PICKERING, Ontario, Canada-Clearnet Communications Inc. has signed a deal with Lucent Technologies Canada to buy pocket phone equipment, valued at $475 million, during the next five years using a loan …
Teletouch Communications Inc. announced it has completed its acquisition of laPAGEco of Baton Rouge, La. laPAGEco is a privately owned paging company that provides services to about 6,700 pagers on …
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and GTE Mobilnet Inc. signed an agreement to interconnect their wireless data networks. Both networks use Cellular Digital Packet Data technology and combined can provide data …
RESTON, Va.-American Mobile Satellite Corp. has appointed Gary Parsons president and chief executive officer. He will also serve on the company’s board of directors. Parsons succeeds Brian Pemberton who will …
CHICAGO-Ameritech Cellular Services is introducing Ameritech PrePaid Cellular service. Ameritech said its customers now have the ability to purchase cellular airtime on a pay-as-you-go basis with no long-term contracts, monthly …
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Paging, a subsidiary of AirTouch Communications Inc., is offering Internet paging access to its 2.6 million customers nationwide. All AirTouch Paging customers now can receive e-mail messages sent …
While naysayers doubted that personal communications services networks could be built out in record time, the five systems now up and running prove them wrong. Western Wireless Corp. last week …
STAMFORD, Conn.- Intelligent Information Inc., which provides financial, news, weather, traffic, sports and entertainment information to wireless users, is quickly expanding its business, as reflected in several recent announcements. TCI …
NEW YORK-At a coverage cost of $7 per population equivalent-one-tenth the cost of cellular-satellite communications promise $300 million in cash flow for each 1 percent of market penetration. That is …
WITCHITA, Kan.-IFR Systems Inc. has begun shipping its new Interim Standard 136 Time Division Multiple Access digital cellular radio protocol analyzer. The analyzer is the first test platform available to …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson has signed contracts with Hungarian telecommunications operator Deltav to deploy a Digital European Cordless Telecommunications network in southern Hungary. Ericsson and Deltav will deploy AXE switching centers …
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Asia/Pacific Cellular Infrastructure Group has been awarded a contract to expand Guangdong Mobile Communications Corp.’s digital cellular phone system in Zhuhai City, China. Motorola will sup …
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Dennis Foster, president and chief executive officer of 360
ATLANTA-MCI Communications Corp. said it is introducing local cellular service in south Florida including Miami. The announcement comes on the heels of MCI’s recent cellular service introductions in Atlanta, Detroit …
WASHINGTON-A newly authorized low-power radio service in the 216-217 MHz band will accommodate planned short-range communications devices for the hearing impaired, health-care telemetry services and stolen-merchandise tracking by public-safety entities. …
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Communications Inc.’s net income for the second quarter increased 58 percent to $61.2 million, or 12 cents per share, from $38.7 million, or 8 cents per share, for …
NUREMBERG, Germany-Lucent Technologies Inc. has received a contract from Deutsche Telekom Mobilnet GmbH to provide the German phone operator with base stations for one of the largest nationwide German mobile …
The commissioner in charge of competition for the European Union told an audience recently that while there has been a “dramatic breakthrough” in the liberalization of telecommunications, many things have …
Nearly 1,000 people gathered Wednesday, July 24 to celebrate the life of Crain Communications Chairman Emeritus Gertrude Ramsay Crain at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago. Mrs. Crain, 85, passed away …
Champion Communication Services Inc. is pursuing a trunking strategy to bring enhanced capabilities to its network of community repeaters-a wide area dispatch technology that has been around since the 1970s. …
