1996

WASHINGTON-President Clinton last week nominated former wireless regulator Regina Keeney to the Federal Communications Commission, an appointment that while popular could run into delays in the Senate because of the …

Wireless analysts say cellular carriers have two distinct goals in releasing a barrage of pricing plans at this time. Get as many customers on contract as possible, and confuse the …

CHICAGO-MobiLink, a service development company owned by an alliance of North America’s leading B-side wireless service providers, has unveiled a new logo design. MobiLink, founded in 1993 by a group …

FORT WORTH-Motorola Inc.’s Messaging Systems Products Group has released an enhanced version of its FLEX high-speed, one-way paging protocol. Version 1.8 of the FLEX protocol offers backwards compatibility with previous …

JACKSON, Miss.-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. said it successfully completed a consent solicitation approving certain amendments to the indenture of its 13.5 percent Senior Notes, due 2002. Under the amended terms, …

NEW YORK-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp., a 38 GHz provider of wireless local loop service, announced Aug. 1 it had pulled a planned initial public offering of common stock and a …

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Mobile Phones K.K. (Japan) has introduced the Nokia Digital Data/Fax Card to the Japanese digital cellular networks. The card enables wireless data transmission linking Nokia’s digital mobile phones …

AVON, Colo.-NSN Network Services introduced Broadcast TNPP for paging networking, technology that combines Telocator Network Paging Protocol sources from a number of locations into one data stream, enabling point-to-multipoint communications …

Next to the bad guys, perhaps the biggest danger to America last week was the government as Congress and President Clinton worked frantically to craft an anti-terrorism bill before lawmakers …

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-U.S. Olympic athletes in Atlanta communicated with their coaches, teammates, friends, family and press using OlymPagers, alphanumeric pagers that Motorola Inc. provided to each Team USA athlete. The …

LE MANS, France-Philips Electronics North America Corp. has appointed Osmo Hautanen president of Philips Consumer Communications Co., a seven-month-old Le Mans, France-based subsidiary of Philips Electronics. Hautanen will oversee Philips’ …

NEW YORK-PriCellular Corp. last week scaled down a planned secondary Class A common stock offering to 2.5 million shares, from the 3.6 million shares anticipated in the preliminary offering statement. …

RICHARDSON, Texas-PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. has chosen Alcatel Telecom to install SX digital cross connect systems in PrimeCo’s personal communications services switching stations in 11 areas across the United States. …

ProNet Inc. of Plano, Texas, released bleak second-quarter financial results, said its proposed merger with Teletouch Communications Inc. was mutually terminated and is fighting a class action lawsuit filed by …

Anne Bingaman, the government’s antitrust czar who reviewed huge telecommunications mergers and took on computer software giant Microsoft Inc., said she will leave the Clinton administration later this year. “The …

WASHINGTON-With less than a ringing endorsement from two commissioners, the Federal Communications Commission last week adopted hybrid radiofrequency exposure guidelines that may violate a new law regarding technical standards used …

ESPOO, Finland- Sapura Digital Sdn. Bhd. and Nokia Telecommunications signed a long-term agreement for the expansion of Sapura’s nationwide personal communications network in Malaysia, said Nokia. This agreement is the …

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.-Western Wireless Corp. has turned on a personal communications services network in the Albuquerque, N.M.-El Paso, Texas, major trading area. The company’s service is branded VoiceStream Wireless and is …

For those who are banking on the growth of specialized mobile radio during the next few years, there is good news and there is good news. The good news is: …

Taiwan opens to wireless tradeWASHINGTON-The Clinton administration said Taiwan has agreed to open its wireless market as part of an overall effort to liberalize telecommunications in that country. The move …

NEW YORK-TeleTech, a Denver-based customer care service provider, planned to go public last week with 4 million shares of common stock priced from $14.50 to $16.50 each. At the end …

NEW YORK-High-technology companies have benefited in recent years from the robust market for initial public stock offerings, which in turn encourages venture capital investments. But even the most vigorous IPO …

CTIA President Tom Wheeler called it the biggest issue facing the wireless industry in 1996. Last Thursday, he simply said, “Hooray.” The Federal Communications Commission revamped interconnect agreements last week …

NEW YORK-Citing poor market conditions, WinStar Communications Inc. announced July 30 it was halting an add-on stock offering of 4 million shares and a concurrent $200 million debt issue, both …

WASHINGTON-Starting the week united but ending it divided, President Clinton and a bipartisan congressional group struggled to agree on an anti-terrorism bill to give law enforcement expanded wiretap authority and …