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ANI Site Development announced its new web site available to antenna site location professionals. Users can get a visual representation of ANI's sites by clicking on any part of the Southeastern United States. Users also can access licensing information, maps and site pictures by...
Several paging carriers planning to launch narrowband personal communications services report delays in receiving network equipment from Motorola Inc., significantly pushing back beta testing schedules and service launch dates.PageMart Inc. of Dallas was "expecting infrastructure equipment from Motorola easily by the second quarter (1996),...
MidAmerican Energy Co. announced a $10 million investment in Racom Corp., an enhanced specialized mobile radio network operator. Racom has developed and owns a digital ESMR network that spans the upper Midwest. The company also provides hardware and equipment that enables customers to communicate...
Independent cellular operators say they are poised for strong growth in coming years, despite the rising aspirations of mammoth telecommunications operators bent on controlling large market share."Most people just assume don't have the size to compete moving to the future," said Arnold Pohs,...
MCI Communications Corp. said its recent deal with NextWave Telecom Inc. isn't just another resale agreement."This will involve interconnection, and there is no reseller in the U.S. with interconnection," said Whitey Bluestein, MCI vice president of wireless strategy and development.MCI signed a resale agreement...
Grupo Iusacell S.A. de C.V. announced it will resell long-distance service to its more than 225,000 wireless customers during the first phase of the opening of the Mexican long-distance market. Iusacell, through its long-distance subsidiary, Iusatel, will offer discounts which are from 30 percent...
The wireless division of WorldCom Inc. aspires to be present in all major U.S. markets, indicating that the nation's fourth largest long-distance company seeks to be the country's fourth most powerful telecommunications company as well.Wireless service has been added in recent years to the...
After several broken engagements, MCI Communications Corp. thinks it has finally found a partner it can commit to long-term for wireless service, NextWave Telecom Inc.Although MCI has been down this road before, this time I think the company may have done it right.MCI-which sold...
ATLANTA-Preferred Networks Inc. announced it has completed construction and has begun operating its Midwest Technical Control Center in Wheeling, Ill.The new TCC, the fourth of 10 TCCs that PNI plans to build throughout the United States, will provide service to Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Kansas,...
LA MIRADA, Calif.-PagePrompt USA announced the company has moved its general offices and customer service areas, gained through the acquisition of Network One in April, from Northern California to new Southern California headquarters in La Mirada.PagePrompt also announced its earnings for the fiscal year...
Licensees of narrowband personal communications services report their development, testing and introduction plans for two-way messaging services are right on schedule. But Ian Gillott, manager of wireless research for IDC/Link Resources, suggests carriers have shifted to more conservative time schedules.Many service providers say they...
NEW YORK-Standard & Poor's has lowered its ratings of MobileMedia Communications Inc.'s subordinated debt to CCC from B-and its corporate credit rating to B- from B+. The credit rating agency has placed MobileMedia's ratings on CreditWatch with negative implications.About $460 million of rated debt...
LOS GATOS, Calif.-Metricom Inc. has launched its Ricochet wireless communications network and will offer its Ricochet Wireless Modem and Internet service in Seattle, the Sea Tac airport and several surrounding communities.Metricom said the network uses spread-spectrum, packet radio technology and Metricom's frequency-hopping mesh architecture...
NEW YORK-Investors who want up-to-the-minute financial information beamed directly to them will benefit from two recently introduced products from PageMart Wireless Inc., Dallas, and Wireless Financial Services Inc., New York.PageMart announced Aug. 20 the introduction of infoQuotes, a flat-rate service that allows individual investors...
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc. announced the winners of its second annual pager design competition for college student designers. The enormous growth in pager use by children and teenagers prompted Motorola to focus the contest challenge on designing pagers for the younger generation, said the...
FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group has licensed Wireless Access Inc. for the InFLEXion voice protocol.Wireless Access now is licensed for all three two-way protocols, the InFLEXion, ReFLEX25 and ReFLEX50, said Motorola. InFLEXion is the underlying protocol that will make possible the...
ATLANTA-MCI Communications Corp. began offering cellular service in Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston on Wednesday, bringing its coverage footprint up to one-third of the U.S. population.The company is expected to announce a new, billion-dollar alliance today, possibly with a U.S. personal communications service operator."By the...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia-Motorola Inc. has bought a 38 percent stake in a joint venture company that will build a digital radio network in China. The company will use Motorola's integrated Dispatch Enhanced Network technology.Leader Universal Holdings Berhad of Penang, Malaysia, will hold a 52...
WASHINGTON-Richard Basile, president of On Line Communications, a Las Vegas-based paging applications mill, reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission to return nearly $40,000 in funds to the commission for consumer redress; in return, all litigation against him has been ended.Basile and silent...
WASHINGTON-Democrats will meet this week in Chicago to launch President Clinton's re-election campaign and try to take away the bounce that the Republican national conventional gave to the Dole-Kemp ticket earlier this month. Both major political parties are playing to middle-class voters with proposals...
AirNet Communications Corp. named Dr. Lee Hamilton vice president of product engineering. Hamilton will be responsible for developing and implementing AirNet's wireless broadband base station and related infrastructure equipment products. Hamilton previously served as general manager of system transmission products at Motorola Inc.'s Information...
DALLAS-DFW Communications announced it has purchased Motorola Inc.'s four Dallas/Fort Worth-based two-way radio service centers.The purchase is a result of Motorola's 1995 restructuring of its National Service Division, which implemented a new service strategy and consolidated all product repair services from company-owned service centers...
Triden Telecom Inc. has signed a letter of intent to acquire Communitronics Inc., a paging company based in Mobile, Ala. Communitronics has 3,000 pagers in service and is expanding its coverage area by acquiring and building out more paging terminals, said Triden.Denver-based ComTec International...
