Monthly Archives: January, 1996

NOTABLE QUOTE

"If the auction concludes in mid-March and there is a scramble for capital, some players will fall by the wayside. The question then will...

WESTERN WIRELESS PICKS PCS EQUIPMENT BY NOKIA IN $50M PACT

WESTLAKE, Texas-Western Wireless Corp. announced it signed a multiyear agreement with Nokia Inc. to supply PCS 1900 systems to Western Wireless for its personal...

CTIA ANNOUNCES TESTING OF NEW FRAUD PRODUCTS

WASHINGTON-To encourage third-party vendors to provide wireless telecommunications fraud prevention products and services, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association announced it is inviting companies to...

GEOTEK TO START SERVICE IN PHILA DELPHIA MARKET

MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. announced it planned to begin commercial service on its digital specialized mobile radio network in Philadelphia on New Year's Day.Geotek...

HEARING AID COMMUNITY FURIOUS WITH INDUSTRY AS SUMMIT STARTS

WASHINGTON-Hearing disability advocates are privately furious with the wireless telecommunications industry over the agenda for this week's conference on hearing aid interference from next-generation...

EU PUSHES LIBERALIZATION OF MOBILE TELECOM RULES AHEAD NEARLY TWO YEARS

BRUSSELS-The European Commission has agreed to step up liberalization by two years and end state monopolies over mobile communications before the 1998 deadline.The decision...

D.C. NOTES

Dear President Clinton, Majority Leader Dole and Speaker Gingrich,As the country enters Week Three of budget-related furloughs, I think the American public has figured...

MOTOROLA SET TO FURNISH CELLULAR PRODUCT TO CHINA

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Motorola INc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group and Xi 'an Datang Telephone Co. have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly provide...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Globalstar L.P. of San Jose, Calif., said it has completed a five-year, $250 million bank financing. The company said that with the bank facility,...

D.C. LEADERS WORK TOWARD AGREEABLE BUDGET

WASHINGTON-Congressional GOP and White House budget negotiators reached an agreement on auctioning radio spectrum through the year 2002 as part of renewed talks aimed...

CARRIER WILL SELL STAKE IN CLEARNET FOR $66M

MONTREAL-BCE Mobile Communications Inc. announced it has agreed to sell its holdings in Clearnet Communications Inc., a specialized mobile radio operator in Canada.BCE reported...

AUCTION PLAYERS PREPARE TO JUMP BACK INTO BIDDING WAR THIS WEEK

WASHINGTON-Participants in the Federal Communications Commission's spectrum auctions are taking the next few days to gear up for Jan. 5, when the bidding for...

ARCH TO ACQUIRE WESTLINK AS PART OF NPCS STRATEGY

A landmark merger deal announced last month, in which Arch Communications Group Inc. agreed to pay $340 million for Westlink Holdings Inc., will establish...

MESSAGE CENTER FIRM IS BOUGHT BY AIRTOUCH

SAN FRANCISCO - AirTouch Communications Inc. said it acquired the assets of Hartford, Conn.-based Message Center Beepers, a privately help paging company serving customers...

ADC FORMS VENTURE TO BUILD RADS AND RASPS WITH PCS WIRELESS

ADC Telecommunications Inc. is forming a joint venture with PCS Wireless Inc. to manufacture, market and sell remote antenna drivers and remote antenna signal...

BILL THAT WOULD FUND DIGITAL WIRE TAPPING EFFORTS DIES IN CONGRESS

WASHINGTON-Anti-terrorism legislation, at one time the most promising vehicle for funding Federal Bureau of Investigation implementation of digital wiretap legislation, died in Congress late...

THE WORLD

Working Ventures Canadian Fund Inc., sponsored by the Canadian Federation of Labour, announced it completed a $3 million equity investment as part of a...

GTE ACHIEVES INTEROPERABILITY ON CDPD NETWORKS

ATLANTA-GTE Mobilnet said it achieved precommercial interoperability between its Hughes Network Systems Inc. and Northern Telecom Ltd. cellular digital packet data networks.The achievement will...

AMERICAN COMPANIES WIN IN INDIAN CELLULAR AUCTION

U.S. firms were big winners in the latest round of cellular licensing in India, after watching Asian and British companies get the lion's share...
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