Yearly Archives: 1996

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...

PCSI INTRODUCES VOICE AND CDPD-CAPABLE HANDSET

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...

TWO FIRMS MUST QUIT EMULATING HANDSETS

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...

ERICSSON AND PAC BELL TARGET HEARING AID INTERFERENCE SOLUTIONS

Pacific Bell Mobile Services and Ericsson Inc., in conjunction with Self Help for Hard of Hearing People Inc., said they are developing and testing...

PRESSLER POUNDS HUNDT FOR SEEK ING MORE FUNDS

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...

CARRIERS COMBATING `CLONE ‘N ROAM’ FRAUD IN MARKETS

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...

PCIA IMPLORES FCC TO REMOVE FREEZE ON PAGING APPLICATIONS

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...

PCS STAKES GET TOO RICH FOR SOME C-BLOCK BIDDERS

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...

PAGING WHOLESALER’S IPO COULD RAISE $45 MILLION

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...

NOTABLE QUOTE

"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...

INTERQUEST’S PRODUCT CONNECTS ROAMERS

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...

SIGNAL BUYS SYSTEMS FROM MOTOROLA INC.

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...

FRAUD-FIGHTING STANDARD GROWS FROM ENGINEERING

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...

COMPANIES DENY SQUABBLE IN SPRINT-CABLE TV VENTURE

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...

VIEWPOINT

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

THE CRIME DEFINED

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...

PTT TELECOM LICENSES TELESCRIPT TECHNOLOGY

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...

AMPLIFIERS, CHIPSETS BY HEWLETT-PACKARD DESIGNED FOR WIRELESS

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...

WEST JAVA TO RECEIVE NEC WIRE LESS NETWORK USING PHS TECHNOLOGY

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...

IRIDIUM PRIVATE FINANCING RAISES $315 FOR NETWORK DEVELOPMENT

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...

GROUP TO PETITION PAGING FREEZE

A coalition of local and regional paging companies and an equipment manufacturer plan to file an emergency petition with the Federal Communications Commission this...

AFRICAN GSM NETWORK LAUNCHED, SAYS NOKIA

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...

D.C. NOTES

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...

NYNEX TO LEASE SPACE TO PUT PCS ANTENNAS

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...
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