1996

President Clinton late Friday appointed U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor the new Secretary of Commerce. Kantor replaces Ron Brown who was buried last week following an airplane crash that killed …

PHILADELPHIA-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile said it is offering TalkDial voice-activated dialing service to its Philadelphia tri-state region customers. The company said customers will be able to place cellular phone calls …

Investment bankers expect to see more vertical marriages this year withing the wireless industry family, rather than the entrance of non-traditional players into the marketplace. Mark Kington, managing director of …

Telephone and Data Systems Inc. and Darien Telephone Co. announced that TDS’ Camden Telephone Co. affiliate of St. Mary’s, Ga., has acquired controlling interest in the Georgia rural service area …

Linda Noda Hobbs has been named president of The National Dispatch Center Inc. Hobbs will oversee all aspects of NDC’s day-to-day operations, including implementation of policies, systems and procedures. Since …

ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc. announced three senior officers have purchased more than a half million shares of the company’s stock in a private transaction. Mark Dunaway, chairman and chief executive officer, …

Prepaid cellular represents a huge opportunity for carriers, as demonstrated by the flood of prepaid services inundating the marketplace. More significantly, however, prepaid cellular may prove in itself a new …

The quartet of three regional Bell operating companies and one former Bell announced two brand names it will use coast-to-coast in its personal communications service and cellular markets. Bell Atlantic …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission has given the wireless community in general, and the public-safety arena in particular, an extra-long comment period to ponder the agency’s thoughts on the future spectrum …

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it has signed a multimillion dollar worldwide subscriber equipment license with Nippondenso Co. Ltd., a Japanese manufacturer and worldwide automotive component supplier. The license allows Nippondenso …

Repairing, remanufacturing, refurbishing and recycling cellular phones is the business of ReCellular Inc. The company brings phones sent in by carriers, dealers and other clients back to new condition. And …

WASHINGTON-A report in the May issue of Epidemiology cast doubt on whether pocket telephones pose fatal health consequences for consumers in the short run, but leaves open the question of …

Editor’s Note: The companies listed below represent the 20 largest cellular carriers in the United States. Rankings are based on the total number of subscribers for their majority-held or controlled …

Telemac Cellular Corp.’s cellular debit phone is a product of carriers’ wish lists for the ideal prepaid service, said company President Scott McGregor. The SCOTT (Simple Credit Options with Telemac …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Trimble Navigation Ltd. was awarded a follow-on contract of up to $5 million over a three-year period by Glenayre Technologies to provide Global Positioning System timing technology for integration …

WASHINGTON-It appears that the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and the Personal Communications Industry Association agree on the basic tenets of the industry’s future participation in the Universal Service Fund. Spokesmen …

Okay, I’ll admit it. I’m a “videot.” There is no such thing as too much television. My personality-when split into its definitive sectors-reflects the social mores of Roseanne, Murphy Brown …

ISSAQUAH, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. said it has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of class A common shares that is expected to raise about …

NEW YORK-WinStar Communications Inc. said it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase certain assets and on-going business operations of the microwave division of Local Area Telecommunications Inc. (Locate), a …

AirTouch Communications Inc. said there are several reasons why it is able to launch a Code Division Multiple Access system commercially in Korea, but it hesitates to deploy the CDMA …

PHOENIX-Cellexis International Inc. filed a $525 million lawsuit in U.S. District Court charging General Telephone Electronics (GTE) Corp., several of its subsidiaries and Open Development Corp. with stealing trade secrets …

First wedding of Baby Bells has many eyes on their siblings … Ameritech sees no value in mergers … BellSouth says plans unchanged in wake of SBC-PacTel deal … U …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced its digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service wireless communication system has been put into commercial service in Puerto Rico by Puerto Rico Telephone Co. The system allows …

DALLAS-According to Ericsson Inc., more than 1 million Time Division Multiple Access wireless customers contract for service worldwide every day. As a result, the Swedish manufacturer unveiled a bevy of …

Shinsegi Telecomm Inc. is open for CDMA business in South Korea. AirTouch Communications Inc., 11 percent owner and lead technical partner in Shinsegi, said the cellular venture launched Code Division …