WASHINGTON-Participants in the Federal Communications Commission's spectrum auctions are taking the next few days to gear up for Jan. 5, when the bidding for C-block broadband personal communications services and 900 MHz specialized mobile radio licenses resumes. Bidders ended the year by pledging about...
A landmark merger deal announced last month, in which Arch Communications Group Inc. agreed to pay $340 million for Westlink Holdings Inc., will establish the nation's third largest paging company and reunite two long-time industry players.The fusion of these two companies is a perfect...
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-An Illinois circuit court judge has dismissed scientist Dr. George Carlo as a defendant in a civil lawsuit filed by a former Bell Atlantic Mobile manager against Motorola Inc. and the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association.On March 2, Debbra K. Wright filed charges against Motorola,...
The quickening pace of competition and regulatory liberalization in global telecommunications markets is increasing demand for wireless local loop technology, with annual equipment expenditures expected to reach $7.6 billion by the year 2000, according to a new report from Northern Business Information.In "Global Wireless...
Sprint is the newest name in pag ing. Sound familiar? Yes, well that's the idea. Through a reseller agreement be tween Sprint Telecommunica tions Venture and Paging Net work Inc., Sprint Corp. plans to sell PageNet's services to its long-distance customers and others.The deal...
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....
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...
WASHINGTON-Stores are crowded. Literature is disappearing. Customer service is forced to beef up. Product is in short supply. The holidays are around the corner. Overwhelming success is a double-edged sword.But it is this sword that Sprint Spectrum, the personal communications service joint venture between...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's first-ever auction of 900 MHz specialized mobile radio spectrum is set to enter its third week of daily, one-round bidding, and there is no indication that auction proctors will step up the pace any time soon.According to Jerry Vaughan, deputy...
Zues Phonstuff has introduced its Always-in-Touch unit, a device that plugs into a home or office phone line and notifies a pager of a call when the phone user is away. The pager displays the caller's phone number and indicates when there is a...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced it has signed an agreement with Motorola Inc. giving Ericsson a license to use Motorola's high-speed paging protocol, FLEX. The license includes pagers and infrastructure equipment.Ericsson said it is seeking to support multiple standards in a number of areas, including...
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. is introducing a new network standard the company says can increase paging network capacity by nearly 100 times.The Wireless Messaging transfer protocol (WMtp) and the Wireless Messaging application programming interface will create new access to emerging services, such as two-way...
CellStar Corp. said it formed a distribution relationship with Cellular One Group. The company said the agreement is a nationwide strategic cellular accessory program encompassing original equipment manufacturer products from Motorola Inc., NEC Corp., Nokia Inc., Ericsson Inc. and Oki telecom, as well as...
Alphanumeric paging is making a turnaround in the U.S. marketplace. It's easier to use, more spectrum-efficient and may open a gateway for service providers to sign on two-way messaging customers.Alphanumeric paging is on the rise. According to Roberta Wiggins, director of wireless/mobile communications for...
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. said it will begin a field trial in Atlanta of two-way messaging services on its narrowband personal communications services network in 1996.PageNet said the field test will be a marketing trial for acknowledgement paging, message-back paging and other two-way products and...
GREENVILLE, S.C.-PCS Development Corp. announced it has signed an agreement with Westlink Paging Inc. allowing the company to offer PCSD's advanced two-way paging services in 88 markets within 14 Western and Midwestern states when services become commercially available in the first half of 1997.PCSD...
SAN MATEO, Calif.-RadioMail Corp. said it is taking new initiatives to extend and enhance its two-way gateway messaging service for both cellular carriers and its own subscribers.The San Mateo, Calif.-based company announced a new suite of Message Center services to enable cellular carriers to...
While leading companies in all segments of the wireless industry are growing through consolidation, Dallas-based PageMart Inc. is flourishing by concentrating on the internal growth of its paging operations.Although PageMart started out as a private carrier paging company, it ranked sixth on RCR's list...
A new study issued by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration said wireless telephone service may be a desirable alternative to wireline service in some rural areas because of cost factors.The report, which analyzed a range of telecom services, concluded that distance and low...
WASHINGTON-The 900 MHz specialized mobile radio auction that begins tomorrow is expected to be characterized by a mixture of bidding by big companies like Geotek Communications Inc. and Ram Mobile Data USA L.P., which want to expand existing systems into national networks, and more...
BUFFALO GROVE, Ill.-Telular Corp. announced a $100 million agreement with Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group and said Richard Gerstner, Telular's director and chief executive officer, had resigned.Telular's agreement with Motorola calls for a three-year purchase and engineering and product commitment, and a cross OEM...
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...
