Yearly Archives: 1996

CELLEXIS TARGETS CREDIT IMPAIRED WITH PAY-AHEAD CELLULAR SERVICE

In these days of competitive, get-the-activation-at-any-cost retail marketing, can a cellular service provider that charges high airtime rates without discounting handsets or letting its...

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FCC EXTENDS SOME FILING DATES DUE TO SHUTDOWN, SNOWSTORM

WASHINGTON-Even though the federal government went back to work last Thursday, following a three-week furlough and additional days lost to record snowfall, those who...

LATEST CLAIM IN PCS WARS SAYS GSM DISRUPTS LISTENING DEVICES

WASHINGTON-The recently completed summit on hearing aid interference from next-generation pocket telephones was hailed a success by the wireless telecommunications industry and hearing disability...

PAC BELL TO OFFER PCS HANDSET THAT ROAMS ON CELLULAR SYSTEM

Wanting to leave no market unserved in the new age of pocket telephony, Pacific Bell Mobile Services said it will introduce a personal communications...

JRC WILL PRODUCE PHONES FOR READYCOM’S SERVICE

LAS VEGAS-JRC International Inc. and ReadyCom Inc. have signed a letter of intent under which JRC will develop and produce handsets for the launch...

MARYLAND DRAFTS LOCAL LOOP RULES THAT COULD AFFECT WIRELESS FIRMS

WASHINGTON-With the idea of wireless communications as a complement to traditional wireline residential and business service still fresh in the public's mind, the move...

LOCKHEED MARTIN, LORAL AGREE MENTS EXCEED $10 BILLION

BETHESDA, Md. - Lockheed Martin corp. and Loral Corp. announced an agreement on a series of interrelated strategic transactions with an estimated value exceeding...

MOTOROLA STOCK AFFECTED BY BAT TLING MARKET

Despite Motorola Inc.'s initial $10.62 loss on Wall Street after posting a 16 percent plunge in fourth quarter earnings, its stock started to forge...

MTEL CEO RESIGNS FOR PERSONAL REASONS

JACKSON, Miss.-Personal considerations motivated Bernard Puckett to resign his post as chief executive officer of Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. According to the company, Puckett's...

THE WORLD

L.M. Ericsson and Telia Mobitel have signed a two-year general purchasing agreement covering delivery and installation of Global System for Mobile communications systems to...

D.C. NOTES

God weighed in on the budget debate between Congress and the Clinton administration last week, dumping two feet of snow on the nation's capital...

PEOPLE

AT&T Wireless Services announced three executive positions for its North Texas/Louisiana district. Todd Felker is now director of marketing and is responsible for advertising,...

PRODUCTS

Motorola Inc. has introduced a lightweight, flip-top cellular phone that can be worn on a belt holster or armband. Weighing 3.1 ounces, the StarTac...

NOTABLE QUOTE

"It's always behooved people to be the little person, able to sit back and see which technologies are most appropriate and have the longest...

BRINGING CELLULAR TO RETAIL OFFERS LOGISTICS CHALLENGE

The cellular industry has taken numerous steps to package cellular for the mass consumer retail market, but a small gap remains between the industry's...

ROBOT ACTIVATES CELLULAR PHONES

LAS VEGAS-A group of California entrepreneurs have invented a robot to program phones in the retail environment."With only brief training, a nontechnical retail employee...

RURAL CELLULAR PLANS IPO, HOPING TO NET $30 MILLION

Rural Cellular Corp. hopes to raise about $30 million in an initial public offering of common stock that could occur as early as this...

PAGING’S PROSPERITY LEADS TO DE LAYS IN SHIPMENT

Motorola Inc.'s Paging Products Group was a victim of its own success during the last five months of 1995. A variety of factors caused...

FOSTER NAMED CHIEF OF SPRINT CELLULAR

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Corp. announced Dennis Foster will become president and chief executive officer of Sprint Cellular and Frank Reed will become nonmanagement chairman...

RISING INTERCONNECT FEES AT HEART OF CLASS LAWSUIT

A class action lawsuit has been filed against Washington/Baltimore Cellular L.P.-doing business as Cellular One-alleging that the company is attempting to levy increased interconnection...

WRC DELEGATE M. SYNAR DIES FROM BRAIN CANCER

WASHINGTON-Former Rep. Mike Synar (D-Okla.), who had been named to head the U.S. delegation to the International Telecommunications Union's World Radiocommunications Conference '95 meeting...

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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