Monthly Archives: June, 1996

QUALCOMM ENTERS GRAYSON AGREEMENT

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it has signed a license agreement with Forest, Va.-based Grayson Electronics Co., a subsidiary of The Allen Group Inc.Under the...

SAN FRAN WILL GET CDPD DEPLOYMENT

SAN FRANCISCO-Cellular One in San Francisco and AT&T Wireless Services Inc's. wireless data division announced an agreement to deliver AT&T wireless packet data service...

COMPONENT FIRMS’ STOCKS CAN GAUGE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY ROLLOUT

NEW YORK-Component manufacturers like Spectrian Corp. are the ones to watch for a sneak preview of developments in deployment of digital cellular and personal...

WORLD BRIEFS

Motorola Inc. and Qatar Public Telecommunications Corp. announced the introduction of a high-speed, high-capacity paging service based on the FLEX protocol in the Middle...

MOBILE USERS CLAIM HIGH SATISFACTION

BOSTON-The typical cellular phone user now makes 10 calls every week but only 15 percent of subscribers would increase usage significantly if prices were...

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,...

BELGACOM BUCKS AT TAB IT MUST PAY FOR LICENSE

The Belgium government said it will require Belgacom S.A. to match the $286 million fee its competitor Mobistar will pay to operate its Global...

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...

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...

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...

EQUIPMENT DEALERS!

RCR's July 15 issue will feature the Top 20 Wireless Equipment Dealers. Inclusion will be based on gross product sales in the United States...

NEC LAUNCHES GSM PHONE IN ITALY, SPAIN AND U.K.

NEC Corp. of Tokyo has launched its new GSM phone in Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, with plans to expand sales and sell...

POCKET SUBMITS BID ON DEFAULT LICENSES

Pocket Communications Inc. (formerly DCR Communications Inc.) said it submitted a $1.3 million deposit to the Federal Communications Commission Friday to bid on the...

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...

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...

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...

PCS, ESMR MIMIC CELLULAR RESALE RULE

WASHINGTON-Wide-area specialized mobile radio operators and broadband personal communications services licensees now will be subject to the same resale rules under which cellular carriers...

FCC PONDERS SPECTRUM ALLOCATION AND THE INDUSTRY’S FUTURE

WASHINGTON-While most wireless operators and manufacturers are planning for only a scant three to five years down the road, the Federal Communications Commission, according...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Tessco Technologies Inc. said it has acquired Cincinnati-based Cartwright Communications for cash and the assumption of certain liabilities. The transaction is valued at $3.8...

PAGING RELIEF EXPECTED SOON

The Federal Communications Commission was expected late last week or by today to give local and regional paging companies further relief from the paging...

METRICOM SELECTS KOLL FOR APPROVALS

LOS GATOS, Calif.-Metricom Inc. selected Koll Telecommunication Services to aid Metricom in receiving the governmental approvals it needs to install the Ricochet data communications...

BUDGET DISPUTED

Dear Editor: Once again it is necessary to correct the misinformation which you are giving your readers regarding the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's efforts relative...

AKM SEMICONDUCTOR RELEASES SMALLER, STRONGER PCS CHIPS

SAN JOSE, Calif.-AKM Semiconductor Inc. said it has introduced a third-generation chipset for wireless telephones and other communications devices that is less than half...

BELL ATLANTIC NYNEX REPORTS CDPD PRICING

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile said it has introduced new AirBridge Cellular Digital Packet Data price plans, reducing usage charges by more than 70...
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