Monthly Archives: October, 1997

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AT&T PITCHES POCKETNET TO THE CONSUMER CROWD

NEW YORK-Expanding an offering available to corporate customers for the last year, AT&T Wireless Services Inc. last week introduced its PocketNet service, which allows...

ASTRONET RELOCATES, JOINS MITSUBISHI

DULUTH, Ga.-Astronet Corp., a Mitsubishi Electric America company, said it has completed its move from Lake Mary, Florida, to Duluth, Ga. By moving to...

ASSOCIATED TO ISSUE TWO-FOR-ONE SPLIT

PITTSBURGH-The Associated Group Inc. announced its board of directors approved a two-for-one stock split of the company's class A and B common stock.The split...

SENATE IS LIKELY TO OK KENNARD

WASHINGTON-President Clinton's four picks for the Federal Communications Commission won approval by the Senate Commerce Committee last week, and there were new indications that...

ITALY’S TREASURY PLANS TO SELL REMAINING TELECOM ITALIA SHARES

NEW YORK-In a public offering scheduled for late this month, Italy's Treasury Ministry will sell its remaining 35.7 percent stake in Telecom Italia, the...

IOWA TEAM EXTENDS VOICESTREAM PCS

DES MOINES, Iowa-Iowa Network Services Inc. and Western Wireless Corp. announced a joint venture formed to expand personal communications services throughout Iowa.Called Iowa Wireless...

WORLD BRIEFS

Nokia Corp. and MobileOne of Singapore signed an agreement to expand MobileOne's Global System for Mobile communications network capacity to accommodate about 200,000 customers....

ILLUMINET TO USE AGCS’S INGAGE

PHOENIX-AG Communication Systems announced it delivered to Illuminet its INgage Service Order Activation software for local number portability, which allows customers to keep their...

MANUFACTURERS SHUN MOTOROLA’S OFFER TO MAKE IDEN PRODUCTS

More than two years after offering iDEN technology to other manufacturers willing to license it, Motorola Inc. still hasn't found any takers, despite the...

GEMPLUS, FAR POINT DESIGN SMART APP

MONTGOMERYVILLE, Pa.-Gemplus Corp. and Far Point Consulting together introduced a smart card-based electronic gift certificate application for the retail market.The product, which was developed...

NOKIA 550 FOR NMT IS LIGHT AND SMALL

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia introduced a new handset for the Nordic Mobile Telephone 450 standard, called the Nokia 550, which it touts as the smallest and...

OBJECTIVE SYSTEMS RELEASES WEB TOOL

FOLSOM, Calif.-Objective Systems Integrators Inc. has released a software solution called WebOperator 1.0 that it says will allow users to monitor and control the...

PAC BELL TURNS ON PCS IN CALIF., NEV.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.-Pacific Bell Mobile Services launched its personal communications services network, based on the Global System for Mobile communications standard, in Bakersfield and the...

OFF-THE-HIP APPLICATIONS OFFER WHOLE NEW REALM FOR PAGING FIRMS

A Federal Express drop-box pages a route driver letting him know that it received no packages that day and that a stop is not...

PAGEMART EXTENDS 7-ELEVEN CHANNEL

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it has expanded its distribution agreement with The Southland Corp.'s 7-Eleven stores to six additional states.In Virginia and Maryland 7-Eleven...

ALLTEL TO MARKET PAGEMART’S SERVICES TO ITS TELEPHONY CUSTOMERS

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Alltel Corp. and PageMart Wireless Inc. announced a five-year strategic alliance that will allow Alltel to offer its customers PageMart's numeric and...

PAGETAP AND ISS OFFER ROAD REPORTS

DENVER-Denver-based PageTap Inc. and Information Station Specialists of Zeeland, Mich., announced they will begin providing real-time information to travelers on the road.By using PageTap's...

WTB CHIEF HINTS AT REFARMING STAY

WASHINGTON-The private radio industry is waiting this week to see if the long-awaited refarming plan, scheduled to be implemented Oct. 17, actually will go...

WIRELESS RESELLERS SAY THEIR INTERCONNECTION RIGHTS ARE IGNORED

WASHINGTON-Wireless resellers have interconnection rights that have been ignored by carriers and federal regulators said an industry coalition, including surprise MCI Communications Corp. suitor...

MICROWAVE POWER WINS LUCENT ORDER

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.-Microwave Power Devices Inc. announced it received a $6.6 million order from Lucent Technologies Inc. for Code Division Multiple Access-based personal communications services...

CLEARNET’S MIKE SHOWS BIG GROWTH

TORONTO-Clearnet Communications Inc. said it added 11,175 subscribers to its Mike enhanced specialized mobile radio network during the third quarter, the largest quarterly addition...

COMCAST FINISHES SWITCH TO DIGITAL

WAYNE, Pa.-Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. announced the launch of its $200 million personal communications services network at a gala in Philadelphia, complete with a...

FCC ASKS CONGRESS FOR NEW AUCTION LEGISLATION AND PROCEDURES

WASHINGTON-In an extensive report submitted to Congress Oct. 9, the Federal Communications Commission outlined its experiences with spectrum auctions since the agency first was...

CLARIFICATIONS

The Oct. 6 news analysis on the C-block personal communications services restructuring should have stated that "If the three commissioners felt so strongly that...
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