Monthly Archives: June, 1996

WTO PLEDGES

Former Eastern bloc countries that participate in the World Trade Organization, and the offers they have made to open worldwide markets. Source: Office of the...

SOME EASTERN EUROPEAN NATIONS STEP UP EFFORTS TO OFFER GSM

Eastern European countries and those of the former Soviet republics launched cellular services in the early 1990s using the Nordic Mobile Telephone-450 standard, an...

CARRIERS TRY TO MANAGE EXPECA TIONS OF NEW SERVICE

Launching new technology into a market involves more than just technological know-how. The expectations of all parties must be managed in order to control...

BELLSOUTH MOBILITY PROVIDES COVERAGE FOR 34TH GSM MOU

ATLANTA- BellSouth Mobility DCS (a subsidiary of BellSouth Corp.), Lucent Technologies Inc. and the Swiss PTT worked together to provide Global System for Mobile...

VARI-L WILL PROVIDE VCOS TO OMNIPOINT

DENVER-Vari-L Company Inc. will supply Omnipoint Corp. with a series of miniature Voltage Controlled Oscillators for Omnipoint's personal communications services systems, the companies announced.The...

EMULATOR ORDERED TO END DUPLICATION

IRVINE, Calif.-A federal court in Santa Ana, Calif. has ordered The Cellular Extension Co. to stop creating so-called "extension phones" that duplicate the electronic...

GAS TAX REPEAL BILL ALSO AUTHORIZES FCC TO HOLD MORE AUCTIONS

WASHINGTON-The House GOP strategy to reach out to voters this election year by repealing a 4.3 cents gasoline tax hike and underwriting forgone federal...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

LUCENT ORDER TOPS 1 MILLION PHONES

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. said AT&T Wireless Services Inc. ordered more than one million of Lucent's Time Division Multiple Access digital cellular phones...

L.A. SMR OPERATOR LOSES FCC BATTLE

WASHINGTON-California specialized mobile radio operator James A. Kay Jr. has lost his 18-month battle against the Federal Communications Commission, at least for the time...

OPERATORS SIGN LETTER TO ALLOW INT’L ROAMING

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications Inc. signed a letter of intent to provide unilateral roaming services in Canada to Hongkong Telecom customers."Hongkong Telecom's...

VIEWPOINT

So now the Federal Communications Commission is mandated to study market entry barriers faced by small businesses and entrepreneurs, which could lead to reviving...

SPRINT SPECTRUM SITING HEARING POSTPONED IN MUNICIPAL MIX-UP

MEDINA, WASH.-A zoning commission hearing originally scheduled for May 28 in Seattle, concerning a lawsuit filed by Sprint Spectrum L.P. against the city of...
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