1996

SARNIA, Ontario-AVL Information Systems and Cincinnati Microwave Inc. announced the QWaveWriter, a system for cellular carriers that provides a comprehensive tool for monitoring signal strength. The product was developed by …

MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp. announced a strategic alliance with Comsyst Pty Ltd. of Sydney, Australia, to distribute and support AirNet’s software-based, broadband wireless infrastructure equipment products and systems in the …

In the vein of 007 and his accessory antics, Seiko Communications of America is making it possible to receive pages, security-coded messages and other information by watch, and soon by …

Exports of telecommunications equipment increased 5 percent during the first six months of this year compared to the same period in 1995, according to the Telecommunications Industry Association. However, the …

TRENTON, N.J.-To paraphrase an old Barbra Streisand song, “On a rainy day, you can hear forever,” even when making a call to Colorado from a car parked beneath a water …

Editor’s Note: RCR compiled this list of International Cellular Markets based on information supplied by Washington, D.C.-based Economic and Management Consultants International Inc. and the Office of Telecommunications, U.S. Department …

IRVINE, Calif.-Wireless messaging services as well as online capabilities are accessible via television, using Cue Network Corp.’s UniversalMessage system in conjunction with UniView, by Curtis Mathes Corp., announced Cue. UniView …

InterDigital Communications Corp. announced it has signed a contract valued at $43 million to provide UltraPhone Time Division Multiple Access digital wireless loop systems to the Pakistan Telecommunications Co. Ltd. …

Polska Telefonica Cyfrowa of Poland started its “Era GSM” Global System for Mobile communications service, offered at rates lower than those of existing operator Centertel, announced U S West Media …

Dennis Miller is the new president of Midwest Wireless Communications, the company taking over management of Cellular 2000. The transition between MWC and Cellular 2000’s current management company, Pacific Telecom …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. announced it has established a strategic alliance with Bell Atlantic Corp. to offer paging and messaging services. Bell Atlantic will provide Metrocall paging services under the Bell …

Judging from information provided in Form 175s submitted prior to the Federal Communications Commission’s auction of D-, E- and F-block personal communications services licenses, small rural telephone companies-backed by established …

WASHINGTON, D.C.-There were 38.2 million cellular and personal communications services subscribers at the end of June, a penetration rate of 14.5 percent, according to a new survey from the Cellular …

WASHINGTON-In a formal ceremony Sept. 16 attended by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt and Assistant Secretary of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Larry Irving, the Public Safety Wireless …

Have a good day, honey … and don’t forget your transponder! Ahh, those loving words our children will someday bark at their spouses as they head out the door for …

WASHINGTON-U.S. manufacturers have begun mounting a counter offensive to what they see as a European-led, anticompetitive effort to restrict global wireless standards for third generation pocket phones. The controversy surfaced …

Digital wireless technologies were designed to answer issues of quality, capacity and cost. But by releasing huge swaths of new spectrum, the Federal Communications Commission has changed the rules, and …

The government may have auction fever, but companies are betting the 2.4 GHz band won’t be disturbed, and it will continue to be a free industrial, scientific and medical band. …

The European Commission has invited comment on the Iridium satellite system and its impact on European mobile communications, although the EC has said it “intends to take a favorable view” …

There is a plus side to targeted marketing, where companies and conservative groups have created win/win situations-where nobody gets hurt and nothing is compromised. Case in point: Vienna, Va.-based Cable …

WASHINGTON-President Clinton’s nomination of Regina Keeney to sit on the Federal Communications Commission appears dead for this year, maybe for good. With only a few weeks left before Congress adjourns …

Open standards must be developed so smart cards can integrate with personal computers, according to a group of PC manufacturers and smart card developers that have banded together to make …

Mr. Silva, I’ve often wondered what’s wrong with our country and then I hear the diatribe like spending on human capital, which falls so easily off your pen and I …

Hosting this week’s PCS ’96 conference and expo in San Francisco is Jay Kitchen, president of the Personal Communications Industry Association; as many as 15,000 people are expected to attend …

SALINA, Kan.-Kansas Cellular, a provider of rural cellular phone service, announced the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp. has ranked it the state’s second fastest-growing technology firm. KTEC tracked technology-oriented companies from …