SINGAPORE-MobileOne of Singapore announced it turned on its cellular network for limited use and plans to launch service commercially in April. Goh Chee Wee, Singapore’s Minister of the State for …
DELRAY BEACH, Fla.-Sims Communications Inc. and the American Automobile Association have teamed to offer rented cellular phones to AAA’s 890,000 members in the Carolinas. The product package called “TripFone,” is …
WASHINGTON-In a decision almost surely headed for the appeals court, the Federal Communications Commission last Friday conditionally awarded NextWave Personal Communications Inc. its C-block licenses after NextWave submitted a plan …
NEW YORK-The public capital markets were not kind to personal communications services companies in 1996, but 1997 is looking a bit more hopeful. “The seven publicly traded PCS players not …
Cellulink introduced digital cellular service in the Fox Valley, Wis., region. The Time Division Multiple Access system will work in conjunction with the company’s existing cellular network. Cellulink said the …
To the cynic, walking away from AT&T Corp. and the prospect of being chairman of the world’s biggest telecommunications company to head a wireless start-up with unproven technology was no …
BANGKOK, Thailand-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it has signed a multimillion dollar contract with Thailand’s Total Access Communication Company Ltd. to supply and install the country’s first commercial Code Division Multiple …
KING OF PRUSSIA-InterDigital Communications Corp. adopted a shareholder rights plan and declared a distribution of one right for each outstanding share of common stock under the advice of Merrill Lynch, …
WASHINGTON- The demand for two-way messaging services is high among current paging users, as reported by Economic and Management Consultants International Inc. in a recent survey, which is part of …
The New Year started out so well. Tom Wheeler and I congratulated each other on bowl wins by Ohio State, his alma mater, and Tennessee, mine. He said he and …
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-The Communities on Phone Patrol (COPP) program donated 40 phones to 10 Fort Lauderdale, Fla., neighborhoods as part of its goal to distribute 50,000 cellular phones to community …
WAYNE, Pa.-Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. launched its Prepaid Advanced Cellular service in Philadelphia, central and southern New Jersey, Delaware and parts of Maryland. The PAC plan allows customers to prepay …
Section AR-I, CI-, C-II, C-III, IND-I, IND-II? R-III, CO? D.1 Cellular Antenna to be affixed to a new Not allowed Maximum Tower Height: 100 feet? (proposed) ground tower Setbacks: The …
MONTREAL-Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications Inc. announced a new pricing program for its Digital PCS cellular customers in the greater Montreal area. “Montreal and More” costs about $44 a month and …
JANUARY 7-8 Telecommunications Business Environment Conference, by the International Telecommunications Group. Denver. (303) 779-4141. 9-12 Consumer Electronics Show ’97, Sands Expo and Convention Center, Las Vegas. (703) 907-7674. 19-22 19th …
ATLANTA-BellSouth Mobility Inc. launched its TextMessaging service last month. The service allows short messages to be sent from a personal computer to a digital cellular customer with no airtime charges …
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s European Cellular Infrastructure Division deployed a digital microcellular system for Belgacom Mobile to expand and enhance its network in Belgium. Belgacom Mobile operates the Proximus Global …
Paging co. defaults on bank agreement PageAmerica Group Inc. said it is in default for the full amount of a $34 million bank credit agreement, which matured Nov. 30. The …
The Secretary of Communications in Argentina announced concrete plans to award two personal communications services licenses in early to mid-1997. Initially, the two PCS licenses will be granted for 30 …
MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp. appointed Tele Greenland International of Copenhagen, Denmark, as an authorized representative of AirNet for Greenland and certain Far Eastern countries. AirNet and Tele Greenland will distribute …
