PCS eyes cable TV’s line Competitive times call for innovation. During the energy crunch of the mid-1980s, The Williams Cos. of Tulsa, Okla., wanted to take advantage of its unused …
Nokia Mobile Phones announced it has teamed with computer manufacturer Psion to enable wireless users to send and receive short messages over a Global System for Mobile communications-based PCS-1900 network …
BellSouth Mobility DCS Thursday rolled out the nation’s first multistate personal communications services network, and the country’s fourth PCS system activation. Service was launched in a cluster that involves three …
ATLANTA-BellSouth Corp. has signed agreements with Vanguard Cellular and Uplink Technologies Inc. to deploy Cellemetry. Cellemetry is BellSouth’s wireless data technology that enables alarm equipment to use the existing cellular …
After rescuing one of its core patents from bankruptcy court, Telular Corp. is charging back into the wireless data market with a new strategic alliance. The Buffalo Grove, Ill.-based company’s …
Sales and marketing practices in the wireless communications industry are substandard and could cause carriers worldwide to lose as much as a third of their revenues to new competitors over …
MobileMedia Corp. apparently has outgrown the talents of its leaders. Six months after the company purchased MobileComm from BellSouth Corp., MobileMedia Chief Executive Officer Gregory Rorke, President and Chief Operating …
NEW YORK-3607 Communications Co. announced it plans to begin offering Code Division Multiple Access digital cellular service commercially early next month in Las Vegas. The company also announced second quarter …
WASHINGTON-Looking forward to the next round of personal communications services auctions set to begin Aug. 26, Michele Farquhar, chief of the Federal Communications Commission’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, promised to “expedite …
A Canadian company believes it is backing a revolutionary antenna that will advance the wireless industry. “There is no antenna to outperform it currently,” said John Robertson, president of IAS …
SAN FRANCISCO-The wireless alliance of AirTouch Cellular and Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile has contracted with InfoNXX Inc. to supply directory assistance services in the majority of alliance markets nationwide. Easton, …
L.M. Ericsson has signed a three-year contract with JT Mobiles Ltd. to supply digital cellular Global System for Mobile communications systems in India. Ericsson said it will supply and install …
WASHINGTON-Members of an association representing small and minority-owned businesses have banded together with local attorneys and several C-block personal communications services auction winners in a campaign to persuade the Federal …
Does anyone have any common sense any more? (And if they do, are they willing to auction it off to the highest bidder?) While the GOP-led Congress debates what to …
Alerting all couch potatoes, VideoGuide Inc.’s state-of-the-art television enhancement service delivers real-time news and information, wirelessly, and is a seven-day TV program guide and one-touch VCR recording device all in …
Paging Network Inc. of Dallas is introducing a paging service that allows its customers to receive unlimited pages with no monthly fees. What’s the catch? Value Page is a caller …
Editor’s Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of the 20 largest wireless equipment dealers in the United States based on survey responses and interviews with …
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. will deploy Cincinnati Bell Information Systems’ Precedent 2000 Wireless Business Management Solution for its personal communications services network. Sprint Spectrum said it has signed a …
WASHINGTON-Claiming that nationwide paging provider SkyTel Corp. has robbed it of prime customers and millions of dollars in lost revenues, paging reseller Time Signal International Corp. filed a complaint late …
Lone personal communications services provider Pacific Bell Mobile Systems, regional cellular carriers, paging providers and rental companies will try to leave no stone unturned when it comes to providing wireless …
