Yearly Archives: 1996

MOTOROLA TO OFFER IDEN EQUIPMENT FOR 900 MHZ BAND NEXT YEAR

Motorola Inc. will offer integrated Dispatch Enhanced Network equipment for use in the 900 MHz frequency band late next year.iDEN now is available only...

ZAIRE CELLULAR SYSTEM STAYS STABLE AMIDST VOLATILITY

Social unrest in eastern Zaire hasn't interrupted the independent cellular network of Telecel International Ltd., which operates an analog system countrywide there."There has been...

INTERDIGITAL SAYS PATENT IS UPHELD

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. said the German Federal Patent Court upheld the company's patent relating to wireless digital radio communications systems using...

BELLCORE BUY MARKS END OF BELL ERA

The sale of Bellcore to a high-tech California information company will sever one of the final threads binding the former Bell empire, and mark...

PAGING’S STOCK PLUNGE IS CAUSED BY FINANCING, FLEX AND A FEW FAILURES

The paging sector's stock plunge this year is mostly a result of the large amount of money raised by "marginal players" in 1995, unexpected...

OMNIPOINT OFFERS $200M IN NOTES

ARLINGTON, Va.-Omnipoint Corp. announced an offering and pricing of $200 million of 11 5/8 percent Senior Notes due Aug. 15, 2006 in a private...

D.C. NOTES

So Thanksgiving is only a few days away. But for days, weeks and months leading up to the great pheasant feast folks have been...

VIEWPOINT

How do you market a phone shield designed to protect people from "potentially harmful radiation from your cell phone" when 1.) there is no...

OMNITEL PRONTO ITALIA INITIATES LAWSUIT AGAINST TIM FOR ANTITRUST

Omnitel Pronto Italia, Italy's privately owned GSM operator, said it has filed a lawsuit against state-owned Telecom Italia Mobile for $62.5 million with the...

ISRAELI FIRM TO GO PUBLIC

NEW YORK-TTI Team Telecom International Ltd., an Israeli developer of operations support and network management systems for telecommunications providers, was slated to go public...

TTC OFFERS HANDHELD TEST INSTRUMENT

A network test equipment company that has supplied equipment for landline and cellular operators is launching a product line specifically for the wireless industry.Telecommunications...

SKYTEL MESSAGE SYSTEM TO BE MARKETED WITH PCS

SkyTel Corp. introduced the SkyTel Messenger for Windows CE, a software messaging system developed by SkyTel in conjunction with Microsoft Corp.Jackson, Miss.-based SkyTel said...

EX MACHINA SELECTS GLENAYRE PRODUCTS

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Ex Machina Inc. selected Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s Wireless Messaging Transfer Protocol for its narrowband personal communications services network.WMtp is an interswitch protocol designed...

DEUTSCHE TELEKOM IPO EUROPE'S LARGEST TO DATE

NEW YORK-In a very successful initial public offering, Deutsche Telekom AG, the German government's telecommunications monopoly, went public Nov. 18.The IPO consisted of 600...

ERICSSON’S GSM SET FOR PORTUGAL

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson will supply Global System for Mobile communications infrastructure to Telecel Comunicacoes Pessoais S.A. between 1997 and 1999 to expand its network...

TEKLOGIX AWARDED RAILWAY CONTRACT

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Canada-Teklogix International Inc. was awarded a contract by Montreal-based Canadian National Railways to provide it with narrowband wireless data communication networks.The networks...

PRODUCTS

SmarTrunk Systems Inc. announced its ST-865KW2 SmarTrunk II trunking logic board, which offers advanced trunking features for Kenwood's latest portable and mobile conventional radio...

RCR TOP 20 PAGING CARRIERS

Editor's Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of the 20 largest paging companies in the United States from survey responses...

INMARSAT OFFERING RAPID DATA TRANSFER

LONDON-A new 9.8 kilobits per second service, which uses the International Mobile Satellite Organization's Inmarsat-B mobile satellite communication system, allows rapid data communications without...

MMTA AND TIA TO MERGE

The MultiMedia Telecommunications Association and the Telecommunications Industry Association announced an affiliation and intent to merge, creating a joint membership exceeding 1,000 companies."MMTA's focus...

GEOTEK, RWE TELLIANCE JOIN GERMAN NETWORKS

MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. and RWE Telliance AG formed a partnership to merge their RegioNet and RWE Terrafon Bundelfunk analog networks in Germany.The companies...

Paging Carriers

U S WEST PCS UNIT TO USE AMS BILLING

DENVER-American Management Systems Inc. has won a contract to develop a personal communications services customer care and billing platform for U S West's new...

WORLD BRIEFS

AirNet Communications Corp. entered an agreement with the Thomsen Group of Denmark, appointing Thomsen as AirNet's authorized business representative in Denmark and certain Far...

NOKIA TO EXPAND OULU PRODUCTION

OULU, Finland-Nokia Telecommunications announced plans to expand its base station production in Oulu, Finland, due to increased demand. Beginning next spring, the base stations...
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