Monthly Archives: September, 1996

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...

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...

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...

TOWER FIRM SPREADS WINGS

American Tower Corp. is expected to close soon on the acquisition of Prime Communication Sites L.L.C., which will give Texas-based American nearly 200 additional...

BUSINESS & FINANCE: FIRMS WILL DEVELOP PC PAGER SOFTWARE 360 REDUCES RATES FOR N.C. ROAMING

TEL AVIV, Israel-Nexus Telecommunication Systems Ltd. and Ex Machina Inc. have agreed to develop personal computer-based message entry and retrieval software to operate with...

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...

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...

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...

VIEWPOINT

I'm still recovering from PCS '96 in San Francisco.Between the 400 exhibitors, about 15,000 attendees and 30 sessions, I just couldn't take it all...

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...

KEYCORP’S PHONE PROVIDES ACCESS TO BANKING DATA

CLEVELAND-The private banking division of Cleveland-based KeyCorp is introducing a cellular phone that lets customers do banking and investing anytime and anywhere they want.The...

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...

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...

LCC IPO RESULTS IN SALE OF 5.25 MILLION SHARES

NEW YORK-LCC International Inc., an independent provider of radio frequency network design for wireless telecommunications, went public Sept. 25 with a 5.25 million share...

GLENAYRE TECHNOLOGIES REPORTS APPROVAL OF STOCK REPURCHASE

NEW YORK-Glenayre Technologies Inc. authorized its management Sept. 25 to repurchase up to 2.5 million shares, or 4 percent of the company's common stock,...

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...

GRAB ‘N GO TARGETED TO MEET NEEDS OF INFREQUENT PAGING USER

The option to pay in advance for wireless service is booming in the cellular industry. The same trend may soon spread in paging.Grab 'n...

PACIFIC BELL TRIALS PACS TECHNOL OGY BY HUGHES FOR WLL

SAN FRANCISCO-Pacific Bell is testing PACS technology for possible use as a wireless local loop product.A Personal Access Communications System was deployed as a...

CITIES FIGHT POST OFFICE OVER SITES

The village of Schaumburg, Ill., and the city of Half Moon Bay, Calif., allege the U.S. Postal Service is overstepping its legal bounds for...

EXCEL COMMUNICATIONS EXPELLED BY DALLAS BBB

NEW YORK-Citing numerous customer complaints, the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan Dallas has expelled Excel Communications Inc., a large reseller of wireline and wireless...

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...

IBS PLANS TO SUPPLY STATEMENT SERVICES TO POWERTEL CARRIER

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.-International Billing Services will provide statement processing and presentment services to Powertel Inc. for its new base of personal communications services...

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...

PHILIPS INKS LICENSING CONTRACT TO MANUFACTURE FLEX PRODUCTS

SAN FRANCISCO-Philips Electronics NV of the Netherlands and Motorola Inc. announced a cross-licensing agreement giving Philips access to the FLEX family of messaging technologies,...

BUSINESS & FINANCE: AVDATA, NEC INTRODUCE VSAT NETWORK FOR NPCS

ATLANTA-AvData Systems Inc. and NEC America Inc.'s Satellite Communications Division announced at PCS '96 the introduction of AvData's Very Small Aperture Terminal Network Infrastructure...
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