1996

Maybe it’s true, all this fuss about unlimited access at the White House. Access to spectrum, that is. President Clinton last week proposed a school reconstruction initiative that would be …

ARLINGTON, Va.-Omnipoint Corp. announced the successful completion of a follow-on public offering of 6.9 million shares of its common stock at $26 per share. The offering consisted of 4.5 million …

Equipment manufacturers with contracts to build personal communications services networks are more than rushed to get those systems up-they’re in an all-out run, said a business leader with a company …

WASHINGTON-The broadcast auction issue has reappeared on the political radar screen with the same intensity and fanfare that nearly upended the telecommunications reform bill earlier this year. This time around, …

WASHINGTON-After an explosive beginning to the re-auction of 18 C-block personal communications services licenses, the original pool of bidders decreased last week to seven, and no one bidder is dominant. …

Wireless providers are staying busy this summer. By the end of this week, the symbolic torch should arrive in Atlanta, starting the 1996 Olympic Games. Just weeks after that, San …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission’s fiscal 1997 budget was frozen at this year’s $185.6 million level by the House Commerce Appropriations Committee last week, leaving the agency without the $30 million …

Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. has entered into an agreement with Paging Network Inc. to offer PageNet’s wireless messaging services, including the company’s line of alphanumeric and numeric pagers. PageNet will …

NEW YORK-Measures of Olympic proportions undertaken by the heavyweights of industry have gone into developing the communications systems for the Summer Games, which begin July 19 in Atlanta. But amid …

LONDON-By the year 2005 there will be nearly 120 million cellular subscribers in Asia and the Pacific, according to a new study from CIT Research Ltd. In “Mobile Communications in …

DALLAS-A new chain of communications superstores called Communications Expo is scheduled to open its first store in Dallas next month, announced Paging Network Inc., which plans to distribute its line …

WASHINGTON-Fifty-eight arts, education and consumer groups signed off on a July 11 letter to five congressmen to “express*…*profound dismay” on their recent letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt …

U.K. wireless operator Orange plc claimed victory last week after a High Court judge dismissed a complaint made by Vodafone Group plc following the launch of a comparative ad campaign …

ProNet Inc. paid Motorola Inc.’s Messaging Information and Media Sector $43 million cash for its 931.9 MHz nationwide one-way paging license and associated Embarc system equipment, announced the companies. “This …

DEXTER, Mich.-ReCellular Inc. announced it has reached an agreement with personal communications services provider American Personal Communications to acquire and remanufacture its traded-in cellular phones. The company said it will …

Lone personal communications services provider Pacific Bell Mobile Systems, regional cellular carriers, paging providers and rental companies will try to leave no stone unturned when it comes to providing wireless …

WASHINGTON-Claiming that nationwide paging provider SkyTel Corp. has robbed it of prime customers and millions of dollars in lost revenues, paging reseller Time Signal International Corp. filed a complaint late …

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. will deploy Cincinnati Bell Information Systems’ Precedent 2000 Wireless Business Management Solution for its personal communications services network. Sprint Spectrum said it has signed a …

Editor’s Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of the 20 largest wireless equipment dealers in the United States based on survey responses and interviews with …

Paging Network Inc. of Dallas is introducing a paging service that allows its customers to receive unlimited pages with no monthly fees. What’s the catch? Value Page is a caller …

Alerting all couch potatoes, VideoGuide Inc.’s state-of-the-art television enhancement service delivers real-time news and information, wirelessly, and is a seven-day TV program guide and one-touch VCR recording device all in …

Does anyone have any common sense any more? (And if they do, are they willing to auction it off to the highest bidder?) While the GOP-led Congress debates what to …

WASHINGTON-Members of an association representing small and minority-owned businesses have banded together with local attorneys and several C-block personal communications services auction winners in a campaign to persuade the Federal …

L.M. Ericsson has signed a three-year contract with JT Mobiles Ltd. to supply digital cellular Global System for Mobile communications systems in India. Ericsson said it will supply and install …

SAN FRANCISCO-The wireless alliance of AirTouch Cellular and Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile has contracted with InfoNXX Inc. to supply directory assistance services in the majority of alliance markets nationwide. Easton, …