Monthly Archives: September, 1996

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...

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...

PAGENET ACQUIRES INTEREST IN SRM

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. announced it has purchased a 25 percent interest in Sociedad de Radiotelefonia Movil S.A., which owns Compania Europea de Radiobusqueda S.A.,...

CONTROLLING YOUR WIRELESS ENTERPRISE

With the fall and winter openings of personal communications services in New York City, the issue of network control will become highly visible. Nowhere...

SIRF TECHNOLOGY TO FACILITATE WIDESPREAD USE OF GPS PRODUCTS

The ability to press a button to locate your child, find your car in a crowded parking lot or retrieve your lost dog may...

REVENUE, RATHER THAN RF, NEEDS TO LEAD SITE ACQUISITION PROCESS

More than a year has passed since the Federal Communications Commission completed its first ever auction for both narrowband and broadband personal communications services...

UNIDEN AMERICAN INTERNET PRODUCTS DIVISION CREATED

FORT WORTH, Texas-Uniden American Corp., the North American subsidiary of Uniden Corp., announced the formation of its Internet Products Division designed to facilitate the...

GROUP FORMS TO PROMOTE TDMA SYSTEM STANDARDS

REDMOND, Wash.-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium has been formed to champion Interim Standard 136 Time Division Multiple Access and IS-41 wireless intelligent network technologies."The...

VIEWPOINT

States rights vs. federal rights.It's an argument that is becoming more and more common in today's wireless industry.It's certainly not a new argument, and...

U.K. CELLULAR FIRM DEBUTS NO-PENALTY RENTAL SERVICE

In response to customer discontent and criticism among consumer groups, WaveTech Ltd. of the United Kingdom introduced Happy Talk. The service is a new...

BABY BELLS CHALLENGING FCC IN TERCONNECT ORDER WIRELESS FIRM ARGUES PRICES WITH TWO LECS

WASHINGTON-More regional holding companies filed petitions for review at various courts of appeals of the Federal Communications Commission's local competition and interconnection order in...

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...

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...

BARRIERS REMOVED FOR PUBLIC UTILI TIES WANTING TO ENTER TELECOM

WASHINGTON-Public utilities that want to enter the telecom industry had many of the barriers to such action removed by the Federal Communications Commission last...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

AIRNET BRINGS IN PARTNER CTI TO EASE ENTRY INTO KOREAN MARKET

While AirNet Communications Corp. is busy this week demonstrating its PCS 1900 base station system at PCS '96, the company's new Korean joint venture,...

CELLULAR ONE OFFERS DISCOUNTED WIRELESS SERVICE TO THE DISABLED

A cellular company in San Francisco is working to provide equal access to all people by providing special discounted prices on wireless phones and...

360 WILL RESELL PAGING SERVICE UNDER PACT WITH PAGENET INC.

CHICAGO- 3607 Communications Co. and Paging Network Inc. announced 3607 will begin offering PageNet's paging services. 3607's customers in its nearly 100 markets will...

WIRELESS TELECOM TO BE FEATURED ON DISCOVERY CHANNEL

BOCA RATON, Fla.-"PCS and The New Wireless Marketplace," the first show in the wireless communications series airing as part of The Cutting Edge Technology...
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