March 1997

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 a bigger role in establishing the …

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 now goes to the full house. …

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 of 1998. InterDigital is in an …

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 how ArrayComm’s spectrally efficient, high-capacity wireless …

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Natural MicroSystems Corp. announced the latest member of its TX family of communications resource boards, the TX3000. The TX3000 is an ISA bus card that provides a powerful and highly …

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 for non-Greek partners to three companies, …

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 North America. Six companies have launched …

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 was previously closed, and $110 …

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 recycle nickel cadmium batteries, a mainstay …

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 of 2027. Proceeds of the sale …

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 company prefers not to be …

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 RF-related equipment and the other to …

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 foundation, Lamarr, 82, and late …

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 tool for developers, engineers, network …

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 with Beijing Telecommunications Administration and the …

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 in its QCP series. The manufacturer …

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 company also began offering its …

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 state Sen. Christine Tartaglione last week. …

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 teaming agreement. The resulting end-to-end billing …

Motorola counters research memo Dear Editor: I would like to take strong exception to the tone and substance of RCR’s March 3 article on Motorola’s 1994 response to biological research …

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 Singapore Telecom and PT Telkom of …

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

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 of cellular resale subscribers reported …

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 build phones for the CDMA market. …