IRVINE, Calif.-Cox California PCS Inc. and Boston Technology Inc. signed a three-year contract to provide services for personal communications services customers in the Los Angeles/San Diego major trading area.Under the terms of the contract, Boston Technology will provide Cox California with its Access NP...
Of late, the move from corporate executive to born again entrepreneur is not uncommon in wireless.But still it comes as a surprise Alex Mandl would leave his post as president and chief operating officer of AT&T Corp. Word has it he was Chairman Bob...
Of late, the move from corporate executive to born again entrepreneur is not uncommon in wireless.But still it comes as a surprise Alex Mandl would leave his post as president and chief operating officer of AT&T Corp. Word has it he was Chairman Bob...
WASHINGTON-A lengthy notice of proposed rulemaking adopted July 25 by the Federal Communications Commission but not released until Aug. 13, "initiates a comprehensive review of our existing regulatory framework of structural and nonstructural safeguards for local exchange carrier provision of commercial mobile radio services."Taking...
L.M. Ericsson's radio communications sector is responsible for almost two-thirds of the company's sales in the second quarter, ending the three-month period with $2.7 billion net revenue, a 33 percent increase from the same period in 1995.The Stockholm company reported a 39 percent increase...
The company had a new phone system installed in the Washington office a week ago, and for days I wondered if it worked. My phone didn't ring, there were no messages in voice mail, I never had two lines going at once. I was...
The paging industry is celebrating the Federal Communication Commission's recent ruling on interconnection rates-for the most part.The new regulations are expected to save paging carriers money, but new state level arbitration authority could prove time-consuming and expensive.The FCC mandate means not only that paging...
WASHINGTON-A recently released Federal Communications Commission order now prohibits states from singling out wireless carriers for service- or technology-specific area code overlays.States will be able to institute all-services overlays only if 10-digit dialing is mandated for all local calls affected by an area-code change...
Sprint Spectrum L.P. said it is facing the same problem in Oregon experienced by its personal communications services competitor, Western Wireless Corp.-an attempt by the state to tax its personal communications services license."This tax puts PCS operators at a disadvantage because incumbents aren't facing...
NEW YORK-Never mind the summer sun. When it comes to microwave incumbent relocation, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas to personal communications services providers.By late July, about two-thirds of the incumbents already "are off the system" industrywide, according to Tim Rich, manager...
WASHINGTON-Comments were due late last week on the draft proposal forwarded by the Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee, which contained recommendations by five subcommittees regarding ways to fill the country's public-safety spectral and technical needs between now and 2010.PSWAC, sanctioned jointly by the Federal...
WASHINGTON-The Industrial Telecommunications Association Inc. and the Personal Communications Industry Association won their fights to become designated clearinghouses that will administer the Federal Communications Commission's microwave-relocation cost-sharing plan."We are gratified that the FCC went the way it did," said Fred Day, ITA's executive director...
A government summary outlining the reclassification of specialized mobile radio operators "may pose more questions than it answers," said SMR organization leader Alan Shark."Reclassified operators are being thrown into competition with huge new services without really knowing where they stand. It has often appeared...
Free marketers are giving voice to a rising chorus of demands to privatize electromagnetic spectrum and overturn the 60-year-old regulatory regime enshrined at the Federal Communications Commission.At its heart, the debate is about whether a system of centralized planning created in the "vacuum tube"...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission continues to mull the fate of the Phoenix license won by CH PCS Inc. during last month's re-auction of 18 C-block personal communications services licenses; the bidder defaulted on the downpayment due July 24.No decisions have been made concerning a...
ZK Celltest Inc. announced narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone Service measurement capability on the ZK-SAM/DX, a system access monitor. The company said the device interfaces with Motorola Inc.'s MicroTac dual-mode NAMPS phone and displays and collects NAMPS and enhanced AMPS call processing data. The DX...
Ah...August in Washington. Congress is on hiatus. Agencies have ratcheted down. Tourists are dwindling. Humidity on certain days is below 99 percent. John Tesh (and his Olympic drivel) is gone. My bureau chief is on vacation. Life is good.Well, it's okay. I'm still faced...
WASHINGTON-In recent months, the Federal Communications Commission has focused the bulk of its attention on meeting and beating congressional telecom-reform mandates, the most recent of which involved adopting an order outlining the regulatory structure of local competition. Many commission projects-including several far-reaching wireless dockets-have...
NEW YORK-The establishment of Mexico's Federal Telecommunications Commission by Aug. 10 heralds the advent of significant new foreign ownership opportunities south of the border for wireless services companies."Joint auctions for personal communications services and local wireless access are contemplated for year-end 1996," said Carlos...
WASHINGTON - Just before Congress shut down for its annual August recess, retiring Rep. Jack Fields (R-Texas) along with co-signer John Dingell (D-Mich.) presented Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt with something to take on his Colorado vacation: the FCC Modernization Act of 1996.The act...
WASHINGTON-Following the formal release Aug. 8 of intricate interconnection rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission, incumbent local exchange carriers will have nine months following any request for interconnection from a commercial mobile radio services carrier to resolve any differences and to begin providing...
WASHINGTON-At the close of business today, 203 wireless communications veterans and hopefuls could be accepted to participate in the D-, E- and F-block broadband personal communications services auction set to begin Aug. 26; 1,479 licenses are at stake.Of the initial applications filed earlier this...
American Digital Communications Inc. said it has signed an $18 million vendor financing agreement that will cover the purchase of 220 MHz equipment by ADC customers for the next three years.Providing the financing is United Capital One, a subsidiary of United Nevada Discount of...
The likelihood of lower interconnection charges is good news for cellular operators, but a telecommunications economist warns the industry not to "pop the cork" on that bottle of champagne yet."There's a bit of a road ahead before the carriers find out what the cost...
