May 1996

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

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 division of Ft. Worth, Texas-based Tandy …

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 price rising dramatically by the end …

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 sale of the company. Cellular Communications …

WASHINGTON-“Auctions have revolutionized the way governments will distribute valuable resources and assets,” said Jerry Vaughan, deputy chief of the Federal Communications Commission’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. “This will transfer to the …

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 over the deal size anticipated when …

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

ARLINGTON, Va.-Omnipoint Corp. has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to its proposed public offering of 7 million shares of common stock. Omnipoint said the …

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 600 people from 40 countries. Motorola …

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 one of the world’s fastest growing-and …

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 out cloning fraud as it is …

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 in April claiming theft of …

PLANO, Texas-Paging Network Inc. has signed a long-term licensing contract with Cnet Inc. to provide network management and operational support capabilities, Cnet announced. PageNet will utilize Cnet’s basic operations system …

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. said Citizens Telecom, a U.S. independent telecommunications company, will market and distribute PageNet’s entire line of FLEX numeric and alphanumeric paging products with local, regional and nationwide …

WASHINGTON, D.C.-Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. issued a progress report confirming that wireless phones interfere with cardiac pacemakers to varying degrees. But, the report also notes that no pacemaker malfunction due …

RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.-MobileComm, a paging and wireless messaging services provider, and Premiere Technologies, an integrator of information and telecommunications services, announced plans to cross market each other’s services. MobileComm said …

Qualcomm Inc. announced the availability of a single-chip vocodor that utilizes PureVoice, the latest version of the 13 kilobit Qualcomm Code Excited Linear Predictive speech coding algorithm. PureVoice was developed …

DALLAS-ProNet Inc. announced it has signed a letter of intent to purchase all of the outstanding capital stock of Georgialina Communications Co. and affiliates for about $11.6 million. The company …

WASHINGTON-The spectrum reform draft bill unveiled by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) last week would privatize much of the nation’s airwaves, a fundamental deregulatory policy shift that combined …

Sprint Spectrum L.P. has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Seattle challenging a six-month moratorium on tower building put in place in February by the city council …

Telular Corp. said it is emerging from its restructuring “lean and focused,” in spite of the $12.4 million in one-time charges it cost the company to accomplish the changes. Telular …

The introduction of fully digital wireless networks means that marginal readings by portable test equipment are no longer acceptable. “It’s all ones and zeros now, so you have to be …

WASHINGTON-The near collapse of free trade telecommunication talks in Geneva last month has raised concerns in Congress, and could provide the spark for legislation next year to further open the …

Nexus Telecommunication Systems Ltd. announced it has granted a license to operate its wireless messaging system over 2 MHz in the 900 UHF to Eden, a fully owned subsidiary of …

To the Editor: I am appalled by the unprincipled attack on the WTR carried in last Monday’s issue of RCR. The unverified story was replete with untruths, half-truths, misinformation, innuendo …