Yearly Archives: 1996

WORLD BRIEFS

Millicom International Cellular S.A. said its worldwide operations showed record subscriber growth during the third quarter, adding more than 62,000 new cellular subscribers. The...

PALMER WIRELESS AUTHORIZES STOCK REPURCHASE PLAN

FORT MEYERS, Fla.-Palmer Wireless Inc. announced its board of directors has authorized a repurchase program of up to 600,000 shares of the company's class...

Mobile Data Carriers

D.C. NOTES

I had the strange sensation of deja vu all over again reporting on antitrust implications of Nextel Communications Inc.'s proposed buy-out of Pittencrieff Communications...

APPEALS COURT STAY DECISION STILL PENDING

ST. LOUIS-The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit released the briefing schedule for arguments regarding the Federal Communications Commission's interconnection and local...

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...

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....

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...

PEOPLE

Luis M. Larralde is the new international area manager for Hutton Communications Inc. His responsibilities will include establishing new accounts and generating business in...

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...

POCKET PHONE INTERFERENCE WITH PACEMAKERS CAN BE CONTROLLED

WASHINGTON-Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. last week declared digital pocket phone interference with cardiac pacemakers not to be a public health problem, saying interference problems...

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...

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...

PAGING INDUSTRY TAPS INTO TEEN MARKET

The voices of young people are getting louder in the paging industry.Paging manufacturers and carriers have discovered just how "cool" teenagers and young adults...

MOBILEMEDIA MARKS QUARTER WITH RASH OF BAD NEWS

MobileMedia Corp. marked the end of the third quarter with poor earnings, anticipated bank covenant violations, increased churn, a decrease in net new subscribers...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

D.C. NOTES

Dr. George Carlo, head of Wireless Technology Research L.L.C., is a tough one to figure.Should we feel sorry for Carlo because of the lawsuits...

POLKOMTEL BEGINS POLISH GSM SERVICE ON ITS COMPETITOR’S HEELS

International consortium Polkomtel started Global System for Mobile communications cellular service in Poland just seven months after receiving its license and two weeks after...

FIRMS OFFER REMOTE DATA

WAUKESHA, Wis.-Metrix Inc., along with Itronix, Ram Mobile Data USA L.P. and Racotek Corp. have started a marketing relationship to offer a fully integrated,...

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...
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