Yearly Archives: 1996

CORSAIR SIGNS AT&T DEAL TO DEPLOY FRAUD NETWORK

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Corsair Communications said AT&T Wireless Services Inc. of New York will step up deployment of the PhonePrint cellular fraud control system in...

ANTENNA APPLICATIONS FOR THE MILITARY MAY CROSS INTO LAND MOBILE RADIO USE

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will seek comment on whether to adopt new fixed microwave rules that would facilitate the introduction of antenna technology developed...

CARRIERS UPSET OVER PROPOSED FLORIDA TAX ON CELLULAR PHONES

Florida cellular customers may soon see a 50-cent increase in their monthly bill, in the form of a fee to fund 911 technology and...

PLAYERS DEBATE PAYMENT FOR HIGH BIDDING ERRORS

WASHINGTON-Comments are split regarding whether C-block broadband personal communications services and 900 MHz specialized mobile radio auction bidders who submit flawed bids should be...

PAGING GROUP DISPUTES PCIA ON FCC FREEZE

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's new application freeze has created a major rift in the paging industry, the second major wireless sector to feel the...

GEOTEK’S ROLLOUT EXPANDS TO WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE

MONTVALE, N.J.-In a role reversal for the high-tech communications revolution, 27 million blue-collar workers nationwide are targeted as the early adopters for Geotek Communications...

LOCATION, WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES MERGE FOR BUSINESS AND SAFETY

Location technology is taking its place in the wireless communications industry as Global Positioning System products begin to mesh with radio and cellular networks,...

FIRM’S IPO POSTS LOWER PRICE PER SHARE

NEW YORK-Preferred Networks Inc. delayed an initial public offering of common stock scheduled to go to market Feb. 22. The new issue was larger...

VANCOUVER EXCHANGE TRIES ROLE AS FARM TEAM FOR NASDAQ FIRMS

NEW YORK-High-tech, start-up companies-like those in wireless-accustomed to searching for capital may be surprised to know that international capital is searching for them.Bolstered by...

HUGHES WILL INSTALL FIXED WLL NETWORK IN HO CHI MINH CITY

GERMANTOWN, M.D.-Hughes Network Systems Inc. announced it has been selected by the Ho Chi Minh City Telephone Co. to build a wireless network in...

GPS COULD HELP 911 PROBLEMS

Plugging a Global Positioning System receiver alone into a wireless phone won't solve the problem faced by 911 emergency operators receiving distress calls from...

VIEWPOINT

A popular reason to carry a cellular phone is personal safety, yet a main complaint from both cellular users and emergency assistance providers is...

CTIA PROTESTS DELAY IN APPROVING TOWERS

WASHINGTON-Thomas Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, sent letters to President Clinton and General Services Administration Administrator Roger Johnson protesting delays in...

WALDRON STANDS BY HEARING AID REMARKS

Dear Editor: Once again, in the interest of accuracy, I am compelled to respond to a letter to you from Mark Ross, Ph.D. (SHHH) in...

INDUSTRY GROUPS MAKE PROGRESS ON HEARING INTERFERENCE ISSUE

WASHINGTON-Consumer and industry groups are not expected to offer a clear cut fix to hearing aid interference from digital pocket telephones in the report...

WORLD BRIEFS

L.M. Ericsson said it withdrew a complaint filed in January with the European Commission, which charged that Austria's award of a Global System for...

LOCAL PHONE ASSOCIATION CALLS IN TERCONNECT PROPOSAL MISGUIDED

WASHINGTON-TheUnited States Telephone Association last week attacked the Federal Communications Commission's interim wireless-wireline interconnection proposal, calling the plan misguided and the cellular industry's campaign...

HANDSET MANUFACTURERS SEARCHING TO FIND NICHE JRC ANNOUNCES REORGANIZATION

NEW YORK-Faced with falling cellular phone prices and formidable competition by the four heavyweight handset manufacturers, smaller, Japanese-based players are pursuing other options in...

METROCALL TO ACQUIRE PARKWAY PAGING INC.

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. said it has signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire all of Parkway Paging Inc.'s stock. Metrocall said the total purchase...

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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