WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association voted to combine its membership with the National Association of Business and Educational Radio, formally completing months of negotiations between the groups. The new organization …
The Oct. 28 deadlind for those applying with the Federal Communications Commission to participate in next month’s auction for broadband personal communications services licenses has come and gone. And with …
SEATTLE-U S West Cellular Inc. said it has launched its wireless data service across the company’s 13-state service area, offering end-to-end data solutions. Products offered include data-capable cellular phones, cellular …
In unspectacular fashion, Susan Ness diligently immersed herself in spectrum auction and personal communications services rulemakings at the Federal Communications Commission soon after she was confirmed as a commissioner by …
BURLINGTON, Mass.-Steinbrecher Corp. said it will supply its DataCell mobile data base stations to Ericsson Radio Systems Inc. to be used in Ericsson cellular digital packet data systems under an …
WASHINGTON-Nextel Communications Inc. said its antitrust settlement with the Justice Department will not interfere with plans to build a nationwide wireless network. “While we do not agree that restrictions on …
ReadyCom Inc. is bringing voice-mail messaging to wireless communications with ReadyTalk, a single unit that uses the cellular network to deliver voice mail service to a portable handset. Comcast Cellular …
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and Maxon Electronics Co. Ltd. introduced the QCP-900 hand-held portable phone in Beijing. The phone, which can operate in Code Division Multiple Access and Total Access Communications …
Gearing up for upcoming personal communications services auctions, Qualcomm Inc. has introduced several products based on its Code Division Multiple Access digital technology, including the company’s first portable phone for …
Positioning itself for the impending rush on broadband personal communications services licenses, The PCS Group, a Minneapolis-based consulting firm, has formed to offer one-stop assistance to entrepreneurs in this emerging …
WASHINGTON-With huge sums of money expected to be bid on broadband personal communications services licenses later this year, the Federal Communications Commission has adopted a get-tough policy on auction fraud. …
While it is significant that William Kennard, general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission, is one of only a handful of African Americans to make it into government’s upper echelon, …
The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has filed comments with federal regulators opposing Ameritech’s new telephone numbering plan for Illinois. CTIA said the new area code plan is anticompetitive and discriminatory …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, facing intensified criticism from industry and Congress, has set up a task force to help it decide the fate of thousands of specialized mobile radio applications …
RUTHERFORD, N.J.-Nextel Communications Inc. and American Mobile Systems Inc. have entered into an agreement to merge operations, Nextel said. Plans call for the entire, fully-diluted equity interest in AMS to …
Nextel Communications Inc. says it isn’t anxious to jump into another relationship or alliance, and has money enough of its own until 1997. “In the aftermath of a broken engagement, …
JACKSON, Miss.-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire United States Paging Corp. in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at about $35 million. Headquartered in Wayne, …
Other Iridium investors include: Iridium Canada Inc. China Great Wall Industry Corp. Iridium Africa Corp. Iridium Andes-Caribe of Venezuela Iridium India Private Ltd.-a consortium of Indian financial institutions, investing $32 …
SEATTLE-The Personal Communications Industry Association’s annual meeting started here last Wednesday with a bang but ended with a bust. About 7,000 people attended the three-day Personal Communications Showcase, more than …
Demand for one-number services may become even greater now that the non-geographic 500 area code is available, according to Accessline Technologies Inc., a company in the one-number ball game. “The …
