Monthly Archives: October, 1996

ILLUMINET PROVIDES RESALE PRODUCTS TO PCS CONSORTIUM

OLYMPIA, Wash.-Illuminet announced members of its personal communications services consortium may obtain wireless rechargeable battery packs, power cords, hands-free kits and other wireless accessories...

COURT DELIBERATES STAY OF INTERCONNECTION RULES

WASHINGTON-A three-judge circuit court panel last week continued to deliberate whether to extend a temporary stay of the Federal Communications Commission's interconnection and local...

QUALCOMM EXEC ARGUES WSJ STORY

Editor: Quentin Hardy's article, "Jacobs' Patter," in the Sept. 6 edition of The Wall Street Journal claims that "some of the biggest names in telecommunications"...

NEXTEL GETS $1.66B FINANCING AS BOSTON MARKET GOES DIGITAL

MCLEAN, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc. said it has secured $1.66 billion in bank financing for the nationwide expansion of the company's integrated wireless communications network.The...

CABLE & WIRELESS’ BATTISTA RESIGNS

VIENNA, Va.-Cable & Wireless Inc. announced its chief executive officer, Gabe Battista, has resigned to become CEO of Network Solutions Inc., a provider of...

VIEWPOINT

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. launched Interim Standard 136 cellular digital service in 40 major markets last week using the label PCS, deliberately trying to...

U S WEST BIDDING TO BUNDLE PCS

Regional Bell operating company U S West Communications Group said it hopes to bundle wireless services along with its local exchange service by 1997.The...

SOLOPOINT OFFERS VOICE MAIL USERS CONSTANT CONTACT, SCREENING

The only really great feature about an old clunky answering machine- which by now many people have replaced with voice mail-is call screening. Solopoint...

CELLNET COMPLETES IPO, FACING ITRON PATENT SUIT

NEW YORK-Cellnet Data Systems Inc., which provides wireless monitoring networks to utilities, went public with a 5 million share offering of common stock at...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

HighwayMaster Communications Inc. announced it reached an agreement with SBC Communications Inc. for a $20 million equity investment in HighwayMaster. The company said SBC's...

CONGRESS CLOSES SESSION WITH BUDGET LEGISLATION

WASHINGTON-The 104th Congress that promised revolution two years ago retreated for the campaign trail last week after Republicans gave into the Clinton administration on...

AT&T ROLLS `PCS’ INTO CELL LAUNCH

NEW YORK-With plans to deliberately blur the distinction between cellular and personal communications services, AT&T Corp. launched an advanced digital cellular communications network covering...

PAGEMART WILL SELL SILVERLAKE SOFTWARE

CALABASAS, Calif.-Silverlake Communications Inc., a wireless software and services provider, said PageMart Inc. will sell its paging PC Software. Airsource Pro features e-mail forwarding,...

BELLSOUTH MOBILITY REPORTS LAUNCH OF ATLANTA DIGITAL NETWORK

BellSouth Mobility has launched digital cellular service in Atlanta. After spending $77 million preparing the network for the Summer Olympic Games, the company said...

FCC COULD BOOT PENDING FINDER'S PREFERENCE RULES

WASHINGTON-A notice of proposed rulemaking recently released by the Federal Communications Commission seeks to abolish finder's preference rules in the 220-222 MHz band in...

RADIOMAIL EXPANDS INTERNET AC CESS SERVICE TO CDPD NETWORKS

RadioMail Corp. announced the availability of its RadioMailer wireless Internet access solution for Cellular Digital Packet Data networks. Service previously was limited to Mobitex...

WORLD BRIEFS

Northern Telecom Ltd. announced Telemig, a Brazilian telecommunications provider, has signed two contracts valued at $95 million to purchase Nortel cellular network infrastructure equipment....

MOTOROLA’S ASIA PACIFIC GROUP TO EXPAND TIANJIN GSM SYSTEM

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Asia/Pacific Cellular Infrastructure Group announced it will assist the Tianjin Posts & Telecommunications Administration in the expansion of the Global...

GROUPTALK OFFERS CAMPUS CELLULAR

WAYNE, Penn.-GroupTalk, a new technology designed by Comcast Cellular Communications Inc., provides customized dispatch and work group capabilities for a variety of business and...

CLINTON ENCRYPTION POLICY COULD PROVE TO BE COSTLY

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration's new encryption policy could force wireless firms over time to use scrambling products that are potentially more expensive and less secure,...

NEXTEL PURSUES PITTENCRIEFF PURCHASE

Pittencrieff Communications Inc. is the latest, largest and perhaps last significant addition to Nextel Communications Inc.'s corral of specialized mobile radio company acquisitions.Nextel announced...

DSC PREPARES INVESTORS FOR DISAPPOINTING RESULTS

NEW YORK-DSC Communications Corp., a major manufacturer of switches for wireless and wireline telecommunications, announced it anticipates posting disappointing revenues and earnings for the...

WTR, CTIA AT ODDS OVER LAWSUIT MONIES

WASHINGTON-The five-year, $25 million industry-funded research program on potential cancer risks from pocket telephones will come to a screeching halt unless wireless carriers and...

CALENDAR

OCTOBER7 Making Sense of the Changing Communications Marketplace, by TeleStrategies Inc. Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, Washington, D.C. (703) 734-7050.7-9 Wireless APPS Convention, by the...

BOSTON COMMUNICATIONS GROUP INITIATES NATIONAL NETWORK PLAN

NEW YORK-Boston Communications Group Inc. has a not-so-modest proposal and concrete plans to execute it: a prepaid wireless roaming network for the Western Hemisphere.Already the...
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