1996

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, …

A Canadian company believes it is backing a revolutionary antenna that will advance the wireless industry. “There is no antenna to outperform it currently,” said John Robertson, president of IAS …

WASHINGTON-As expected, Los Angeles specialized mobile radio operator James Kay, with whom the Federal Communications Commission has had a running dispute over 152 licenses since 1994, has petitioned the agency …

NEW YORK-Korea Mobile Telecommunications Group went public June 27 with a $338 million offering of American Depository Shares trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The initial public offering of …

WASHINGTON-The National Paging and Personal Communications Association is leading an effort to challenge new rules that tighten financial requirements for small business bidders in the D, E and F block …

NEW YORK-The investment community is taking a second, less optimistic look at paging, at least in the near term, given ProNet Inc.’s recently announced troubles-the latest unwelcome news in this …

Don Winters has been named vice president of business development at Coral Systems Inc. Winters will be responsible for all business development efforts, including Coral’s partnership with Cincinnati Bell Information …

WASHINGTON-Of the 89 winners of C-block personal communications services licenses last May, only four were singled out by seven other entities who seek to have the Federal Communications Commission either …

Casio PhoneMate Inc. has introduced a new product that combines an answering machine with Pager Link, a device that automatically calls a user’s pager whenever a new message is received …

NEW YORK-Gaetano Rainone, who purchased 100 of the 4 million common stock shares ProNet Inc. sold at $25 each May 31, has sued the paging company, charging it misled investors. …

WASHINGTON-A terse, two-line order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit gave the Federal Communications Commission the go-ahead it needed to begin the July 3 …

WASHINGTON-Federal regulators and the wireless telecommunications industry appear close to a compromise on a hybrid radiofrequency radiation exposure guideline, marking a major policy and lobbying shift that sources attribute to …

Could the obstacle-plagued auction that took forever to start be near its end? It seems so, although a part of me believes the C-block auction for personal communications services will …

WinStar Communications Inc. intends to acquire Milliwave L.P. and has signed definitive agreements that will allow it to manage Milliwave’s 38 GHz licenses until WinStar acquires the company next year. …

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. is developing a wearable, wrist watch-size Personal Handyphone System telephone it hopes to bring to market in time for the 1998 Winter Olympics to be …

In efforts to capture a broad range of consumer users, cellular carriers and equipment providers are stepping up marketing and advertising efforts to include glossy paper and primetime TV. The …

Airadigm Communications Inc. is one of the few small business ventures that endured the delays, lawsuits, rule changes and exorbitant bidding prices of the C-block Federal Communications Commission auction for …

Airlink Software Corp. wants to wirelessly extend what it calls “this century’s hottest marketing media-the Internet.” The North York, Ontario-based software integrator is marketing its Priority Page software application to …

SAN DIEGO-AirTouch Paging is testing a medication reminder service in San Diego, offering the value-added service to customers for $13 a month. Patients are paged on alphanumeric pagers when it’s …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Wireless Data Group has launched a business unit that will develop and test market limited-edition wireless hardware and software to customers. The Air Ventures unit’s objective is …

WASHINGTON-The Associated Public Safety Communications Officials-International Inc. weighed in favor of a possible Federal Communications Commission advanced-television proposal that would reallocate UHF channels 60-69 to the benefit of public-safety radio …