Monthly Archives: April, 1996

SHINSEGI TELECOMM LAUNCHES CDMA NETWORK IN SOUTH KOREA

Shinsegi Telecomm Inc. is open for CDMA business in South Korea. AirTouch Communications Inc., 11 percent owner and lead technical partner in Shinsegi, said...

GRASSROOTS EFFORT TO OPPOSE SMR AUCTIONING IS UNDERWAY

An Internet message posted by the private-radio advocate group SMR WON last month was in keeping with its hard-nosed, grassroots campaign to oppose any...

TCSI STOCK OFFERING RAISES CAPITAL FUNDS

NEW YORK-TCSI Corp., a California-based software company serving wireline and wireless carriers, sold 3.45 million shares of its common stock March 27 at a...

ERICSSON REPORTS WIRELESS INSTALLED IN PUERTO RICO

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced its digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service wireless communication system has been put into commercial service in Puerto Rico by Puerto...

VIEWPOINT

First wedding of Baby Bells has many eyes on their siblings ... Ameritech sees no value in mergers ... BellSouth says plans unchanged in...

CELLEXIS SAYS TECHNOLOGY WAS STO LEN BY GTE CORP.

PHOENIX-Cellexis International Inc. filed a $525 million lawsuit in U.S. District Court charging General Telephone Electronics (GTE) Corp., several of its subsidiaries and Open...

AIRTOUCH LIVE IN KOREA, HESITATES ON LA CDMA

AirTouch Communications Inc. said there are several reasons why it is able to launch a Code Division Multiple Access system commercially in Korea, but...

PCS PRIMECO WILL USE CBIS BILL ING SYSTEMS

DALLAS-PCS PrimeCo L.P. and Cincinnati Bell Information Systems announced PCS PrimeCo will deploy CBIS's Precedent 2000 Customer Care and Billing Systems in its personal...

CABLE & WIRELESS, BT MERGER WOULD CREATE GLOBAL CONTENDER

If London-based Cable & Wireless plc and British Telecommunications plc merge, the new enterprise could descend upon an auspicious Asian market and create a...

COMMERCE SEC. BROWN, 35 OTHERS DIE IN CRASH

WASHINGTON-Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, an aggressive promoter of telecommunications abroad and a strong advocate of minority advancement in high technology, was among the 35...

PRODUCTS

The Personal Mobile Communications Division of Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc. announced the MobileAccess smart phone. The phone integrates a cellular telephone with broad messaging...

JAPAN WILL CONSIDER OPENING UP PERSONAL HANDYPHONE MARKET

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration has said Japan will consider opening its personal handyphone system equipment market, a potential breakthrough for American wireless suppliers.Last week's announcement...

WEB WILL HAVE ENORMOUS IMPACT ON WIRELESS DATA FUTURE

"The Internet is the killer app!" declared futurist George Gilder at the Wireless Apps '95 show hosted by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last...

AIR COMMUNICATIONS ADDS SECU RITY OPTION

DALLAS-Air Communications Inc. is offering an automatic personal identification number security solution for its all-in-one AirCommunicator cellular telephone.The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company introduced the...

D.C. NOTES

On the same day last week, the nation was a painful witness to high technology's fork in the road.In some remote hills of spacious...

NEXTEL EARNINGS FOR ’95 REPORTED

RUTHERFORD, N.J.-Nextel Communications Inc. reported a net loss of $118.9 million, or 62 cents per share, for the fourth quarter 1995, compared with $102.1...

MTEL REPORTS STOCK BUY BY MICROSOFT

NEW YORK-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. announced that Microsoft Corp. has purchased $25 million of its preferred stock. The sale of $50 million to $60...

EON PLANS NATIONAL FOOTPRINT TO SEIZE IVDS MARKET

Eon Corp. of Chantilly, Va., said it plans to offer a low cost wireless two-way messaging service and a host of other consumer-priced wireless...

SBC AND PACTEL ENTER FIRST MERGER OF BABY BELLS

NEW YORK-With a push from the new federal telecommunications deregulation law, SBC Communications Inc. and Pacific Telesis Group announced April 1 the first merger...

MCI WORKS AT 1994 PROMISE TO BE `FORMIDABLE’ IN WIRELESS

MCI Communications Corp. surprised the industry when it opted not to participate in the 1994 government auction of new wireless licenses.But while MCI's competitors...

LUCENT IPO STARTS WITH 112M SHARES

NEW YORK-Lucent Technologies Inc. launched itself into the public equity market last Thursday with an initial public offering of more than 112 million shares...

OMNITEL PRONTO ITALIA OFFERS ROAMING IN 18 COUNTRIES

MILAN, Italy-Omnitel Pronto Italia announced it has reached three new international roaming agreements with Cellnet of the United Kingdom, Airtel Moviles of Spain and...

MOTOROLA RENAMES ITS PAGING GROUP

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc. has renamed its Paging Products Group the Messaging Systems Products Group. The headquarters for MSPG will be in Fort Worth,...

HP OFFERS CARRIERS CUSTOMER SOLUTIONS

DALLAS-Hewlett-Packard Co. is combining the core competencies of its test measurement and computer systems businesses to provide a new Total Customer Management solution for...

FCC COULD SHIFT RF RADIATION EX POSURE GUIDES FOR POLITICS

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is believed to be leaning toward radio frequency radiation exposure guidelines that incorporate Environmental Protection Agency recommendations, a policy shift...
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