Happy New Year!The mark of a new year tradition ally brings resolutions for the fu ture and reflections on the past. That holds true for the wireless industry as well.What will 1996 bring this indus try? Some early economic indicators the most publicized being...
Glenayre Technologies Inc. has appointed Bill Edwards vice president of sales and marketing for the Voice Systems Division. Edwards will be responsible for developing a worldwide sales and marketing plan for the division, which sells voice processing products in the wireless communications marketplace. Clients...
WASHINGTON-While congressional Republican leaders late last week signaled problems with landmark telecommunications reform legislation, the wireless telecommunications industry declared victory after securing antenna siting, long-distance access and other provisions that keep the deregulatory gains of 1993 intact.Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), speaker of the House,...
U.S. firms were big winners in the latest round of cellular licensing in India, after watching Asian and British companies get the lion's share of previous awards.Twenty-one licenses covering 15 regions of the country were awarded to eight companies-two licenses per region. Operators will...
Unless there is court action, a government shutdown or some cataclysmic event, the auction of C-block broadband personal communications services licenses is scheduled to begin today.Thirteen bidders have made double-digit, multimillion dollar upfront payments, indicating the seriousness with which some are approaching the opportunity....
DALLAS-AT&T Wireless Services has launched its commercial rollout of Interim Standard-136 service with a Dallas in-office system, using L.M. Ericsson microcells and Nokia Corp. handsets.The office system installed at Perot Systems uses a distributed antenna strategy, and allows handoffs to the public cellular network....
IRVINE, Calif.-The CDMA Development Group announced it has developed and tested advanced speech coding programming that will bring high-quality voice communications to subscribers using Code Division Multiple Access personal communications services and cellular systems.The algorithm, or the CDMA 13 kilobit-per-second vocoder, is contained on...
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Telecommunications Venture is expected to announce in the next two weeks its choice of equipment vendors for its personal communications services network.Northern Telecom Ltd., AT&T Corp. and Motorola Inc. are prime contenders, although the companies are tight-lipped about negotiation specifics.Sprint announced...
It's the morning after.The reporter arrives at 10: 15 a.m. at the historic Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., (conveniently across 14th Street from the National Press Building) to interview the co-recipient of RCR's 1995 Person of the Year: American Personal Communications Chairman Wayne Schelle.Schelle, 61, greets...
Large markets in Latin America are serving as test beds for a range of digital cellular and personal communications services standards, according to a study from Pyramid Research Inc.The report outlines the astounding cellular growth in Mexico, Central and South America, a trend that...
MORRISTOWN, N.J.-AT&T Network Systems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. have signed an agreement to build an open software platform they will jointly market to telephone companies and cable operators.The two companies intend to cooperate in creating an intelligent network software platform, with a specific aim...
AT&T Network Systems unveiled a new wireless business telephone system to help keep workers in voice contact as they roam about their building, office complex or campus.AT&T said its Air Extension system will support wireless public-network-based business services in the new personal communications services...
NEW YORK-AT&T Corp. appointed key executives to head its new $20 billion wireless equipment business, one of the three independent publicly traded companies AT&T plans to create.The equipment business, which will produce a range of networks, systems and software, telephone systems and microelectronics, plans...
Michael Snitz of Phoenix-based Cell Phone Extensions says his business is a part of the new "emulation industry," but cellular carriers call his work illegal cloning and fraud."This is a thorn in the paw of the cellular industry," said U S West NewVector Group...
Psst, don't let any lawyers know, but a government auction of spectrum is scheduled to begin tomorrow.The 900 MHz specialized mobile radio auction has captured the interest of 128 bidders planning to compete for more than 1,000 SMR licenses sold by the federal government.The...
WASHINGTON-Radiofone Inc., in what amounts to a new stay request, wants the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati to decide whether the Federal Communications Commission is breaking the law by holding the C-block personal communications services auction before re-examining PCS-cellular...
The upcoming chairwoman of the GSM MoU Association is confident that Global System for Mobile communications technology will figure prominently in the U.S. personal communications services market.Gretel Holcomb Hoffman is currently the group's deputy chair, but is scheduled to assume the top job on...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission will go forward with the C-block personal communications services auction and allow Radiofone Inc. and several others that had sought waivers of PCS-cellular cross ownership rules to bid Dec. 11, but vowed to challenge a recent federal appeals court decision...
WASHINGTON-The future is here.Vice President Al Gore, father of the information superhighway, christened the broadband personal communications services industry with a call to Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke Nov. 15 on the Sprint Spectrum system operated by American Personal Communications."I'm proud to speak to you...
WASHINGTON-MCI Communications Corp. introduced a package of network design and operation services the company says will let any local operator build and run a wireless business.Called networkMCI WIN (Wireless Integrated Network), the package will be offered to existing wireless companies and to companies that...
In an initial study of customer satisfaction among cellular telephone service consumers, J.D. Power and Associates found that local Bell telephone companies achieved higher satisfaction rankings than their nonwireline rivals in most of the eight markets covered in the study.The "1995 J.D. Power and...
KIRKLAND, Wash.-AT&T Wireless Services announced the commercial availability of the AT&T CellCard, a smart card the size of a credit card that is designed to extend the reach of a customer's cellular phone number to an additional 35 countries.AT&T said a customer can rent...
MORRISTOWN, N.J.-AT&T Network Systems Inc. said it is able to interface its Cellular Digital Packet Data and Code Division Multiple Access systems using a common interface.The company said it can transmit data between its Autoplex 1000 CDPD system and its CDMA-based products using a...
ORLANDO, Fla.-AT&T Microelectronics and Cirrus Logic Inc. have announced the intent to form a joint manufacturing venture.AT&T said the venture is designed to meet the worldwide demand for advanced integrated circuits that are used increasingly in products such as computing equipment, cellular phones and...
