Yearly Archives: 1995

VANGUARD CELLULAR TO USE PRIORITY CALL'S PLATFORM

SAN FRANCISCO-Vanguard Cellular Inc. said its subscribers will now have the option to use a single number for all of their voice and fax...

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,...

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...

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...

AT&T INTRODUCES PHONE TARGETING MASS MARKET

SEATTLE-AT&T Wireless Services introduced a prepackaged phone that is available in stores and activated by calling a 1-800 number and receiving credit-card verification.The telephone...

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...

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...

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...

PCS OPERATORS MUST TAKE STEPS TO AVOID SYSTEM BUILDOUT SNAGS

As the first personal communications services system in the United States is preparing to launch service in the Baltimore/Washington D.C., area and the balance...

AMERICAN PAGING JOINING WITH CANADIAN COMPANY TO FORM CROSS-BORDER PCS

MINNEAPOLIS-American Paging Inc. has entered into a comprehensive agreement with Upper Canada Communications Group Inc. of Toronto to coordinate development and use of narrowband...

PCS PRIMECO MAKES CALL USING CDMA TECHNOLOGY ON 1900 MHZ SPECTRUM

DALLAS-PCS PrimeCo L.P. announced it has made the world's first wireless phone call on a carrier-based personal communications services system using Code Division Multiple...

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...

NEXTEL LAUNCHES SERVICE IN THE NEW ENGLAND AREA

RUTHERFORD, N.J.-Nextel Communications Inc. has launched digital service in parts of New England, expanding its Northeastern region to the metropolitan areas of Boston and...

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...

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...

AUDIOVOX TO DISTRIBUTE PHONES TO PCS PRIMECO

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Audiovox Cellular Communications received a 13-month contract to sell 500,000 cellular phones to PCS PrimeCo, the joint services organization of AirTouch Communications Inc.,...

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...

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...

MOTOROLA, TELULAR ENTER PREFERRED SUPPLIER DEAL

BUFFALO GROVE, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Network Ventures Division and Telular Corp. have signed an agreement allowing Telular to become a preferred supplier of fixed wireless...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...
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