Monthly Archives: September, 1996

AIRTOUCH PLANS TO PURSUE BOTH EUROPEAN AND DOMESTIC AVENUES

NEW YORK-When it comes to bundling wireless and landline telephone services, AirTouch Communications Inc. will pursue two different strategies, one domestic and one European,...

PAGENET’S ALPHA CLIENTS GETTING CNN NEWS BRIEFS

More than a half million Paging Network Inc. customers started receiving news briefs from CNN Interactive for free last week.Subscribers to PageNet's alphanumeric service,...

ALLGON, TELEDYNE TEAM UP TO MAKE FILTERS, DUPLEXERS

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas-Allgon Enterprises Inc. and Teledyne Electronic Technologies have teamed up to develop and manufacture plastic technology for certain key wireless communications applications.The...

AT DEADLINE: GOLDEN ACCEPTED AS NANC MEMBER

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Mark Golden, senior vice president of Industry Affairs for the Personal Communications Industry Association, has been accepted as a voting member of the...

ATG TO PREMIERE NEW WARES AT PCS

CLEVELAND-Allen Telecom Group will introduce seven new products at PCS '96 this week.The PMR-722GC1 Sector-Extender Repeater and a new line of tower mounted amplifiers...

PCS AUCTION ACTION CONTINUES AS BIDDING INTENSITY INCREASES

WASHINGTON-Aside from a computer glitch that pushed the auction of D-, E-and F-block broadband personal communications services licenses back to one round per day,...

AURA CHIPSET DESIGNED TO IMPROVE HANDS-FREE WIRELESS QUALITY

NEW YORK-A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni has determined that wireless handsets need a certain aura about them in order to be...

MESSENGER SERVICE USES CELLSCAPE

BOSTON-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile announced it has signed a deal to provide its Cellscape service to Walsh Messenger Service Inc., a delivery company serving...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. said it acquired all the cellular assets of the nonwireline West Virginia 6 rural service area for $16.7 million as...

CDMA MAY ENTER CHINA AS GSM NETWORK FILLS UP

CDMA supporters are buzzing with the prospect of entry into China.Wireless local loop trials have started and recent activities suggest China is interested in...

PAGENET CHOOSES THOMPSON AGENCY FOR VOICENOW ADS

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. announced it has chosen J. Walter Thompson of Chicago as the agency-of-record for its multimillion dollar advertising account.The agency will be...

D.C. NOTES

FCC Chairman Reed Hundt is off the hook or should I say off the leash. John Dingell (D-Mich.), a hurricane-like force even when not...

MOTOROLA STOCK PLUNGES ON LOWER PROFITS WARNING

NEW YORK-Motorola Inc.'s unusual advance warning last week of poor third-quarter expectations raised eyebrows and at least two questions.Is Motorola still the bellwether company,...

SMITH MICRO ADDS VOICE MESSAGING TO HOTFAX SOFTWARE

ALISO VIEJO, Calif.-Smith Micro Software Inc. announced it has added HotFax Message Center, which features integrated voice messaging capabilities, to its HotFax communications software.HotFax...

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...

SINGAPORE HONORS 1M PAGING USER WITH PAGER, FREE SERVICE

SINGAPORE-Singapore, a city-state with the highest concentration of beepers in the world, on Sept. 6 honored its 1 millionth pager user be giving him...

OPPONENTS COULD CHALLENGE NEW HYBRID RF STANDARD IN COURT

WASHINGTON-Hardcore opponents of the new hybrid radiofrequency radiation standard, believing federal regulators will reject calls to repeal it, are already considering putting a consortium...

MOTOROLA NPCS NETWORK UP GRADED IN DALLAS TEST

FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Group announced it has upgraded its Dallas/Fort Worth advanced messaging test system using narrowband personal communications services software...

ERICSSON ARRANGES MICROCELL FINANCING

TORONTO-Ericsson Communications Canada has arranged financing for Microcell Connexions Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microcell Telecommunications Inc., to purchase personal communications services equipment.The arrangement,...

CORSAIR COMMUNICATIONS INC.

Corsair Communications Inc. appointed Dr. Donald R. Oestreicher vice president of engineering. Oestreicher will direct Corsair's efforts in product engineering, research and development. Oestreicher's...

SPRINT AND RADIOSHACK PARTNER FOR STORE-WITHIN-A-STORE SALES

Sprint Corp., Sprint Spectrum L.P. and RadioShack announced they are teaming up to provide one-stop shopping for all Sprint-branded products.The companies have developed a...

SCANA REPORTS VIOLATIONS TO THE FCC

COLUMBIA, S.C.-Scana Communications Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Scana Corp. has informed the Federal Communications Commission that it violated certain licensing requirements in...

MCI ONE NOW AVAILABLE FOR BUSINESS USER

DALLAS-MCI Communications Corp. said it now can package business services a little more tightly under the networkMCI One program.MCI One is a suite of...

PCS GROUP FORMS FINANCE ARM TO AID WITH MONETARY SHORTFALL

DALLAS-The PCS Group announced it has formed The PCS Finance Group to meet the demand for financing in the personal communications service market."Over a...

COMCAST EDUCATES YOUNGER DRIVERS ON CELLULAR OPERATION

PHILADELPHIA-Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. representatives will be educating young drivers about the safe use of cellular phones through a program called "Road Smarts."Students will...
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