Monthly Archives: June, 1996

EQUIPMENT DEALERS!

The July 15 issue of Radio Communications Report will feature the Top 20 Wireless Equipment Dealers. Inclusion will be based on gross product sales...

TRANSYS NETWORKS ANNOUNCES SOLUTION FOR SATELLITE FAXING

MONTREAL-Transys Networks Inc. said it has developed a fax solution that lets mobile and remote workers send faxes through satellite networks. The product, Mobilis,...

ARRAYCOMM BOLTS INTO WLL MAR KET WITH PATENT AND PRODUCT

ArrayComm Inc. announced it received a U.S. patent for its Spatial Division Multiple Access intelligent antenna technology-the brains behind the company's IntelliCell products. The...

OU DISTRIBUTES REPORT ON MEDICAL DEVICES

Researchers at the University of Oklahoma are distributing a report advising hospital administrators and clinical engineers how to manage electromagnetic interaction between wireless devices...

D.C. NOTES

Everybody's reacting to high-tech.Take Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, who in a recent speech hit on something profound yet obvious yet little understood (understandably so)...

MOBILEMEDIA PLANS PRIVATE STOCK OFFER

RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.-MobileMedia Corp. is planning a private offering of convertible preferred stock. The company said it is expecting the offering will raise between...

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...

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...

PAGENET, EX MACHINA BEGIN AIR MEDIA LIVE!

CHICAGO-Paging Network Inc. and software developer Ex Machina Inc. announced the rollout of a wireless, Internet-based news, entertainment and messaging network called AirMedia Live!PageNet...

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...

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...

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...

PRONET PLANNING TO SELL STOCK AND BOND ISSUES

NEW YORK-ProNet Inc., one of the top 10 paging companies in the country, planned to sell concurrent stock and bond issues as early as...

D.C. NOTES

effrey Si;va Grumbling in private wireless land. The word is the refarming item that was anticipated for vote this month is being pushed back...

CORRECTION

A photo of a Motorola Inc. personal communications services phone was misidentified in the May 27 issue of RCR. It is a member of...

ARCH, PREMIERE ALLY TO OFFER NOTIFICATION

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced a new pager notification service to be offered in an arrangement with Premiere Technologies.Premiere, an information and telecommunications...

PORTACOM LOOKS TO GROW WITH AAT CORP. PURCHASE

PortaCom Wireless Inc. signed an agreement to acquire all the outstanding shares of Los Angeles-based Asian American Telecommunications Corp.PortaCom said it will issue a...

POCKET COMMUNICATIONS IS NEW MONIKER FOR DCR

WASHINGTON-DCR Communications has changed its name to Pocket Communications Inc.The Washington, D.C.-based firm, which walked away from the C-block spectrum auctions with personal communications...

LEC GROUP SAYS BILL AND KEEP WILL STIFLE NETWORK INVESTMENT

WASHINGTON-The United States Telephone Association continues to fight against any federally mandated rollback or eradication of interconnection fees that wireless companies must pay to...

MOTOROLA SECTOR FORMS NEW DIVISION

ATLANTA-Motorola Inc.'s Messaging, Information and Media Sector is forming a new Platform Software Division.The Atlanta-based division is chartered to develop and deliver an open...

CELLULAR STORE HITS INTERNET TO HELP CUSTOMERS CHOOSE WIRELESS

A new retail outlet for cellular is opening nationwide, but there won't be any sales people and you won't find the address in the...

CELLULARONE-CHICAGO OFFERS FREEDOMPLUS

CHICAGO-Cellular One of Chicago is introducing FreedomPlus one-number service to its cellular customers.Cellular One of Chicago, a subsidiary of Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems, said...

CS GROUP STOCK OFFER WILL FUND DIGITAL DEPLOYMENT

NEW YORK-Group Communication Services, Canada's second-largest specialized mobile radio operator, plans an initial public offering of common stock to help finance most of a...

GROUPS PUSH SHORTER TIME FOR VOLUNTARY RELOCATION BY DEBRA WAYNE

WASHINGTON-Opinions are split when it comes to shortening the voluntary negotiation period between microwave incumbents and C-, D-, E- and F-block personal communications services...

SIEMENS WINS AWARD FOR IRIDIUM SWITCHES

MUNICH-Siemens AG won contracts worth $64.7 million from the Iridium mobile phone network. Siemens said that Motorola Inc., which founded and leads the Iridium...
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