Monthly Archives: September, 1996

TIA REPORTS U.S. EXPORTS OF TELECOM PRODUCTS UP

Exports of telecommunications equipment increased 5 percent during the first six months of this year compared to the same period in 1995, according to...

NATION BRIEFS

Nextel Communications launched a fully digital communications service in Chicago, Milwaukee and other large cities in Illinois, Wisconsin and northern Indiana. Features of the...

D.C. NOTES

House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Jack Field's (R-Tex.) swan song is squelched. Though the telecom reform bill he helped craft is the biggest feather in...

VIEWPOINT

Have a good day, honey ... and don't forget your transponder!Ahh, those loving words our children will someday bark at their spouses as they...

RCR TOP 20 INTERNATIONAL CELLULAR MARKETS

Editor's Note: RCR compiled this list of International Cellular Markets based on information supplied by Washington, D.C.-based Economic and Management Consultants International Inc. and the...

GLENAYRE ISSUES WARNING THIRD-QUARTER INCOME COULD BE DOWN

NEW YORK-Glenayre Technologies Inc. recently issued an advance warning that it expects its third-quarter net income to be "significantly below" results posted in the...

FRANCE TELECOM ENTERS BID FOR ROMANIAN GSM-BASED NETWORK

PARIS-France Telecom, with its Mobil Rom consortium, announced it will participate in a bid for a license to install and operate a new Global...

PEOPLE

Dennis Miller is the new president of Midwest Wireless Communications, the company taking over management of Cellular 2000. The transition between MWC and Cellular...

WIRELESS PENETRATION CLIMBS TO 38.2 MILLION USERS IN U.S.

WASHINGTON, D.C.-There were 38.2 million cellular and personal communications services subscribers at the end of June, a penetration rate of 14.5 percent, according to...

N.J. CDMA COMES IN CLEAR IN COLORADO

TRENTON, N.J.-To paraphrase an old Barbra Streisand song, "On a rainy day, you can hear forever," even when making a call to Colorado from...

ROUND 25: PCS BIDDING SPEEDS UP

WASHINGTON-Any previous bets that the auction of the D-, E- and F-block broadband personal communications services licenses would not garner even $1 billion are...

MOTOROLA ADDS TANGO LITE TO PRODUCT FAMILY

FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Group introduced Tango Lite, the newest addition to its family of Tango two-way advanced messaging devices at the...

PSWAC REPORT DETAILS FUTURE PUBLIC SAFETY NEEDS THROUGH 2010

WASHINGTON-In a formal ceremony Sept. 16 attended by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt and Assistant Secretary of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration...

NATURAL MICROSYSTEMS OFFERS ENHANCED PROCESSOR FOR SS7

SAN FRANCISCO-Natural Microsystems Corp. announced an enhanced version of the TX2000, a high performance communications processor, in an effort to integrate the core SS7...

`TECHNOLOGY NEUTRAL’ ASSOCIATION FORMS TO SERVE PCS LICENSEES

An association that stresses its "technology-neutral" position has formed to give entrepreneurial-block spectrum licensees a platform for unity and fill the gap left by...

AVL ANNOUNCES THE QWAVEWRITER

SARNIA, Ontario-AVL Information Systems and Cincinnati Microwave Inc. announced the QWaveWriter, a system for cellular carriers that provides a comprehensive tool for monitoring signal...

MOSCOW WILL BUY ERICSSON SYSTEM

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson announced the city of Moscow, Russia, will purchase the company's Enhanced Digital Access Communication Systems private radio system to provide radio coverage...

ITALY WILL ISSUE A TENDER FOR THIRD MOBILE LICENSE

Italy plans to issue a tender for a third mobile phone operator this fall, announced the government, which recently passed a bill establishing the...

WHITE HOUSE REVIEWS TDF NAMES LIST

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission shifted into damage control last week after two officials contradicted each other over whether candidates for the Telecommunications Development Fund...

PARAGON SOFTWARE RELEASES FONEMAIL

THATCHAM, England-Paragon Software Ltd. announced a new version of its FoneMail software that supports short messaging service across Global System for Mobile communications networks.FoneMail...

ITU LOOKS AT TECHNOLOGY DRIVERS FOR 21ST CENTURY

WASHINGTON-U.S. manufacturers have begun mounting a counter offensive to what they see as a European-led, anticompetitive effort to restrict global wireless standards for third...

U.S. HOUSE VOTES TO DECLINE REAU THORIZATION OF FUNDS FOR OPIC

WASHINGTON-The House last week zeroed out a little known government agency that in recent years has played a key role supporting wireless ventures by...

LUCENT AND IBN PARTNER IN DATA NETWORKING EFFORT

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies and IBM Corp. announced they will collaborate to grow the market for wireless data networking equipment, applications and services.Specifically, the...

LUCENT CLAIMS NEW DSP IS FASTEST CHIP

BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J.-The Microelectronics Group of Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it is shipping to wireless equipment manufacturers what it claims is the world's fastest...
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