SEATTLE-The Aviation Communications Division of AT&T Wireless Services announced the domestic offering of new ground-to-air service on its all-digital, inflight telecommunications system. “Consumers now have the option of being reached …
NEW YORK-The Asia-Pacific cellular market is expected to hold 30 million subscribers by 1998, according to a new market research study from Northern Business Information. Cellular service market analyses and …
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Secret Service arrested six alleged computer hackers and seized more than 20 computer systems during an undercover fraud investigation that encompassed seven states. Agents targeted people using the …
Scientific-Atlanta Inc. will supply its Skylinx.DDS Digital DAMA telephony system to help create a network to support cellular satellite communications in the interior of Argentina-South America’s second largest country. While …
Paging operators using an Israeli technology can plug a spread-spectrum return path into their present systems to facilitate low-end, two-way paging at a fraction of the cost of full two-way …
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-With its most recent acquisition, Alltel Mobile Communications of the Carolinas Inc. said it will be able to provide continuous cellular coverage from central North Carolina to central …
Air Communications Inc. has unveiled an all-in-one cellular voice-data-facsimile telephone called the AirCommunicator that uses a proprietary protocol to transmit on circuit-switched analog cellular networks. “We’ve pioneered a product that …
BELLEVUE, Wash.-Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. and AccessLine Technologies Inc. have formed a joint venture to deliver AccessLine’s single-number service in Japan. It will be offered to customers in metropolitan …
The latest step in the continuing march toward ever higher radio frequencies, 38 GHz point-to-point digital services, is providing a set of interesting, unique products. The 38 GHz technology has …
Nearly half of the 20 companies holding licenses for broadband personal communications services have made firm technology decisions, but others continue the difficult task of weighing options. “It is like …
GREENVILLE, S.C.-Dial Page Inc. has closed the sale of its paging business to MobileMedia Corp. for $188.5 million consisting of cash and the assumption of Dial Page’s $85 million in …
PLANO, Texas-ProNet Inc. said depreciation and amortization expenses associated with eight acquisitions since last March are related to its net loss of $335,000, or 5 cents per share, for the …
In-Flight Phone Corp. is having reliability problems with the FlightLink phone service it has installed in the planes of three major airlines. “We’re tracing the problem back to installation and …
MCLEAN, Va.-Cycomm International Inc. will sell its Series 300 cellular security products to AirTouch Cellular Communications Inc. to upgrade AirTouch’s Privacy Plus service in the greater Los Angeles area. The …
WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has appointed David Diggs the vice president of operations. He will oversee CTIA’s intercarrier operations and fraud management groups. Diggs previously worked for American Mobile …
Some information that appeared In the Aug. 21 issue of RCR concerning a story on ComTec International Inc. was incorrect. The article should have read Keystone Holding Corp. was founded …
Padcom Inc. has developed a point-to-multipoint, transparent wireless data transfer system that the company says can overcome technical incompatibilities in wireless data systems and establish pathways between any remote device …
WASHINGTON-William Roth, R-Del., chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, will offer legislation this week or next to abolish the agency that advises the president on telecommunications policy and manages …
I recently read an interview with economist Paul Romer by Peter Robinson in a back issue of Forbes ASAP, the high-tech supplement to the authoritative business magazine. You may have …
VALLEY STREAM, N.Y.-Nationwide Cellular Service Inc. has scheduled a special meeting of its stockholders for Sept. 19 to vote on the proposed merger of Nationwide with MCI Communications Corp. Stockholders …
