Monthly Archives: December, 1997

GENERAL MAGIC INC. RELEASES DATAROVER FAMILY OF HANDHELDS

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...

ERICSSON PCS SET PROMISES STYLE, PERSONALIZED FEATURES

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...

DTS RECEIVES ITS LARGEST ORDER EVER

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...

AIRTOUCH INSTALLS LUCENT’S CDMA

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...

AT&T’S PLAN TO SHED PAGING UNIT DOESN’T KNELL DEATH OF INDUSTRY

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...

GROUPS PROTEST FCC’S NEW PAY-PHONE PLAN

The Personal Communications Industry Association and a coalition of alphanumeric paging dispatchers have filed petitions to either stay or reconsider, respectively, the Federal Communication...

MTEL NAMED SOLE BEEPWEAR PROVIDER

WATERTOWN, Conn.-MTX Paging Products L.L.C. announced it has selectedMobile Telecommunication Technologies Inc.'s SkyTelsubsidiary as the exclusive service provider for its new Beepwear pager watch.MTX...

TELECOM TOWERS TO BUY ARCH SITING UNIT

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...

AML WINS ORDERS FROM AT&T AND OEM

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...

AMERICAN EXPRESS CHARGES INTO WIRELESS BUSINESS WITH BILLING

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...

AIRTOUCH TO BUY USCC INTERESTS

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...

HONG KONG LOSES PLAYER AS HONGKONG TELECOM BUYS PACIFIC LINK

Players in the crowded Hong Kong market may finally get a little elbow room, as Hong Kong Telecommunications Ltd. announced its wholly owned subsidiary,...

ANGELLCOM SHIPS THREE NEW PAGERS

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...

PRIMECO PRIMETRAVEL ALLOWS DUAL-BAND ROAMING ON SONY SET

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...

PRICE STOCK SPLITS, FIRM PLANS DIVIDEND

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...

PORTALS DEVELOPER MISSES COMMITTEE QUERY DATE

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...

POWERTEL STARTS PCS IN ATLANTA

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...

WESTERN WIRELESS SAYS GTE HAWAII INTERCONNECT PACT IS UNFAIR

Western Wireless Corp. filed a complaint against GTE Hawaiian Telephone Co. Inc. seeking an order compelling GTE to implement arbitrated interconnection agreement rates between...

PAGEMART, JAMAR SIGN FOR ROAMING

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...

ORBCOMM SIGNS ON DAMOS, COMPLETING S.AMERICA COVERAGE

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...

OFFICEMAX TO OFFER PAGEMART SERVICES

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...

NORTEL CAN SEND TEXT TO WIRELINE, WIRELESS

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...

D.C. NOTES

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...

BELLSOUTH PCS UNIT SELLING NOKIA 9000

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...

MCI COMPLETES DISPATCH SYSTEM

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...
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