Monthly Archives: March, 1996

FCC PLANS TO REVISIT MINORITY PREFERENCES

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will address affirmative action issues left over from last summer's Supreme Court Adarand ruling as it implements telecommunications reform legislation,...

GPS COULD HELP 911 PROBLEMS

Plugging a Global Positioning System receiver alone into a wireless phone won't solve the problem faced by 911 emergency operators receiving distress calls from...

VANCOUVER EXCHANGE TRIES ROLE AS FARM TEAM FOR NASDAQ FIRMS

NEW YORK-High-tech, start-up companies-like those in wireless-accustomed to searching for capital may be surprised to know that international capital is searching for them.Bolstered by...

HUGHES WILL INSTALL FIXED WLL NETWORK IN HO CHI MINH CITY

GERMANTOWN, M.D.-Hughes Network Systems Inc. announced it has been selected by the Ho Chi Minh City Telephone Co. to build a wireless network in...

PCSI INTRODUCES VOICE AND CDPD-CAPABLE HANDSET

PHOENIX-Pacific Communication Sciences Inc. unveiled the first product in a new line of Personal Access Links at the recent Mobile Insights '96 conference.The PAL...

PAC BELL COMPLETES FIRST CALL ON ITS PCS NETWORK

PLEASONTON, Calif.-Pacific Bell Mobile Services said it has completed the first calls on its new PCS-1900 network."By this time next year, PCS technology...

NOTABLE QUOTE

"We do a bid in the morning, digest it, do a bid in the afternoon, digest it, then eat dinner and digest that."-Geotek U.S....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

INDUSTRY GROUPS MAKE PROGRESS ON HEARING INTERFERENCE ISSUE

WASHINGTON-Consumer and industry groups are not expected to offer a clear cut fix to hearing aid interference from digital pocket telephones in the report...

WALDRON STANDS BY HEARING AID REMARKS

Dear Editor: Once again, in the interest of accuracy, I am compelled to respond to a letter to you from Mark Ross, Ph.D. (SHHH) in...

CTIA PROTESTS DELAY IN APPROVING TOWERS

WASHINGTON-Thomas Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, sent letters to President Clinton and General Services Administration Administrator Roger Johnson protesting delays in...

VIEWPOINT

A popular reason to carry a cellular phone is personal safety, yet a main complaint from both cellular users and emergency assistance providers is...

BANM USES VOICE DIALING SUP PLIED BY INTELLIVOICE

ATLANTA-Intellivoice Communications Inc. said Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile will be using its EasyDial software and equipment to support its new voice-activated dialing service.The company...
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