1996

WASHINGTON-Iridium Inc. announced Chase Securities Inc. and BZW will be responsible for structuring and arranging the international syndication of a credit facility to complete the funding for the construction of …

CALGARY, Alberta, Canada-Isotel Research and Steinbrecher Corp. announced Isotel has been selected to provide digital cellular software based on the North American Interim Standard-136 Time Division Multiple Access technology for …

Editor: I must take very strong exception to the comments in the April 15, 1996 issue of RCR under the heading D.C. Notes by Jeffrey Silva. These comments are obviously …

WASHINGTON-Alexandria, Va.-based Metrocall Inc. made good on its promise to “add strategic geographic and synergistic acquisitions during the first half of the year” by signing definitive agreements to purchase two …

NEW YORK-International telephone operator Millicom International Cellular S.A. announced Cambodia GSM Ltd., a joint venture between the Cambodian Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and MIC’s partner, the Royal Group of …

MONROE, La.-Century Telephone Enterprises Inc. said it has acquired Ringgold Telephone Co. in exchange for cash, common stock and convertible preferred stock. Century has headquarters in Monroe, La. Ringgold is …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Pan American Wireless Infrastructure Division announced it has been awarded contracts valued at more than $30 million for the expansion of its analog cellular telephone system …

If only Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber suspect accused of blowing up those he believes responsible for polluting America with high technology, had gotten out of his wooden shack in Montana, …

NEW YORK-The success of Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile played a key role in prompting the recent merger agreement between Bell Atlantic Corp. and Nynex Corp., said Lawrence T. Babbio, Jr., …

WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court’s consideration of whether manufacturers of medical devices that malfunction can be sued in state court potentially adds a new twist to the wireless interference issue. Up to …

WASHINGTON-Local and regional paging operators lambasted the Federal Communications Commission for declining to completely lift the three-month-old paging application freeze last week, and vowed to redouble lobbying efforts in hopes …

WASHINGTON-The recently signed Contract with America Advancement Act (H.R. 3136) has made some waves at the Federal Communications Commission because it could push the D-, E- and F-block personal communications …

May day, May day! Air-to-ground communications has just flattened out. That is, GTE Airfone Inc. is introducing flat rate pricing of $15 per call on any domestic call including voice, …

NEW YORK-AVIC Group International Inc. and the Government of Hebei Province jointly announced an agreement to develop and construct a 1.6 million subscriber fixed wire telephone network in Hebei Province, …

WASHINGTON-Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) has pledged to continue fighting for expanded wireless resale, saying his position on the issue has been reinforced over the past year despite lack of support …

WASHINGTON-President Clinton signed appropriations legislation Friday to fund the Federal Communications Commission and scores of other government agencies for the rest of fiscal 1996, ending a bloody budget battle between …

VoiceTech Communications Inc. announced it has been granted patent approval for its VoiceCue Directory Assistance Call Completion, an application that offers cellular customers fast, easy-to-use call completion from a single, …

WASHINGTON-There are amazing parallels between last week’s auction of the late Jacqueline Onassis’ possessions and bidding decisions being made by certain small players in the C-block broadband personal communications services …

Opportunity looms for the Canadian kin of PageMart Inc. and Paging Network Inc. Both companies recently activated service in Canada where market penetration is only 3 percent, or about 1 …

NEW YORK-Cellular Communications of Puerto Rico Inc.’s board of directors has authorized the repurchase of up to an additional 750,000 shares of CCPR’s common stock through open market purchases as …

NEW YORK-Clearnet Communications Inc., a personal communications services licensee based in Pickering, Ontario, announced April 22 it had registered to sell a cross-border public offering of 7 million class A …

COPENHAGEN, Denmark-Denmark’s national telecom agency plans to issue invitations to bid for personal communications licenses at 1.8 GHz, reported the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen. The official tender is scheduled for …

Three-sixty Communications Co., in its first earnings announcement as an independent company since its spinoff from Sprint Corp., reported a first quarter net income of $7 million, or 6 cents …

WASHINGTON-Incumbent microwave operators who have been less than forthcoming in their relocation negotiations with A- and B-block personal communications services licensees will be subject to third-party inspections of their facilities …

The fusion of wireless telecommunications and computer processing power into a device that fits your hand ought to be a slam-dunk proposition. It lets time-critical information go unobtrusively to where …