BALTIMORE-Westinghouse Communications and Information Systems Co., a unit of Westinghouse Electric Corp., has signed a $240 million, seven-year services contract with DCR Communications Inc.The two companies also signed an agreement calling for a financial investment by Westinghouse in DCR and granted Westinghouse representation on...
WASHINGTON-Expanded spectrum auction authority and other telecommunications legislation are about to get caught up in a high-stakes budget battle between the Clinton administration and the GOP-led Congress that might not get settled until Christmas.The House and Senate late last month passed sweeping bills to...
WASHINGTON-Wireless resellers, who've had trouble drumming up support in Congress beyond that offered by Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, may have found a new ally as the House-Senate conference on telecommunications reform gets underway.His name is Martin Hoke, a second-term Republican congressman from Ohio's 10th...
Several uncertainties face small specialized mobile radio operators in the future if spectrum above 860 MHz is auctioned off next year-a plan that has been proposed by the Federal Communications Commission."The FCC is giving the frequency to the mountaintop owner," said Guntis Ositis, owner...
WASHINGTON-While the Federal Communications Commission has attempted to avoid getting drawn into skirmishes involving the relocation of 2 GHz microwave users by personal communications services operators, the agency will be forced to defend in court early next year a 1994 ruling that reversed a...
WASHINGTON-Michele Farquhar is leaving the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to return to the Federal Communications Commission as head of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, a move strongly supported by industry.Farquhar, who is acting deputy director and chief of staff for NTIA, is expected to...
Low-tier systems that bill themselves as "the way PCS was supposed to be" are entering the market with the hope of providing low-power, low-cost personal communications services.The industry's second PACS partnership has formed between NEC America Inc. and Bell Communications Research Inc. The two...
WASHINGTON-The Industrial Telecommunications Association said it is offering strategic 900 MHz specialized mobile radio incumbent reports to bidders for the 1,020 SMR licenses that will be auctioned by the Federal Communications Commission Nov. 28.ITA's report will include a base map with longitude and latitude...
MILPITAS, Calif.-Hyundai Electronics America announced it has partnered with U.S. AirWaves Inc. to build a nationwide personal communications services network.The agreement includes the opportunity for U.S. AirWaves to purchase PCS infrastructure equipment from Hyundai and a commitment by Hyundai to invest $50 million in...
WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court has paved the way for the PCS entrepreneur block auction to begin Dec. 11, but bidding for 493 next-generation pocket telephone licenses could be postponed once again if the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati strikes down...
Publishing mogul Steve Forbes, the newest GOP contender for the White House, has chosen FCC Chairman Reed Hundt as a sparring partner to prepare for next year's presidential debates.Forbes, perhaps wary about whether America is ready to become a flat-tax society, is trying another...
Cellular One said it introduced FreedomLink Personal Communications System to businesses in western New York. The system operates as an extension to an existing office phone system by using very low power cellular frequencies to communicate with the office's existing phone system. This enables...
WASHINGTON-The wireless telecommunications industry may have to tap into federal government and broadcast spectrum, implement new technologies and share more to meet operational requirements in the future, says a new government study.The report by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration is part of a...
WASHINGTON-A broad-based public interest coalition has asked federal regulators to require that mobile telephones provide unrestricted access to emergency 911 service.The Ad Hoc Alliance for Public Access to 911 asserted that cellular emergency calls may be blocked if made outside of the area served...
Short forms are due today for designated entities, marking a giant and-finally-tangible step toward the Federal Communications Commission's C-block auction of nearly 500 personal communications services licenses set for Dec. 11.About 25 DEs will actually make it to auction, and only a handful will...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's proposed microwave relocation cost-sharing plan would free personal communications services operators of their financial obligation to 2 GHz fixed users by 2005, a policy shift that could hit rural microwave licensees hard.The PCS industry and microwave advocates each found reason...
Standard Telecom America Inc. introduced a line-up of Nixxo pagers including Nixxo Tutti, Nixxo AirFly and the alphanumeric Nixxo, to American and Latin American markets. The company is a new player in the U.S. paging market but is a leading manufacturer in South Korea...
WASHINGTON-The regulatory environment for personal communications services is still evolving as policymakers try to determine how next-generation pocket telephone systems fit into a telecommunications industry undergoing historic change and evaluate what that means to society.The issues are complex, with advocacy groups on all sides...
Editor's Note: This letter was sent to several U.S. Congressmen by the owners of Americell Communications.To the Editor: Americell Communications is a medium- to small-sized specialized mobile radio company operating in the 800 MHz frequency spectrum. We started our business on May 25, 1991, with a...
CHICAGO-Telephone and Data Systems Inc. and its subsidiary, United States Cellular Corp., announced that a Federal Communications Commission administrative law judge issued a ruling finding both companies fully qualified to be FCC licensees.The FCC ordered a hearing in early 1994 to determine whether-in a...
If the Federal Communications Commission were eliminated, as some self-proclaimed know-it-alls advocate, who would figure out how the nation's 4 million hearing aid wearers and the wireless telecommunications industry coexist?Two separate issues, you say? Not really.FCC Chairman Reed Hundt's recent focus on potential interference...
Allen Telecom Group Inc. announced it has reached a purchase agreement with Pacific Bell Mobile Services. The three-year, non-exclusive agreement allows Pac Bell to purchase Allen's omni-directional and panel antennas and accessories in preparation for building its personal communications services infrastructure for its base...
WASHINGTON-The wireless telecommunications industry told the Federal Communications Commission it will work with the hearing-impaired community, hearing aid manufacturers and audiologists during the next six months to develop short-term and long-term solutions to hearing aid interference and compatibility problems posed by digital pocket telephones."We...
WASHINGTON-Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, having failed to win support for switched wireless resale at an oversight hearing he chaired earlier this month, might pursue the issue as a member of the House-Senate conference committee on telecommunications reform."We're not ruling it out; we're considering it,"...
