1996

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

CDMA supporters are buzzing with the prospect of entry into China. Wireless local loop trials have started and recent activities suggest China is interested in Code Division Multiple Access technology …

Vanguard Cellular Systems Inc. said it acquired all the cellular assets of the nonwireline West Virginia 6 rural service area for $16.7 million as part of a property swap agreement …

BOSTON-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile announced it has signed a deal to provide its Cellscape service to Walsh Messenger Service Inc., a delivery company serving the New York City metropolitan area. …

NEW YORK-A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni has determined that wireless handsets need a certain aura about them in order to be conveniently hands-free when used. Two years …

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas-Allgon Enterprises Inc. and Teledyne Electronic Technologies have teamed up to develop and manufacture plastic technology for certain key wireless communications applications. The Allgon Enterprises and Teledyne Electronic …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Mark Golden, senior vice president of Industry Affairs for the Personal Communications Industry Association, has been accepted as a voting member of the Federal Communications Commission’s North American Numbering …

WASHINGTON-Aside from a computer glitch that pushed the auction of D-, E-and F-block broadband personal communications services licenses back to one round per day, bidders now are coping with the …

CLEVELAND-Allen Telecom Group will introduce seven new products at PCS ’96 this week. The PMR-722GC1 Sector-Extender Repeater and a new line of tower mounted amplifiers are designed to enhance base …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola’s Cellular Infrastructure Group plans to begin implementing an emergency call location identification system called “Wireless E911,” during the second quarter of 1997. With Wireless E911, the public …

VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Following successful completion of field trials of Northern Telecom Ltd.’s 800 MHz Code Division Multiple Access network, BC Tel Mobility has committed to move forward with full commercial …

NEW YORK-Metricom Inc. will mark its second commercial launch within a month when it begins offering its data-only wireless Internet access services in late September in the Washington, D.C., area. …

NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular S.A. has reached an agreement in principle to exchange its option to acquire 20 percent of Comviq GSM AB, the Swedish cellular telephone operator, in return …

As an embattled small business curmudgeon and wireless industry activist, I find it necessary to respond to Federal Communications Commission spokesperson Michele Farquhar’s recent letter that appeared in the July …

WASHINGTON-The U.S. low-earth-orbit data satellite market may end up far less competitive than envisioned as policymakers struggle to craft rules around a smaller-than-anticipated spectrum allocation capable of supporting only a …

This paper will show that wireless local loop systems provide more capacity than mobile cellular systems. Code Division Multiple Access technology has proven to have higher capacity than other multiple …

WASHINGTON-Organized labor wants to make inroads in the wireless telecommunications industry as part of a broad makeover to regain political clout that has been waning for the past two decades. …

The abundance of new wireless licenses in Indonesia could have as much to do with politics as market opportunity, said a Pennsylvania State University college professor who specializes in international …

ATLANTA-Focusing attention on GTE Corp.’s corporate identity, GTE Mobilnet Inc. will start referring to the company as just “GTE” in some of its marketing efforts. Ron Grawert, executive vice president …

Some Personal Communications Services contenders are looking to differentiate themselves in the new age of wireless competition with data services based on the established Global System for Mobile communications standard. …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-The Wireless Messaging Group of Glenayre Technologies Inc. and Paging Network Inc., a wireless messaging company with 7.9 million subscribers, teamed up to install Motorola Inc.’s InFLEXion voice messaging …