Monthly Archives: January, 1997

BELLSOUTH DEPLOYS PREPAID PROGRAM

ATLANTA-BellSouth Cellular Corp. deployed its Mobile America prepaid calling card program in Bakersfield, Calif., and Mobile, Ala.The program allows consumers to purchase a Mobile...

PCS 2000 LICENSES AWARDED, WITH FINE: FCC CHARGES $1 MILLION

WASHINGTON-On the day before the first anniversary of the bidding error that plunged C-block personal communications services applicant PCS 2000 L.P. into the lion's...

CALLING ALL SMRS FOR RCR’S TOP 20

The Feb. 10 issue of RCR will feature the Top 20 specialized mobile radio carriers.If you would like your company included in our survey,...

MOODY’S DOWNGRADES OMNIPOINT CORP.

NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service Inc. announced Jan. 22 it had downgraded to B3 from B2 its speculative grade rating on $450 million in outstanding...

SMART BOOSTS SUBS IN THE PHILIPPINES

MANILA, Philippines-Smart Communications Inc. reported its subscriber base increased 172 percent last year from 113,000 subscribers at the end of 1995 to more than...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

The Failure Group Inc. acquired Broadcast Communications Systems Inc., a company that designs, installs and maintains wireless communications networks. Broadcast Communications has erected communications...

ITRON COMPLETES MILLIONTH METER

SPOKANE, Wash.-Itron Inc. said Public Service Company of Colorado installed its one millionth Itron automatic meter reading module in the Denver area. Public Service...

RELOCATION SETTLEMENT FOR ASSOCIATED COMING

WASHINGTON-A settlement is believed near that would have Teledesic Corp. pay to relocate Associated Communications L.L.C. fixed wireless facilities to the 24 GHz band,...

WORLD BRIEFS

ACC Corp., through its wholly owned subsidiary ACC TelEnterprises Ltd., signed an agreement with Paging Network of Canada Inc., a paging company affiliated with...

FCC’S AUCTION OF 14 UNSERVED CELLULAR AREAS NETS $1.8 MILLION

WASHINGTON-Unlike most of the other auctions sanctioned by the Federal Communications Commission, the sale of 14 unserved cellular areas concluded Jan. 21 with no...

AT&T EMPLOYEE SETTLEMENT DROPPED

A California federal judge dismissed a proposed settlement between AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and minority owners of AT&T cellular markets after the court discovered...

PUBLIC DEBT OFFERING REGISTERED BY ADVANCED RADIO TELECOM CORP.

NEW YORK-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp., a 38 GHz provider of wireless local loop service that went public last year, has registered to sell a...

NORTHWEST INTROS PAY-N-TALK SERVICE

WILSONVILLE, Ore.-Wireless reseller Northwest Communications, a division of Skylink Communications Corp., announced a prepaid wireless program called Pay-N-Talk.The service is available at grocery stores,...

U S WEST PLANS BUNDLED WIRELESS OFFERINGS

While one arm of U S West Inc. prepares to roll out pocket phone service later this year, another arm, U S West Media...

EUROPEAN COMMISSION ASKS SPAIN TO LEVEL FIELD

The European Commission said it has given the Spanish government three months to inform the EC on the steps it will take to create...

E911 WIRELESS USER TRIAL GETS GOING IN GLOUCESTER

CLAYTON, N.J.-With a gaggle of journalists and public officials present, the first user trial of an automatic location system for analog cellular 911 calls...

DSPC EXPECTS REWARDS FROM WIRELESS BRANCH EXCHANGE SYSTEM

DSP Communications Inc. expects to see continued growth in 1997 and 1998, when the company may reap rewards from its new product, a wireless...

ORANGE, T-MOBIL JOIN FOR DUTCH DEAL

LONDON-Orange plc of the United Kingdom and T-Mobil of Germany will head up a consortium to bid on a Digital Cellular System 1800 license...

TRANSCRYPT ISSUES TRIMMED-DOWN IPO

NEW YORK-After trimming the size and price of its initial public offering, Transcrypt International Inc. went public Jan. 22 by issuing 2.9 million shares...

AUTO INDUSTRY EMBRACES WIRELESS TO HELP HEAD OFF SAFETY ISSUE

"Why does Detroit not design these cars with phone holders, just like cup holders?" asked Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt when he called...

TWO-WAY IS POISED TO MAKE ITS MARK IN 1997 DESPITE DOUBTS

The first half of 1997 is full of promises for narrowband personal communications services, and as a few industry leaders fix and fine tune,...

BELLSOUTH AGREES TO PAY BANM TO CONNECT INTERCONNECT CALLS

NEW YORK-Under an agreement with BellSouth Corp. that became effective Jan. 1, Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile has become the first cellular carrier doing business...

WIRELESS BUREAU TERMINATES 402 MOBILEMEDIA PAGING LICENSES

The Federal Communications Commission terminated 402 paging applications and licenses held by MobileMedia Corp. because the company failed to build sites under the license...

NDC WILL PROVIDE CREDIT-CARD SERVICE

ATLANTA-National Data Corp. announced it has signed an agreement with Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile to provide transaction processing services for Bell Atlantic Nynex customers...

PAGESTAR DEVICE STOPS AUTOMOBILE THIEVES COLD

NEW YORK-PageStar Inc. is ramping up for full-scale production this Spring of a new generation of wireless vehicle location devices designed to put car...
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