Yearly Archives: 1996

APPLIED BUYS ATI TO BOOST MARKETING

NIXA, Mo.-Applied Cellular Technology Inc. acquired ATI Communications of Bethel Park, Pa. The acquisition was announced in June and completed Oct. 15, although Aug....

SPRINT PCS SECURES BUILDOUT FINANCING FROM EQUIPMENT VENDORS

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint PCS has closed two vendor credit agreements and a bank credit agreement to be used for Sprint's nationwide personal communications services...

PHILIPPINE WILL DEAL IS ONE OF MOTOROLA’S LARGEST

Motorola Inc.'s Asia Pacific Cellular Infrastructure Group has signed a contract valued at more than $100 million to deploy a fixed wireless telephone network...

CORAL TAKES FRAUD FIGHT PUBLIC

NEW YORK-Fraud fighter Coral Systems Inc. plans to go public in an offering that could raise more than $20 million.Coral, which provides client-server software...

GSM MOU PLANS TO CREATE MULTI BAND WORLDPHONE

DUBLIN, Ireland-The GSM MoU Association is interested in creating a multiband WorldPhone that operates at 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 1900 MHz."Global roaming is...

PEOPLE

J.D. Power and Associates appointed Joanne Codella its new manager of wireless services. Her responsibilities will include managing syndicated and proprietary customer satisfaction studies...

GRECIAN TELEPHONE CARRIER LOOKS FOR WIRELESS SUITORS

Sixteen wireless operators have made the cut to be considered possible partners for Greece's government telephone company.Watching the success of the country's two private...

CELLULAR IN GREECE

Panafon SA, Athens. Global System for Mobile communications cellular system built by L.M. Ericsson. Owned by Vodafone (45 percent), France Telecom (35 percent), Data...

STOCK MARKET REACTS NEGATIVELY TO AT&T’S WALTER

NEW YORK-John R. Walter, chief executive officer of printing company R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., will assume the presidency of AT&T Corp. Nov. 1,...

AUDIOVOX SEEKS APPROVAL ON SWAP

NEW YORK-Audiovox Corp. will seek shareholder approval next month to exchange outstanding debt for common stock in order to improve its financial strength and...

PRICELLULAR ISSUES $140M DEBT TO PAY FOR CELLULAR PURCHASES

NEW YORK-PriCellular Wireless Corp. plans to issue $140 million in senior unsecured debt, mostly to finance its acquisition of four clustered rural cellular properties...

HIGHWAYMASTER ENTERS CONTRACT WITH AMERITRUCK

DALLAS-HighwayMaster Corp. will install 2,000 mobile communications systems in AmeriTruck Distribution Corp.'s fleets nationwide, HighwayMaster said.AmeriTruck Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael Lawrence said...

D.C. NOTES

As the Clinton administration and the wireless industry reach for the stars with lofty purpose, each would be well advised to heed the call...

PCS DEVELOPMENT CORP. TAKES ON NEW NAME TO REFLECT MISSION

PCS Development Corp. has changed its name to Conxus Communications. The company believes the new name will better reflect its voice and messaging business.Conxus-pronounced...

J.D. POWER, SAFCO TO PRODUCE STUDIES ON TELECOM MARKET

AGOURA HILLS, Calif.-J.D. Power and Associates announced it will jointly produce additional studies on the wireless telecommunications market with Safco Technologies Inc., a company...

ILLUMINET, COLUMBIA TO HELP SMALL PCS NEW CALL CENTER TO SERVE SIX STATES

OLYMPIA, Wash.-Illuminet and Columbia Spectrum Management said they are helping small personal communications services providers clear spectrum using Columbia Spectrum's services. PCS license winners...

DIGITAL SHOOTOUT STARTS IN SAN DIEGO: CARRIERS OFFER SERVICE NOV. 1

When Pacific Bell Mobile Services launches commercial GSM-based personal communications services this Friday in San Diego, it will do so alongside a quiet competitor....

LABOR, ENVIRONMENTALISTS TEAM AGAINST ANTENNAS

WASHINGTON-Environmentalists have teamed up with organized labor to block antenna siting and publicize alleged health risks from pocket telephones in a potent grass roots...

BROWN’S RECORDS TO BE STUDIED IN TRADE MISSION INVESTIGATIONS

WASHINGTON-A conservative watchdog group convinced a federal judge to force the Commerce Department to turn over documents of former Secretary Ron Brown in connection...

SMR CONSENSUS PROPOSAL GENER ALLY FINDS FAVOR WITHIN INDUSTRY

WASHINGTON-The consensus agreement formulated earlier this year by the American Mobile Telecommunications Association, SMR Won, Nextel Communications Inc. and the Personal Communications Industry Association...

CALENDAR

OCTOBER28-29 Mergers & Acquisitions in Media and Communications, by Management Circle. The New York Helmsley, New York. (800) 338-3004.28-29 New Paradigms in Telecommunications Research...

ARGENTINE CARRIER WILL EXPAND FLEX LICENSING CONTRACT

FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Group and Radiomensaje, an Argentina-based national and regional paging service provider, signed an agreement to expand Radiomensaje's FLEX...

WIRELESS INDUSTRY HOPES TO WOO HOLIDAY GIFT GIVERS

The wireless industry is primed to woo holiday shoppers this season to their stable of products, offering service that is inexpensive and easy to...

WORLD BRIEFS

Korean telephone service provider Shinsegi Telecomm Inc. awarded Lucent Technologies Inc. a contract to supply and install a Code Division Multiple Access-technology based cellular...

PRODUCTS:

Tektronix Inc. announced a new capability for the R3465 Modulation Spectrum Analyzer, which is made by Japan-based Advantest Corp. and marketed in North America...
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