Monthly Archives: July, 1996

MOBILEWARE, AT&T JOINTLY TO MARKET SOFTWARE, SERVICES

DALLAS-MobileWare Corp. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced an agreement to participate in joint sales and marketing activities for MobileWare software and wireless data...

NAWI FACES MURKY FUTURE AFTER INITIAL PLANS UNRAVEL

WASHINGTON-Principals of the Code Division Multiple Access advocate North American Wireless Inc. are deep in discussions to decide if the organization has a future...

MOTOROLA, GLENAYRE GARNER PCSD PACTS TO SUPPLY NETWORK

GREENVILLE, S.C.-PCS Development Corp. said it will spend a total of $125 million in separate contracts with Motorola Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc. to...

PUBLIC SAFETY COULD GET SOME TV CHANNELS

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration and federal regulators have promised the public safety community a chunk of TV channels 60-69 in exchange for supporting efforts to...

SIEMENS TO MAKE CDMA EQUIPMENT

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it has signed a multimillion dollar, royalty-bearing subscriber equipment license with Siemens Wireless Terminals, a division of Siemens Rolm Communications.The...

PTS TEAMS WITH ERICSSON TO BE COME PCS OPERATOR

Forget cellular. Personal Technology Services Inc.'s PCS business will compete with the phone company, said Colin Buckingham, PTS' president and chief executive officer.The company...

PEOPLE

Comcast Cellular One has named David S. Levine director of marketing communications. Levine will be responsible for all marketing functions for the Cranbury, N.J.-based...

MOODY’S ASSIGNS NOKIA PAPER PROGRAM PRIME-1

NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service Inc. has assigned Prime-1 short-term ratings to a planned commercial paper program by Nokia Corp. and two of its subsidiaries.Nokia...

D.C. NOTES

Talk is cheap.Take the Federal Communications Commission's grandiose pronouncements over the past two years on behalf of women, minorities and small businesses.Most disappointing recently...

POLICY IS NEEDED TO PROTECT TELE COM FROM TERRORISM

WASHINGTON-President Clinton last week called for the creation of a commission to develop a national policy to protect telecommunications networks and other infrastructures from...

VIEWPOINT

I received a phone call at home one evening from an AT&T long distance salesman. How was I doing, and what long-distance carrier did...

TCSI DEVELOPS SOFTWARE FOR JA PAN’S PDCMARKET

BERKELEY, Calif.-TCSI Corp. announced it has successfully completed development and testing of software for the Japanese Personal Digital Cellular standard's newest Revision C.The company...

ILLUMINER IS NAME OF JOINT BUSINESS

OLYMPIA, Wash.-Independent Telecommunications Network and US Intelco Networks announced they have changed their name to Illuminer. The two companies merged earlier this year.The new...

GTE CHURNMANAGER GOES COMMERCIAL

TAMPA, Fla.-GTE Telecommunication Services announced the commercial availability of ChurnManager following a successful beta test with GTE Mobilnet Inc.The system gathers information on a...

SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS RAIL AGAINST FCC

WASHINGTON-Following what they characterized as an unsuccessful meeting with Wireless Telecommunications Bureau personnel last week, three personal communications services small-business concerns filed a petition...

COX'S CABLE-PCSCONNECTION IS CLOSER TO BECOMING CONCRETE

PCS eyes cable TV's lineCompetitive times call for innovation.During the energy crunch of the mid-1980s, The Williams Cos. of Tulsa, Okla., wanted to take...

WORLD BREIFS

Photocomm Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz., has been awarded a $3 million contract from Motorola Inc. for 831 solar electric systems to power a wireless...

MOTOROLA NETS PACT TO DEPLOY NET WORK USING GSM IN INDIA

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s International Cellular Infrastructure Division has signed a $45 million contract to deploy two digital cellular phone systems for BPL/U S...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Nokia Mobile Phones announced it has teamed with computer manufacturer Psion to enable wireless users to send and receive short messages over a Global...

COX’S CABLE-PCSCONNECTION IS CLOSER TO BECOMING CONCRETE

PCS eyes cable TV's lineCompetitive times call for innovation.During the energy crunch of the mid-1980s, The Williams Cos. of Tulsa, Okla., wanted to take...

PARKER RESIGNS FROM CELLSTAR

Strong growth tugged a little tight on the selling, general and administrative expenses of CellStar Corp., which reported a $2 million operating loss for...

LUCENT TO SUPPLY CLEARNET PCS WITH MONEY, EQUIPMENT

TORONTO, Canada-Clearnet Communications Inc. announced its wholly owned subsidiary, Clearnet PCS Inc., has entered into a memorandum of understanding to purchase and finance an...

HOUSE’S COBURN BACKS BILL-AND-KEEP PROPOSAL

WASHINGTON-Rep. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said the new telecommunications law does not erase federal jurisdiction of wireless telecommunications, a strong statement aimed at dissuading federal...

CROCKETT RESIGNS FROM COMSAT CORP.

BETHESDA, Md.-Comsat Corp. announced the resignation of Bruce Crockett as president, chief executive officer and director of the corporation amidst second quarter earnings that...

CTIA UNVEILS APPYS TO HONOR INNOVATION

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association announced a new awards program to recognize innovative work in the field of wireless applications technology.Winners of the first...
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