Monthly Archives: August, 1996

AMERITECH CELLULAR SERVICES INTRODUCES PRIVATE EXCHANGE

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill.-Ameritech Cellular Services introduced a customer-premise equipment system for wireless access to a private branch exchange system, said the company.The system, Inside...

AMERITECH TO RESELL CUE PAGING SERVICE

IRVINE, Calif.-Cue Network Corp. announced Ameritech Corp. will resell Cue regional and nationwide messaging throughout the United States.Cue said it provides messaging throughout North...

BIDDERS FOR D-, E AND F-BLOCK AUCTION

Following their deposit of upfront funds, the following entities will be eligible to bid on all licenses in all blocks: 21st Century Bidding Corp.Advanced Telecommunications...

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...

BRITE VOICE OFFERS PREPAID TECHNOLOGY

WICHITA, Kan.-Brite Voice Systems Inc. is providing the technology that will allow Ameritech Cellular Services to offer prepaid cellular phone rentals and service to...

LUCENT SERIOUSLY PURSUES HANDSET MANUFACTURING

Lucent Technologies Inc. said it doesn't expect to renew its original equipment manufacturer contracts with Nokia Mobile Phones and Oki telecom at the end...

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...

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...

CLEARNET CONTRACTS FOR LUCENT PHONES

PICKERING, Ontario, Canada-Clearnet Communications Inc. has signed a deal with Lucent Technologies Canada to buy pocket phone equipment, valued at $475 million, during the...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Teletouch Communications Inc. announced it has completed its acquisition of laPAGEco of Baton Rouge, La. laPAGEco is a privately owned paging company that provides...

PRICELLULAR SLIMS NEW STOCK OFFERING

NEW YORK-PriCellular Corp. last week scaled down a planned secondary Class A common stock offering to 2.5 million shares, from the 3.6 million shares...

ALCATEL TO INSTALL CROSS CONNECTS IN PRIMECO BUILDOUT

RICHARDSON, Texas-PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. has chosen Alcatel Telecom to install SX digital cross connect systems in PrimeCo's personal communications services switching stations in...

AMERITECH DEBUTS ITS PREPAID CELLULAR

CHICAGO-Ameritech Cellular Services is introducing Ameritech PrePaid Cellular service.Ameritech said its customers now have the ability to purchase cellular airtime on a pay-as-you-go basis...

PRONET TRIES TO PULL TOGETHER AMID FINANCIAL DOWNTURN, LAWSUIT

ProNet Inc. of Plano, Texas, released bleak second-quarter financial results, said its proposed merger with Teletouch Communications Inc. was mutually terminated and is fighting...

AT DEADLINE BINGAMAN RESIGNS ANTITRUST POSITION

Anne Bingaman, the government's antitrust czar who reviewed huge telecommunications mergers and took on computer software giant Microsoft Inc., said she will leave the...

HAUTANEN NAMED PHILIPS PRESIDENT

LE MANS, France-Philips Electronics North America Corp. has appointed Osmo Hautanen president of Philips Consumer Communications Co., a seven-month-old Le Mans, France-based subsidiary of...

OLYMPIC ATHLETES KEEP IN CONTACT WITH OLYMPAGERS

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-U.S. Olympic athletes in Atlanta communicated with their coaches, teammates, friends, family and press using OlymPagers, alphanumeric pagers that Motorola Inc. provided...

D. C. NOTES

Next to the bad guys, perhaps the biggest danger to America last week was the government as Congress and President Clinton worked frantically to...

GLENAYRE WORKS ON CHINESE STANDARD

CHARLOTTE, N.C.- Glenayre Technologies Inc. said it is working with the Chinese Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, various MPT design institutes, the Research Institute...

WESTERN MULTIPLEX GETS FCC WAIVER ON RADIO PRODUCTS

BELMONT, Calif.-Western Multiplex Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Glenayre Technologies Inc., has received a waiver extension from the Federal Communications Commission. The waiver...

WHO IS IN CHARGE HERE?

The telecommunications landscape has been changing so fast lately that it has been hard to keep up with all the new technologies, the new...

INTERCONNECT FEES TO DROP DRASTICALLY

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's adoption last week of a sweeping local-competition docket at best opens the door for some wireless carriers to become true...

NSN NETWORK SERVICES DEBUTS PAGING NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY

AVON, Colo.-NSN Network Services introduced Broadcast TNPP for paging networking, technology that combines Telocator Network Paging Protocol sources from a number of locations into...

NOKIA’S FAX CARD MAKES ITS WAY INTO JAPANESE MARKET

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Mobile Phones K.K. (Japan) has introduced the Nokia Digital Data/Fax Card to the Japanese digital cellular networks.The card enables wireless data transmission...

TWO 38 GHZ PROVIDERS PULL STOCK ISSUES: ART PULLS IPO BECAUSE OF FALLING STOCK MARKET

NEW YORK-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp., a 38 GHz provider of wireless local loop service, announced Aug. 1 it had pulled a planned initial public...
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