Monthly Archives: August, 1996

WIRELESS SUBSCRIBER REVENUES IN CHINA MAY REACH $10 BILLION

LONDON-Mobile subscriber growth of 150 percent in China will provide more than $10 billion in annual service revenues by 2000, forecasts CIT Research in...

COMPANIES EXPAND TO SERVE MAR KET’S BILLING REQUIREMENTS

Gearing up for the influx in demand for customer care and billing, Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc. and American Management Systems announced the expansion...

CALENDAR

AUGUST13-14 Wireless Interconnection '96, by Bellcore. Westin Hotel San Francisco Airport, Millbrae, Calif. Call Pam Dunn at (800) 521-CORE.13 & 20 Semiconductor Conference, by...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Comsat RSI Mark Antennas signed agreements with several contractors to supply antennas for Sprint Spectrum L.P.'s personal communications services network. The contractors include Black...

MOTOROLA TO DELIVER 1800 MHZ NETWORK TO UKRAINE CARRIER

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s European Cellular Infrastructure Division is set to complete the first digital cellular network in the Ukraine for Bancomsvyaz, the local...

COMPANIES EXPAND TO SERVE MAR KET'S BILLING REQUIREMENTS

Gearing up for the influx in demand for customer care and billing, Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc. and American Management Systems announced the expansion...

INFOCELLULAR SUPPLIES SPRINT SPEC TRUM L.P. WITH SOFTWARE SYSTEM

WAYLAND, Mass.-InfoCellular Inc. said it will supply Sprint Spectrum L.P. with its InfoCell Plus software system, which supports customer acquisition, point-of-sale functions, an inventory...

LHS FINDS BILLING NICHE WITH NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Although LHS Communications Systems Inc. was formed only a year ago, the company is not new.The U.S. operation, which provides billing and customer care...

VIEWPOINT

I'm a 5-foot-3-inch person, but I'm beginning to feel like Gulliver in Lilliput electronics land.Anyone who watched the Summer Olympics probably saw the commercial...

INMARSAT TO OPEN REGIONAL OFFICES

LONDON-The International Mobile Satellite Organization Council agreed to open regional offices to represent Latin America, South and East Asia and Africa."Inmarsat opened its first...

PRIVATE RADIO COUNTS ON CORPORA TIONS TO TACKLE AUCTION ACTION

Some of the nation's most powerful industries said they have been "too quiet, too long" about the U.S. government's auction hunger, and have formed...

D.C. NOTES

Ah...August in Washington. Congress is on hiatus. Agencies have ratcheted down. Tourists are dwindling. Humidity on certain days is below 99 percent. John Tesh...

NOKIA HITS 2Q FINANCIAL GOALS, BUT PROFITS STILL BELOW ’95 LEVELS

NEW YORK-Aided by strong growth in its mobile phones and telecommunications business groups, Nokia Corp. reported strong second-quarter net sales Aug. 8 of nearly...

`TRICKY ISSUES’ ON HORIZON FOR WIRELESS TELECOM BUREAU LEADER

WASHINGTON-In recent months, the Federal Communications Commission has focused the bulk of its attention on meeting and beating congressional telecom-reform mandates, the most recent...

MILLICOM APPROVED TO DEPLOY NET WORK IN 4Q IN CAMBODIA

LUXEMBOURG-Millicom International Cellular S.A. said it received approval from the council for the Development of Cambodia to commercially launch cellular service in that country.Cambodia...

FOLLOWING U.S. MODEL, MEXICO’S FTC TO AUCTION WIRELESS PERMITS

NEW YORK-The establishment of Mexico's Federal Telecommunications Commission by Aug. 10 heralds the advent of significant new foreign ownership opportunities south of the border...

METROCALL’S $11M LOSS DUE TO RESELLER REFOCUS

NEW YORK-Given "some ridiculous pricing in reseller channels," Metrocall Inc. "dramatically altered the distribution strategy" this spring, and results started to show by the...

ANALYSTS PREDICT STOCK MARKET’S JULY FALL MAY SIGNAL AUGUST CLIMB

NEW YORK-This is the good news for would-be issuers contemplating raising public debt or equity-the so-called corrections of mid-July began to turn into a...

FORMER ONE-2-ONE EXECUTIVE HIRED AS SPRINT SPECTRUM CEO

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. has named Andrew Sukawaty chief executive officer.Sukawaty is known for his work helping launch a personal communications services network...

TOLL FREE CHOOSES ILLUMINET SYSTEM

SEATTLE-Toll Free Cellular selected Illuminet to provide the SS7 infrastructure for the company's toll free cellular calling intelligent network routing.Toll Free Cellular assigns businesses...

360 COMMUNICATIONS LAUNCHES CDMA SERVICE IN LAS VEGAS

3607 Communications Co. launched its Code Division Multiple Access digital cellular phone network in Las Vegas and is offering the service to new and...

PEOPLE

MobileMedia Corp.'s board of directors has appointed Michael K. Lorelli chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors. Previously, he was...

WORLD BRIEFS

France Telecom Mobiles International has signed two digital cellular phone contracts with Chinese operator China United Telecommunications Corp. (China Unicom). The contracts call for...

RCR TOP 20 MOBILE SATELLITE CARRIERS

Editor's Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of mobile satellite carriers based on survey responses and interviews with industry contacts....
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