January 1996

A U.S. battery manufacturer has announced it will produce lithium ion batteries for wireless telecommunications devices, delving into a market previously dominated by Japanese companies such as Sony Battery and …

BRUSSELS-L.M. Ericsson filed a complaint with the European Union, charging that Austria’s award of a GSM license to international consortium Oe-Call is unfair. Oe-Call is lead by Deutsche Telecom AG …

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-A billboard put up in mid December by Alltel Mobile Communications Inc. caused quite a stir in Little Rock, Ark., as motorists along Interstate 30 dialed 911 on …

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WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers say a petition calling for unrestricted access to 911 telephone service would perpetuate fraud and impair public safety responsiveness, but concede some cellular systems block access to emergency …

Specialized aftermarket products and new marketing strategies have kept the decline in U.S. cellular telephone sales from affecting accessory product sales, according to several cellular accessory manufacturers and distributors. There …

JANUARY 22-23 Liberalization and Privatization of International Telecommunications: Meeting the Challenges of an Increasingly Competitive Market, by The Adam Smith Institute. Inter-Continental Hotel, Geneva. 44-171-490-3774. 22-24 Technology Forecasting for the …

NEW YORK – With fixed costs dropping in tandem with an expanding customer base, cellular phone service for the average individual consumer is on an upward trajectory in competitive urban …

IRVINE, Calif.-Cox California PCS Inc. announced it has acquired a site for its personal communications services network operations control center. Located in the Irvine Business Center in Irvine, Calif., the …

WASHINGTON-To strike a fragile bipartisan deal on a sweeping telecommunications bill that includes federal antenna siting policy and other provisions sought by the wireless telecommunications industry, conferees had to cede …

Motorola Inc. pulled out of equipment negotiations with Sprint Telecommunications Venture last week, saying financial and commercial terms proposed by Sprint were extraordinary. “We made every effort to reach an …

Two divisions in AT&T Corp.’s systems and technology company last week unveiled a communications system the company said will provide customers wireless phone access in the office or on a …

GOLDEN, Colo.-Superconducting Core Technologies announced it concluded an exclusive purchase and supply agreement for superconducting thin films with E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. SCT said it is guaranteed …

NEW YORK-PriCellular Corp. announced it has exercised an option to acquire 83 percent of the Dutchess County major service area from United States Cellular Corp. The MSA includes the city …

PLAYA DEL REY, Calif.-PortaCom Wireless Inc. said it is in negotiations with equipment manufacturers for the cellular phone network it intends to build in Vietnam. PortaCom was formerly Extreme Technologies …

Pittencrieff Communications Inc. is seeking federal action regarding a 1995 Texas state law requiring the company and other commercial mobile radio service providers to pay an assessment of $75 million. …

AT&T Corp. formally named Alex Mandl president and chief operating officer of the new AT&T and a member of the company’s board of directors. Mandl has headed the company’s long-distance …

Glenayre Technologies Inc. said it has received a contract from L’Office National des Postes et Telecommunications, the government-led telecommunications company in Morocco, to provide paging infrastructure equipment and installation services. …

Motorola Inc.’s Paging Products Group was a victim of its own success during the last five months of 1995. A variety of factors caused significant delays in the shipments of …

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Corp. announced Dennis Foster will become president and chief executive officer of Sprint Cellular and Frank Reed will become nonmanagement chairman of the unit after its expected …

WASHINGTON-Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.) threatened last week to block telecommunications reform legislation from moving forward until changes are made to auction television licenses potentially valued at up to …

WASHINGTON-Former Rep. Mike Synar (D-Okla.), who had been named to head the U.S. delegation to the International Telecommunications Union’s World Radiocommunications Conference ’95 meeting on mobile satellite communications, died from …

A class action lawsuit has been filed against Washington/Baltimore Cellular L.P.-doing business as Cellular One-alleging that the company is attempting to levy increased interconnection fees on its subscribers in violation …

WASHINGTON-While the Clinton administration is pledging stricter enforcement of trade pacts involving telecommunications and other business sectors, the future relationship between the United States and Japan has been left uncertain …