Monthly Archives: September, 1996

D.C. NOTES

It's not been a good week or so for the Morris', Dick and Phillip, that is. Their futures are nebulous, perhaps up in smoke....

NPCS LICENSEES ARE IN NO RUSH TO INTRODUCE MESSAGING SERVICE

Licensees of narrowband personal communications services report their development, testing and introduction plans for two-way messaging services are right on schedule. But Ian Gillott,...

SPRINT SPECTRUM TO USE ANTENNAS FROM N.Y. UTILITY

LEWISTON, N.Y.-New York Power Authority trustees have approved an agreement with Sprint Spectrum L.P. to allow the personal communications services operator to install antennas...

PCS AUCTIONS PRODUCE ANOTHER REVENUE SOURCE: 900 NUMBERS

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Treasury will be receiving another auction-related windfall payment sometime in the near future when the Federal Communications Commission, AT&T Corp. and the...

HARRIS SWITCHING FOR GO WIRELESS

MELBOURNE, Fla.-Go Wireless International and Harris Corp. announced a commercial relationship in which Harris will provide telephone switching equipment for Go Wireless' prepaid cellular...

JOINT VENTURE TO PROVIDE INDIA GLOBALSTAR SERVICE

NEW DELHI, India-Crompton Greaves Ltd. and Pertech Computers Ltd. of India, and the Korean consortium of Hyundai Electronics Industries Co. Ltd., Dacom Corp. and...

GTE COMBINES BILLS IN TAMPA BAY AREA

TAMPA, Fla.-GTE Corp. announced it has begun combining all of its services on one bill in the Tampa Bay area.Local, long distance, paging, Internet...

GTE MOBILNET AND HELLO DIRECT PARTNER FOR CATALOG CELLULAR SALES

GTE Mobilnet Inc. is signing up customers in a new way, by mail order. Hello Direct Inc., which produces a catalog full of a...

AT&T CHOOSES IBS SOFTWARE FOR CUSTOMERS’ STATEMENTS

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.-International Billing Services, a subsidiary of USCS International, has reached technology agreement with AT&T Corp. under which IBS will provide software...

INDEPENDENT CELLCOS SAY THEY CAN COMPETE WITH `MEGA’ FIRMS

Independent cellular operators say they are poised for strong growth in coming years, despite the rising aspirations of mammoth telecommunications operators bent on controlling...

UPI PLATFORM GETS DIRECTORY SERVICES

REDMOND, Wash.-InfoSpace Inc. announced it will make its directory services available via Unwired Planet Inc.'s wireless Internet access software platform.InfoSpace said it developed a...

INSIDE RCR

Louisiana licenses tossed out - 5APT enters Rural Cellular venture - 14U.S., Asia to end tariffs by 2000 - 19

BUSINESS BRIEFS

MidAmerican Energy Co. announced a $10 million investment in Racom Corp., an enhanced specialized mobile radio network operator. Racom has developed and owns a...

AT&T WIRELESS INC. PREPARES FRESNO POLICE FOR FIELD REPORTS

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif.-AT&T Wireless Inc. has partnered with the Fresno County Sheriff's Department to provide automated field reporting to officers.By using AT&T's packet data...

AT&T WIRELESS INC. PREPARES FRESNO POLICE FOR FIELD REPORTS

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif.-AT&T Wireless Inc. has partnered with the Fresno County Sheriff's Department to provide automated field reporting to officers.By using AT&T's packet data...

FIRMS START BIDS AT A BUCK IN PCS AUCTION

WASHINGTON-The first week of the D-, E- and F-block broadband personal communications services auctions moved along without much fanfare, either at the beginning of...

BELLSOUTH CELLULAR RECYCLES BATTERIES

ATLANTA-BellSouth Cellular Corp. and Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corp. have launched a nickel-cadmium battery collection and recycling effort called Charge Up To Recycle.BSCC said all...

BELLSOUTH REPORTS INTERNATIONAL USERS TOP 1 MILLION MARK

ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. announced its proportionate share of international cellular telephone customers served by its wireless systems in 11 countries outside the United States has...

COMPANIES PARTNER TO PROVIDE TURNKEY WIRELESS SERVICES

SAN DIEGO-Berryman & Henigar and Com 2000+ L.L.P. have established a partnership providing wireless communications industry clients with a range of turnkey engineering and...

IRIDIUM RAISES $750 MILLION CREDIT FACILITY

WASHINGTON-Sixty-two banks participated in the syndication of a $750 million interim credit facility for Iridium L.L.C. To date, committed funds raised by Iridium total...

CELLULAR ONE ADDS LONG-DISTANCE PLAN TO SF CUSTOMERS

SAN FRANCISCO-Cellular One in San Francisco, a partnership of AirTouch Communications Inc. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc., announced it is adding its own cellular...

CENTENNIAL PLANS MIDWEST OFFICES

FORT WAYNE, Ind.-Centennial Cellular announced plans to establish a Midwest operations headquarters in Fort Wayne, Ind., that would employ 150 workers. Centennial said it...

RCR FOCUS ON: CHURN: PCS LAUNCH, NUMBER PORTABILITY MAY INCREASE WIRELESS CHURN

NEW YORK-A recent concerted industrywide effort among cellular carriers has reduced churn to an estimated 2 percent to 2.5 percent per month on average....

BELLSOUTH TO USE COMVERSE SOFT WARE TO PROMOTE EXTRAS

WOODBURY, N.Y.-Comverse Technology Inc. received an order for its Trilogue INfinity system from BellSouth Mobility DCS.Comverse said the system will allow BellSouth to provide...

CLINTON TICKET PICKS UP HIGH-TECH ENDORSEMENTS

WASHINGTON-The Clinton-Gore ticket is picking up endorsements from the high-tech community, despite policy differences earlier this year that threatened that support.A total of 75...
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