Monthly Archives: May, 1996

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...

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...

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...

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...

PCIA MEETING DISCUSSES FUTURE AUCTION PROCESS

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...

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...

OMNIPOINT TO OFFER 7 MILLION SHARES

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

CNET NETWORK SYSTEM CHOSEN BY PAGENET

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...

PAGENET ENTERS DISTRIBUTION DEAL

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...

WTR’S PROGRESS REPORT SHOWS PHONE/PACEMAKER INTERFERENCE

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...

MOBILECOMM ENTERS PREMIERE AGREEMENT

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...

PRODUCTS

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...

PRONET TO PURCHASE OUTSTANDING STOCK

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...

SEN. PRESSLER RELEASES SPECTRUM REFORM DRAFT

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...

SPRINT SPECTRUM’S MEDINA SITE HALTED

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...

TELULAR IS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT FUTURE DESPITE RECENT ROUGH TIMES

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...

NEW DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES REQUIRE MORE PRECISE TEST EQUIPMENT

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,...

GENEVA TRADE TALKS COULD SPARK LEGISLATION TO OPEN U.S. MARKET

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...

WORLD BRIEFS

Nexus Telecommunication Systems Ltd. announced it has granted a license to operate its wireless messaging system over 2 MHz in the 900 UHF to...

WTR DISPUTES ARTICLE

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...
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