1996

SINGAPORE-Motorola Inc.’s FLEX protocol paging contracts totaled $10 million in China and Hong Kong. Motorola’s $3 million expansion contract with Suzhou Posts and Telecom Bureau adds six paging systems in …

NEW YORK – The Delaware Chancery Court has denied a petition from U S West Inc. to stop the merger of Time Warner Inc. and Turner Broadcasting System Inc. U …

WASHINGTON-DSC Communications Corp. announced it has filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission requesting radio spectrum allocation within the 2 GHz band for wireless fixed access local loop services. …

WASHINGTON-According to a new order adopted last week by the Federal Communications Commission, public safety answering points (PSAPs) have the next year to develop a system that accepts 911 emergency …

WASHINGTON-The industry group largely responsible for securing regulatory relief during the paging freeze has demanded that the Personal Communications Industry Association cease charging frequency coordination fees under interim paging rules. …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Trade Commission said cost savings should be considered regularly in antitrust analysis of high-tech mergers, such as the multimillion dollar deals sweeping the telecommunications industry. But it is …

MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. said the Korean Ministry of Information and Communications has awarded Anam Telecom Co. Ltd. a license to operate a nationwide trunked radio system in Korea. Anam …

SEATTLE-GTE Mobilnet Inc. has signed a letter of intent to deploy Cellular Technical Services Co. Inc.’s Blackbird Platform and PreTect fraud prevention application in GTE’s San Francisco market. CTS said …

E911 acceptance coming next year – 2 Paging group calls for an end to fees – 5 Component firms gauge industry – 9

ARLINGTON, Va.-The Industrial Telecommunications Association has submitted a business plan to the Federal Communications Commission to become a clearinghouse that will administer the 2 GHz relocation cost-sharing plan. The plan …

SHANNON, Ireland-GTE Airfone Inc. is supplying JetPhone, a provider of airline passenger telephony services, with cabin equipment and handsets to be used on Air France flights, announced JetPhone of Shannon, …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it has signed a license agreement with Forest, Va.-based Grayson Electronics Co., a subsidiary of The Allen Group Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, Grayson …

WASHINGTON-Wide-area specialized mobile radio operators and broadband personal communications services licensees now will be subject to the same resale rules under which cellular carriers have been operating since 1983. The …

SAN FRANCISCO-Cellular One in San Francisco and AT&T Wireless Services Inc’s. wireless data division announced an agreement to deliver AT&T wireless packet data service to Cellular One customers. Under the …

NEW YORK-Component manufacturers like Spectrian Corp. are the ones to watch for a sneak preview of developments in deployment of digital cellular and personal communications services, according to Eric C. …

NEC Corp. of Tokyo has launched its new GSM phone in Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, with plans to expand sales and sell a million units during the first …

WASHINGTON-While most wireless operators and manufacturers are planning for only a scant three to five years down the road, the Federal Communications Commission, according to Common Carrier Bureau economist Gregory …

Motorola Inc. and Qatar Public Telecommunications Corp. announced the introduction of a high-speed, high-capacity paging service based on the FLEX protocol in the Middle Eastern country of Qatar. With the …

BOSTON-The typical cellular phone user now makes 10 calls every week but only 15 percent of subscribers would increase usage significantly if prices were cut by 10 percent, according to …

RCR’s July 15 issue will feature the Top 20 Wireless Equipment Dealers. Inclusion will be based on gross product sales in the United States for the past year. If you …

WASHINGTON-In a Motorola Inc.-sponsored study producing mixed signals for the wireless telecommunications industry, Dr. W. Ross Adey found that 800 MHz digital cellular emissions failed to promote brain cancer in …

LITTLE CHUTE, Wis.-Airadigm Communications, which holds C-block personal communications services licenses in 13 basic trading areas comprising most of Wisconsin and part of Iowa, announced it has selected Global System …

CHICAGO-After an inauspicious debut that sent it back to rehearsals, the latest wireless extravaganza from Motorola Inc. is ready to return to prime time. The Schaumburg, Ill., telecommunications equipment giant …

Pocket Communications Inc. (formerly DCR Communications Inc.) said it submitted a $1.3 million deposit to the Federal Communications Commission Friday to bid on the C-block personal communications service licenses scheduled …

WASHINGTON-Despite Congressional passage of a six-year balanced budget plan last week that assumes $19.2 billion from auctions, telecom policymakers are growing concerned that fiscal and political forces are increasingly driving …