Monthly Archives: March, 1996

WINDY CITY BOASTS NATION’S CHEAPEST CELLULAR

In Chicago, where cellular penetration is highest and rates are lowest among the nation's 10 most populous markets, Ameritech Cellular Services and SBC Communications...

CALENDAR

MARCH25-27 Wireless '96, by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. Dallas Convention Center, Dallas. Call Mary Claire Murphy at (202) 785-0081.25-29 Third Annual Portable by...

COX PICKS COMSEARCH FOR PCS SYSTEM WORK

IRVINE, Calif.-Cox California PCS Inc. has selected Comsearch to provide radio frequency engineering and software services for its personal communications services system in the...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

U S West Inc.'s board of directors has declared a regular, quarterly dividend of 54 cents per share on the common stock of U...

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MERGES TELECOM AND MOBILE COMPUTING

Like parallel rails that run straight into the distance but seem to touch at the horizon, wireless telecommunications and mobile computing have each made...

CTIA’S NEWEST REPORT SHOWS 40 PERCENT CUSTOMER GROWTH

WASHINGTON, D.C.-A total of 33.8 million people were cellular customers in the United States at the end of 1995, a 40 percent rise compared...

PEOPLE

Ron Boillat is now vice president of sales and Lee Sarbo has been named director of sales for the Eastern region at Frontier Cellular,...

VIEWPOINT

Is the C-block PCS auction successful? Is it unsuccessful? Or, as Thomas Gutierrez and David LaFluria ask in an RCR guest article this issue,...

SMART CARDS PROVIDE TOOL TO GAIN PCS SUBSCRIBERS

Subscriber Identity Module cards are making their debut in the United States as important tools to help personal communications service carriers penetrate the market.SIM...

WIRELESS SUBSIDIARIES IMPART RISKS AND GAINS FOR PARENT FIRMS

NEW YORK-While wireless enterprises pose risks for and depress the credit ratings of their parent telecommunications companies, they also expand the overall market to...

WIRELESS IS KEY TO SUCCESS FOR FIRMS IN NEW TELECOM LANDSCAPE

Last month's passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 heralds the industry's most fundamental structural change since AT&T Corp. was split up in 1984....

PALMER WIRELESS INC. TO BUY GEORGIA 1 RSA

FORT MEYERS, Fla.-Palmer Wireless Inc. announced it has reached a preliminary agreement to acquire the Georgia 1 Rural Service Area cellular telephone license from...

PRODUCTS

Telex Communications Inc. has introduced a lightweight headset specifically for cellular phones and other mobile applications. The company said its Telex Nomad Headset is...

SOLUTION TO TOWER SITING COULD BE IN COLLOCATION

One of the most important issues facing all wireless carriers is how to achieve rapid deployment of new networks and overcome local opposition to...

PCS BIDDERS ARE WISE TO WATCH BACKS

WASHINGTON-If bidders in the C-block broadband personal communications services auction have learned one thing, it's to watch one's back at any given moment or...

PAGENET PROVIDES ACCESS TO COM PUSERVE E-MAIL

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. has allied with CompuServe to offer e-mail messages to CompuServe members who carry PageNet pagers.The service is the first of several...

DATA CRITICAL WINS TECHNOLOGY PATENTS

REDMOND, Wash.-Data Critical Corp. announced it has been awarded two patents for its Data-Through-Paging technology. One patent covers the "packetizing" component of the company's...

AT DEADLINE

ReadyCom field trials garner 46 paying usersReadyCom Inc. announced it has completed the first phase of its two-way voice messaging market trial. From the...

FUTURE ENTERTAINMENT COULD BE BASED ON WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY

During the last 100 years, spectrum primarily has been used as a way to transmit entertainment and information in the form of television and...

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CLINTON WANTS TO AUCTION 888 NUMBERS IN ’97 BUDGET

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration last week proposed to auction toll-free 888 telephone numbers, a potential hot-button issue for Congress that could hurt paging operators in...

RESEARCH SAYS CARRIERS LIMITED IN PROVIDING BUSINESS SERVICES

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-Eighty-two percent of business cellular subscribers want a single wireless handset that can be used as an office phone indoors and as a...

WIRELESS COULD PROVE A THREAT TO WIRELINE AS SERVICES BLEND

NEW YORK-Wireless links may play a crucial role for long-distance, regional Bell operating companies and cable TV firms seeking competitive advantage in the newly...

HIGHWAYMASTER REPLACES AT&T SERVICES WITH GTE

After discontinuing a five-year relationship with AT&T Corp., HighwayMaster Corp. has formed a new alliance with GTE Corp. and continues to work with IEX...
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