Discord among potential bidding parties and the government’s plan to refashion telecommunications regulations resulted in Chile postponing the March 1 deadline for personal communications services bids, reported Isabel Valenzuela, a …
Celsat America Inc. is awaiting permission from the Federal Communications Commission to launch its vision of a mobile satellite system in 1999. The company filed a pioneer’s preference license application …
The president of a Colorado-based rural cellular operator “emphatically refutes” claims by analog handset manufacturers that cellular growth is slowing, suggesting instead that low phone prices and the battle for …
BOULDER, Colo. – CellPort Labs Inc. is providing drivers an on-ramp to the information highway by connecting them to the Internet’s World Wide Web via Cellular Digital Packet Data networks. …
InterCel Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase GTE Mobilnet Inc.’s personal communications services license for the Atlanta major trading area, pending regulatory approval. “The addition of the …
PriCellular Corp. announced its board of directors voted a five for four common stock split in the form of a 25 percent stock dividend payable March 28 to shareholders of …
WASHINGTON-The number of bidders participating in the C-block broadband personal communications services auction who are flying by the seats of their pants is staggering. The thought of committing millions of …
John Dolan, principal of C-block personal communications services bidding interest North Coast Mobile Communications Inc., filed an amended Form 175 application with the Federal Communications Commission that names his uncle, …
PHOENIX-Pacific Communication Sciences Inc. unveiled the first product in a new line of Personal Access Links at the recent Mobile Insights ’96 conference. The PAL telephone can make calls over …
PLEASONTON, Calif.-Pacific Bell Mobile Services said it has completed the first calls on its new PCS-1900 network. “By this time next year, PCS [personal communications services] technology will have redefined …
“We do a bid in the morning, digest it, do a bid in the afternoon, digest it, then eat dinner and digest that.” -Geotek U.S. Business President Jonathan C. Crane. …
Roy Neel, president of the United States Telephone Association, offered reporters last week what he believed to be a keen insight. He recounted an anecdote about President Clinton’s Feb. 8 …
WASHINGTON-NextWave Telecom Inc., whose subsidiary NextWave Personal Communications Inc. is bidding in the C-block personal communications services auction, wants to pin the Federal Communications Commission down as to how participants …
NEW YORK-Two major credit rating agencies have issued alerts about Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. securities following the company’s Feb. 22 release of disappointing year-end 1995 financial results. Mtel, headquartered in …
Eighteen months after being blown off course in the stormy seas of the cellular industry, the MobiLink alliance has taken a new bearing as a developer of advanced roaming services. …
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. said it has signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire all of Parkway Paging Inc.’s stock. Metrocall said the total purchase price will be about $28 million …
NEW YORK-Faced with falling cellular phone prices and formidable competition by the four heavyweight handset manufacturers, smaller, Japanese-based players are pursuing other options in the U.S. marketplace. “It’s going to …
WASHINGTON-TheUnited States Telephone Association last week attacked the Federal Communications Commission’s interim wireless-wireline interconnection proposal, calling the plan misguided and the cellular industry’s campaign for such reform misleading. “The process …
L.M. Ericsson said it withdrew a complaint filed in January with the European Commission, which charged that Austria’s award of a Global System for Mobile communications license to international consortium …
