Monthly Archives: September, 1996

AMERITECH GIVES CTIA COLD SHOULDER

WASHINGTON-In a stunning move with perhaps more symbolism than substance, Ameritech Cellular Services left the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week because the trade...

FREEDOMPLUS INTRO’D BY CELLULAR ONE IN D.C.

GREENBELT, Md.-Cellular One has started "FreedomPlus" service in the Washington D.C./Baltimore, Md., area. FreedomPlus is designed to operate between cellular and landline networks to...

ORANGE PLC ESTABLISHES ROAMING AGREEMENT WITH SWITZERLAND

Orange plc, one of the United Kingdom's two 1800 MHz personal communications providers, announced it established a roaming agreement with the Swiss Post, Telephone...

CHICAGO POLICE CONTRACT GARNERS TEKLOGIX $6.8M

Teklogix International Inc. was awarded a $6.8 million contract to supply more than 1,100 rugged, wireless-enabled mobile computers, docking stations, technical support and service...

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...

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...

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...

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’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...

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,...

HOUSE CONTINUES PURSUIT OF BILL TO DOWNSIZE FCC

WASHINGTON-The House telecommunications subcommittee voted last week to downsize the Federal Communications Commission and remove travel restrictions on FCC Chairman Reed Hundt.The bill now...

GEOTEK COMMUNICATIONS INC. INCREASES ITS INTEREST IN M.I.S.

MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc., an international wireless communications company, announced it has increased its ownership interest in M.I.S. Information Systems Holdings Ltd. to 100...

GO WIRELESS STRIKES DEAL FOR SERVICES

MELBOURNE, Fla.-Go Wireless International Ltd. announced it will offer prepaid cellular service to customers who do not qualify for conventional cellular service. The service...

STANDARD & POOR’S AFFIRMS NEXTEL RATING, REMOVES CREDITWATCH

NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's Corp. announced yesterday it had affirmed its speculative-grade CCC- ratings on $2.4 billion of outstanding debt issued by Nextel Communications...

NATURAL PHENOMENA AID WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS IN THE DESERT

Few ever venture into the southern Negev and virtually no one does in the inferno of August.Barren rubble extends for ridge after ridge of...

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...

AIRTOUCH WILL OFFER STANDARD ROAMING RATE FOR CALIF. CALLS

IRVINE, Calif.-AirTouch Cellular of Los Angeles introduced a standard roaming rate of 79 cents per minute for calls made in California but outside a...

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,...
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