Monthly Archives: May, 1997

CLIFFCO ACQUIRES BATTERIES BATTERIES

TAMPA, Fla.-Cliffco of Tampa Bay Inc., a distributor of cellular telephone accessories, acquired Batteries Batteries Inc. Cliffco said battery sales account for about 41...

PRODUCTS

Cushcraft Corp. introduced a personal communications services dual polarized single patch antenna. The S2407HVP provides for reception and transmission of both vertically and horizontally...

BREAUX BILL ALLOWS LEASE FEES

WASHINGTON-Sen. John Breaux (D-La.) last week unveiled legislation to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from auctioning 12 megahertz of new private wireless spectrum, while...

NEXTWAVE PROGRESSES ON ITS MARKET BUILDOUT

NextWave Telecom Inc. said it successfully made the $12.5 million second down payment on its new 10 megahertz licenses, and now the company wants...

OMNIPOINT OFFERS PORTUGUESE ROAMING

CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Inc. initiated commercial roaming operations with Portuguese wireless operator Telecel S.A. The launch of roaming with Telecel via Subscriber Identity...

PAGEMART ENTERS CELLULAR ALLIANCE

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. entered into a five-year strategic alliance with First Cellular of Southern Illinois. Under the terms of the agreement, First Cellular will...

C&W LEADS VENTURE TO ACQUIRE LICENSE

LONDON-Cable & Wireless plc and Hongkong Telecom formed a joint venture company with The Keppel Group and Singapore Press Holdings. The company was formed...

LUCENT BUILDING BRAZILIAN FACILITY

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Lucent Technologies Inc. next month will begin construction on a cellular equipment manufacturing plant and global provisioning center in Brazil. The company...

PREPAID CARD SALES MAY ERODE MARGINS

LONDON-Prepaid card sales may fuel mobile phone growth, but they also will erode already declining margins, according to a new report by CIT Research...

INTEK WILL EQUIP TIME WARNER FLEET

TORRANCE, Calif.-Intek Diversified Corp.'s subsidiary Roamer One signed an agreement to provide voice communication and computer aided dispatch to Time Warner Inc. for its...

FGI WIRELESS TO REDUCE INTEREST IN VIMPEL-COM

NEW YORK-Through an add-on offering of American Depository Shares, FGI Wireless Ltd., an Illinois corporation, is looking to reduce substantially its ownership in Vimpel-Communications,...

ONE-OF-A-KIND COMPANY ENJOYS PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS DAWN

Metrica says it holds the sole championship title in its corner of the global telecom industry, network performance management. The United States is especially...

METROCALL’S FIRST QUARTER RESULTS DISPUTE BROADBAND PCS THREAT

NEW YORK-Metrocall Inc. announced an escalation in paging users in two markets where broadband personal communications services have been launched, discrediting the theory that...

PACS MAY BE POPULAR CHOICE AMONG WCS AUCTION WINNERS

DENVER-Winners of the recently completed Wireless Communications Services auction may be likely to choose Personal Access Communications Systems as their technology of choice, said...

REPORT NOTES BOOM IN EUROPEAN LMR

LONDON-Europe reached 7.5 million land mobile radio subscribers last year, of which 7 million used private mobile radio and 500,000 used public access mobile...

INDUSTRY GETS TEMPORARY REPRIEVE FROM AUTO-SAFETY LEGISLATION

NEW YORK-Bills that would have required hands-free cellular telephone use by drivers were postponed indefinitely last month in the California and Illinois legislatures.The California...

TELECOM FIRMS HELP OUT IN N.D. FLOOD AFTERMATH

GRAND FORKS, N.D.-Several companies are pitching in products and services to help the city of Grand Forks, N.D., recover from record flooding last month.Employees...

D.C. NOTES

No shortage of wireless wonking this week.On Tuesday, Chairman John McCain's (R-Ariz.) Senate Commerce Committee will hear about antenna siting moratoria, RF and wireless...

WORLD BRIEFS

Samsung Electronics Co. has sold more than 1 million Any Call digital Code Division Multiple Access phone sets and obtained more than 1.4 million...

PRODUCTS

E.F. Johnson Co. introduced its 9840 model UHF multimode mobile radio. Part of the company's 9800 Series radio platform, the 9840 operates in conventional,...

VIEWPOINT

Who is tomorrow's paging user?RCR asked that question of a number of industry execs. Each one had a little different twist on the same...

ANGELL PLANS PAGER FOR 220 MHZ MARKET

A specialized mobile radio operator is making plans to offer a pager that operates at 220 MHz.Angell Communications Inc. announced Wings 220, a single...

PEOPLE

Metawave Communications Corp. named Tom Crawford director of product marketing and business development. He will be responsible for maintaining strategic partnerships that provide new...

AERIAL CONTRACTS FOR PCS HANDSETS

IRVING, Texas-Aerial Communications Inc. said it will purchase personal communications services handsets from Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc. and Nokia Corp. Aerial values both contracts...

AIRTOUCH PROVIDING REPROGRAMMING

SOUTHFIELD, Mich.-AirTouch Cellular is providing free cellular telephone programming to cellular phone users affected by an area code split in Michigan's Oakland County.The company...
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