Monthly Archives: March, 1997

SILVERLAKE’S NEWEST SOFTWARE IS ADDED TO AIRSOURCE FAMILY

Silverlake Communications Inc. has introduced two products to its Airsource line of paging software.The Calabasas, Calif., company now provides a wireless/personal communications services development...

WORLD ACCESS INC. TO ACQUIRE VENDOR

ATLANTA-World Access Inc. will acquire Cellular Infrastructure Supply Inc. for a combination of cash and stock, according to a letter of intent.The transaction is...

PACIFIC BELL MOBILE INAUGURATES GSM

SACRAMENTO, Calif.-Pacific Bell Mobile Services launched its Global System for Mobile communications personal communications services network in Sacramento, Calif.The company said as part of...

CONGRESSMAN PROMISES PUBLIC-SAFETY SPECTRUM, LOAN PROGRAM

WASHINGTON-Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) plans to introduce two separate pieces of legislation aimed at aiding the public-service industry in its quest to secure additional...

VIEWPOINT

In between the land of resellers and the land of licensed wireless providers lies a place where MCI Telecommunications Corp. lives all by itself.The...

WIRELESS INDUSTRY’S FCC FEES COULD RISE 46 PERCENT WITH NPRM

WASHINGTON-Congress has charged the Federal Communications Commission with raising $152.5 million in regulatory fees for fiscal year 1997, a $26.1 million (nearly 21 percent)...

INDONESIA NETWORK TO BUY ULTRAPHONE

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. will provide its UltraPhone system to Bukaka Sing Tel International of Indonesia, a joint systems operator owned by...

UNIDEN PREMIERES CORDLESS PHONE

FORT WORTH, Texas-Uniden America Corp. introduced a cordless phone operating at 900 MHz, which the company said allows business users to have a portable...

FCC SEEKS COMMENT ON GEAR CERTIFICATION, SATELLITE ALLOCATION

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission issued two notices of proposed rulemaking at its monthly meeting March 12, one dealing with streamlining its authorization process for...

USERS GIVE CARRIERS POSITIVE FEEDBACK

LOS ANGELES-Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Co. is receiving positive feedback from users of its SmartDigital phone, which combines a digital wireless phone, alphanumeric pager...

BELLSOUTH PLANS TO ADD TO MOBILITY USING IS-136

The mobility service BellSouth Mobility Inc. intends to launch in its new D- and E-block markets not only fills in coverage gaps in the...

WIRELESS RESELLERS WILL BE BIG WINNERS IN FUTURE, ANALYST PREDICTS

NEW YORK-As unlikely as it may seem at first glance today, an affinity marketing company and an airline reservation system offer a glimpse into...

RECHARGEABLE BATTERY RECYCLING CORP. ANNOUNCES NOKIA SIGNING

NEW YORK-Nokia Corp. became a licensee of the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corp. March 13, joining 200 other companies that pay the nonprofit organization to...

RAM MOBILE DATA PREPARES FOR NATIONWIDE ROLLOUT

NEW YORK-RAM Mobile Data USA L.P. is gearing up for a national rollout, starting in the New York City metropolitan area, of an interactive,...

PAGENET TO SPEND $20M ON VOICENOW CAMPAIGN

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. today kicked off a hefty advertising campaign-expected to cost more than $20 million by the end of 1997-for its VoiceNow voice...

QUALCOMM, SHIELDMATE RECEIVE MOTOROLA LAWSUIT

Motorola Inc. said it has filed its lawsuit in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against Qualcomm Inc. and Shieldmate...

NATIONAL GSM SUBS TRIPLE IN 5 MONTHS

SAN FRANCISCO-The national Global System for Mobile communications network grew from 100,000 subscribers to 300,000 subscribers in the last five months, according to GSM...

OPINION

Motorola counters research memoDear Editor: I would like to take strong exception to the tone and substance of RCR's March 3 article on Motorola's 1994...

PENNSYLVANIA COPS HELP COMBAT FRAUD

HARRISBURG, Pa.-A new Pennsylvania training program designed to help police officers crack down on illegal duplication and use of cellular phones drew praise from...

QUALCOMM DEMOS NEW CDMA PHONES

SAN FRANCISCO-A Code Division Multiple Access digital/analog dual-mode, dual-band telephone has been introduced by Qualcomm Inc., along with two other new CDMA portable phones...

MOTOROLA TO INSTALL CHINESE TEST NET

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS-Motorola Inc.'s Asia Pacific Cellular Infrastructure Group will install a trial Code Division Multiple Access cellular network in mainland China. The agreement is...

LUCENT, SAVILLE JOIN FOR BILLING PLATFORM

WARREN, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Saville Systems have agreed to co-market Lucent's software applications with the Saville Convergent Billing Platform, according to a general...

QUALCOMM DEALS FOR MOSCOW CDMA

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. signed a contract to supply a Code Division Multiple Access system to JSC Personal Communications of Moscow.The system initially will serve...

MOVIE STAR LAMARR RECOGNIZED FOR FREQUENCY HOPPING EFFORTS

BURLINGAME, Calif.-Movie star Hedy Lamarr has received a special award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for her contribution to spread-spectrum broadcast communications.According to the...

WORLD BRIEFS

Metromedia International Group Inc. announced its subsidiary, Metromedia Asia Corp., has acquired Asian American Telecommunications Corp., a company engaged in the development and construction...
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