1996

“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 …

PHOENIX-Pacific Communication Sciences Inc. unveiled the first product in a new line of Personal Access Links at the recent Mobile Insights ’96 conference. The PAL telephone can make calls over …

PHOENIX-The U.S. District Court in Phoenix ordered One Line Cellular and Cell Phone Extensions to permanently discontinue altering, transferring, emulating or manipulating electronic serial numbers to create extension phones, U …

Pacific Bell Mobile Services and Ericsson Inc., in conjunction with Self Help for Hard of Hearing People Inc., said they are developing and testing interim solutions to hearing aid interference …

WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) slammed the Federal Communications Commission last week for saying it cannot implement the telecommunications bill without adequate funding and accused the agency of …

Some big-city markets saw a decrease in cloning fraud last year after implementing personal identification numbers, but the effort hasn’t beat the bandits. Cloning criminals have hit the road, scanning …

WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association urged the Federal Communications Commission last week to lift the freeze on paging applications, saying small carriers will suffer unproportionately as federal regulators attempt to …

WASHINGTON-Are the prices being paid for C-block broadband personal communications services licenses getting to be too rich for even the richest blood? If the recent exit of U.S. AirWaves Holdings …

NEW YORK-Preferred Networks Inc., a wholesaler of one-way paging airtime, last Friday expected to launch its initial public offering of 3.3 million shares of common stock at $14 to $16 …

“We will offer a clear alternative…*from the long-distance industry that for years has raised prices in lock step, pocketing savings they could pass on to customers…” -Steve Nowick, president of …

WEST POINT, Ga.-InterQuest Inc. announced it is offering a new service that allows wireless carriers to offer unregistered roamers in their market to complete a cellular call. Instead of connecting …

POMPANO BEACH, Fla.-Signal Communications Inc. announced it has signed an agreement to purchase three Motorola Inc. service facilities in south Florida and the related service contracts and customer bases. Signal, …

Eighty percent of major U.S. cellular carriers employ Systems/Link Corp.’s RoamEx product to fight cellular fraud, but until now the decade-old Jackson, N.J., company has kept its nose to the …

Sprint Spectrum L.P. denies any discord among its member companies, despite revisions to the venture’s original plans to launch cable telephony with its wireless service. But telecommunications analysts are split …

At some point in most relationships, one partner looks at the other, and instead of seeing Prince or Princess Charming, sees a human … complete with flaws. The partners in …

Cellular theft: A cellular phone is stolen from a legitimate customer and used before the theft can be reported. Subscription fraud: This type of counterfeiting occurs when a person signs …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-General Magic Inc. announced PTT Telecom BV, a subsidiary of Royal PTT Netherlands, has licensed General Magic’s Telescript technology. The technology is designed to allow users to launch electronic …

SAN JOSE, Calif.-Hewlett-Packard Co. announced its ultra-miniature amplifiers and mixers, high-integration chipsets and a small 3-volt modulator/mixer that all are designed to benefit end users. The company has introduced three …

NEW YORK-NEC Corp. received an order to equip a wireless local loop system from PT Aria West International in West Java, Indonesia. The company said this is the first WLL …

WASHINGTON-Iridium Inc. announced it has concluded a private financing within its existing investor group, raising an additional $315 million and boosting its total capital base from $1.6 billion to more …

A coalition of local and regional paging companies and an equipment manufacturer plan to file an emergency petition with the Federal Communications Commission this week requesting that the paging application …

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-In an effort to provide affordable communication services to its country, the central African country of Malawi has launched a Global System for Mobile communications network, Nokia Corp. …

Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Larry Pressler (R- S.D.) says he’s perplexed by the Federal Communications Commission’s schedule for implementing the new telecommunications bill. I’m equally perplexed by Pressler’s perplexity. Pressler …

BOSTON-Nynex Corp. said it will lease space on its rooftops for personal communications services antennas, making it easier for PCS providers to deploy networks in the Nynex region. The company …