Monthly Archives: April, 1996

LAWSUITS TO STOP MERGER FILED IN DELAWARE COURT

NEW YORK-Six class-action lawsuits have been filed seeking to block the proposed merger between Cellular Communications Inc., based in New York, and AirTouch Communications...

VIEWPOINT

It seems to me the whole auction process has just continued the spirit of tainted opportunity that we have seen in America's short history.It...

GSM DEPLOYMENT EFFORT CONTINUES IN LEBANON

L.M. Ericsson and Motorola Inc. say they don't expect to pull workers out of Lebanon at this time, where two digital wireless phone networks...

WIRELESS NETWORK EQUIPMENT SALES UP FROM NETWORK UPGRADES

Sales of wireless network equipment in the United States grew more than 72 percent in 1995 to $5.44 billion, up from $3.16 billion the...

D.C. NOTES

So there they were on one panel, George Gilder, Nicholas Negroponte and Peter Huber-the creme de la creme of spectrum seers-brought before the Senate...

ERICSSON INC. WILL SUPPLY PCS NETWORK EQUIPMENT

RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. will supply Omnipoint Corp. equipment for its New York-based personal communications services network, the companies said. The equipment is configured with...

PREFERRED NETWORKS REPORTS TRANSACTION

ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc. announced three senior officers have purchased more than a half million shares of the company's stock in a private transaction.Mark Dunaway,...

PREPAID OPENS UP PREVIOUSLY INAC CESSIBLE MARKET FOR CARRIERS

Prepaid cellular represents a huge opportunity for carriers, as demonstrated by the flood of prepaid services inundating the marketplace. More significantly, however, prepaid cellular...

PRIMECO RELEASES NATIONAL BRANDING

The quartet of three regional Bell operating companies and one former Bell announced two brand names it will use coast-to-coast in its personal communications...

FCC SEEKS COMMENTS FROM PUB LIC SAFETY ON FUTURE SPECTRUM

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has given the wireless community in general, and the public-safety arena in particular, an extra-long comment period to ponder the...

QUALCOMM SIGNS JAPAN AGREEMENT

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it has signed a multimillion dollar worldwide subscriber equipment license with Nippondenso Co. Ltd., a Japanese manufacturer and worldwide automotive...

RECELLULAR PACES INDUSTRY GROWTH AS HANDSET REMANUFACTURER

Repairing, remanufacturing, refurbishing and recycling cellular phones is the business of ReCellular Inc.The company brings phones sent in by carriers, dealers and other clients...

STUDY SAYS SHORT-TERM RF EXPOSURE DOESN’T INCREASE MORTALITY

WASHINGTON-A report in the May issue of Epidemiology cast doubt on whether pocket telephones pose fatal health consequences for consumers in the short run,...

RCR TOP 20 CELLULAR CARRIERS

Editor's Note: The companies listed below represent the 20 largest cellular carriers in the United States. Rankings are based on the total number of subscribers...

PEOPLE

Linda Noda Hobbs has been named president of The National Dispatch Center Inc. Hobbs will oversee all aspects of NDC's day-to-day operations, including implementation...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Telephone and Data Systems Inc. and Darien Telephone Co. announced that TDS' Camden Telephone Co. affiliate of St. Mary's, Ga., has acquired controlling interest...

WIRELESS INDUSTRY DEAL-MAKING ACTIVITY COULD TAKE MANY FORMS

Investment bankers expect to see more vertical marriages this year withing the wireless industry family, rather than the entrance of non-traditional players into the...

NPRM SHOULDN’T AFFECT FEES IN 1996 FOR WIRELESS PLAYERS

WASHINGTON-If a newly released notice of proposed rulemaking is adopted, private and commercial wireless telecommunications carriers will be subject to no change in their...

D.C. NOTES

The arrival of spring weather in the nation's capital seemed to coincide with the conclusion of a week filled with grief from the tragic...

WORLD BRIEFS

Fujian Posts and Telecommunications Administration of China will trial Motorola Inc.'s fixed wireless telephone system using Fujitsu Ltd.'s switching system, announced Motorola's Wireless Access...

AIRTOUCH REPORTS MERGER WITH CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS INC.

NEW YORK-The urge to merge struck again with an Easter weekend announcement that AirTouch Communications Inc. would pay about $1.65 billion to buy the...

THREE-SIXTY ENTERS DEAL WITH ALL TEL FOR MARKETING

NEW YORK-Three-sixty Communications Co. and Alltell Mobile Communications Inc. announced a signed agreement for a joint marketing and technology alliance in the Carolinas and...

COOPER RESURFACES IN WIRELESS AS ARRAYCOM CHAIRMAN, CEO

After three enterprising decades at Motorola Inc.-during which he pioneered high-capacity paging and the first radiotelephone-succeeded by several telecom start-up firms, Martin Cooper was...

CLINTON NAMES MICKEY KANTOR TO COMMERCE

President Clinton late Friday appointed U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor the new Secretary of Commerce. Kantor replaces Ron Brown who was buried last week...

TALKDIAL OFFERED TO PHILADELPHIA CALLERS

PHILADELPHIA-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile said it is offering TalkDial voice-activated dialing service to its Philadelphia tri-state region customers.The company said customers will be able...
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