Yearly Archives: 1995

BELLCO LIMITS CELLEMETRY TO 1 CARRIER PER MARKET TO ENCOURAGE APPLICATION

BellSouth Wireless Inc. is prodding other cellular carriers to adopt its Cellemetry wireless telemetry solution by announcing it will only license the technology to...

DC NOTEBOOK

As you no doubt are aware, particularly if you're one of the 800,000 federal government workers furloughed last week as the GOP Congress and...

DCR SIGNS WESTINGHOUSE IN $240 MILLION CONTRACT

BALTIMORE-Westinghouse Communications and Information Systems Co., a unit of Westinghouse Electric Corp., has signed a $240 million, seven-year services contract with DCR Communications Inc.The...

MOTOROLA EXPANDS SYSTEM WITH CDMA IN GUATEMALA

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Pan American Wireless Infrastructure Division will expand Comunicaciones Celulares' cellular phone system in Guatemala City and surrounding areas, Motorola announced.The...

SBC INTENDS TO BUNDLE CELLULAR WITH ITS LANDLINE SERVICE IN N.Y.

SBC Communications Inc. intends to offer wireline telephone service in the five cellular markets it owns in New York, but is keeping quiet about...

WORKSTATION INTRODUCED FOR WIRELESS OPERATORS FROM SUN MICROSYSTEMS

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-Sun Microsystems Computer Co. unveiled its Ultra workstation family, Ultra 1 and Ultra 2, designed to help cellular companies expedite cell site...

MCI INTRODUCES PACKAGE TO ASSIST PCS OPERATORS DEVELOP WIRELESS NETWORK

WASHINGTON-MCI Communications Corp. introduced a package of network design and operation services the company says will let any local operator build and run a...

MOBILEMEDIA AND AOL INK PAGING AGREEMENT

RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.-America Online users can send text messages directly to people who use MobileMedia Communications Inc.'s alphanumeric pagers, MobileMedia announced. MobileMedia said the...

CANADIAN COMPANY IS CLAIMING LICENSE TO OFFER PCS IN VIETNAM

A Canadian company said it has won approval to build a personal communications services network in Vietnam."We have a signed contract with Saigon PTS,...

AUCTION AT 37 GHZ?

Federal regulators are working on a plan to auction nearly 16,000 licenses for wireless infrastructure links in the 37 GHz and 39 GHz bands.The...

BELLS RECEIVE BETTER REPORT CARD IN SATISFYING CELLULAR CUSTOMERS

In an initial study of customer satisfaction among cellular telephone service consumers, J.D. Power and Associates found that local Bell telephone companies achieved higher...

CALENDAR

NOVEMBER20 PCS: Bringing It All Together, by Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association. Toronto Airport Hilton, Toronto. For information call (613) 233-4888 ext. 103.28-29 Expanding Wireless Marketplace,...

FLUOR DANIEL IS ASSISTING AIRWAVES WITH BUILDOUT

IRVINE, Calif.-U.S. AirWaves Inc. has hired Fluor Daniel Inc. to provide design, engineering, site selection, procurement, installation, program management and construction management services for...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Pantech Co. Ltd., a telecommunications manufacturer in Seoul, Korea, has entered into the North American market by joining forces with Kansas City, Mo.-based Monark...

IUSACELL CHARGES CARRIER WITH SUBSIDIZING TELCEL

MEXICO CITY-Grupo Iusacell S.A. de C.V. said it has filed a lawsuit against Telefonos de Mexico S.A. de C.V. and Radio Movil Dipsa, charging...

TOSHIBA TO HALT CELLULAR HANDSET BUSINESS IN U.S.

WAYNE, N.J.-Toshiba America Consumer Products said it will suspend Toshiba-brand cellular phone operations in the United States due to dropping phone prices and the...

NEARLY 400 PCS APPLICANTS FILE SHORT FORMS FOR C-BLOCK AUCTION

About 370 short-form applications were filed by deadline for the C-block personal communications services auction set to begin Dec. 11, but the federal government...

NOVEMBER

7-9 Wireless World Expo '95, by Intertec Publishing Corp. and E.J. Krause & Associates Inc. Moscone Center, San Francisco. For information call (301) 986-7800.7-9...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...
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