Monthly Archives: March, 1998

REFS DONE TINKERING WITH C-BLOCK RULES

WASHINGTON-Still not satisfied that the Federal Communications Commission went far enough to protect the viability of certain financially disabled C-block personal communications services licensees,...

AMERITECH STRUCTURES NEW ZEALAND OFFERING

NEW YORK-Ameritech Corp., which said in December it would sell its 24.95 percent stake in Telecom Corp. of New Zealand, announced the structure for...

WIRELESS CAN GET BRAND STRATEGIES FORM OTHER INDUSTRIES

What does wireless have in common with toothpaste? Maybe not much now, but perhaps the toothpaste industry has learned a marketing secret that wireless...

GEOS IS FOUNDATION FOR NOKIA 9110

HANOVER, Germany-Geoworks Corp. announced its graphical, communications-centric GEOS operating system will provide the foundation for the new Nokia Corp. 9110 Communicator for Global System...

VIEWPOINT: THE PRODIGAL LICENSEE

Last Sunday at church the main reading was the parable of the Prodigal Son. You remember the one, about the wealthy farmer with two...

U.S. CELLULAR TO USE NORTEL’S TDMA

DALLAS-United States Cellular Corp. selected Northern Telecom Inc. to build new Code Division Multiple Access and Time Division Multiple Access networks in its markets,...

PAGING: GOLDEN EGG OR GOLDEN CALF?

NEW YORK-"The challenge for the paging industry is to reinvent itself so it can become a free cash-flow business, to put the brakes on...

CENTURY IS FIRST CUSTOMER FOR NORTEL TDMA NETWORK

ATLANTA-Northern Telecom Inc. received its first order for a 1900 MHz Time Division Multiple Access-based personal communications services network from Century Telephone Enterprises, said...

COLORADO CONSIDERS WIRELESS-ONLY AREA CODE

DENVER-The Colorado Public Utilities Commission is considering a plan to provide a new area code just for wireless phones and pagers despite a 1995...

NOKIA TO EQUIP WESTERN WITH GSM

IRVING, Texas-Western PCS Corp. will buy Global System for Mobile communications network equipment, valued at $150 million, from Nokia Corp. for its Seattle and...

VIEWPOINT: PURE SPECULATION

Twelve of the carriers featured in RCR's Top 20 Cellular operators list in 1987 either no longer exist or have substantially changed. It's not...

CELLTALK SOFTWARE PROVIDES PREPAID ALTERNATIVE

Companies that want to take advantage of the emerging prepaid wireless market through debit phone technology now have the option of owning their customers...

TBG TO PURCHASE COMSAT’S RSIUNIT

NEW YORK-Comsat Corp. signed a stock-purchase agreement valued at $116.5 million to sell most of Comsat RSI Inc. to a subsidiary of TBG Industries...

BRIGHTPOINT BUYS WAVETECH OF U.K.

INDIANAPOLIS-Brightpoint Inc. announced it acquired Wavetech Ltd., a United Kingdom-based company that distributes wireless handsets.Wavetech, which reported sales of $64 million last year, has...

ROCKWELL SEMICONDUCTOR ENTERS GSM MARKET WITH CHIP SOLUTION

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.-Rockwell Semiconductor Systems Inc. introduced a complete antenna-to-microphone system solution for 900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications, the first GSM products...

CALENDAR

March 23-25The CDMA Development Group. The China World Hotel, Beijing.(888) 800-2362; outside the United States call (714) 545-5211.WorldTelecommunicationDevelopment ConferenceMarch 23-April 1The International Telecommunication Union....

OMNIPOINT EXPANDS EAST COAST COVERAGE

BOSTON-Omnipoint Communications Inc. expanded its wireless network coverage into Boston; Providence, R.I.; Manchester, N.H.; and the Interstate-95 corridor and other connecting routes.As part of...

SINGTEL PAGING USES NEXUS SYSTEM

TEL AVIV, Israel-Nexus Telocation Systems Ltd. announced SingTel Paging launched commercial two-way paging and telemetry data service in Singapore using the Nexus system.SingTel is...

METROCALL OFFERS PAGER ID SERVICE

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. announced the nationwide rollout of its new Pager ID service, which identifies the name of the person placing the call to...

POCKET CREDITORS CUT DEAL WITH FCC, JUSTICE

WASHINGTON-Major lenders to C-block personal communications services licensee Pocket Communications Inc. have struck a tentative deal with the Federal Communications Commission and the Justice...

PREPAID CONTRACTS CAN BE BAD NEWS FOR PAGING RESELLERS

The differences between paging resellers and carriers is perhaps most evident when looking at what happens to paging resellers that offer customers prepaid multiyear...

NOKIA RELEASES THREE HANDSETS, INCLUDING NEW COMMUNICATOR

HANOVER, Germany-Nokia Corp. introduced three new handsets for the 900 MHz Global System for Mobile communications market this week at the Cebit '98 exhibition...

UNITY TAKES NEXT STEP IN ONE-STOP SHOPPING

Unity Communications Inc. of Jackson, Miss., is in the process of taking its one-stop shopping idea nationally.Having offered cellular, paging, long-distance and Internet services...

NEWS BRIEFS

Socket Communications Inc. and Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group announced an agreement to develop and support software that will allow FLEX-enabled palmtop computers...

MERGER ACTIVITY QUIET OF LATE, BUT FAR FROM OVER

NEW YORK-The merger spree in the paging industry during the past few years currently is at a lull, but acquisition activity is not over...
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