Yearly Archives: 1996

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...

VIEWPOINT

Budget talks between the Clinton administration and the GOP-controlled Congress are stalled, the chances that any budget agreement will be worked out by the...

EC PLANS TO PUSH FORWARD WIRE LESS LICENSING DATES

BRUSSELS-Telecom liberalization in Europe was pushed ahead last week when the European Commission adopted a policy requiring member states to begin to abolish phone...

FEDERAL WORKERS FIGHT FOR RIGHTS AS THIRD GOV’T SHUTDOWN LOOMS

WASHINGTON-Federal employees of still-unfunded agencies, including those who staff the Federal Communications Commission and the Commerce Department, are waiting with bated breath this week...

GEOTEK ANNOUNCES SEOUL, KOREA SYSTEM

MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. announced a digital wireless communications system in Seoul, Korea based on its spread spectrum Frequency Hopping Multiple Access technology. The...

NEW YORK MOST WANTED MARKET IN PCS AUCTION

WASHINGTON-Bidders returned to the Federal Communications Commission's auction of C-block broadband personal communications services and 900 MHz specialized mobile radio licenses with renewed fervor...

WORLD BRIEFS

Digital Microwave Corp. announced it has received purchase orders valued at $5 million to supply digital microwave radios to Smart Information Technologies Inc., a...

TOP 20 INTERNATIONAL PAGING MARKETS

Editor's Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of the 20 largest international paging markets by country based on information supplied...

GLOBALSTAR PREDICTS BRIGHT PATH AS LEO BECOMES FREE FROM DEBT

Now that the flap over Lockheed Martin's acquisition of Loral's defense electronics and system integration divisions earlier this month has died down, strategists at...

LUXEMBOURG GOVERNMENT QUIET ABOUT SECOND WIRELESS LICENSE

Eight parties responded to Luxembourg's call for interest in operating a second cellular network. The Ministry of Communications, which plans to license an operator...

DESPITE CONTRARY CLAIM, METRO CALL’S CEO RESIGNS

Six months of executive infighting at Metrocall Inc. has led to a top-level management shake-up at the paging carrier, an eventuality the company discounted...

GTE UNVEILS NEW PRICING FOR CDPD TRANSMISSIONS

ATLANTA-GTE Mobilnet announced a new pricing structure for its Cellular Digital Packet Data network that reflects a 40 percent to 60 percent reduction from...

MOTOROLA HANDSET IS CORDLESS AT HOME, CELLULAR ON THE ROAD

LAS VEGAS-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Subscriber Group announced plans for the commercial availability of a cellular telephone that can also be used as a cordless...

NATION BRIEFS

Dial Page Inc.'s stockholders have approved a merger proposal and agreement with Nextel Communications Inc., Nextel announced. The Federal Communications Commission's final approval on...

D.C. NOTES

A reporter at a press conference last week asked some members of the so-called Centrist Coalition-a group of moderate senators-whether they were getting lonely...

BOSCHULTE TO LEAD INDONESIAN VENTURE

ORANGEBURG, N.Y.-Former Nynex Mobile Communications cellular executive Alfred Boschulte has been named managing director of Excelcomindo, Nynex's joint venture in Indonesia that was formed...

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS TO MANUFACTURE OMNIPOINT IS-661 EQUIPMENT

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.-Texas Instruments Inc. said it has signed a memorandum of understanding to manufacture equipment based on Omnipoint Corp.'s IS-661 technology. TI will...

DOLE THREATENS TO BLOCK TELECOM REFORM BILL VOTE: BROADCAST AUCTIONS ARE STICKING POINT

WASHINGTON-Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.) threatened last week to block telecommunications reform legislation from moving forward until changes are made to auction television...

JAPAN TRADE NEGOTIATOR BECOMES PRIME MINISTER

WASHINGTON-While the Clinton administration is pledging stricter enforcement of trade pacts involving telecommunications and other business sectors, the future relationship between the United States...

VIEWPOINT

Rules. It seems as soon as we enter this world, we're forced to comply with a blanket set of rules that someone else has...
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