPRINT PCS NAME

As major service providers work to gain position for the coming pocket-phone revolution, Sprint Corp. is letting loose of its cellular holdings in order...
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