Monthly Archives: October, 1997

QUALCOMM JOINS WITH TELEBAHIA

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced two projects with Telebahia, the A-band cellular operator in Bahia, Brazil.Qualcomm announced a pioneering project with Nec Do Brasil S.A....

BOSTON TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPLY SERVICES

WAKEFIELD, Mass.-Boston Technology Inc. and Panafon S.A. formed an agreement calling for Boston to supply its Access NP Network Services Platforms, software and value-added...

BELL MOBILITY STARTS CDMA-BASED PCS

TORONTO- Bell Mobility launched its PCS Plus personal communications services network in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City.Subscribers can use dual-mode analog/digital phones, by...

ARCHITEL TO EQUIP GTE WITH ASAP

TORONTO-Architel Systems Corp. will license its Automatic Service Activation Program to GTE Data Services Inc. under an agreement valued at $7 million in the...

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...

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...

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...

IBS, LUCENT AGREE ON PROCESSING DEAL

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.-International Billing Services Inc. and Lucent Technologies Inc. announced a five-year deal calling for IBS to provide Lucent's Business Communications Systems...

DEPARTING FCC PRESENTS FINAL UNITED FRONT ON PUBLIC-SAFETY NPRM

WASHINGTON-Rather than voting publicly on the pending public-safety allocation item announced on the sunshine agenda, Federal Communications Commissioners last Thursday chose to spend their...

HOUSE COMMITTEE OKS SCANNER BILL

WASHINGTON-The House Judiciary Committee last week approved a bill to crack down on radio scanner interception of wireless communications and mobile phone identification numbers....

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...

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...

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...

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...

GLOBAL ONE CHOOSES IBS BILL PROCESSING

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.-Global One announced it chose International Billing Services as its statement processing services provider for card products. Global One-a joint venture...
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