FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-Aviation officials and electronics experts are debating whether portable electronic devices, including cellular phones and pagers, should be banned during airline flights, according to an investigation conducted by Computerworld …
WASHINGTON-Despite it being the Number One wish on bidders’ holiday lists, there probably is little chance that the D-, E- and F-block personal communications services auction will conclude before the …
BEACHWOOD, Ohio-NextWave Telecom Inc. agreed to purchase $50 million in wireless personal communications services products and services from The Allen Group Inc. The products will be used in NextWave’s national …
LOS ANGELES-AirTouch Cellular has turned on its complete Code Division Multiple Access network in Los Angeles, having overcome software problems in the Motorola Inc.-supplied system. The company launched a small …
LITTLE CHUTE, Wis.-ClearSystems Inc. will provide its customer care and billing platform, Innoverse, to Airadigm Communications, a personal communications services license winner. Innoverse was designed using client/server object-oriented technology, the …
220 MHz operator US MobilComm Inc. said the conversion to digital technology by Nextel Communications Inc. is offering MobilComm a tremendous opportunity to capture customers. US MobilComm recently rolled out …
L.M. Ericsson said Digital Tuka Kyushu ordered equipment, including AXE switching and radio base station infrastructure, to expand its Personal Digital Cellular mobile telephone system. Ericsson values the contract at …
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s International Cellular Infrastructure Group signed a contract to expand a Global System for Mobile communications network in Kuwait. Motorola values the contract at $7 million. When …
The latest radio acquisition by Harris Corp. puts the company in the position to compete for a multimillion dollar government contract upgrading airport radio systems. Harris is buying the Digital …
WASHINGTON-In an effort to move closer to gaining the C-block personal communications services licenses it won last summer and to circumvent any talk of collusion, Dallas-based GWI PCS Inc. has …
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration’s 15-month-old executive memorandum mandating tower siting on federal lands not only is not being implemented quickly, it is being filibustered by land-management agencies, according to a Dec. …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-More than 3.5 million people sign up for digital wireless services each month, according to a study conducted by L.M. Ericsson. The company estimated 126 million people were wireless …
NEW YORK-Although Ericsson Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm Inc. for alleged patent infringement, Ericsson said it believes the two manufacturers will work out their differences without the threat …
The transition from analog to digital handsets in the United States is finally taking off, says a new study published by Herschel Shosteck Associates Ltd. “After four years of false …
Qualcomm Inc. has granted Hitachi Ltd. rights to manufacture and sell Code Division Multiple Access infrastructure based on Qualcomm’s CDMA Interim Standard 95 technology. “We believe that this agreement with …
Clinton II and greener pastures are generating more exits, some through the infamous revolving door. Bob McNamara, chief of the FCC’s Private Wireless Division, is leaving the agency after 21 …
WASHINGTON-Viking Dispatch Services Inc., whose 42 applications to build cooperative, non-profit private radio networks were rejected by the Federal Communications Commission’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau June 7, continues to fight for …
Some letters sent to Santa somehow found their way to RCR’s Denver office. I took a peak before sending them on to the big bearded guy up north … Dear …
FORT WORTH, Texas-Uniden Corp. has formed a subsidiary, The Private Radio Communications Group, to specialize in research and development, manufacturing and sales of private mobile radio and specialized mobile radio …
SEATTLE-Toll Free Cellular has announced plans for national expansion of its #800 free cellular calling services. The national expansion is propelled by an infusion of capital, provided primarily by limited …
