Monthly Archives: May, 1996

AT&T WIRELESS NAMES EQUIP MENT VENDORS FOR ITS PCS NETWORKS

No big surprise, AT&T Wireless Services Inc.'s cellular equipment vendors Lucent Technologies Inc. and L.M. Ericsson were named suppliers for the company's Time Division...

ARCH EXPECTS NO THREAT IN PER SONAL COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES

William A. Wilson, chief financial officer of Arch Communications Group Inc. sees no threat to his company or the paging industry from the new...

A+ NETWORK WILL ACQUIRE TWO PAGING COMPANIES

NEW YORK-A+ Network Inc. signed definitive agreements to acquire Radio and Communications Consultants Inc. of Shreveport, La., and South Central Paging of Nashville, Tenn.The...

WIRELESS GROUP SIGNS CONTRACT TO OFFER SS-7

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-The national wireless alliance of AirTouch Cellular, Bell Atlantic Corp., Nynex Corp., U S West NewVector Group and PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P....

THREE-SIXTY GOES AFTER CLUSTERED REGIONAL STRATEGY THROUGH U.S.

NEW YORK-While other cellular carriers are going national and international, Three-sixty Communications Co. sees advantages in taking the road less traveled, through clustered regional...

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...

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...

VIEWPOINT

Who are these guys? It's a question that has popped into my mind repeatedly after 20-plus years as a journalist now covering the wireless...

INFERNO OFFERS INTERNET ACCESS TO INFORMATION VIA ALL NETWORKS

It was one book in Alighieri Dante's 14th century classic Divine Comedy trilogy that inspired the name for Lucent Technologies Inc.'s new software program,...

FCC AGREES TO REDUCE 900 MHZ BID PENALTY

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission announced it has agreed to reduce bid withdrawal penalties faced by Atlanta Trunking and MAP Wireless, bidders in the recent...

D.C. NOTES

As it was pointed out to me time and time again during the aftermath of last week's C-block broadband personal communications services auction, in...

CTIA COMMENTS

Dear Editor: Your article in Monday's RCR is a great disappointment in which you misled your readers.Somehow you have turned a story about differences in...

WIRELESS SAFETY WEEK HONORS QUICK THINKING CELLULAR LIFESAVERS

WASHINGTON-According to a public service announcement aired nationwide in conjunction with National Wireless Safety Week, "Rescue 911" host William Shatner pointed out that more...

CORRECTION

The MCI One initial package that includes one-number service, free long distance, Internet services and a calling card is offered for $4.95 a month,...

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...

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...

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...

RCR TOP 20 CELLULAR MARKETS

Editor's Note: The cities listed here represent the 20 largest cellular markets in the United States. Ranking is based on the total number of subscribers...

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,...

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...

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...

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...
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