Yearly Archives: 1996

NEXTEL DIGITAL PLAN HURTS SMR DEALER

Dear Editor: As a full-time reader of your magazine, I enjoy the upfront articles. I have been employed in the two-way radio business for the...

LET THE C-BLOCK AUCTION PAYMENTS START TO ROLL IN

Twelve of the 84 companies that won C-block licenses for personal communications services are still waiting to receive their license in hand.The Federal Communications...

FIRST EVER MEXICAN RADIO SPECTRUM AUCTION NEARS COMPLETION

The Mexican government has almost finished its first ever auction of radio spectrum for communications services.Mexico's new Federal Telecommunications Commission began taking bids on...

SPRINT PCS OPENS ITS NETWORK FACILITY

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS opened its Technology and Network Management Center in Lenexa, Kan. The center is home to 120 Sprint PCS employees and...

PCS SUCCESS DEPENDS ON PLAYERS FINDING FINANCING

NEW YORK-"The summer of 1996 was when high-yield (debt) investors decided they're not in the venture capital business. They prefer cash flow now, not...

NEXTWAVE IPO ON HOLD AS FIRM SWAPS UNDERWRITERS

It has been nearly five months since NextWave Telecom Inc., parent company of NextWave Personal Communications and NextWave Power Partners, submitted its S-1 filing...

AT CURRENT PACE, PCS AUCTIONS COULD LAST UNTIL LATE DECEMBER

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission continued to clear out the backlog of old C-block personal communications services business by finally issuing most of Meretel Communications...

EARNINGS DIGEST: ERICSSON REPORTS SALES ARE UP 19%

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson reported net sales of $4.28 billion for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, up 19 percent from net sales of $3.59...

TCI REMAINS PLEDGED TO PCS DESPITE SHIFT IN PHONE PHILOSOPHY

A change in business strategy for Tele-Communications Inc. isn't expected to shake up the basket of eggs for the wireless venture between Sprint Corp....

THOMAS REJECTS INTERCONNECT APPEAL

WASHINGTON-U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas chose to trick rather than treat the Federal Communications Commission Oct. 31 when he wrote "application denied" on...

PROFITABILITY IS TRUE TEST OF TELECOM ACQUISITIONS

NEW YORK-The new federal telecommunications law unleashed a flurry of mergers and acquisitions, but the true test of success will be profitability, not size."The...

TECORE MARKETS SOFTWARE AS KEY TO FUNCTIONAL PREPAID SOLUTIONS

NEW YORK-Will hardware yield to software for prepaid wireless services? Tecore, a Columbia, Md., technology company, is in business to facilitate the transition, which...

POCKET SECURES SERVICES, FINANCING

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. has signed a letter of intent to provide subscriber product packaging assembly and inventory management and fulfillment services to Pocket Communications Inc....

RETAIL CHANNEL IS DOMINANT VENUE FOR SELLING PCS

AUSTIN, Texas-More than half of all cellular and broadband personal communications services are sold through the retail channel, said IDC/Link Resources of Austin, Texas,...

PCS CALL MADE IN CINCINNATI

CINCINNATI-GTE Mobilnet Inc. initiated the first call on its personal communications services network to Cincinnati Mayor Roxanne Qualls in her office at Cincinnati City...

NEXTEL EXPANDS ACQUISITION STRATEGY WITH BRAZILIAN PURCHASE

Nextel Communications Inc. charted a new frontier in its acquisition strategy with plans to buy most of Wireless Ventures of Brazil Inc., owner of...

EON PERU TO DEPLOY REMOTE VENDING NETWORK

CHANTILLY, Va.-EON Corp.'s new international affiliate, EON Peru, has agreed to provide remote vending telemetry technology and software systems in Peru. According to an...

ONLY A FEW GET GLUT OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC PCS MONIES AVAILABLE

NEW YORK-The good news for emerging personal communications services players is that capital is available, and the investment community is bullish on wireless telephony...

WORLD BRIEFS

JV Digital Cellular Communications of Ukraine Ltd. placed an order, valued at $30 million, for L.M. Ericsson's fixed Digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service/AMPS cellular...

MULTIBAND PHONES CAUSE A MULTITUDE OF CONCERNS FOR CARRIERS

The introduction of new digital cellular and personal communications services standards in the United States and global markets has brought to bear the issue...

D.C. NOTES

If ever there was a week when the FCC bore the brunt of everyone's aggressions, it was last week; I heard Hundt & Co....

NATION BRIEFS

Centennial Cellular Corp. began marketing its cellular communications products and services under the name Centennial Wireless throughout its properties. The company formerly used the...

LEOS TO COOPERATE ON GLOBAL SPECTRUM

MONTREAL-Low-earth-orbit mobile satellite operators Globalstar L.P., Iridium L.L.C. and Odyssey Telecommunications International Inc. said they will cooperate in efforts to secure global authorization for...

SAFCO SHIFTS FROM ENGINEERING FOCUS TO MARKETING EVALUATIONS

The fervent growth of the wireless industry has turned into a gold mine of opportunities for Safco Technologies Inc.The Chicago-based company develops and provides...

NEXTWAVE OPENS REGIONAL FACILITY

BILLERICA, Mass.-NextWave Telecom Inc. opened its Northeast Regional Headquarters Monday, in Billerica, Mass.NextWave said 40 employees will work there initially but the company plans...
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