November 1996

WASHINGTON-“That peculiar smell drifting up from Puerto Rico is the odor of burning money. Our money. I’m tired of smelling it,” wrote Gary North Nov. 8 to other limited partners …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission this week took additional steps to help hasten the end of the D-, E-and F-block personal communications services auction that began Aug. 26 and that has …

The paging sector’s stock plunge this year is mostly a result of the large amount of money raised by “marginal players” in 1995, unexpected negative consequences of Motorola Inc.’s FLEX …

WINTER PARK, Fla.-Communications Electronics Specialties said it has changed its name to CES Wireless Technologies. The company also released a 1997 product catalog and launched a web site. “The new …

NEW YORK-Compania Anonima Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela, the country’s monopoly telecommun-ications conglomerate, was scheduled to become a publicly traded company Nov. 22 with an offering outside the country of 34.2 …

WASHINGTON-While the returning Republican-led Congress intends to enforce deregulation next year, the Federal Communications Commission claims the wireless telecom industry is being slowed by regulatory reform legislation passed earlier this …

AirNet Communications Corp. entered an agreement with the Thomsen Group of Denmark, appointing Thomsen as AirNet’s authorized business representative in Denmark and certain Far Eastern countries. Thomsen will distribute AirNet’s …

Don Smith is the new director of wireless technology and network operations for specialized mobile radio carrier ComTec International Inc. Prior to joining the company, Smith was director of network …

… “I hope that Chairman Hundt will read Shakespeare and understand that `discretion is the better part of valor.’ And if he doesn’t read Shakespeare, I hope that he reads …

Several C-block licensees are questioning the 7 percent interest rate used by the Federal Communications Commission in payment plan notes, but the government stands behind the figure. The difference between …

OULU, Finland-Nokia Telecommunications announced plans to expand its base station production in Oulu, Finland, due to increased demand. Beginning next spring, the base stations will be manufactured in a new …

How do you market a phone shield designed to protect people from “potentially harmful radiation from your cell phone” when 1.) there is no evidence that the radiation is harmful …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson will supply Global System for Mobile communications infrastructure to Telecel Comunicacoes Pessoais S.A. between 1997 and 1999 to expand its network in Portugal. Ericsson values the contract …

NEW YORK-Vimpel-Communications, a Russian wireless telecommunications company, went public on the New York Stock Exchange Nov. 15 with an offering of 5.4 million American Depository Shares priced at $20.50 each. …

FAIRFIELD, N.J.-Electronics Communications Corp. activated its own paging system making it a full-service paging carrier. Electronics Communications has licenses covering Long Island, Westchester and Rockland counties and metropolitan New York, …

ISSAQUAH, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp.’s InfoStream technology allows mobile professionals to send faxes and e-mail, and access office databases and the Internet, from a laptop computer using a digital personal communications …

WASHINGTON-President Clinton has threatened to repeal a key provision of the administration’s new encryption policy if it determines that legislation undercuts security safeguards, a move one prominent Republican telecom lawmaker …

NEW YORK-Single-number portability, delivery of branded content and the growing similarity between switched voice and data are all trends that are moving in fast, according to participants in a panel …

Omnitel Pronto Italia, Italy’s privately owned GSM operator, said it has filed a lawsuit against state-owned Telecom Italia Mobile for $62.5 million with the court of appeals in Rome. Omnitel …

Mike Lorelli will resign as president and chief executive officer of MobileMedia Corp., the latest in a chain of events that has shareholders, industry and Wall Street wary of the …

SmarTrunk Systems Inc. announced its ST-865KW2 SmarTrunk II trunking logic board, which offers advanced trunking features for Kenwood’s latest portable and mobile conventional radio models. The logic board enables radios …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. said it installed its ClearSite receiver subsystems in a field trial in three sites in Wisconsin. The trial will run through the end of January to cover …

Frankfurt, Germany-based Deutsche Telekom MobilNet GmbH (T-Mobil) bought 16 percent of personal communications services provider American Personal Communications’ share of its partnership in Sprint Spectrum; proceeds will be used to …

Social unrest in eastern Zaire hasn’t interrupted the independent cellular network of Telecel International Ltd., which operates an analog system countrywide there. “There has been a temporary surge of activity, …

NEW YORK-In a very successful initial public offering, Deutsche Telekom AG, the German government’s telecommunications monopoly, went public Nov. 18. The IPO consisted of 600 million shares sold to outsiders …