Yearly Archives: 1996

REFARMING MEANS MORE FREQUENCY BUT AT WHAT COST TO USERS

WASHINGTON-The specter of private radio spectrum auctions, frequency coordination consolidation and the kickoff of refarming in frequency bands below 512 MHz are giving users...

MSS CARRIERS BEAM SERVICE TO A VARIETY OF CUSTOMERS

A galaxy of new wireless services may soon beam down on the telephony-poor regions of the world.Mobile satellite systems-just like terrestrial-based wireless networks-are evolving...

AIRMOBILE SOFTWARE AVAILABLE VIA CDPD

ORLANDO-Motorola Inc.'s Wireless Data Group business unit, AirMobile Software Products, announced it has extended AirMobile wireless software for Lotus cc: Mail and AirMobile wireless software...

LANDSCAPE COMPETITIVE TO MOBILE SATELLITE FIRMS

WASHINGTON-Where mobile satellite service policymaking is concerned, federal regulators are not promoting the friendly skies. Far from it.Competition is the name of the game...

D.C. NOTES

After Bill Clinton ended one of his rare news conferences before leaving to visit the U.S. troops in Bosnia a couple weeks ago, CBS...

OMNIPOINT NETS $112M IN IPO

NEW YORK-Wall Street gave Omnipoint Corp. a resounding welcome Friday, buying seven million shares of an initial public offering of common stock that opened...

ERICSSON COMPLAINS ABOUT GSM PERMIT AWARDED TO OE-CALL

BRUSSELS-L.M. Ericsson filed a complaint with the European Union, charging that Austria's award of a GSM license to international consortium Oe-Call is unfair. Oe-Call...

LITHIUM BATTERIES MORE POPULAR IN WIRELESS DEVICES: EVEREADY TO CONSTRUCT 70M FACIL ITY IN FLORIDA

A U.S. battery manufacturer has announced it will produce lithium ion batteries for wireless telecommunications devices, delving into a market previously dominated by Japanese...

LOCKWOOD TO HEAD EUROPEAN DI VISION OF BELL ATLANTIC

MILAN, Italy-Richard Lockwood has been named vice president and regional manager of the European and Asia/Pacific wireless operations for Bell Atlantic International Wireless.Lockwood assumes...

IUSACELL NEGOTIATING TO OPERATE FIXED WIRELESS SYSTEM IN MEXICO

Bell Atlantic International, through its 42 percent investment in Grupo Iusacell S.A. de C.V., is in the heart of negotiations with the Mexican government...

`TARGETED APPROPRIATIONS’ STRATEGY COULD HAMPER FCC FUNDING

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, one of the government agencies GOP lawmakers beat up on much of 1995, could be brought to its knees this...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Memphis, Tenn.-based Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc. announced it has signed a letter of intent for a secondary underwriting with Barron Chase Securities of Boca...

CALENDAR

JANUARY22-23 Liberalization and Privatization of International Telecommunications: Meeting the Challenges of an Increasingly Competitive Market, by The Adam Smith Institute. Inter-Continental Hotel, Geneva. 44-171-490-3774.22-24 Technology...

NEW CONSUMERS EXPECT CELLULAR PRICE FLEXIBILITY

NEW YORK - With fixed costs dropping in tandem with an expanding customer base, cellular phone service for the average individual consumer is on...

COX CHOOSES SITE FOR PCS OPERATIONS

IRVINE, Calif.-Cox California PCS Inc. announced it has acquired a site for its personal communications services network operations control center.Located in the Irvine Business...

GLENAYRE WILL PROVIDE MOROCCO EQUIPMENT

Glenayre Technologies Inc. said it has received a contract from L'Office National des Postes et Telecommunications, the government-led telecommunications company in Morocco, to provide...

PCS DEVELOPMENT BUYS INFRA STRUCTURE FROM MOTOROLA, GLENAYRE

GREENVILLE, S.C.-PCS Development Corp. announced it has purchased infrastructure equipment from Motorola Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc. to construct a prototype advanced messaging system...

PEOPLE

AT&T Corp. formally named Alex Mandl president and chief operating officer of the new AT&T and a member of the company's board of directors....

PITTENCRIEFF CHALLENGES TEXAS LAW REQUIRING $75M ASSESSMENT

Pittencrieff Communications Inc. is seeking federal action regarding a 1995 Texas state law requiring the company and other commercial mobile radio service providers to...

PORTACOM TO OPEN OFFICE IN HO CHI MINH CITY AREA

PLAYA DEL REY, Calif.-PortaCom Wireless Inc. said it is in negotiations with equipment manufacturers for the cellular phone network it intends to build in...

PRICELLULAR PLANS TO BUY POUGH KEEPSIE, N.Y., MSA

NEW YORK-PriCellular Corp. announced it has exercised an option to acquire 83 percent of the Dutchess County major service area from United States Cellular...

SCT SIGNS DUPONT PACT, TESTING REACH WITH NOKIA

GOLDEN, Colo.-Superconducting Core Technologies announced it concluded an exclusive purchase and supply agreement for superconducting thin films with E.I. du Pont de Nemours and...

MOTOROLA ENDS SPRINT EQUIPMENT TALKS

Motorola Inc. pulled out of equipment negotiations with Sprint Telecommunications Venture last week, saying financial and commercial terms proposed by Sprint were extraordinary."We made...

LEGISLATORS TRY TO STRIKE DEAL ON TELECOM, LOSING FREE TRADE

WASHINGTON-To strike a fragile bipartisan deal on a sweeping telecommunications bill that includes federal antenna siting policy and other provisions sought by the wireless...

VALENTINE ASKS FCC TO PROBE IS-661 PERMIT

WASHINGTON-In a potential blow to Omnipoint Corp.'s planned initial public offering this week, wireless investor James Valentine has asked federal regulators to investigate whether...
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