Yearly Archives: 1997

AIRCELL AIMS TO REUSE CELLULAR CHANNELS FOR AIRBORNE APPLICATIONS

AirCell Inc., a Boulder, Colo.-based company that has developed a system to provide ground communications for aircraft using cellular channels, has been in a...

ADVANCED RADIO TELECOM GAINS PERMITS

BELLEVUE, Wash.-Advanced Radio Telecom Crop. announced it has entered into agreements to acquire 24 additional licenses in the 38 GHz band and has received...

WHO’S WHO IN THE NEW FCC COMMISSIONERS OFFICES

Office of FCC Chairman Bill Kennard (term ends June 30, 2001)Chief of Staff: John Nakahada, who had been Hundt's senior legal assistantSenior legal adviser: Susan Fox,...

USCC AND BELLSOUTH EXCHANGE MARKETS

CHICAGO-United States Cellular Corp. announced it has completed the exchange transaction with BellSouth Corp. pursuant to agreements entered into in February.USCC acquired controlling interests...

FIVE SMR VENDORS ADOPT SAME ENHANCED PROTOCOL

Several specialized mobile radio equipment manufacturers announced they agreed to adopt a common enhanced trunking protocol last week at AMTEX '97 in Orlando, Fla.Companies,...

WESTERN WIRELESS PCS TOPS 100,000-USER MARK

ISSAQUAH, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp. ended the third quarter with 101,000 personal communications services customers, adding 26,600 subscribers during the quarter.For the quarter ended Sept....

HUNDT TURNS OVER KEYS TO 8TH FLOOR TO KENNARD

WASHINGTON-In his last appearance Nov. 3 at the front of the Federal Communications Commission's eighth-floor meeting room, outgoing Chairman Reed Hundt said to a...

ESMR CARRIERS FINALLY START TO CASH IN WITH CUSTOMERS: FOCUS BEGINS TO SHIFT FROM TECHNOLOGY TO DISTRIBUTION AND MARKETING

Business finally is taking off for some of the players with nationwide coverage plans in the enhanced specialized mobile radio arena.With technology bugs worked...

XYPOINT E911 SOLUTION DOES NOT DEMAND HLR

NEW YORK-Xypoint Corp., Seattle, has developed a wireless Enhanced 911 solution that doesn't require carriers to install a Home Location Register or other expensive...

CALENDAR

NOVEMBER10-11 Channel Development for Wireless Distribution and Retail, by AIC Conferences. The Hotel Monaco, San Francisco. (800) 409-4AIC.10-12 Intele-CardNews Expo of the Americas: A Global...

WIRELESS DATA INDUSTRY FIGHTS FOR GROUND ON NEW BATTLEFIELD

The wireless data industry has long been considered the most optimistic bunch in the world of wireless. Each year, it seemed, was going to...

NEXTEL STILL LEADS 800 MHZ AUCTION PACK, CONTENDERS CUT BY HALF

WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. is on its way to a rout in the 800 MHz specialized mobile radio auction, leading its closest competitor in the...

COMPETITION HINDERED BY FCC TIME LAG, INDUSTRY SAYS: WIRELESS BUREAU SHOULD FAST-TRACK AGING SMR, PLMR ISSUES

WASHINGTON-According to a new book on wireless regulations written by former Industrial Telecommunications Association staffer Fred Day, "In 1993, Congress amended the Communications Act...

CONSUMERS DIRECT PAGING INDUSTRY GROWTH

WASHINGTON-The continued growth of the paging industry can be attributed mainly to a sharp rise in consumer-oriented users over the past five years, according...

E.F. JOHNSON TO SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR ’98 COMMONWEALTH GAMES

LINCOLN, Neb.-Transcrypt International Inc.'s E.F. Johnson Minnesota subsidiary won a contract to provide a two-way radio system for Electcoms SDN BHD of Malaysia to...

WIRELESSNORTH, CLEARNET INK ROAMING PACT

MINNEAPOLIS-Personal communications services provider WirelessNorth said it signed a roaming agreement with Clearnet PCS Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Clearnet Communications Inc. of...

ISRAEL PLANS TO ISSUE BASIC PHONE PERMITS TO WHOEVER WANTS ONE: WLL SERVICE CAN BE OFFERED AS ALTERNATIVE TO LANDLINE

NEW YORK-Israel plans to open its telecommunications market to full competition by January 1999, Communications Minister Limor Livnat said at a news conference, Nov....

AMERITECH TO USE AERIS’ FOR DATA

Aeris Communications Inc. announced that Ameritech Cellular Services will deploy Aeris' MicroBurst technology for short-burst data applications in Ameritech's cellular territory.The wireless data messaging...

NORTEL PAYS TO PLAY IN BROADBAND WIRELESS: LMDS AUCTION COULD BE DUD

Northern Telecom Ltd. won a $780 million contract with Teligent Corp. and offered to purchase all of the issued and outstanding common shares of...

IFR SYSTEMS’ BOARD OKS STOCK SPLIT

WICHITA, Kan.-IFR Systems Inc. announced its board of directors approved a 3-for-2 stock split, to be effected in the form of a 50-percent stock...

DSC TO BUY CELCORE IN STOCK EXCHANGE

DALLAS-DSC Communications Corp. signed a definitive agreement to acquire all of the outstanding stock of Celcore Inc., a Memphis, Tenn.-based manufacturer of Global System...

KOREAN MANUFACTURERS TO EMPLOY LUCENT EVRC: CHIP USED IN HANDSETS, BASE STATIONS

BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced three South Korean wireless communications equipment manufacturers are including Lucent's digital signal processor-based compression and decompression (codec) technology...

ILL. SUPERCONDUCTOR GETS $5M FINANCING

MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill.-Illinois Superconductor Corp. announced it has received $5 million in equity financing, consisting of $3.5 million from new investors, Elliott Associates L.P....

SMALL SMRS SHOULD EMPHASIZE THEIR SIZE AS STRENGTH

Almost everywhere you look is an example of a little guy trying to compete with a big guy-your local neighborhood video store competing with...

NEW SENIOR TEAM AT CTIA

New senior team at CTIA: The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association recently added new executives to its senior management team. The new team consists of (standing)...
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