Monthly Archives: March, 1996

C-BLOCK BIDDERS TURN TO STREET FIGHTS OVER RULES

WASHINGTON-The gloves finally are off in the fight for the most desirable C-block broadband personal communications services markets. Instead of taking the battle outside...

WORLD BRIEFS

L.M. Ericsson announced it has won a contract from Telecel to provide Digital Cross Connect for Portugal's Global System for Mobile communications network. The...

PCSD CONFIDENTLY JOINS MARKET FOR VOICE PAGING

PCS Development Corp. is confident in the opportunities for early players in the market for stored voice paging in narrowband PCS. The company just...

OPINION: TELECOM LAW MEANS FEWER REGULATIONS

Dear Editor: The Telecommunications Act is now law. The President's pen unlocked doors to fair and free telecommunications competition that had been closed in some...

RCR APPOINTS JERN TO NORTHERN SALES

CHICAGO-RCR Publications Inc. has named David Jern northern sales manager. Jern has approximately 20 years of experience in advertising sales and marketing. In 1994,...

PRESSLER WORKS ON AUCTION LEGISLA TION, DODGES DIGITAL TV ISSUE

WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) last week called for sweeping spectrum reforms, but dodged the issue of whether broadcasters should pay for...

NOKIA ANNOUNCES LATEST INNOVA TION IN SMARTPHONE TECHNOLOGY

The Big Mac of wireless devices has arrived. Shaped like a regular cellular phone, the Nokia 9000 Communicator opens to expose an interactive digital...

TELLABS TO ACQUIRE STEINBRECHER CORP.

Tellabs Inc. has agreed to acquire Steinbrecher Corp. for about $76 million. The agreement is subject to regulatory approval and approval by Steinbrecher's stockholders.Founded...

D.C. NOTES

Try this one on for size: You can't pay too much for a good wireless license or a good high-tech executive.This statement, mind you, is...

RANGESTAR ANTENNA HALTS INTERFERENCE, HIKES RANGE

A young company out of Santa Ana, Calif., proclaims its antenna technology increases the range for wireless devices 50 percent to 100 percent and...

FOUR PARTIES WIN PERMITS TO OFFER PCS IN SWEDEN

Four parties received licenses to provide personal communications services in Sweden. Nordiska Tele8 and current cellular operators Telia Mobitel, Europolitan and Comviq will build...

CONGRESS AVERTS ANOTHER GOV’T SHUTDOWN, FCC FUNDED AT $175M

WASHINGTON-Congress passed a one-week funding extension late last week that averts a third shutdown of the Federal Communications Commission, giving Republicans and Democrats a...

WHO’S COMING AND GOING

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission could be heading for a shake-up.Commissioner Andrew Barrett, a Republican appointed by President Bush, has signaled he'll be leaving the...

WILL ANALOG PHONES FOLLOW 8-TRACK TAPES?

NEW YORK-In the short run in the U.S. analog cellular phone equipment market, Nokia Corp. and, to a lesser extent, L.M. Ericsson, have gained...

BUSINESS BRIEF

Spectrum Information Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. announced they have reached an agreement to settle the patent litigation that has been pending between the...

FCC WILL RE-EXAMINE WHETHER MTEL SHOULD PAY FOR NPCS PERMIT

WASHINGTON-Jackson, Miss.-based Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. will have to wait a while longer to learn if it is liable for a $33 million payment...

KOREA PLANS TO BESTOW PCS LI CENSES THIS JUNE

SEOUL, Korea-Korea has made yet another policy reversal over its award of personal communications services franchises, while remaining firm about completing the licensing process...

UNLESS COUNTRIES OPEN UP MAR KETS, TRADE TALKS COULD COLLAPSE

WASHINGTON-U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor warned that World Trade Organization telecommunications talks will collapse unless more countries agree to open their markets, a development...

THREE FIRMS TO MERGE WIRELESS BUSINESSES

LOS ANGELES-Intek Diversified Corp. of Los Angeles, Simmonds Capital Ltd. of Toronto and Surrey, England-based Securicor Group plc announced they have signed a letter...

ERICSSON REVEALS NEW GSM PHONES

L.M. Ericsson has announced its new stock of Global System for Mobile communications phones designed to offer greater choice and flexibility to the consumer.The...

VIEWPOINT

Although I promised myself a break from any columns that have to do with CDMA vs. GSM technology and hearing aid interference, I'm breaking...

HUGHES, GTE, PCSI LINK TO TEST CDPD

ATLANTA-GTE Mobilnet Inc., Hughes Network Systems Inc. and Pacific Communications Sciences Inc. completed field trials using circuit-switched Cellular Digital Packet Data technology. CS-CDPD allows...

WIRELESS FIRMS WILL FIND STOCK MARKET STRONG DESPITE VOLATILITY

NEW YORK-Recent blips of volatility in the stock and bond markets are no cause for alarm for wireless companies planning to tap the public...

SPRINT `NO BIDS’ FTS 2000, CALLS IT TOO LIMITING

WASHINGTON-In a move that could chill other potential bidders, Sprint Corp. has taken itself out of the running for a multiyear federal government wireless...

U S WEST OFFERS PAGING SERVICE VIA RESALE PACT WITH WESTLINK

DENVER-U S West Inc. is getting back into the paging business by reselling service from Westlink Paging Inc., the California paging operator that bought...
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