December 1997

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-General Magic Inc. unveiled its first product in the DataRover family of handheld communications devices. The DataRover 840 is a handheld computer, weighing 18 ounces, in a tablet design. …

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.-Ericsson Inc. recently announced that shipments of its smallest personal communications services phone are under way this month. The CF 788 weighs 4.7 ounces and stands four …

ATLANTA-Digital Transmission Systems Inc., a telecommunications equipment maker, recently announced that it received a $5.4 million order from a national wireless carrier. The order, which the company says is the …

WARREN, N.J.-AirTouch Cellular plans to replace its wireless network infrastructure in seven U.S. markets with Lucent Technologies Inc.’s digital wireless platform, announced the companies. AirTouch said it will install Lucent’s …

AT&T Corp. admitted it might sell its Wireless Messaging Division-without actually confirming that the paging unit is indeed up for sale-after rumors surfaced that the paging network was on the …

The Personal Communications Industry Association and a coalition of alphanumeric paging dispatchers have filed petitions to either stay or reconsider, respectively, the Federal Communication Commission’s Pay Telephone Compensation Remand Order. …

WATERTOWN, Conn.-MTX Paging Products L.L.C. announced it has selected Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Inc.’s SkyTel subsidiary as the exclusive service provider for its new Beepwear pager watch. MTX is a joint …

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.-Arch Communications Group Inc. announced it signed a definitive agreement to sell its site management business to Arlington, Va.-based Telecom Towers L.L.C. for $40 million. Under the agreement, Arch …

CAMARILLO, Calif.-AML Communications Inc. announced it received orders, totaling about $1.8 million, for cellular infrastructure equipment from AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and an original equipment manufacturer serving the South American …

One big-name credit-card company believes it can help accomplish every wireless carrier’s objective: to gain brand recognition, target high-end users, simplify billing, reduce churn and perhaps entice customers to spend …

CHICAGO-United States Cellular Corp. and its parent company, Telephone and Data Systems Inc., announced plans to sell to AirTouch Communications Inc. its minority interests in the cellular systems serving Seattle …

Players in the crowded Hong Kong market may finally get a little elbow room, as Hong Kong Telecommunications Ltd. announced its wholly owned subsidiary, Hongkong Telecom CSL, plans to acquire …

SANTA MONICA, Calif.-Angellcom said it began shipping its new line of alphanumeric and numeric pagers. The Platinum is a four-line alphanumeric unit available in nine languages and has 100 mail …

DALLAS-PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. launched its PrimeTravel service, which allows subscribers to roam throughout the nation using dual-mode/dual-band handsets manufactured by Sony Corp. The company also announced it has implemented …

NEW YORK-Price Communications Corp. announced a common stock split in the form of a 25-percent stock dividend payable Dec. 22 to all shareholders of record as of Dec. 10. The …

WASHINGTON-The House Commerce Committee, claiming its probe of the Federal Communications Commission’s relocation to The Portals is being deliberately thwarted, is considering subpoenaing the Portals developer who paid $1 million …

ATLANTA-Powertel Inc. launched its Global System for Mobile communications personal communications services network in Atlanta, bringing to 22 the number of metropolitan areas and major highway corridors in which the …

Western Wireless Corp. filed a complaint against GTE Hawaiian Telephone Co. Inc. seeking an order compelling GTE to implement arbitrated interconnection agreement rates between the companies. Gene DeJordy, director of …

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it has signed an agreement with Nicaragua’s telecommunications service provider, Jamar S.A. of C.V. to expand its international roaming footprint beginning next January. “The partnership with …

DULLES, Va.-Orbcomm Global L.P. now covers the entire South American continent after signing a service license agreement with Damos SudAmerica S.A. Orbcomm, a provider of global low-earth-orbit satellite data and …

DALLAS-PageMart Wireless Inc. announced it has reached an agreement in principle to provide pagers and paging services to more than 660 OfficeMax Inc. retail locations nationwide. The arrangement is aimed …

ORLANDO, Fla.-Northern Telecom Inc. introduced an integrated text messaging system that simultaneously sends text to both wireless and wireline text-message compatible phones. Nortel demonstrated the system at the Code Division …

What, you haven’t had enough paparazzi already? Mohamed Al Fayed, owner of Harrods and the man who might have been father-in-law to the late Princess Di, is back in the …

ATLANTA-BellSouth Mobility DCS is offering its customers in the Carolinas, eastern Tennessee and coastal Georgia the Nokia 9000 Communicator, a digital wireless handset capable of sending faxes, accessing the Internet, …

DALLAS-MCI Communications Corp. announced the completion of its new dispatch system that uses wireless technology to send technicians to customer sites. The new system, called Dispatch.Mgr, is a computerized wireless …