Monthly Archives: July, 1996

DESPITE WILD WIRELESS GROWTH, PENETRATION IS STILL LOW IN ASIA

LONDON-By the year 2005 there will be nearly 120 million cellular subscribers in Asia and the Pacific, according to a new study from CIT...

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...

ORANGE WINS AD DISPUTE AGAINST RIVAL VODAFONE

U.K. wireless operator Orange plc claimed victory last week after a High Court judge dismissed a complaint made by Vodafone Group plc following the...

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...

BIDDING BEGINS ON 18 DEFAULTED C-BLOCK LICENSES

WASHINGTON-A terse, two-line order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit gave the Federal Communications Commission the go-ahead it...

PAGING COMPANIES FEEL RIPPLE OF THEIR COMPETITORS DIFFICULTIES

NEW YORK-The investment community is taking a second, less optimistic look at paging, at least in the near term, given ProNet Inc.'s recently announced...

NPPCA CHALLENGES AUCTION REQUIREMENTS

WASHINGTON-The National Paging and Personal Communications Association is leading an effort to challenge new rules that tighten financial requirements for small business bidders in...

KOREA MOBILE IPO GARNERS $338M

NEW YORK-Korea Mobile Telecommunications Group went public June 27 with a $338 million offering of American Depository Shares trading on the New York Stock...

SMR OPERATOR ASKS FOR HEARING ON 152 FCC REVOKED LICENSES

WASHINGTON-As expected, Los Angeles specialized mobile radio operator James Kay, with whom the Federal Communications Commission has had a running dispute over 152 licenses...

WORLD BRIEFS

Eurotel Praha s.r.o., Bell Atlantic Corp.'s cellular provider in the Czech Republic, has launched commercial Global System for Mobile communications cellular service in that...

GEC-MARCONI AGREES TO ACQUIRE HAZELTINE

WAYNE, N.J.-GEC-Marconi Systems has agreed to acquire Hazeltine Corp. from ESCO Electronics Corp., subject to government approval.Hazeltine makes intelligent base station antennas for the...

N.Y. CELLULAR FRAUD RING BUSTED BY TASK FORCE, SECRET SERVICE

WASHINGTON-In what the U.S. Secret Service said is the largest seizure of stolen cellular telephone numbers ever in the United States, the New York...

WIRELESS COMMUNITY WRESTLES WITH FINE POINTS OF USING E911

If a 911 Public Safety Answering Point agrees to receive 911 calls from phones that have never been activated on a cellular network, wireless...

WIRELESS FOCUSES ON STYLE OVER SUBSTANCE ON RF

WASHINGTON-Federal regulators and the wireless telecommunications industry appear close to a compromise on a hybrid radiofrequency radiation exposure guideline, marking a major policy and...

VIEWPOINT

Could the obstacle-plagued auction that took forever to start be near its end?It seems so, although a part of me believes the C-block auction...

WINSTAR COMMUNICATIONS INC. WILL BUY MILLIWAVE FOR $125M

WinStar Communications Inc. intends to acquire Milliwave L.P. and has signed definitive agreements that will allow it to manage Milliwave's 38 GHz licenses until...

TV SPECTRUM COULD CONVERT TO WIRELESS

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is crafting a politically correct auction plan that would convert TV broadcast spectrum into a launching pad for new wireless...

APCO FAVORS CHANNEL USE FOR PUBLIC SAFETY

WASHINGTON-The Associated Public Safety Communications Officials-International Inc. weighed in favor of a possible Federal Communications Commission advanced-television proposal that would reallocate UHF channels 60-69...

MOTOROLA LAUNCHES TEST MARKET UNIT

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Wireless Data Group has launched a business unit that will develop and test market limited-edition wireless hardware and software to customers.The...

AIRTOUCH TESTING MEDICINE SERVICE

SAN DIEGO-AirTouch Paging is testing a medication reminder service in San Diego, offering the value-added service to customers for $13 a month.Patients are paged...

AIRLINK DEVELOPS APPLICATION FOR PAGER E-MAIL NOTIFICATION

Airlink Software Corp. wants to wirelessly extend what it calls "this century's hottest marketing media-the Internet."The North York, Ontario-based software integrator is marketing its...

AIRADIGM ENDURES C-BLOCK, TO OF FER SERVICE IN 1997

Airadigm Communications Inc. is one of the few small business ventures that endured the delays, lawsuits, rule changes and exorbitant bidding prices of the...

MASS MARKET ADVERTISING TARGETS NARROW MARKETS

In efforts to capture a broad range of consumer users, cellular carriers and equipment providers are stepping up marketing and advertising efforts to include...

VOICE TECHNOLOGY MAKES NTT HANDSET DIMINUTIVE

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. is developing a wearable, wrist watch-size Personal Handyphone System telephone it hopes to bring to market in time for...
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