1996

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 participating in the high-priced spectrum sale. …

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 services network. The $200 million contract …

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 find anything that lists “auctions” as …

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 cellular service is booming. To …

Robert Franke is now director of distribution for AirTouch Cellular, a subsidiary of AirTouch Communications Inc. In his new position, Franke will be responsible for customer acquisition and dealer development …

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 price was well above the $10 …

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 applications based on Qualcomm’s Code Division …

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 war with cellular operators, everyone’s margins …

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 Code Division Multiple Access technology. Samsung …

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 of cellular resale subscribers reported …

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 U S West’s paging business in …

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 professional’s daily telephone communications as a …

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 a new publicly traded company …

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, Calif. ADC said Pagers Plus is …

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, Wash.-based company announced it has …

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 when it went to market March …

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 System for Mobile communications system …

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 of the fastest growing markets for …

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 total purchase price for all …

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

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 1995 financial results. Mtel, headquartered in …

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 Commission down as to how participants …

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 about President Clinton’s Feb. 8 …

“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. Business President Jonathan C. Crane. …

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 [personal communications services] technology will have redefined …