Yearly Archives: 1996

GO ECHOES NEXTWAVE SUSPICIONS THAT SOME BIDDERS ARE `FRONTS’

WASHINGTON-Another top bidder in the C-block broadband personal communications services auction has had enough with the possibility of dealing with "front" organizations and speculators...

NOKIA WILL DELIVER PCS INFRASTRUCTURE

WESTLAKE, Texas-Nokia Telecommunications Inc. announced it has been selected as the sole supplier for the initial buildout of American Portable Telecom Inc.'s personal communications...

D.C. NOTES

I've looked everywhere-the dictionary ... the thesaurus ... Bartlett's Familiar Quotations ... Harry Newton's telecom opus. And I just can't find it. I can't...

OPEN DEVELOPMENT PROVIDES CAR RIERS WITH PREPAID SERVICE

Open Development Corp. introduced a network-based prepaid cellular service it says will increase revenue for cellular service providers between 15 percent and 30 percent.Prepaid...

PEOPLE

Robert Franke is now director of distribution for AirTouch Cellular, a subsidiary of AirTouch Communications Inc. In his new position, Franke will be responsible...

PREMIERE TECHNOLOGIES RAISES $117M IN FIRST PUBLIC OFFERING

NEW YORK-Premiere Technologies Inc. sold an initial public offering of 3.5 million shares of common stock on March 5 at $18 each. The share...

QUALCOMM, INTER-TEL TO WORK ON LOCAL LOOP

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and Inter-Tel Inc. announced they have signed a development, supply and license agreement for telephone switching equipment for wireless local loop...

RESELLERS COULD BE USEFUL LINK IN BUILDING PCS SUBSCRIPTION BASE

Wireless resellers say they aren't sure what will happen when personal communications services enter the marketplace next year, but if PCS launches a price...

SAMSUNG SNAGS RUSSIAN PACT

SEOUL, South Korea-Samsung Electronics Co. announced a contract with Russian telecommunications company IV Telecom to provide equipment for a digital cellular phone system using...

RCR TOP 20 WIRELESS RESELLERS

Editor's Note: The companies listed below represent the 20 largest resellers of cellular service in the United States. Rankings are based on the total number...

U S WEST OFFERS PAGING SERVICE VIA RESALE PACT WITH WESTLINK

DENVER-U S West Inc. is getting back into the paging business by reselling service from Westlink Paging Inc., the California paging operator that bought...

WILDFIRE UPGRADE WILL ALLOW COORDINATED COMMUNICATIONS

LEXINGTON, Mass.-Wildfire Communications Inc. announced an upgrade to its Wildfire Electronic Assistant, a service available through service providers nationwide that coordinates all of a...

THREE-SIXTY COMPLETES SPINOFF TO BECOME $3B CELLULAR CARRIER

CHICAGO - Three-sixty Communications Co. has completed its spinoff from Sprint Corp. to become a public business with a market capitalization of $3 billion."Becoming...

ADC PLANS TO BUY 220 MHZ LICENSES

DENVER-American Digital Communications Inc. announced it has signed a letter of intent to purchase all stock of Pagers Plus Cellular Inc. of Walnut Creek,...

WESTERN WIRELESS SAYS `ALOHA’ TO PCS

Western Wireless Corp. said aloha to Honolulu's wireless communications market by offering consumers yet another way to communicate-via a personal communications services handset.The Bellevue,...

STRONG DEMAND RAISES ARCH’S DEBT OFFERING TO $275 MILLION

NEW YORK-Strong investor demand for a debt offering by Arch Communications Group Inc. prompted the company to raise the amount issued to $275 million...

MOTOROLA TO DEPLOY GSM IN INDONESIA

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it has a $30 million contract to deploy a digital cellular phone network for PT Telkomsel in Indonesia.The Global...

WORLD BRIEFS

L.M. Ericsson said it surpassed the 1 million subscriber milestone in February for its CMS 30 system for Pacific Digital Cellular, making Japan one...

METROCALL TO ACQUIRE 2 PAGING COMPANIES

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. announced it will acquire the assets of Satellite Paging and Message Network under a definitive purchase agreement reached between the companies.The...

MOBILINK FOCUSING ON IMPROVED ROAMER SERVICE

Eighteen months after being blown off course in the stormy seas of the cellular industry, the MobiLink alliance has taken a new bearing as...

MTEL’S ’95 FIGURES LEAD TO `ALERTS’ BY TWO SECURITIES COMPANIES

NEW YORK-Two major credit rating agencies have issued alerts about Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. securities following the company's Feb. 22 release of disappointing year-end...

NEXTWAVE DEMANDS FCC ADDRESS BIDDING `FRONTS’

WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc., whose subsidiary NextWave Personal Communications Inc. is bidding in the C-block personal communications services auction, wants to pin the Federal Communications...

D.C. NOTES

Roy Neel, president of the United States Telephone Association, offered reporters last week what he believed to be a keen insight.He recounted an anecdote...

NOTABLE QUOTE

"We do a bid in the morning, digest it, do a bid in the afternoon, digest it, then eat dinner and digest that."-Geotek U.S....

PAC BELL COMPLETES FIRST CALL ON ITS PCS NETWORK

PLEASONTON, Calif.-Pacific Bell Mobile Services said it has completed the first calls on its new PCS-1900 network."By this time next year, PCS technology...
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