1996

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 its New York metropolitan market. AT&T …

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 by the military to the land …

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 distance learning. Some cellular carriers indicated …

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 fined to the letter of the …

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 big chill from Chairman Reed Hundt’s …

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 Inc.’s spring rollout of enhanced mobile …

Location technology is taking its place in the wireless communications industry as Global Positioning System products begin to mesh with radio and cellular networks, spawning several potentially lucrative businesses. A …

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 than anticipated, but the share price …

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 money pouring in from abroad …

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 Vietnam. The $22 million contract, which …

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 cellular users. “There’s no one solution,” …

A popular reason to carry a cellular phone is personal safety, yet a main complaint from both cellular users and emergency assistance providers is lack of cellular “locatability.” When a …

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 implementing an August 1995 presidential memorandum …

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 the Feb. 10 issue of …

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 they submit to Federal Communications Commission …

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 Mobile communications license to international consortium …

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 for such reform misleading. “The process …

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 the U.S. marketplace. “It’s going to …

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 price will be about $28 million …

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 …