Monthly Archives: March, 1997

SMR ENTREPRENEUR WINS PARTIAL VICTORY AGAINST FCC IN LICENSE DISPUTE

WASHINGTON-Southern California specialized mobile radio entrepreneur James Kay Jr. last week won a partial victory at the Federal Communications Commission regarding the FCC ordered...

BELL ATLANTIC NYNEX NOTES DROP IN FRAUD

NEW YORK-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile said it experienced a 70 percent overall decrease in fraud since May when it implemented authentication and radio frequency...

AIRADIGM PREPARES TO BE FIRST C-BLOCK CARRIER OFFERING SERVICE

While many winners of C-block personal communications services spectrum are months away from launching commercial service, Airadigm Communications Inc. is preparing to be the...

AIRNET BAGS $40M AMERICALL CONTRACT

MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp. said it signed a purchase agreement to supply personal communications services infrastructure equipment and services to Americall International L.L.C. of...

NEW CELLULAR PBX PRODUCT TO COMPETE WITH WIRED PBX NETWORKS

SAN FRANCISCO-Noting there have been several false starts in the wireless PBX market, Allen Telecom Group last week introduced its SmartCell Dialogue Cellular PBX...

GTE UNVEILS PHONE, PAGING IN BAY AREA

SAN RAMON, Calif.-GTE Wireless announced it has expanded its digital wireless network to include San Francisco's East Bay.The company's digital wireless service now is...

HUGHES WINS AWARD FOR MICRO CELL WORK

GERMANTOWN, Md.-Hughes Network Systems Inc. won the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium's technology award at the consortium's summit in Orlando last month.Hughes received the Outstanding...

WORLD BRIEFS

Nokia Corp. signed an agreement with Beijing Telecommunications Administration to expand its Global System for Mobile communications network in Beijing. Nokia values the agreement...

IBS, CBIS EXTEND CONTRACT FIVE YEARS

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.-International Billing Services will continue to provide statement production services to Cincinnati Bell Information Systems Inc. A new contract extends the...

ICG PLACES $200 MILLION IN FINANCING

NEW YORK-ICG Communications Inc. was expected to place privately last week $100 million in senior unsecured discount notes and $100 million in exchangeable preferred...

MOTOROLA SAYS Q COPIES STARTAC

Motorola Inc. said it intends to file a patent infringement lawsuit against Qualcomm Inc., claiming Qualcomm's new Code Division Multiple Access "Q" phone copies...

LGC ANNOUNCES IN-BUILDING SYSTEM

SAN FRANCISCO-LGC Wireless announced its distributed in-building antenna system, LGCell, at Wireless '97 last week. Using a system of hubs and active antennas connecting...

JOINT PARTNERSHIP SPEAKS ON WIRELESS 911 SYSTEM

SAN FRANCISCO-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, in conjunction with the Federal Communications Commission and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, announced a joint public/private...

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...

GORE’S QUESTIONABLE CAMPAIGN CALLS LINKED TO SWITCHMAKER DSC

WASHINGTON-Vice President Gore's major-and questionably legal-role in Clinton administration fund raising raises more questions about whether telecommunications and trade policies continue to be compromised...

GLENAYRE UPGRADES LYNX FOR PCS APPS

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Glenayre Technologies Inc.'s Western Multiplex division introduced the third generation of its LYNX family of radios designed for temporary or permanent connections often...

AMERITECH NEARING CLEARPATH LAUNCH

SAN FRANCISCO-Ameritech Cellular Services said it is close to launching its ClearPath Code Division Multiple Access digital service in Chicago. The company said it...

AT DEADLINE: STRATOS HAS SYNERGY FOR SATELLITE SERVICES

Stratos Mobile Networks, an international multi-network mobile satellite service provider, is in operation and ready to partner with other network operators and service providers.Stratos,...

CBO REPORTS WHITE HOUSE OVER ESTIMATED SPECTRUM AUCTION REVENUES

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration has overestimated by $12 billion the amount of revenue from spectrum auctions over the next five years, according to the Congressional...

BELL ATLANTIC NYNEX PRICES CELLSCAPE

NEW YORK-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile announced a pricing structure for its new Cellscape service, which is designed to provide mobile business customers with quick...

BANM GOES DIGITAL IN PHILADELPHIA

NEW YORK-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile expanded its offering of DigitalChoice to the Philadelphia area.There is no activation fee for DigitalChoice, which employs 13-kilobit per...

SWITCHING VENDOR ISSUES 3M SHARES

NEW YORK-Nact Tele-communications Inc., a telecommunications switching platform provider, closed a 3 million share initial public offering March 3.The opening share price of the...

NEXTWAVE SIGNS ON CABLE & WIRELESS

VIENNA, Va.-Cable & Wireless Inc. and NextWave Telecom Inc. have signed a letter of intent to negotiate CWI's resale of wireless minutes from NextWave's...

CALENDAR

MARCH10-11 Data Warehousing & DSS/EIS Conference, by Decision Support Technology Inc. Sheraton Grande Torrey Pines, La Jolla, Calif. (800) 288-5434.11 Making Sense of the...

COHERENT LAUNCHES NETWORK SYSTEM

SAN FRANCISCO-Coherent Communications Systems Corp. announced the launch of its new network management system.The Coherent Monitoring, Observation and Response system (c/mor), makes possible remote...
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