Bell Atlantic Mobile agreed to acquire the remaining minority interests in the cellular license for the Reading, Pa., metropolitan area, covering a population of 350,000 for about $20 million. Bell Atlantic already owned 51 percent of the Reading area license, and now has purchased...
Berliner Communications Inc., a radio-frequency engineering, site acquisition, project management and construction company for the telecom industry, announced it opened offices in Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia to provide its services on a more regional basis. The regional directors for the new locations will...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week took the first step in efforts aimed at allowing U.S. citizens traveling abroad to carry handsets for global mobile personal communications services into foreign countries. Some countries today either confiscate or impose large import duties on these devices.More...
Motorola Inc.'s shares settled Thursday after jumping more than $4 Wednesday amidst rumors Siemens AG was considering buying the telecommunications giant.Motorola shares closed Thursday at $58.25, down $1.13. Trading on the New York Stock Exchange Friday was in the $58 range.Analysts have noted Motorola...
MONTREAL-Microcell Labs-a wholly owned subsidiary of Microcell Telecommunications Inc.-and Northern Telecom Ltd. announced they plan to create a joint venture to offer wireless data applications globally.The venture will provide operators with the necessary bureau services, software and hardware to offer customers wireless Internet access,...
NEW YORK-Recent developments in fixed wireless telecommunications have "led to outstanding investment opportunities," said Albert E. Paladino, general partner of Advanced Technology Ventures, Waltham, Mass., during "The 1998 Private Equity Markets Summit," sponsored by the Institute for International Research, New York.As a result of...
UNION CITY, Calif.-Diva Communications Inc. announced it signed a contract with South Park Telephone Co. to supply its Diva-2000 wireless local loop system that will provide basic telephone service to residential subscribers outside Hartsel, Colo.Pending Federal Communications Commission approval, deployment will begin this month....
The number of digital wireless subscribers is expected to increase rapidly this year as more cellular carriers begin to push digital service aggressively.While many cellular carriers last year offered digital service as a way to offer products similar to what their personal communications services...
WASHINGTON-A federal appeals court here Friday told the Federal Communications Commission to re-evaluate its decision on pay-phone compensation but left in place rules that require pay-phone operators to be paid 28.4 cents for each toll-free call placed from a pay phone.Many paging companies offer...
State government officials were joined by Bell Atlantic Corp. in supporting a proposal from the state of Connecticut to create a service-specific area code for wireless customers. The rest of the wireless industry opposed the proposal in recent comments filed at the Federal Communications...
WASHINGTON-Attorney General Janet Reno last week sought an independent counsel to investigate Labor Secretary Alexis Herman in connection with allegations that Herman used her influence as a former White House aide to secure Democratic campaign contributions and that she personally profited from helping Mobile...
WASHINGTON - In the wake of a recent decision by a Dallas, Texas, bankruptcy judge that General Wireless Inc. did not pay "the reasonably equivalent value" for its C-block licenses, other licensees recently urged the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider its debt restructuring plan...
MARLBOROUGH, Mass.-Cerulean Technology Inc. and BellSouth Wireless Data teamed up to give public-safety agencies access to BellSouth's nationwide wireless data network using Cerulean's PacketCluster Patrol software, BellSouth said.PacketCluster software gives officers instant access to local, state and national law-enforcement databases from laptop computers in...
The May 12 court date MobileMedia Corp. had scheduled for a ruling on its disclosure statement for the company's reorganization plan was again adjourned, this time until June 2.This is the second time MobileMedia asked the court to adjourn the proceedings since the original...
WASHINGTON-The decision whether to approve the proposed $62 billion merger between SBC Communications Inc. and Ameritech Corp. could be driven as much by politics as by antitrust scrutiny, judging from the hostile reception the deal received here last week.The announcement of the deal, which...
The wireless telecommunications industry has grown up more quickly than many other industries in the United States. The industry likes to boast of its relatively quick acceptance in the marketplace, comparing its acquisition of 50 million customers in just less than 15 years to...
KING OF PRUSSIA-InterDigital Communications Corp. announced Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. signed a contract with Unicom, a state-owned telephone company in China, to install a broadband Code Division Multiple Access wireless local loop system in China.Samsung will install the system in the city of Chongqing...
WASHINGTON-U.S. economic sanctions slapped on India last week for nuclear testing are expected to have a relatively minor, short-term impact on wireless investment in that populous emerging market. But the prospect of a nuclear arms race in Asia combined with political unrest in Indonesia...
ATLANTA-A consortium led by BellSouth Corp. and Grupo Safra were scheduled to begin offering cellular service today in Sao Paulo, Brazil.Construction on the Time Division Multiple Access network was completed in nine months, said the companies.The consortium, BCP, held a pre-service lottery to identify...
Paging Network Inc. announced it has recently chosen Lynn Bace to fill the company's vacant senior vice president of marketing position, effective Aug. 31.Bace has 22 years of management experience, most recently as vice president and general manager of a division of Kraft Foods...
WASHINGTON-Brad Clark, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, resident used his cellular phone three times to help people in emergency situations. His actions won him the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association's 1997 VITA Wireless Samaritan Award for the state of Iowa.Driving to work last December in icy...
NORCROSS, Ga.-USCI Inc. said executing its reselling strategy helped increase first-quarter revenues by more than fivefold, from $1.7 million last year to $9.4 million for the quarter ended March 31.USCI's net loss for the period more than tripled to $11.6 million, or $1.11 per...
The most recent consolidation among larger paging carriers was completed last month, when TSR Paging Inc. and American Paging Inc. combined into TSR Wireless Inc.With the financial and regulatory aspects of the transaction behind them, TSR Wireless President Mitchell Sacks and his executive crew...
1921Detroit Police Department begins first mobile telephone service.1928Edwin Armstrong inventsFrequency Modulation.1946The Bell System introduces first Public Land Mobile Communications System service in St. Louis at 150 MHz (FM).1948Bell Labs invents transistors.1956The Federal Communications Commission opens the 450 MHz band for PLMCS service (FM) to...
