ATLANTA-MCI Communications Corp. announced it is offering local cellular service in the Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, N.Y., markets. Customers in those areas will have an alternative for local cellular service, …
NEW YORK-In Latin American countries, “where completion of a phone call is cause for celebration in some cases,” rising gross domestic product signals increasing financing demands for wireless communications infrastructure …
Sprint Spectrum L.P. said it is facing the same problem in Oregon experienced by its personal communications services competitor, Western Wireless Corp.-an attempt by the state to tax its personal …
Sprint Spectrum delays offering -5 AT&T, SBC swap properties – 13 Telecel expands service in Africa – 18
NEW YORK-Never mind the summer sun. When it comes to microwave incumbent relocation, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas to personal communications services providers. By late July, about …
OLYMPIA, Wash.-Illuminet and Northern Telecom Inc. announced they expanded their personal communications services equipment agreement to include Global System for Mobile communications technology in addition to Code Division Multiple Access …
ATLANTA-GTE Mobilnet Inc. switched 250 cellular customers in Austin, Texas, from its analog network to a trial network using Code Division Multiple Access technology. GTE said it intends to gather …
NEW YORK-Sprint Spectrum L.P. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Sprint Spectrum Finance Corp., last week delayed and apparently downsized a planned issuance of $650 million in 10-year notes. By Aug. …
DENVER-Sprint Spectrum demonstrated its 1900 MHz phones last week during the Sprint International golf tournament at Castle Pines. The company provided free personal communications services calls to tournament spectators with …
U.S. partners in a Slovakian phone venture are confident they can restructure their company to meet new license qualifications unexpectedly created by the Slovakian government. Slovakia is scheduled to issue …
WASHINGTON-Comments were due late last week on the draft proposal forwarded by the Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee, which contained recommendations by five subcommittees regarding ways to fill the country’s …
TORONTO-Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications Inc. has developed a system that will allow subscribers to roam all over the world with a special cellular phone. Customers buy or rent a Worldwide …
WASHINGTON-The Industrial Telecommunications Association Inc. and the Personal Communications Industry Association won their fights to become designated clearinghouses that will administer the Federal Communications Commission’s microwave-relocation cost-sharing plan. “We are …
A government summary outlining the reclassification of specialized mobile radio operators “may pose more questions than it answers,” said SMR organization leader Alan Shark. “Reclassified operators are being thrown into …
Free marketers are giving voice to a rising chorus of demands to privatize electromagnetic spectrum and overturn the 60-year-old regulatory regime enshrined at the Federal Communications Commission. At its heart, …
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. signed a license agreement for VLSI Technology to develop, manufacture and sell Application Specific Integrated Circuits to Qualcomm’s subscriber equipment licensees. VLSI is the third announced supplier …
The article on page 2 of RCR’s Aug. 12 issue should have stated that 3607 Communications Co.’s Code Division Multiple Access digital handsets provide 48 hours of standby time.
BETHESDA, Md.-Comsat Personal Communications made a phone call from Malaysia to Germany last week with the Planet 1 phone, using the Inmarsat-3 satellite operating over the Indian Ocean. Comsat developed …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission continues to mull the fate of the Phoenix license won by CH PCS Inc. during last month’s re-auction of 18 C-block personal communications services licenses; the …
FORT WAYNE, Ind.-Centennial Cellular Corp. has introduced a new call package plan to its customers in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. In addition to bundling a number of minutes into a …
