Monthly Archives: June, 1996

LG GROUP CAPTURES KOREAN LI CENSE RESERVED FOR EQUIPMENT FIRM

Lucky-Goldstar won the latest battle between Korean manufacturing titans last week when it captured the only digital Korean phone license being offered to an...

CELLSTAR READY TO UNLOAD ITS SAM’S KIOSK BUSINESS

CellStar Corp. said it has a tentative Fortune 500 buyer for its kiosk business located in 347 Sam's Club stores nationwide, the expenses of...

U.S. ROBOTICS BEGINS CAMPAIGN FOR DATA INFRASTRUCTURE ENTRY

U.S. Robotics is mounting a three-pronged campaign for the emerging wireless data industry.The Skokie, Ill.-based company's Mobile Communications division is a leader in PC...

NATIONAL BRIEFS

Paging Partners Corp. announced it was honored as New Jersey's eighth fastest growing technology company at The New Jersey Technology Fast 50 Awards, held...

PCS PARTICIPANTS PREDICT RAPID MARKET PENETRATION

EW YORK-Personal communications services are projected to triple their market penetration to 40 percent or more by 2006, according to participants in a "PCS: Here...

THE OLD, THE NEW AND THE NEAR LINE UP FOR PCS AUCTION

WASHINGTON-Previous Federal Communications Commission auction winners and near winners plus a few new faces were accepted as qualified bidders for the July 3 auction...

VIEWPOINT

Oh, the shifting winds of Washington.The bill-and-keep interconnection proposal has been called the greatest issue facing the cellular industry this year. And when the...

CONTENT REGULATION ISSUE SLINKS INTO TELECOM TRADE

WASHINGTON-The regulation of content could become a major issue for the wireless telecommunications industry in coming years as carriers in an increasingly competitive market...

PAGING INDUSTRY EXPERIENCES GROWTH AND CHANGE IN 1995

ASHINGTON-Pointing the way to continued success, the paging industry saw dramatic changes in 1995 as a series of firsts were accomplished by both carriers...

AVIC TO IMPLEMENT NEW PAGING SYSTEM FOR CHINESE MARKET

NEW YORK-AVIC Group International Inc. announced it signed a definitive joint venture agreement with Beijing Catch to create a nationwide paging network of at...

NATTEL ASSAILS NEXTWAVE IN PCS PETITION TO DENY

WASHINGTON-National Telecom PCS Inc., which continues to battle to regain its C-block personal communications services license for American Samoa rescinded by the Federal Communications...

SNET ANNOUNCES SOFTWARE UPGRADE TO REDUCE FRAUD

MERIDEN, Conn. - SNET Network Services announced it has enhanced its Network Fraud Control System software to reduce the amount of 0+/0- theft for...

D.C. NOTES

Senate lawmakers kept the heat on FCC Chairman Reed Hundt last week insofar as implementing the 1996 Telecom Act. Hundt didn't let lawmakers force...

BELLSOUTH RELEASES NEW IMAGE TO PROMOTE GSM TECHNOLOGY

ATLANTA-BellSouth Personal Communications Inc. has changed its corporate name and unveiled a new logo to promote its Global System for Mobile communications-based PCS-1900 service.The...

WORLD BRIEFS

AirTouch Communications Inc. announced it has officially opened its European headquarters in the Netherlands. The company said it opened the office because its cellular...

NEXTWAVE: CDMA BUILDOUT COULD COST MORE IN CITIES

WASHINGTON-If the Securities and Exchange Commission approves S-1 paperwork it filed June 12, NextWave Telecom Inc. could move forward with a planned stock and...

PRODUCTS

IBM Mobile & Wireless Systems announced the IBM 2488 Model 800, the latest offering in its line of rugged, wireless handheld computing devices. IBM...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Cellular Technical Services Co. Inc. said its board of directors has declared a two-for-one stock split of its common stock. The stock's $.001 par...

QUALCOMM PE RACKS UP $850M IN HANDSET PACTS

Qualcomm Personal Electronics has won significant handset contracts from Sprint Spectrum L.P. and PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P., with a combined value of $850 million.The...

LOCAL LOOP SALES

Local loop sales-Allied Business Intelligence predicts that advanced technologies will account for 12 percent of the local-loop equipment sales of the $10.5 billion market...

JUDGE FINDS MOTOROLA DID NOT IN FRINGE ON INTERDIGITAL PATENT

Part of a year-old jury verdict was reversed last week when the technology patent lawsuit between InterDigital Communications Corp. and Motorola Inc. was revisited...

OFTEL EXPLORING CELLULAR INTERCON NECTION RATES IN GREAT BRITAIN

Great Britain's Office of Telecommunications said it is exploring the possibility that wireless phone operators Vodafone plc and Cellnet are charging local telephone operator...

NOTES ON TETRA

TETRA is a new European standard for digital trunked mobile radio. It can transmit up to four independent voice channels, real-time or packetized data...

U.S. SMR CARRIER IN BID TO DEPLOY TETRA SERVICE

A U.S.-owned company is up against competition in its bid for digital dispatch radio spectrum in the United Kingdom, while also facing implementation of...

METAWAVE COMPLETES ROUND OF FINANCING

REDMOND, Wash.-Antenna manufacturer Metawave Communications Corp. announced it has completed a new round of investment capital financing totaling more than $9 million, bringing the...
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