Yearly Archives: 1996

FIRMS FIND SPREAD SPECTRUM BEST TECHNOLOGY FOR 2.4 GHZ BAND

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...

LETTERS: GOVERNMENT SHOULD GET OUT OF THE WAY OF BUSINESS PEOPLE

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...

KANSAS CELLULAR WINS TECH. AWARD

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...

MANUFACTURERS REPORT STANDARDS WILL DRIVE SMART CARD MARKET

Open standards must be developed so smart cards can integrate with personal computers, according to a group of PC manufacturers and smart card developers...

KEENEY’S NOMINATION FOR SEAT ON FCC IS BLEAK FOR THIS YEAR

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...

CDMA MAY ENTER CHINA AS GSM NETWORK FILLS UP

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...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

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...

MESSENGER SERVICE USES CELLSCAPE

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...

AURA CHIPSET DESIGNED TO IMPROVE HANDS-FREE WIRELESS QUALITY

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...

ALLGON, TELEDYNE TEAM UP TO MAKE FILTERS, DUPLEXERS

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...

AT DEADLINE: GOLDEN ACCEPTED AS NANC MEMBER

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...

PCS AUCTION ACTION CONTINUES AS BIDDING INTENSITY INCREASES

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,...

ATG TO PREMIERE NEW WARES AT PCS

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...

MOTOROLA TO DEPLOY E911 IDENTIFICATION

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...

BC TEL MOBILITY MOVES FORWARD WITH ROLLOUT OF CDMA SERVICE

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...

SUCCESS IN SEATTLE LEADS METRICOM SYSTEM TO D.C.

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...

MILLICOM INTERNATIONAL CELLULAR MAKES DEAL FOR NETCOM SHARES

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...

LETTERS: AUCTIONS DON’T AID SMALL BUSINESSES

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...

LEO SPECTRUM CONCERNS AD DRESSED BY FCC, NTIA

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...

THE CASE FOR BUILDING CDMA-BASED WIRELESS LOCAL LOOP NETWORKS

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

ORGANIZED LABOR IS LOOKING TO WIRELESS INDUSTRY TO REGAIN CLOUT

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...

POLITICS IS REASON FOR ABUNDANCE OF PCS LICENSES IN INDONESIA

The abundance of new wireless licenses in Indonesia could have as much to do with politics as market opportunity, said a Pennsylvania State University...

GTE MOBILNET DROPS MOBILNET REFERENCE

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...

PCS PROVIDERS LOOK TO GSM TO DIFFERENTIATE MOBILE DATA SERVICE

Some Personal Communications Services contenders are looking to differentiate themselves in the new age of wireless competition with data services based on the established...

GLENAYRE, PAGENET SUCCESSFULLY TEST INFLEXION PRODUCT

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...
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