CLEVELAND-Allen Telecom Group will introduce seven new products at PCS ’96 this week. The PMR-722GC1 Sector-Extender Repeater and a new line of tower mounted amplifiers are designed to enhance base …
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Mark Golden, senior vice president of Industry Affairs for the Personal Communications Industry Association, has been accepted as a voting member of the Federal Communications Commission’s North American Numbering …
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas-Allgon Enterprises Inc. and Teledyne Electronic Technologies have teamed up to develop and manufacture plastic technology for certain key wireless communications applications. The Allgon Enterprises and Teledyne Electronic …
NEW YORK-When it comes to bundling wireless and landline telephone services, AirTouch Communications Inc. will pursue two different strategies, one domestic and one European, key executives said at a Sept. …
While AirNet Communications Corp. is busy this week demonstrating its PCS 1900 base station system at PCS ’96, the company’s new Korean joint venture, AirCom, is busy demonstrating AirNet’s software …
IRVINE, Calif.-AirTouch Cellular of Los Angeles introduced a standard roaming rate of 79 cents per minute for calls made in California but outside a customer’s home-rate calling area. Roaming rates …
CHICAGO- 3607 Communications Co. and Paging Network Inc. announced 3607 will begin offering PageNet’s paging services. 3607’s customers in its nearly 100 markets will have the ability to access paging …
NEW YORK-Metricom Inc. will mark its second commercial launch within a month when it begins offering its data-only wireless Internet access services in late September in the Washington, D.C., area. …
VANCOUVER, British Columbia-Following successful completion of field trials of Northern Telecom Ltd.’s 800 MHz Code Division Multiple Access network, BC Tel Mobility has committed to move forward with full commercial …
Motorola Inc. unveiled a new open messaging software platform called Memos that is adaptable to all networks but optimized for the unique environment of wireless. “Motorola believes the establishment of …
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola’s Cellular Infrastructure Group plans to begin implementing an emergency call location identification system called “Wireless E911,” during the second quarter of 1997. With Wireless E911, the public …
NEW YORK-Millicom International Cellular S.A. has reached an agreement in principle to exchange its option to acquire 20 percent of Comviq GSM AB, the Swedish cellular telephone operator, in return …
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. announced it will reschedule a special meeting of shareholders concerning its merger with A+ Network Inc. The meeting, originally planned for mid-September, will be held in late …
As an embattled small business curmudgeon and wireless industry activist, I find it necessary to respond to Federal Communications Commission spokesperson Michele Farquhar’s recent letter that appeared in the July …
WASHINGTON-The U.S. low-earth-orbit data satellite market may end up far less competitive than envisioned as policymakers struggle to craft rules around a smaller-than-anticipated spectrum allocation capable of supporting only a …
This paper will show that wireless local loop systems provide more capacity than mobile cellular systems. Code Division Multiple Access technology has proven to have higher capacity than other multiple …
WASHINGTON-Organized labor wants to make inroads in the wireless telecommunications industry as part of a broad makeover to regain political clout that has been waning for the past two decades. …
The abundance of new wireless licenses in Indonesia could have as much to do with politics as market opportunity, said a Pennsylvania State University college professor who specializes in international …
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.-Safety tops the list of why customers use cellular phones, according to the Personal Wireless Communications Survey conducted by IDC/LINK, a division of International Data Corp. More than half …
ATLANTA-Focusing attention on GTE Corp.’s corporate identity, GTE Mobilnet Inc. will start referring to the company as just “GTE” in some of its marketing efforts. Ron Grawert, executive vice president …
