Monthly Archives: March, 1997

CARLO SAYS RAT STUDIES ARE COMING FROM WTR

WASHINGTON-Wireless industry-funded cancer research will last longer and cost millions of dollars more than originally planned and the Food and Drug Administration will assume...

HANDS-FREE MANDATE MOVES PAST ILLINOIS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

NEW YORK-A bill that would mandate hands-free cellular phone use while driving cleared the Executive Committee of the Illinois General Assembly March 12 and...

INTERDIGITAL AND ITS PARTNERS DISPLAY B-CDMA FOR LOCAL LOOP

HANNOVER, Germany-InterDigital Communications Corp. and its two manufacturing partners say their B-CDMA wireless local loop equipment will be commercially available during the first half...

ARRAYCOMM GETS MORE NEW PATENTS

SAN JOSE, Calif.-ArrayComm Inc. said it received a U.S. patent that allows the company to broaden its previous capabilities under other patents to include...

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PRODUCTS

Natural MicroSystems Corp. announced the latest member of its TX family of communications resource boards, the TX3000. The TX3000 is an ISA bus card...

GREECE’S OTE NARROWS PARTNER SEARCH TO THREE

Greece's government telephone provider said it has collected bids from more than 15 equipment manufacturers for mobile phone equipment, and has narrowed its search...

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...

QUALCOMM FINISHES PLACING SECURITIES

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. completed a $660 million private placement offering of Trust convertible preferred securities.The amount raised includes $550 million in gross proceeds, which...

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...

TCI SELLS $300M OF DEBT TO BUY BACK, REPAY DEBT

NEW YORK-Through its trustee, TCI Group, Tele-Communications Inc. sold $300 million March 11 of capital securities, a debt issue with a final maturity date...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

NEXTEL ROLLS OUT IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

OAKLAND, Calif.-Nextel Communications Inc. introduced digital wireless service operating on Motorola Inc.'s integrated Digital Enhanced Network technology in northern California.The enhanced specialized mobile radio...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

RCR TOP 20 WIRELESS RESELLERS

Editor's Note: The companies listed below represent the 20 largest resellers of cellular service in the United States. Rankings are based on the total number...

NOKIA TO BUILD HANDSETS USING CDMA TECHNOLOGY

SAN FRANCISCO-Saying the timing is right to pursue the Code Division Multiple Access technology-based handset market, Nokia Mobile Phones Inc. announced it plans to...
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