Monthly Archives: January, 1996

LITHIUM BATTERIES MORE POPULAR IN WIRELESS DEVICES: EVEREADY TO CONSTRUCT 70M FACIL ITY IN FLORIDA

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...

ERICSSON COMPLAINS ABOUT GSM PERMIT AWARDED TO OE-CALL

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...

`LIFE SAVER’ BILLBOARD PROMPTS CALLS FOR HELP

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...

TRADE ASSOCIATIONS URGE FCC TO TURN DOWN E911 RULE CHANGES

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 PHONE SALES LAG NOT AFFECTING ACCESSORIES

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...

CALENDAR

JANUARY22-23 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...

NEW CONSUMERS EXPECT CELLULAR PRICE FLEXIBILITY

NEW YORK - With fixed costs dropping in tandem with an expanding customer base, cellular phone service for the average individual consumer is on...

COX CHOOSES SITE FOR PCS OPERATIONS

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...

LEGISLATORS TRY TO STRIKE DEAL ON TELECOM, LOSING FREE TRADE

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...

MOTOROLA ENDS SPRINT EQUIPMENT TALKS

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...

AT&T CAMPUS WIRELESS NETWORK LETS BUSINESS USERS CONNECT ON THE JOB

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...

SCT SIGNS DUPONT PACT, TESTING REACH WITH NOKIA

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...

PRICELLULAR PLANS TO BUY POUGH KEEPSIE, N.Y., MSA

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...

PORTACOM TO OPEN OFFICE IN HO CHI MINH CITY AREA

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...

PITTENCRIEFF CHALLENGES TEXAS LAW REQUIRING $75M ASSESSMENT

Pittencrieff Communications Inc. is seeking federal action regarding a 1995 Texas state law requiring the company and other commercial mobile radio service providers to...

PEOPLE

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....

GLENAYRE WILL PROVIDE MOROCCO EQUIPMENT

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’S PROSPERITY LEADS TO DE LAYS IN SHIPMENT

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...

FOSTER NAMED CHIEF OF SPRINT CELLULAR

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...

DOLE THREATENS TO BLOCK TELECOM REFORM BILL VOTE: BROADCAST AUCTIONS ARE STICKING POINT

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...

WRC DELEGATE M. SYNAR DIES FROM BRAIN CANCER

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...

RISING INTERCONNECT FEES AT HEART OF CLASS LAWSUIT

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...

JAPAN TRADE NEGOTIATOR BECOMES PRIME MINISTER

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...
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