Monthly Archives: May, 1996

NEXTWAVE ISSUES PRIVATE PLACEMENT

NextWave Telecom Inc., parent company of top C-block personal communications services license-winner NextWave Personal Communications, completed May 6 at $290 million private placement. The...

WITH WESTLINK BUY OVER, ARCH TO FOCUS ON BRAND

Arch Communications Group Inc. announced it has completed its acquisition of Westlink Holdings Inc. The acquisition expands Arch's operations to a total of 38...

SAMSUNG STRONG ON R&D

Samsung said it created many of its own parts for its CDMA equipment. The company has invested $390 million into telecom research and development...

AIRMEDIA WILL USE MOTOROLA CHIPSETS

NEW YORK-In its first application outside paging, Motorola Inc.'s FLEX chipsets will be used in Ex Machina Inc.'s AirMedia Live information services product, the...

MOTOROLA WILL NETWORK IS COM MERCIAL IN AFRICA

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced it has deployed its wireless local loop network in Benin, Africa, providing phone service for the...

ADC BUYS SHARES IN PCS WIRELESS

MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. announced it has completed the purchase of an additional 1.7 million common shares of PCS Wireless Inc. based in Vancouver, British...

PREPAID FIRM AIMS FOR CARRIER SEN SITIVE APPROACH

The newest arrival in one of cellular's newest markets-prepaid-is Go Wireless International Ltd., led by an entrepreneur banking his dollars on consumers with damaged...

MOBILE DATA SECTOR STRIVES TO GET PAST ITS FRAGMENTED HISTORY

The cellular telecommunications industry is making steady progress introducing advanced mobile data services as it works to overcome its own fragmented nature as well...

CELLEXIS DISMISSES GTE CORP. LAWSUIT

PHOENIX-Cellexis International Inc. dismissed its $525 million trade secret lawsuit against GTE Corp., its subsidiaries and Open Development Corp.The company sued GTE and ODC...

WIRELESS WOULD FEEL BITE OF TRADE WAR WITH CHINA

WASHINGTON-The United States and China are on the verge of a trade war that could hurt the wireless telecommunications industry's ability to expand into...

BOUCHER CALLS FOR MORE WORKABLE MICROWAVE RELOCATION RULES

WASHINGTON - Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) said he wants legislation this year to streamline rules governing the relocation of microwave users from the 2...

FCC ESTABLISHES 2-WAY FAMILY RADIO

WASHINGTON-After a two-year process, the Federal Communications Commission established the Family Radio Service, a short-range two-way consumer system first proposed by the Radio Shack...

BELL ATLANTIC SPREADS BUSINESS APPROACH

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Corp. announced a major expansion of Bell Atlantic All@once Solutions, a business approach that helps organizations deal with the increasing...

METROCALL, A+ ENTER DEFINITIVE MERGER AGREEMENT

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. and A+ Network Inc. have entered into a definitive merger agreement whereby A+ Network will merge into Metrocall in a two-step...

BOWLER AWARD GIVEN TO HALLER

WASHINGTON-Wireless Telecommunications Bureau deputy chief Ralph Haller, characterized by former Federal Communications Commission colleague James McKinney as "just a simple country boy from the...

CCPR CONSIDERING ITS OPTIONS

NEW YORK-One of the independent companies left out of the merger between Cellular Communications Inc. and AirTouch Communications Inc. is considering its options, including...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. announced it has sold $22.5 million of its cumulative convertible accruing pay in kind preferred stock to a group of...

NOKIA ATTRIBUTES PROFIT DECREASE TO ITS MOBILE PHONES DIVISION

Another handset manufacturer saw its company stock drop then slowly rise again following the release of a quarterly report with stagnant earnings.It's the continuation...

SOUTHWESTERN BELL STARTS AUTHENTICATION

CHICAGO-Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems said it started authentication service in its Chicago market, which operates as Cellular One. The technology is expected to wipe...

GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION NOW IS POSSIBLE ON HEARING AID ISSUE

WASHINGTON-Negotiations have broken down between hearing impaired advocates and the wireless telecommunications industry on permanently resolving interference to hearing aids by digital pocket phones,...

PANEL PROVIDES POINTERS FOR SUCCESSFUL TELECOM PARTNERSHIPS

NEW YORK-Driven by telecommunications deregulation and consumer demand, the emerging industry model is the "super carrier" that delivers a broad menu of services it...

EXCEL COMMUNICATIONS’ IPO RAISES COMPANY $137 MILLION

NEW YORK-Excel Communications Inc., which plans to begin offering nationwide paging services this summer, sold an initial public offering May 10 with the share...

CLEARNET SELLS 8M SHARES OF STOCK

NEW YORK-Due to investor demand, Clearnet Communications Inc. sold 8 million shares of its common stock May 15, an increase of 1 million shares...

CHURN SOLUTIONS HELP INDUSTRY RETAIN CUSTOMERS

A cellular carrier loses the equivalent of its entire customer base in three to five years, say industry estimates. Not only does churn amount...

CDMA WORLD NEWS

SINGAPORE-Numerous announcements about Code Division Multiple Access technology came out of last week's CDMA World Congress in Singapore. The event was attended by about...
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