August 1996

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 Connection, operates as a mini-cellular …

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 America over the FM subcarrier …

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 Technology Inc. AirGate Wireless …

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 an alliance to make sure businesses …

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 delegates, news media and others attending …

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 of the year when the agreements …

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 rebound by early August. In the …

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 end of the second quarter, said …

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 next five years using a loan …

Teletouch Communications Inc. announced it has completed its acquisition of laPAGEco of Baton Rouge, La. laPAGEco is a privately owned paging company that provides services to about 6,700 pagers on …

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 anticipated in the preliminary offering statement. …

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 11 areas across the United States. …

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 with no long-term contracts, monthly …

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 a class action lawsuit filed by …

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 Clinton administration later this year. “The …

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 Philips Electronics. Hautanen will oversee Philips’ …

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 to each Team USA athlete. The …

Next to the bad guys, perhaps the biggest danger to America last week was the government as Congress and President Clinton worked frantically to craft an anti-terrorism bill before lawmakers …

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 of Telecommunications Transmission and the Mobile …

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 permits users of WMC spread spectrum …

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

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 head-to-head competitors with local exchange carriers, …

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 one data stream, enabling point-to-multipoint communications …

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 linking Nokia’s digital mobile phones …

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 offering of common stock and a …