Monthly Archives: March, 1996

ADC PLANS TO BUY 220 MHZ LICENSES

DENVER-American Digital Communications Inc. announced it has signed a letter of intent to purchase all stock of Pagers Plus Cellular Inc. of Walnut Creek,...

WESTERN WIRELESS SAYS `ALOHA’ TO PCS

Western Wireless Corp. said aloha to Honolulu's wireless communications market by offering consumers yet another way to communicate-via a personal communications services handset.The Bellevue,...

STRONG DEMAND RAISES ARCH’S DEBT OFFERING TO $275 MILLION

NEW YORK-Strong investor demand for a debt offering by Arch Communications Group Inc. prompted the company to raise the amount issued to $275 million...

WORLD BRIEFS

L.M. Ericsson said it surpassed the 1 million subscriber milestone in February for its CMS 30 system for Pacific Digital Cellular, making Japan one...

METROCALL TO ACQUIRE 2 PAGING COMPANIES

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. announced it will acquire the assets of Satellite Paging and Message Network under a definitive purchase agreement reached between the companies.The...

QUALCOMM, INTER-TEL TO WORK ON LOCAL LOOP

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and Inter-Tel Inc. announced they have signed a development, supply and license agreement for telephone switching equipment for wireless local loop...

D.C. NOTES

I've looked everywhere-the dictionary ... the thesaurus ... Bartlett's Familiar Quotations ... Harry Newton's telecom opus. And I just can't find it. I can't...

PREMIERE TECHNOLOGIES RAISES $117M IN FIRST PUBLIC OFFERING

NEW YORK-Premiere Technologies Inc. sold an initial public offering of 3.5 million shares of common stock on March 5 at $18 each. The share...

PEOPLE

Robert Franke is now director of distribution for AirTouch Cellular, a subsidiary of AirTouch Communications Inc. In his new position, Franke will be responsible...

OPEN DEVELOPMENT PROVIDES CAR RIERS WITH PREPAID SERVICE

Open Development Corp. introduced a network-based prepaid cellular service it says will increase revenue for cellular service providers between 15 percent and 30 percent.Prepaid...

MOTOROLA TO DEPLOY GSM IN INDONESIA

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it has a $30 million contract to deploy a digital cellular phone network for PT Telkomsel in Indonesia.The Global...

CALENDAR

MARCH6-7 PCS Seminars for ITCs Only, U.S. Intelco Wireless. Doubletree Grand Hotel, Bloomington, Minn. (360) 493-6241.6-7 Re-engineering Billing Systems in the Telecommunications Industry, by...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Sprint Cellular Co. and United States Cellular Corp. completed an agreement to exchange controlling interests in cellular licenses in Kansas and Ohio. Under the...

MTEL’S ’95 FIGURES LEAD TO `ALERTS’ BY TWO SECURITIES COMPANIES

NEW YORK-Two major credit rating agencies have issued alerts about Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. securities following the company's Feb. 22 release of disappointing year-end...

NEXTWAVE DEMANDS FCC ADDRESS BIDDING `FRONTS’

WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc., whose subsidiary NextWave Personal Communications Inc. is bidding in the C-block personal communications services auction, wants to pin the Federal Communications...

AIRTOUCH AND AMERICAN PAGING TAKE PART IN NEXUS PAGING TEST

SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Paging and American Paging Inc. have signed an agreement for the companies to conduct a joint test of the digital, spread-spectrum, two-way...

MOBILINK FOCUSING ON IMPROVED ROAMER SERVICE

Eighteen months after being blown off course in the stormy seas of the cellular industry, the MobiLink alliance has taken a new bearing as...

METROCALL TO ACQUIRE PARKWAY PAGING INC.

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. said it has signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire all of Parkway Paging Inc.'s stock. Metrocall said the total purchase...

HANDSET MANUFACTURERS SEARCHING TO FIND NICHE JRC ANNOUNCES REORGANIZATION

NEW YORK-Faced with falling cellular phone prices and formidable competition by the four heavyweight handset manufacturers, smaller, Japanese-based players are pursuing other options in...

LOCAL PHONE ASSOCIATION CALLS IN TERCONNECT PROPOSAL MISGUIDED

WASHINGTON-TheUnited States Telephone Association last week attacked the Federal Communications Commission's interim wireless-wireline interconnection proposal, calling the plan misguided and the cellular industry's campaign...

D.C. NOTES

Roy Neel, president of the United States Telephone Association, offered reporters last week what he believed to be a keen insight.He recounted an anecdote...

PAGING GROUP DISPUTES PCIA ON FCC FREEZE

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's new application freeze has created a major rift in the paging industry, the second major wireless sector to feel the...

GEOTEK’S ROLLOUT EXPANDS TO WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE

MONTVALE, N.J.-In a role reversal for the high-tech communications revolution, 27 million blue-collar workers nationwide are targeted as the early adopters for Geotek Communications...

LOCATION, WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES MERGE FOR BUSINESS AND SAFETY

Location technology is taking its place in the wireless communications industry as Global Positioning System products begin to mesh with radio and cellular networks,...

WORLD BRIEFS

L.M. Ericsson said it withdrew a complaint filed in January with the European Commission, which charged that Austria's award of a Global System for...
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