Yearly Archives: 1996

CITIES FIGHT POST OFFICE OVER SITES

The village of Schaumburg, Ill., and the city of Half Moon Bay, Calif., allege the U.S. Postal Service is overstepping its legal bounds for...

CONGRESS DEBATES FUTURE OF WORLD’S MSS MARKET

WASHINGTON-Having spent the better part of the 104th Congress reforming domestic telecommunications policy, lawmakers gave notice last week of their intention to make international...

BUSINESS & FINANCE: FIRMS WILL DEVELOP PC PAGER SOFTWARE 360 REDUCES RATES FOR N.C. ROAMING

TEL AVIV, Israel-Nexus Telecommunication Systems Ltd. and Ex Machina Inc. have agreed to develop personal computer-based message entry and retrieval software to operate with...

BELLCORE SALE NOT APPROVED, COMING SOON IBM AND NORAND TEAM UP FOR PDAS

MORRISTOWN, N.J.-Bellcore said its board of directors has not yet approved the sale of the company, although a California defense contractor is believed to...

ROMANIAN GSM LICENSES TO BE IS SUED IN OCTOBER AFTER DELAYS

The Romanian government received applications from four consortia for two Global System for Mobile communications licenses, reported MobiFon, one bidding group. The deadline for...

PCSD WILL PROVIDE MESSAGING SERVICE TO METROCALL INC.

GREENVILLE, S.C.-PCS Development Corp. announced it has agreed to provide mobile voice messaging services to Metrocall Inc. for one year.Currently, PCSD is developing a...

WHEN TELECOM PACS COME CALLING, FIRMS LET $$ TALK

WASHINGTON-When it comes to getting a say in telecommunications policymaking in the nation's capital, firms let their dollars do the talking. And, oh, how...

MOTOROLA, MIT PARTNER TO DEVELOP FUTURE PAGING APPLICATIONS

The futuresque communications previously only envisioned by StarTrek's writers are reality in the here and now as demonstrated at PCS '96 by students of...

BUSINESS & FINANCE: AIRTOUCH ADD N.Y. TO PAGING NETWORK GTE, LUCENT SHOW CROSS SPECTRUM, CELLULAR-PCS CALL

SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Paging, a division of AirTouch Communications Inc., announced it will add New York City to its paging network. AirTouch currently serves several...

NINE C-BLOCK WINNERS DEFAULT AS CURRENT PCS AUCTIONS CONTINUE

WASHINGTON-The D-, E- and F-block personal communications services auction topped $1 billion last week, while nine more bidders defaulted in the C-block auction.The defaults...

GRAB ‘N GO TARGETED TO MEET NEEDS OF INFREQUENT PAGING USER

The option to pay in advance for wireless service is booming in the cellular industry. The same trend may soon spread in paging.Grab 'n...

BUSINESS & FINANCE: WIRELESS DEVICES BENEFIT FROM MICROSOFT PLATFORM

The market for handheld devices may get a shot in the arm now that Microsoft Corp. has introduced Windows CE, a 32-bit operating system...

BUSINESS & FINANCE: AIRTOUCH ADD N.Y. TO PAGING NETWORK GTE, LUCENT SHOW CROSS SPECTRUM, CELLULAR-PCS CALL

SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Paging, a division of AirTouch Communications Inc., announced it will add New York City to its paging network. AirTouch currently serves several...

METAWAVE OFFERS PRODUCT TO EX PAND CELL SITE COVERAGE

REDMOND, Wash.-Metawave Communications Corp. is offering a new product for Code Division Multiple Access networks that can expand the coverage of cell sites.The Metawave...

AMC NOW OFFERS PAGING SERVICES VIA PRONET IN NY

NEW YORK-Affordable Message Center, an alphanumeric paging reseller, announced it began offering numeric paging services on ProNet Inc's. frequencies to all of its indirect...

BUSINESS & FINANCE: NEC'S BEACON DATA PAGER WILL TARGET PERSONAL COMPUTER USERS

NEC America Inc. introduced what it believes to be the first in a new class of pagers: The Beacon data pager.The device is a one-way...

INTERNATIONAL: CHINA'S MPT PICKS MOTOROLA TO SUPPLY FLEX-BASED SYSTEM

BEIJING-China Telecom, a division of the country's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, has selected Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Group to supply infrastructure equipment to...

AIRNET WILL DELIVER NETWORK, SER VICES TO KY. PCS CARRIER

MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp. announced it will supply personal communications services wireless infrastructure equipment and services to Kentucky-based SouthEast Telephone Ltd., a license winner...

EUGENE VOTES FOR 120-DAY MORATORIUM

EUGENE, Ore.-The Eugene City Council voted Sept. 16 to put in place a 120-day moratorium on tower building in the area, but accepted applications...

PHILIPS INKS LICENSING CONTRACT TO MANUFACTURE FLEX PRODUCTS

SAN FRANCISCO-Philips Electronics NV of the Netherlands and Motorola Inc. announced a cross-licensing agreement giving Philips access to the FLEX family of messaging technologies,...

CHIPSET FIRM GAINS ACCESS TO NPCS UNDER FLEX LICENSING PACT

Wireless Access Inc.-recently licensed to incorporate the ReFLEX protocol in its integrated circuit chipset-is guided by a twofold business philosophy, said Tim Williams, founder...

TRADE GROUPS LOBBY AGAINST FBI INITIATIVES

WASHINGTON-While carriers, manufacturers and the FBI continue to argue about digital wiretap implementation, the wireless telecom industry is quietly lobbying Congress to keep personal...

FAA ATTEMPT TO CHARGE FOR AN TENNA SITING CLEARANCE DOESN’T FLY

WASHINGTON-The wireless telecommunications industry last week downed a stealth Federal Aviation Administration effort to raise millions of dollars by charging carriers to process antenna...

GLENAYRE RELEASES INTERNET GATEWAY

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies' Wireless Messaging Group introduced the GL3200, which is a gateway from the Internet to both one- and two-way paging, delivering text...

GLENAYRE TECHNOLOGIES REPORTS APPROVAL OF STOCK REPURCHASE

NEW YORK-Glenayre Technologies Inc. authorized its management Sept. 25 to repurchase up to 2.5 million shares, or 4 percent of the company's common stock,...
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