Yearly Archives: 1996

MCI SPREADS COVERAGE FOOTPRINT

ATLANTA-MCI Communications Corp. began offering cellular service in Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston on Wednesday, bringing its coverage footprint up to one-third of the U.S....

AIRTOUCH ACQUIRES CCI CELLULAR ONE

NEW YORK-AirTouch Communications Inc., San Francisco, announced last week it completed its acquisition of Cellular Communications Inc.At a special meeting, 99 percent of shareholders...

MOTOROLA LICENSES INFLEXION PROTOCOL

FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group has licensed Wireless Access Inc. for the InFLEXion voice protocol.Wireless Access now is licensed for all...

MOTOROLA CHOOSES CONTEST WINNERS

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc. announced the winners of its second annual pager design competition for college student designers. The enormous growth in pager use...

NASDAQ CHANGES PRODUCE STRONGER STOCK MARKET

NEW YORK-Recent Securities and Exchange Commission censure of Nasdaq, a stock market that lists many wireless-related companies, is just one of several drivers of...

D.C. NOTES

Were there not enough sports metaphors in politics already, the addition of former Buffalo Bills quarterback, congressman and Housing secretary Jack Kemp to the...

JAPAN TAKES ITS OWN ROAD

If you look at a list of nations supporting commercial Global System for Mobile communications networks, Japan is conspicuously absent from the list.Its neighbor,...

OMNIPOINT CHOOSES ORGA FOR SIM CARDS

MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J.-Personal communications services operator Omnipoint Communications Inc. has chosen Paoli, Penn.-based Orga Card Systems to supply subscriber identity modules, or smart cards.Under...

OMNIPOINT $150M OFFER TO FI NANCE NY PCS BUILD

NEW YORK-Omnipoint Corp. raised $250 million in gross proceeds in its sale of 10-year senior notes Thursday to help finance the buildout of its...

MOTOROLA ENTERS CHINESE VENTURE

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia-Motorola Inc. has bought a 38 percent stake in a joint venture company that will build a digital radio network in China....

FIRMS JOIN TO FIGHT ACTIVATION FRAUD

WALTHAM, Mass.-Lightbridge Inc. and Trans Union announced a strategic alliance that will equip the wireless industry with a fraud detection tool designed to reduce...

LICENSEES MIGHT EXPAND BY AC QUIRING `DOUGHNUTS’

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission apparently has come up with a winning plan to expand its current rules regarding partitioning and spectrum disaggregation by commercial...

THE SKINNY ON PHS

Operates between 1895 MHz and 1918.1 MHz frequenciesUses Time Division Multiple Access-Time Division Duplex technologyChannel bandwidth supports high-quality voice and data traffic32 kbps adaptive...

SPRINT NOTE ISSUE DOWNSIZED, DELAYED

NEW YORK-Sprint Spectrum L.P. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Sprint Spectrum Finance Corp., sold a $523 million note issue Tuesday, the same day the...

DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM STRESSES TECHNOLOGY

WASHINGTON - The Democratic platform of the party's national convention this week in Chicago will stress technology and applaud the historic enactment of the...

SPECTRUM AUCTIONS PLAY LARGE ROLE IN PLATFORMS

WASHINGTON-Democrats will meet this week in Chicago to launch President Clinton's re-election campaign and try to take away the bounce that the Republican national...

NOKIA COMPETES FOR AND WINS LONDON UNDERGROUND CONTRACT

Nokia Telecommunications said it fought against strong competition to win the private radio contract for the London Underground Northern Line, which is valued at...

MORE DEBATE EXPECTED ON DIGITAL WIRETAP FUNDING, ANTITERRORISM

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration and Congress are expected to clash on anti-terrorism legislation when lawmakers return to Washington next week, with renewed debate anticipated on...

ERICSSON GE WILL PAY BUILDOUT FINES ON FLORIDA COUNTY SYSTEM

WASHINGTON-Sometime this week, the Hillsborough County, Fla., Sheriff's Department should be able to use most capabilities of an $18 million Enhanced Digital Access Communications...

FRANCE TELECOM COULD CHANGE ITS STRATEGY AS A PRIVATE ENTITY

Competition strategies used by France Telecom may change a little now that the national company has become a private entity, researchers say."As a private...

FTC SETTLES WITH PAGING MILL

WASHINGTON-Richard Basile, president of On Line Communications, a Las Vegas-based paging applications mill, reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission to return nearly...

MANDL WILL LEAVE AT&T TO TAKE ON NEW VENTURE

Of late, the move from corporate executive to born again entrepreneur is not uncommon in wireless.But still it comes as a surprise Alex Mandl...

GLENAYRE TO ACQUIRE CNET STOCK

Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Cnet Inc., a Plano, Texas-based provider of engineering software tools for wireless communications...

SWIFT WIRELESS BUILDOUT LEADS TO EMPLOYEE DROUGHT

The colossal growth of the wireless industry, in particular the buildout of personal communications services and digital cellular networks, has created a supply-and-demand problem-too...

FCC AIMS TO CHANGE HOW LECS GOVERN THEIR WIRELESS BUSINESSES

WASHINGTON-A lengthy notice of proposed rulemaking adopted July 25 by the Federal Communications Commission but not released until Aug. 13, "initiates a comprehensive review...
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