August 1996

Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile was the first U.S. company to roll out Code Division Multiple Access service, which was incorrectly reported in the July 22 issue of RCR.

WASHINGTON-Following July 30 rulings by two different U.S. appeals courts, the Federal Communications Commission’s D-, E- and F-block broadband personal communications services auctions will start Aug. 26. The application date …

NEW YORK-Moody’s Investors Service Inc., New York, assigned a Caa long-term rating to two outstanding debt issues of Geotek Communications Inc., Montvale, N.J. The speculative grade rating, with a stable …

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 …

For those who are banking on the growth of specialized mobile radio during the next few years, there is good news and there is good news. The good news is: …

Taiwan opens to wireless tradeWASHINGTON-The Clinton administration said Taiwan has agreed to open its wireless market as part of an overall effort to liberalize telecommunications in that country. The move …

NEW YORK-TeleTech, a Denver-based customer care service provider, planned to go public last week with 4 million shares of common stock priced from $14.50 to $16.50 each. At the end …

NEW YORK-High-technology companies have benefited in recent years from the robust market for initial public stock offerings, which in turn encourages venture capital investments. But even the most vigorous IPO …

CTIA President Tom Wheeler called it the biggest issue facing the wireless industry in 1996. Last Thursday, he simply said, “Hooray.” The Federal Communications Commission revamped interconnect agreements last week …

NEW YORK-Citing poor market conditions, WinStar Communications Inc. announced July 30 it was halting an add-on stock offering of 4 million shares and a concurrent $200 million debt issue, both …

WASHINGTON-Starting the week united but ending it divided, President Clinton and a bipartisan congressional group struggled to agree on an anti-terrorism bill to give law enforcement expanded wiretap authority and …

Nexus Telecommunication Systems Ltd. of Givatayim, Israel, announced it has signed an agreement with Academy D.O.O., a Yugoslavian security services company, to deploy Nexus’ automatic vehicle location and tracking system …

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.-Western Wireless Corp. has turned on a personal communications services network in the Albuquerque, N.M.-El Paso, Texas, major trading area. The company’s service is branded VoiceStream Wireless and is …

ESPOO, Finland- Sapura Digital Sdn. Bhd. and Nokia Telecommunications signed a long-term agreement for the expansion of Sapura’s nationwide personal communications network in Malaysia, said Nokia. This agreement is the …

WASHINGTON-With less than a ringing endorsement from two commissioners, the Federal Communications Commission last week adopted hybrid radiofrequency exposure guidelines that may violate a new law regarding technical standards used …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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’ …

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. …

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 …

While naysayers doubted that personal communications services networks could be built out in record time, the five systems now up and running prove them wrong. Western Wireless Corp. last week …