Yearly Archives: 1996

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...

MICROCELL COULD WIN RACE TO PCS MARKET IN CANADA

Microcell Telecommunications Inc. is expected to be first to offer commercial personal communications services in Canada, launching in at least two cities by September,...

NOTABLE QUOTE

"The ease with which such programming can be accomplished and the enormous capacity to store different stolen combinations poses a substantial threat to law...

’96 LOBBYING AIMS AT GAINING SPECTRUM

WASHINGTON-With the new year only days old, industry associations here are gearing up to continue old negotiations with the Federal Communications Commission and to...

COMPANIES TRY TO CASH IN ON BUSI NESS OF AUCTIONS

Even though the personal communications services auctions are designed to make money for the government, some entrepreneurs are finding their own ways to financially...

MOBILEMEDIA COMPLETES MOBILE COMM ACQUISITION

RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.-MobileMedia Corp. completed the acquisition of BellSouth Corp.'s MobileComm paging subsidiary and its nationwide narrowband personal communications services license. MobileMedia said it...

METROCALL TRIES TO DISPEL SHAKE-UP RUMORS, ADDRESSES STOCK DROP

The top three executives of Metrocall Inc. convened a teleconference for journalists, analysts and stockholders Jan. 3 that they said was intended largely to...

FLEX WILL BE DEPLOYED TO UNLOCK VEHICLE DOORS FROM REMOTE LOCATIONS

FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Systems Division announced it will supply its ReFLEX two-way paging technology and global positioning system receiver to the...

FEDERAL EMPLOYEES HANDLING AUCTIONS DEEMED `ESSENTIAL’

Question: When is a federal employee deemed "excepted" or "unexcepted?" Answer: Apparently, when there is money involved.During last November's first partial budget-related government shutdown that lasted...

SINGAPORE TELECOM SIGNS INTERCONNECT AGREEMENTS

SINGAPORE-Singapore Telecom has signed interconnect agreements with each of the three operators awarded licenses to operate mobile communications services in Singapore beginning April 1,...

VIEWPOINT

Congress was expected last Friday to pass a measure that would allow 280,000 furloughed federal employees to return to work this week and start...

BELGACOM CHOOSES AMERITECH AS PARTNER

BRUSSELS-With a bid of $2.5 billion, Ameritech Corp. and partners Tele Danmark and Singapore Telecom last month captured the winning vote for a 50...

FOUR CITIES COULD LAND CDMA SERVICE IN 1996

This may be the year that Code Division Multiple Access technology becomes a commercial reality for cellular operators, with one system already running in...

PAGING COMPANY SET TO EMERGE FROM BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS

NEW YORK-With nearly $4 million in creditor claims against it deleted by a federal court in late December, Cellular Telephone Enterprises Inc. last week...

THREE CHARGED WITH DISTRIBUTING ILLEGAL CLONING FRAUD EQUIPMENT

A cellular phone containing a scanner, into which new numbers can be programmed using the phone keypad, was just one of the sophisticated cloning...

COMTEC IN DEFAULT ON ACQUISITION DEALS

DENVER-Specialized mobile radio company ComTec International Inc. announced it and its wholly owned subsidiary, Key Communications Group Inc., are in default on several acquisition...

TEMPORARY END IN SIGHT TO GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

The Federal Communications Commission and the rest of the federal government could re-open this week but close again later this month if the GOP-led...

DENMARK READIES GSM, PLEDGES TO MAKE IT CHEAP

The Danish government is expected to issue a tender for DCS 1800 licenses this spring, and low service prices are expected to be one...

INJUNCTION ISSUED AGAINST FIRMS CLAIMING TO SELL MOBILE LICENSES

WASHINGTON-Following the Nov. 29 filing of a Federal Trade Commission civil lawsuit at the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of New York,...

HUGHES OFFERS CREDIT LINE TO GEOTEK FOR SPECTRUM

MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. and Hughes Network Systems Inc. announced they have reached an agreement allowing Hughes to extend Geotek a two-year, $25 million...
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