Monthly Archives: August, 1998

BELLSOUTH TACKLES TWO-WAY MARKET

BellSouth Wireless Data L.P. marks its re-entry into the paging market this week with the commercial debut of its two-way Interactive Paging Service.The service...

NEWS BRIEFS

Conxus Communications Inc. will begin offering its Pocketalk portable answering machine service in the Boston metropolitan area beginning Sept. 7. The launch of Boston...

TSR BUYS AT&T NPCS LICENSE

FORT LEE, N.J.-TSR Wireless L.L.C. announced it purchased a narrowband personal communications services license from AT&T Two-Way Messaging Communications Inc. Financial terms of the...

CHANGE MARKS ROAD AHEAD FOR RESALE BUSINESS

The emergence of personal communications services providers is putting the often-tenuous relationship between carriers and resellers to the test in more ways than one.PCS...

INDUSTRY WRESTLES WITH DISABILITY DEFINITIONS

WASHINGTON-The wireless industry and the hearing-impaired community appear headed on a collision course over the implementation of the 1996 telecom act's mandate that equipment...

LUCENT, SUN SHAKE HANDS ON UNIFIED MESSAGING PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT

Lucent Technologies Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. announced a joint development and marketing agreement under which the two will create a unified messaging platform...

FCC SETS LMS AUCTION FOR DEC. 15

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission plans to auction 528 multilateration Location and Monitoring Service licenses Dec. 15. LMS is used to locate or monitor mobile...

BELL CANADA INTERNATIONAL BUYS STAKES IN KOREAN CARRIER HANSOL

Bell Canada International Inc. and New York-based insurance and financial services firm American International Group Inc. agreed to invest a combined $265 million to...

HOLLINGS ENTERS 3G FRAY

WASHINGTON-In perhaps the strongest signal to date of congressional concern about U.S. global competitiveness in the future third-generation mobile phone market, Sen. Ernest Hollings...

PINNACLE CANCELS IPO

SARASOTA, Fla.-Pinnacle Holdings Inc. announced it no longer is pursuing its initial public offering due to unfavorable market conditions.Pinnacle provides wireless communications rental tower...

RANGER ACQUIRES MOBILINK ASSETS

CHICAGO-B-Side Carriers L.P., operating as MobiLink, and Ranger Wireless Solutions announced that Ranger acquired most of the assets and contracts of MobiLink for an...

ORANGE INTRODUCES EVERY PHONE SERVICE

LONDON-Orange plc introduced a one-number service called Every Phone that allows Orange customers' phone numbers to follow them with a call-forwarding system.Orange's Talkplan customers...

NEXTEL FORMS PARTNERSHIP TO BUILD OUT SMALL MARKETS

MCLEAN, Va.-Nextel Communications Inc., along with other equity investors, announced an agreement with Nextel Partners Inc. to build and operate an integrated digital wireless...

PARKS SERVICE COMPLETES ANTENNA-SITING GUIDELINES

WASHINGTON-Finishing guidelines to facilitate antenna sitings on park property, The National Park Service stopped short of presuming that antennas can be sited without harming...

BELLSOUTH LOSES ON EFFORT TO OFFER LONG DISTANCE IN LA.

WASHINGTON-The Department of Justice last week said BellSouth Corp. has not yet opened up its markets sufficiently enough to offer long-distance service in Louisiana.The...

CINCINNATI BELL WIRELESS EXPANDS IN OHIO

CINCINNATI-Cincinnati Bell Wireless announced that it expanded its southwest Ohio operating region by launching personal communications services in Dayton.The launch coincides with the opening...

INTERNET ACCESS MOST LIKELY USE FOR LMDS

The race is on for local multipoint distribution service carriers to launch service, but many players remain confused about which services to offer and...

WORLD BRIEFS

The CDMA Development Group formed an interest group within the CDG that will focus on Latin America. The CDG said the interest group builds...

COMMISSION DOES NOT SERVE SPECIAL-INTEREST GROUPS

To the Editor: I am writing in response to two recent articles-"McCain: FCC is Running a Do Nothing Wireless Bureau," (July 20) and "McCain Lays Foundation...

CLINTON PRE-EMPTION ORDER DERAILED

WASHINGTON-In late spring, as federal regulators, wireless carriers and state and local officials neared the end of nearly one year of negotiations-culminating earlier this...

NEWS BRIEFS

Airadigm Communications Inc. signed a contract to sell its entire tower inventory to SpectraSite Communications Inc., said the companies. The purchase price was not...

NORTEL, AT&T WORK ON WIRELESS OFFICE

DALLAS-Northern Telecom Ltd. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. said they will jointly develop and market enhancements to Nortel's Companion Microcellular system, a digital wireless...

WIRELESS BATTLES PORTABILITY REQUIREMENT ON SEVERAL FRONTS

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last week convened the third annual wireless number portability forum to discuss ways to implement wireless number portability before...

PUBLIC SERVICE POOL PROPOSAL CRITICIZED BY FREQUENCY COORDINATORS

WASHINGTON-A petition by three trade associations representing railroads, utilities and the petroleum industry is being criticized soundly by other frequency coordinators, which claim the...

QUALCOMM’S SAO PAULO FACILITY TO MAKE HANDSETS

SAO PAULO, Brazil-Qualcomm do Brasil S.A., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Inc., announced a new Qualcomm phone manufacturing facility in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with initial...
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