Monthly Archives: March, 1997

D.C. NOTES

There are times when RCR staffers stop chasing stories and just sit around to debate the state of telecommunications. When the rumors about a...

OPINION

Laws won't stop traffic accidentsDear Editor: I am sure that law enforcement will want to lead the way to safer driving by laying down their...

IRIDIUM SIGNS WITH SEC FOR IPO

NEW YORK-Iridium L.L.C., which plans to launch a satellite-based global telephone service, last week registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an application...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Geotek Technologies Inc. said it will supply trunked mobile radio equipment and services based on its Frequency Hopping Multiple Access technology to Hyundai Electronics...

ELECTRIC COMPANIES VIEW EXTRA INCOME VIA WIRELESS

NEW YORK-Electric power companies have seen the future and it is wireless.The Electric Power Research Institute, a 700-plus member organization based in Palo Alto,...

FDA SUGGESTS WTR REDIRECT RAT RESEARCH

WASHINGTON-The Food and Drug Administration, citing industry funding limitations, recommended the struggling wireless industry-funded bioeffects research program be redirected to give lifetime animal exposure...

LUCENT TO SUPPLY PHILIPPINE NETWORK

MANILA, Philippines-Lucent Technologies Inc. signed a contract with Pilipino Telephone Corp. to supply and install a Code Division Multiple Access network in the Philippines....

AT DEADLINE

Cellular One offers DPCS in Bay areaCellular One said it will begin offering digital cellular service branded Digital PCS in the San Francisco Bay...

EQUIPMENT TENDER ISSUED IN TAIWAN

TAIPEI, Taiwan-Taiwan's dominant telecommunications carrier has issued an equipment tender for a Digital Cellular System for 1800 MHz.Deadline for bids is April 8. The...

CARLO: INDEPENDENT OR INSTRUMENT?

When confronted with the question of why there is no radio frequency radiation bioeffects research after four years and $15 million, embattled Wireless Technology...

TELECEL LICENSED FOR ZIMBABWE NET

HARARE, Zimbabwe-Telecel International Ltd. was awarded a license to build a national Global System for Mobile communications cellular network in Zimbabwe.Telecel-Zimbabwe, Telecel's local partner,...

PRODUCTS

Alan Dick & Co. (USA) Inc. debuted its cross polarized antennas available for messaging, cellular and personal communications services. The XP base station panel...

GSA, INDUSTRY WORK TOGETHER TO SOLVE WIRELESS SITING PROBLEMS

WASHINGTON-At least one federal agency appears to be stepping up to the plate regarding expedited siting of new wireless towers and antennas in an...

HACKERS CLAIM FLAW IN PRIVACY

A Minnesota cryptographer said the cellular industry knows the cryptographic algorithms used in U.S. cellular digital systems are inadequate and were watered down by...

TOWER COMPANY RAISES FINANCING

NEW YORK-SBA Communications Corp., a tower site development and management company, announced March 14 it had raised $50 million to help it enter the...

WORLD BRIEFS

Motorola Inc.'s Pan American Wireless Infrastructure Division will install an Advanced Mobile Phone Service cellular network in Brazil. Motorola values the agreement with Telecomunicacoes...

REPORTED BID FOR SPRINT SHOWS NEED FOR U.S. LEG IN GLOBAL PLAY

If reports that Cable & Wireless plc is considering a takeover bid of Sprint Corp. are true, the wireless industry is seeing a sign...

NOKIA TO SUPPLY SHANGHAI NETWORK

HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. signed an agreement to supply a Digital Cellular System 1800 cellular network to Shanghai Post and Telecommunications Administration. Nokia values the...

BALTEL’S NETWORK LAUNCHED IN LATVIA

RIGA, Latvia-Baltel Ltd., the second national mobile operator in Latvia, launched its Global System for Mobile communications network with switching, radio, transmission and microwave...

BELLSOUTH ACQUIRES INTEREST IN ECUADOR

ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. purchased a 61 percent interest in Otecel, one of two nationwide wireless telephone companies in Ecuador.BellSouth acquired the interest by buying all...

AMERICAN TOWER’S IPO FIRST PUBLIC `PURE PLAY’

NEW YORK-American Tower Corp. plans to go public, and it could become the first independent company engaged solely in wireless communications tower site management...

ESHOO WANTS TO MANDATE PHONE SCANS

WASHINGTON-In a March 12 letter to Federal Communications Commission chairman Reed Hundt, Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) asked that an "immediate ruling requiring newly manufactured...

CELLULAR EMPLOYEE BUSTED FOR FRAUD

BOSTON-A former Cellular One Boston employee pleaded guilty in federal court to a cellular phone cloning scam operated in 1995.Edward S. Herd Jr., of...

LMCC PROPOSES TIMELINE FOR 60-69 REALLOCATION

WASHINGTON-The Land Mobile Communications Council has weighed in as a group in favor of transferring 60 megahertz of "long-unused prime spectrum from the television...

ERICSSON, COMPAQ JOIN FOR GSM APPS

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson formed an alliance with Compaq to develop portable personal computers that will allow mobile users to access the Internet and corporate...
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