Yearly Archives: 1997

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...

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...

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...

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...

SMR AUCTION BUMPS UP TO 24 ROUNDS EACH DAY

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will kick up the pace of the 800 MHz specialized mobile radio services auction tomorrow to 24 rounds per day...

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...

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...

CTIA, FEDERAL AGENCIES PLAN GUIDE FOR ANTENNA SITING

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service have aligned to produce a guide to help federal land managers...

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...

OMNIPOINT, WESTERN TEAM IN KAN. BTAS

CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J.-Omnipoint Communications Services Inc. and Western Wireless Corp. signed a contract to jointly operate networks in three Kansas basic trading areas, and...

WTO ACCORD COULD HIT SNAGS: FCC, EU SPAR OVER FREE TRADE

WASHINGTON-As prospects grow that the Jan. 1 start date of the global telecom free trade pact will be delayed, the United States is coming...

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...

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...

AMERICEL TURNS ON SWITCH TO OFFER CELLULAR IN BRAZIL

Brazil edged nearer to its stated goal of liberalizing its telecom industry when the Canadian-Brazilian consortium Americel S.A. became the first private mobile phone...

RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT DETAINS QUALCOMM EXEC ON SPY CHARGES

WASHINGTON-Russia, over U.S. objections, was expected to charge Qualcomm Inc.'s Richard Bliss with espionage on Friday amid new revelations that the 29-year-old field technician...

TELECOM MALAYSIA SEEKS WLL BUILDERS

KUALA LUMPUR-The U.S. Commercial Service in Malaysia said Telekom Malaysia Berhad is inviting U.S. telecom firms to take part in a tender for the...

G. CRAIN HONORED AS INDUCTEE INTO ADVERTISING HALL OF FAME

CHICAGO-Gertrude R. Crain, the late chairman of Crain Communications Inc., has been named as one of three new inductees into the American Advertising Federation's...

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...

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...

BELL CANADA STARTS WITH BANG IN CHINA

MONTREAL-More than 1,000 customers signed up on the first day of Bell Canada International's launch of a new mobile cellular network Jinan, the capital...

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...

ERICSSON SIGNS DEALS IN RUSSIA

L.M. Ericsson signed two joint venture agreements to produce equipment in Russia. The pacts were established in conjunction with Russian President Boris Yeltsin's recent...

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...

SAMSUNG TIGHTENS BELT IN SHAKY KOREA ECONOMY

SEOUL, Korea-Responding to the recent turmoil in Korea's economy, Samsung Group said it will reorganize management-making cuts in all Korea-based business units-refocus investments on...

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...
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