Monthly Archives: June, 1996

CEMA STUDY SHOWS GROWTH IN WIRELESS

WASHINGTON-According to figures released by the Consumer Electronic Manufacturers Association, a sector of the Electronics Industry Association, sales of cellular phones rose nearly 20...

PEOPLE

American Mobile Satellite Corp. appointed Patrick C. FitzPatrick vice president and chief financial officer. Prior to joining AMSC, FitzPatrick was senior vice president and...

RAT TEST FINDS NO CANCER LINK TO CELLULAR USE

WASHINGTON-In a Motorola Inc.-sponsored study producing mixed signals for the wireless telecommunications industry, Dr. W. Ross Adey found that 800 MHz digital cellular emissions...

WIS. PCS PROVIDER PICKS GSM SERVICE

LITTLE CHUTE, Wis.-Airadigm Communications, which holds C-block personal communications services licenses in 13 basic trading areas comprising most of Wisconsin and part of Iowa,...

POLICYMAKERS FEAR D.C. HAS AUCTION FEVER

WASHINGTON-Despite Congressional passage of a six-year balanced budget plan last week that assumes $19.2 billion from auctions, telecom policymakers are growing concerned that fiscal...

CALENDAR

JUNE17-19 Technology Forecasting for the Telecom Industry, by Technology Futures Inc. Stouffer Hotel, Austin, Texas. Call David Solomon at (800) 835-3887.17-19 Billing '96, by...

FTC WANTS TO FACTOR CONSUMER COST-SAVINGS INTO ANTITRUST TESTS

WASHINGTON-The Federal Trade Commission said cost savings should be considered regularly in antitrust analysis of high-tech mergers, such as the multimillion dollar deals sweeping...

DSC FILES PETITION FOR WLL ALLOCATION

WASHINGTON-DSC Communications Corp. announced it has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission requesting radio spectrum allocation within the 2 GHz band for...

ANAM TELECOM WINS KOREAN RADIO LICENSE

MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. said the Korean Ministry of Information and Communications has awarded Anam Telecom Co. Ltd. a license to operate a nationwide...

ITA PLAN SUBMITTED FOR COST-SHARING

ARLINGTON, Va.-The Industrial Telecommunications Association has submitted a business plan to the Federal Communications Commission to become a clearinghouse that will administer the 2...

D.C. NOTES

Geez, what a week of winners, losers and schmoozers.A three-judge panel in Philadelphia overturned the Internet indecency ban in the new telecommunications law, a...

RECONFIGURED IDEN SYSTEM HITS THE STREET

CHICAGO-After an inauspicious debut that sent it back to rehearsals, the latest wireless extravaganza from Motorola Inc. is ready to return to prime time.The...

INSIDE RCR

E911 acceptance coming next year - 2Paging group calls for an end to fees - 5Component firms gauge industry - 9

GTE TO IMPLEMENT CTS FRAUD PLATFORM

SEATTLE-GTE Mobilnet Inc. has signed a letter of intent to deploy Cellular Technical Services Co. Inc.'s Blackbird Platform and PreTect fraud prevention application in...

PAGING COALITION DEMANDS END TO FREQUENCY COORDINATION FEES

WASHINGTON-The industry group largely responsible for securing regulatory relief during the paging freeze has demanded that the Personal Communications Industry Association cease charging frequency...

PUBLIC SAFETY HAS A YEAR TO DEVELOP WIRELESS E911 ACCEPTANCE

WASHINGTON-According to a new order adopted last week by the Federal Communications Commission, public safety answering points (PSAPs) have the next year to develop...

U S WEST’S PETITION TO BLOCK TIME WARNER-TURNER DENIED

NEW YORK - The Delaware Chancery Court has denied a petition from U S West Inc. to stop the merger of Time Warner Inc....

GTE AIRFONE EQUIPS AIRFRANCE AIRLINES

SHANNON, Ireland-GTE Airfone Inc. is supplying JetPhone, a provider of airline passenger telephony services, with cabin equipment and handsets to be used on Air...

FLEX ACCORDS TOTAL $10M FOR MOTOROLA

SINGAPORE-Motorola Inc.'s FLEX protocol paging contracts totaled $10 million in China and Hong Kong.Motorola's $3 million expansion contract with Suzhou Posts and Telecom Bureau...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Andrew Corp. announced it has opened a sales office in Miami to process quotations and customer inquiries for the Caribbean, Central America, Venezuela, Colombia...

PRODUCTS

Socket Communications Inc. has introduced PageSoft for ACT!, an add-on software package that employs existing wireless paging networks to deliver time-critical text and data...

PRIME CELLULAR BUYS INTERNET INTEGRATOR

NEW YORK-Prime Cellular Inc. announced it has acquired, by merger, Bern Associates Inc., a privately held Internet systems integrator.Under the terms of the merger,...

PHOENIX WIRELESS IMPLEMENTS PARAGUAY’S RURAL FIXED SYSTEM

Phoenix Wireless Group has installed a wireless local loop network in Paraguay to provide rural dwellers in the town of Pirapou with basic telephone...

PALMER WIRELESS SELLS ADD-ON STOCK

NEW YORK-Palmer Wireless Inc., a cellular carrier based in Fort Myers, Fla., sold an add-on offering June 12 of five million shares of Class...

INDONESIAN SATELLITE COMPANY ISSUES PUBLIC OFFER

NEW YORK-Pasifik Satelit Nusantara, the first non-governmental Indonesian satellite company, went public June 11 with the sale of 3.65 million American Depository Shares representing...
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