Editor's note: After only a little more than a year as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Reed Hundt has spearheaded some of the most dramatic changes ever for the wireless communications industry. He has, in effect, redesigned an industry by creating a commercial mobil...
An international cellular operator and a U.S. paging equipment provider have cellular and paging service up and running in Bulgaria, despite the former Eastern bloc government's sluggish efforts to privatize business.A Bulgarian joint venture led by Cable & Wireless plc purchased a cellular license...
Cellular One of Ohio and Michigan announced Lindsay Notwell has been appointed director of wireless data, heading up this new department. Notwell will be responsible for building and managing the wireless data group and supervise the rollout of various wireless programs. Prior to Cellular...
High stakes and fierce competition in the Federal Communications Commission's personal communications service auctions have shown no mercy for the weak of heart of the pocketbook. And June Walsh is no exception.President and owner of Eureka, Calif.-based Cal Autofone and Redding, Calif.-based REPCO (Radio...
FORT WORTH, Texas - Motorola Inc.'s Global Paging Infrastructure Division introduced its new Nucleus LT paging station, providing Latin America with next-generation paging station technology.The Nucleus LT transmitter is designed for single site, nonsimulcast, continuous-duty operation and can use radio frequency link, wireline, analog...
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Editor's Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of the 20 largest radio common carrier paging operators based on survey responses and interviews with industry contacts. Ranking is based on the number of subscribers the operators reported having in the United...
MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. reported a 50 percent increase in consolidated revenues for the nine months ended Sept. 30. The company reported $49.4 million in consolidated revenues, up from $32.9 million for the same period in 1993.Total revenues for the quarter were $17.6 million,...
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...
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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....
US MobilComm Inc. announced it will complete the initial phase of construction for its Boston-to-Washington corridor of 220 MHz systems this month. US MobilComm said it will begin loading viice users in New York City this month and will begin loading in Philadelphia, Baltimore...
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...
WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association voted to combine its membership with the National Association of Business and Educational Radio, formally completing months of negotiations between the groups.The new organization will be known as the Personal Communications Industry Association. E.B. "Jay" Kitchen was named president...
CINCINNATI-USA Mobile Communications Holdings Inc. has signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire the paging business and licenses of Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Page Alert.Page Alert has 6,500 subscribers in service, USA Mobile said. Specific terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The transaction is...
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....
WASHINGTON-The industry created two decades ago to foster dispatch wireless communications in the United States stands at a crossroads as regulatory, technological and market forces conspire to put mom-and-pop two-way radio businesses out to pasture.Nextel Communications Inc., the largest specialized mobile radio operator, has...
NORTHBROOK, Ill.-It's no secret that people don't like paying bills, so the mobile communications industry is taking part in a nationwide trend that aims to help retain customers by using electronic funds transfer.Some cellular and paging operators are testing programs that let customers pay...
Preliminary service for the first commercial paging system based on the European Radio Messaging System standard has begun in Paris, according to AirTouch Communications.Infomobile, a joint venture 18.5 percent owned by Walnut Creek, Calif.-based AirTouch, has launched its ERMES operations in the Paris region....
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...
Arch Nationwide Paging says it has built a nationwide paging network without constructing one.Last fall, Arch announced its intention to offer paging service in every major U.S. city by using other carriers' existing infrastructure and the company's proprietary software. The company says it has...
