Monthly Archives: September, 1996

D.C. NOTES

You can't keep a good man down.The anesthesia had barely worn off before the national news media was in Tom Wheeler's face. The New...

INTERNATIONAL: CHINA’S MPT PICKS MOTOROLA TO SUPPLY FLEX-BASED SYSTEM

BEIJING-China Telecom, a division of the country's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, has selected Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Group to supply infrastructure equipment to...

CDMA SYSTEM TEST COMPLETED IN ILLINOIS

Ameritech Cellular Services announced it has successfully completed a 15-month test of its Code Division Multiple Access network in Illinois. ClearPath, the new name...

BUSINESS & FINANCE: AT&T IS THIRD FIRM TO ISSUE THIRD QUARTER WARNING

NEW YORK-Following on the heels of Motorola Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc., AT&T Corp. announced last week it anticipates lower than expected earnings for...

MOTOROLA, MIT PARTNER TO DEVELOP FUTURE PAGING APPLICATIONS

The futuresque communications previously only envisioned by StarTrek's writers are reality in the here and now as demonstrated at PCS '96 by students of...

CLEARNET ANNOUNCES SERVICE FOR CANADIAN BUSINESS USERS

TORONTO-Clearnet Communications Inc. has launched its business communications service, a digital wireless telecommunications service that integrates mobile phone, dispatch or group and private call...

NDC, LERNOUT & HAUSPIE START A NEW VOICE SERVICES COMPANY

SAN DIEGO-The National Dispatch Center Inc. and Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV have established NDC Voice Corp., which will develop and provide state-of-the-art...

CLARIFICATION

In the Sept. 16 issue of RCR, the headline on page 12, "Editor who got free stake in PCS carrier promotes that firm," was...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Centigram Communications Corp. announced it will sell its MobileManager enhanced services platform to Paging Network Inc. for limited testing this year with possible commercial...

PCSD WILL PROVIDE MESSAGING SERVICE TO METROCALL INC.

GREENVILLE, S.C.-PCS Development Corp. announced it has agreed to provide mobile voice messaging services to Metrocall Inc. for one year.Currently, PCSD is developing a...

DISCIPLINES MUST WORK TOGETHER FOR SUCCESS

Editor: I look to RCR for timely and appropriate information on the state of the industry. As senior real estate and construction manager for BellSouth...

OSI GETS CONTRACT FROM OMNIPOINT

Objective Systems Integrators, Folsom, Calif., announced it received a multimillion dollar contract from Omnipoint Communications Inc. for its NetExpert framework to be used to...

BUSINESS & FINANCE: ALCATEL, MOTOROLA ENTER WIRELESS MOU WIRELESS TELECOM TO SELL MIDDLE WARE FROM ERICSSON INC.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Alcatel Telecom and Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group will purchase each other's wireless equipment according to a memorandum of understanding announced Thursday.According...

EUGENE VOTES FOR 120-DAY MORATORIUM

EUGENE, Ore.-The Eugene City Council voted Sept. 16 to put in place a 120-day moratorium on tower building in the area, but accepted applications...

BUSINESS AND FINANCE: PAGING MANUFACTURER AIMS TO CUT BUILDOUT COSTS WITH REPEATER

A California manufacturer is producing a paging repeater that it believes is unique and will appeal to carriers battling high installation costs.The P450 by...

BUSINESS & FINANCE: WIRELESS DEVICES BENEFIT FROM MICROSOFT PLATFORM

The market for handheld devices may get a shot in the arm now that Microsoft Corp. has introduced Windows CE, a 32-bit operating system...

CTIA BALKS AT TAX ATTEMPTS ON WIRELESS

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association late last week petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to pre-empt excessive or discriminatory taxation of commercial wireless carriers, calling...

ALLEN TELECOM GROUP REPORTS AC QUISITIONS STRENGTHEN FIRM

SAN FRANCISCO-Allen Telecom Group President Erik van der Kaay announced at PCS '96 that the company's recent and pending acquisitions position the company as...

BUSINESS & FINANCE: AIRTOUCH ADD N.Y. TO PAGING NETWORK GTE, LUCENT SHOW CROSS SPECTRUM, CELLULAR-PCS CALL

SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Paging, a division of AirTouch Communications Inc., announced it will add New York City to its paging network. AirTouch currently serves several...

WHEN TELECOM PACS COME CALLING, FIRMS LET $$ TALK

WASHINGTON-When it comes to getting a say in telecommunications policymaking in the nation's capital, firms let their dollars do the talking. And, oh, how...

ITC PREDICTS BIG WIRELESS GROWTH IN COLOMBIA

WAKEFIELD, Mass.-Boston Technology Inc. has agreed to provide Escotel Mobile Communications Ltd. with systems and software for voice messaging services for its Global System...

CELLNET DATA SYSTEMS GOES PUBLIC WITH 5 MILLION SHARE OFFERING

NEW YORK-Cellnet Data Systems Inc., which provides wireless monitoring networks to utilities, was expected to go public late last week or early this week.The...

BUSINESS & FINANCE: NEC’S BEACON DATA PAGER WILL TARGET PERSONAL COMPUTER USERS

NEC America Inc. introduced what it believes to be the first in a new class of pagers: The Beacon data pager.The device is a one-way...

SPRINT PCS VENTURE GETS NEW ALIAS, MANUFACTURER

Qualcomm Personal Electronics says it is meeting the handset manufacturing contract requirements of Sprint PCS, which intends to launch service in 15 to 20...

PRODUCTS

Northern Telecom entered the wireless handset market in North America for the first time by introducing PCS 1911, a personal telephone that supports voice...
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