1996

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. population. The company is expected to …

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 voting, representing about 82 percent …

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 three two-way protocols, the InFLEXion, …

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 by children and teenagers prompted Motorola …

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 significant changes ahead for the financial …

Were there not enough sports metaphors in politics already, the addition of former Buffalo Bills quarterback, congressman and Housing secretary Jack Kemp to the Dole prez ticket has made matters …

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, China, has numerous GSM systems, …

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 the terms of the agreement …

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 personal communications services network in the …

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. The company will use Motorola’s integrated …

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 the risk of activating potentially fraudulent …

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 mobile services licensees. Many current personal …

Operates between 1895 MHz and 1918.1 MHz frequencies Uses Time Division Multiple Access-Time Division Duplex technology Channel bandwidth supports high-quality voice and data traffic 32 kbps adaptive differential pulse code …

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 Federal Reserve Board said it wouldn’t …

WASHINGTON – The Democratic platform of the party’s national convention this week in Chicago will stress technology and applaud the historic enactment of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as well …

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 conventional gave to the Dole-Kemp ticket …

Nokia Telecommunications said it fought against strong competition to win the private radio contract for the London Underground Northern Line, which is valued at $15 million. Nokia will supply and …

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 expanded wiretap and digital telephony wiretap …

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 Systems radio system being installed by …

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 company, they have to be …

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 $40,000 in funds to the commission …

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 would leave his post as …

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 systems. Glenayre said the purchase will …

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 many jobs and not enough people. …

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 of our existing regulatory framework of …