Monthly Archives: July, 1996

METROMEDIA GROSSES $202M TO FI NANCE TELECOM PROJECTS

NEW YORK-Metromedia International Group Inc. sold 18.4 million shares of common stock June 28 at $15 each in order to finance its eastern European...

DROP IN DIGITAL PHONE PRICES CAUSES DIP IN MOTOROLA EARNINGS

NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. reported disappointing second-quarter earnings July 9. The industry giant cited competition's effect on cellular handset and semiconductor prices, which offset increases...

NEC TO BUILD PAGER FOR PACT STANDARD

IRVING, Texas-NEC America announced its intent to introduce its first personal Air Communications Technology paging device for mass market development in 1997.The pACT protocol...

AIRTOUCH SELLS DEBT OFFERING TO HELP PAY FOR CCI PURCHASE

NEW YORK-AirTouch Communications Inc. sold $650 million of debt July 11 to help pay for its acquisition of Cellular Communications Inc.The two-part issue of...

PALMER COMPLETES GEORGIA RSA BUYS

FORT MEYERS, Fla.-Palmer Wireless Inc. said it has completed the acquisition of the Georgia 1 rural service area cellular telephone license from United States...

GAINS IN U.S. CELLULAR MARKET BRINGS GROWTH TO DSP BUSINESS

TEMPE, Ariz.-The new subscriber growth of the North American cellular phone market will decline for the remainder of the decade, according to a report...

D.C. NOTES

Maybe it's true, all this fuss about unlimited access at the White House. Access to spectrum, that is.President Clinton last week proposed a school...

NEW RETAIL CHAIN HAS PLANS TO OF FER WIRELESS PRODUCTS

DALLAS-A new chain of communications superstores called Communications Expo is scheduled to open its first store in Dallas next month, announced Paging Network Inc.,...

GROUPS MOUNT CAMPAIGN TO AUC TION TV SPECTRUM

WASHINGTON-Fifty-eight arts, education and consumer groups signed off on a July 11 letter to five congressmen to "express*...*profound dismay" on their recent letter to...

ERICSSON TO SUPPLY GSM EQUIP MENT TO TELE DANMARK

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Tele Danmark Mobil has signed a contract with L.M. Ericsson for additional development of its Global System for Mobile communications network in Denmark.Tele...

DISAPPOINTED DEFEO LAMENTS EXORBITANT PCS PERMIT PRICES

Carriers that were big winners during the last 10 years of cellular growth won't necessarily be successful in this new decade of wireless, cautioned...

POKA LAMBRO PICKS MOTOROLA NETWORK

Poka Lambro PCS Inc. has contracted with Motorola Inc. to supply digital equipment valued at $40 million for Poka's personal communications services networks.Poka Lambro...

`DOUGHNUT’ ANTENNA FIRM PURSUES SPOT IN WIRELESS

A Canadian company believes it is backing a revolutionary antenna that will advance the wireless industry."There is no antenna to outperform it currently," said...

ALLIANCE PICKS INFONXX FOR DI RECTORY SERVICE

SAN FRANCISCO-The wireless alliance of AirTouch Cellular and Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile has contracted with InfoNXX Inc. to supply directory assistance services in the...

WORLD BRIEFS

L.M. Ericsson has signed a three-year contract with JT Mobiles Ltd. to supply digital cellular Global System for Mobile communications systems in India. Ericsson...

GROUP LOBBIES FCC TO DELAY PCS AUCTION IN LIGHT OF RULE CHANGES

WASHINGTON-Members of an association representing small and minority-owned businesses have banded together with local attorneys and several C-block personal communications services auction winners in...

VIEWPOINT

Does anyone have any common sense any more? (And if they do, are they willing to auction it off to the highest bidder?)While the...

PAGING COMBINES WITH REMOTE CONTROL TO OFFER ADDED TV VIEWING

Alerting all couch potatoes, VideoGuide Inc.'s state-of-the-art television enhancement service delivers real-time news and information, wirelessly, and is a seven-day TV program guide and...

UTILITIES MONITOR PCS AS A MEANS TO MAKE MONEY

NEW YORK-Electric utilities are taking a close look at wireless communications as a means to enhance revenues and operating efficiencies in their recently deregulated...

VODAFONE WILL BUY OUTSTANDING STAKE OF TALKLAND RESELLER

NEW YORK-Vodafone Group plc said it is paying $52 million to buy the 67 percent of reseller Talkland International (UK) Ltd. that it doesn't...

PCS CARRIER TO USE CBIS BILLING SYSTEM

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. will deploy Cincinnati Bell Information Systems' Precedent 2000 Wireless Business Management Solution for its personal communications services network.Sprint Spectrum...

D.C. RESELLER COMPLAINS SKYTEL STOLE CUSTOMERS

WASHINGTON-Claiming that nationwide paging provider SkyTel Corp. has robbed it of prime customers and millions of dollars in lost revenues, paging reseller Time Signal...

CARRIERS SHOW OFF SERVICE AT GOP NAT’L CONVENTION

Lone personal communications services provider Pacific Bell Mobile Systems, regional cellular carriers, paging providers and rental companies will try to leave no stone unturned...

APC WILL FORWARD TRADED-IN PHONES TO RECELLULAR INC.

DEXTER, Mich.-ReCellular Inc. announced it has reached an agreement with personal communications services provider American Personal Communications to acquire and remanufacture its traded-in cellular...

PRONET BUYS 931 MHZ LICENSE FROM MOTOROLA FOR $43 MILLION

ProNet Inc. paid Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Information and Media Sector $43 million cash for its 931.9 MHz nationwide one-way paging license and associated Embarc...
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