BellSouth Telecommunications Inc. has signed a five-year contract with Doston Technology Inc. to purchase equipmint that delivers inhanced services. BellSouth uses Boston's CO ACCESS Network Services Platforms to provide MemoryCall service, including call answering and voice messaging, in semveral Southern states.Metrocall Inc. announced it...
WASHINGTON-Jay Kitchen has always had a knack for being able to talk to folks, whether they be mom-and-pop two-way radio dealers who for years have looked to him for representation in Washington, D.C., or Fortune 500 executives, engineers and policymakers whom he mixes with...
SAN FRANCISCO- The California Public Utilities Commission awarded five groups $38,613 for their advocacy in a CPUC decision last April that allowed AT&T Corp. to acquire McCaw Cellular Communications Inc.The Latino Issues Forum, Chinese for Affirmative Action, San Francisco Black Chamber of Commerce, Mexican-American...
BOULDER, Colo.-Engineers have completed a month-long test of the Global System for Mobile communications standard at 1.8 GHz as part of an assessment for the U.S. wireless industry entering the personal communications services market.Field tests took place at U S West Inc.'s Boulder Industry...
WASHINGTON-Jay Kitchen has always had a knack for being able to talk to folks, whether they be mom-and-pop two-way radio dealers who for years have looked to him for representation in Washington, D.C., or Fortune 500 executives, engineers and policymakers whom he mixes with...
WASHINGTON-A paging consortium led by Maceo Sloan, founder of the nation's largest minority-owned investment firm, late last week appeared headed for a big victory in regional narrowband personal communications services auctions.Fifty-seven rounds after the narrowband PCS auction began in Washington, D.C., PCS Development Corp....
The National Association for Business and Educational Radio announced the release of its ninth edition of The NABER Resource. The guide is a comprehensive source of Federsl Communications Commision rules, regulations and licensing, said NABER. "It includes current addresses, fee and form information through...
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 it comes the end of the anticipation, hype and hoopla-for now-over the courtships and possible...
WASHINGTON-He's baaack!Craig McCaw, founder of the cellular empire that AT&T Corp. bought for $11.5 billion, will bid for broadband personal communications services licenses Dec. 5.The wireless entrepreneur is one of 74 applicants seeking 99 licenses to operate next-generation pocket telephone systems across the country....
AT&T Corp.'s $11.5 billion acquisition of McCaw Cellular Communications Inc. is part of a grand plan to package wireless and wireline products and services under what is perhaps the most recognized brand name in telecommunications-AT&T."My confidence in this merger is bolstered by the fact...
WASHINGTON-Construction of the Clinton administration's much ballyhooed information superhighway is likely to be delayed, following the death of telecommunications reform legislation in the 103rd Congress.Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., pulled the plug on his information superhighway bill late last month, blaming some...
Illinois Superconductor Corp. said it has introduced an interference filter for cellular base station receivers that uses superconductor technology, enabling the base station to hear weaker signals more clearly.Superconductivity involves cooling certain metals and alloys to a very low temperature so electrical currents can...
Oct. 8, 2022. Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian exhibit on the Age of Multimedia: 1994-2008 opened for public viewing in the Gore Digital Museum complex located in the old Department of Agriculture Building. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the invention of the transistor, a...
MORRISTOWN, N.J.-AT&T Network Systems Inc. announced its PCS Minicell product portfolio, the flagship product in the company's new family of wireless base station products for personal communications services systems.PCS Minicells, according to AT&T, are small, cost-effective base stations designed to operate at 2 GHz...
It's a done deal.AT&T Corp.-the nation's largest long-distance telephone company-and McCaw Cellular Communications Inc.-the biggest cellular operator in the land-are now one.The two firms closed the $11.5 billion merger Sept. 19, following conditional approval by the Federal Communications Commission earlier the same day. The...
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 whole idea of having a personal phone number has become very popular. Now, with the...
As a product, cellular voice has been a spectacular exception to the current slow growth rate for most industries. In fact, some experts claim that cellular's coming of age is unparalleled in consumer electronics."I think it's terribly significant that this industry has gone out...
Six regional Bell telephone companies have signed a joint marketing agreement to offer their individual network services and products to new personal communications services providers.Ameritech, Bell Atlantic Corp., BellSouth Telecommunications, Nynex Corp., Pacific Bell and U S West Communications have joined together to offer...
WASHINGTON-Congress will attempt to pass telecommunications reform and digital wiretap legislation this fall, and lawmakers also plan to put the Federal Communications Commission's auction program under the microscope before adjourning the 103rd session next month.With any luck, telecommunications reform legislation could hit the Senate...
Who's the Federal Communications Commission fooling with all this talk of "designated entities," or providing incentives-and frequencies-for small businesses, women and minorities in the upcoming PCS auctions?The FCC, a victim itself in all of this as a result of a considerable amount of back-shoving...
WASHINGTON-A New York federal judge last week refused to block the proposed merger between AT&T Corp. and McCaw Cellular Communications Inc., but agreed to a speedy trial of two regional Bell telephone companies' lawsuit to halt the transaction on antitrust grounds.U.S. District Judge Edward...
Washington - Clouding the Federal Communications Commision's wireless agenda this fall is the uncertain fate of telecommunications reform legislation that could trigger scores of new rule makings with mandated deadlines costing $70 million to implement.If Congress approves the legislation, the FCC would have to...
