NEW YORK-A+ Network Inc. signed definitive agreements to acquire Radio and Communications Consultants Inc. of Shreveport, La., and South Central Paging of Nashville, Tenn.The two paging companies, formerly affiliates of A+ Network, bring an additional 14,000 paging units to its Southeast U.S. region, the...
Since the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was signed last February, you can't pick up a publication without reading about a panel, white paper, TV roundtable or congressional hearing geared toward coping with or rethinking parts of the new bill. The ink was barely dry...
Millicom International Cellular S.A. signed a seven-year $200 million credit facility agreement arranged by ABN-AMRO Bank and ING Bank. Millicom said the facility will be used to refinance $125 million of existing short term credit facilities at the parent level and the balance of...
Alcatel Network Systems and Sprint Corp. have completed a network upgrade with a five-node synchronous optical network in Fayetteville, N.C. The ring, with a circumference of more than 100 miles in and around the city, more than doubles the previous capacity, Alcatel said. Sonet...
Steinbrecher Corp., which was recently acquired by Tellabs Wireless, announced the MiniCell Wireless Access System, a complete cellular system utilizing software-programmable radios with remote and local transceivers. Based on industry standard protocols, the MiniCell system is interoperable with other networks. The company said the...
WASHINGTON-With the huge capital costs of spectrum, infrastructure and marketing playing a major part in the rollout of new personal communications services, PACS technology may become an attractive option for firms planning to bid on 10 megahertz licenses later this summer.PACS is a low-tier,...
VIENNA, Va.-Cable & Wireless Inc. has reached an agreement with MobileComm that will allow CWI to introduce CWI-branded paging service to its long-distance customers during this second quarter.CWI focuses on business customers in the United States, offering a combined portfolio of domestic and international...
MAY6 The Emerging Market for Wireless Location-based Products and Services, by Telestrategies Inc. Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, Arlington, Va. (703) 734-7050.6-9 Inside Washington: Business and Public Policy Focus on the Information Superhighway, by The Brookings Institute. Embassy Row Hotel, Washington, D.C. Call Joan Milan at...
Three-sixty Communications Co., in its first earnings announcement as an independent company since its spinoff from Sprint Corp., reported a first quarter net income of $7 million, or 6 cents per share, compared with a loss of $5.9 million, or a loss of 5...
Opportunity looms for the Canadian kin of PageMart Inc. and Paging Network Inc. Both companies recently activated service in Canada where market penetration is only 3 percent, or about 1 million people."Paging has been a `me too' product," said Rob Graham, vice president sales...
VoiceTech Communications Inc. announced it has been granted patent approval for its VoiceCue Directory Assistance Call Completion, an application that offers cellular customers fast, easy-to-use call completion from a single, multi-application platform. VoiceTech said the DACC provides direct connection to the regional Bell operating...
WASHINGTON-Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) has pledged to continue fighting for expanded wireless resale, saying his position on the issue has been reinforced over the past year despite lack of support from his own party."I'm more convinced today than I was the first time you...
NEW YORK-AVIC Group International Inc. and the Government of Hebei Province jointly announced an agreement to develop and construct a 1.6 million subscriber fixed wire telephone network in Hebei Province, China."This agreement is an important step in the expansion of AVIC's project base to...
WASHINGTON-Local and regional paging operators lambasted the Federal Communications Commission for declining to completely lift the three-month-old paging application freeze last week, and vowed to redouble lobbying efforts in hopes of getting legislation or persuading the agency to reconsider its action."This battle just started,"...
If only Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber suspect accused of blowing up those he believes responsible for polluting America with high technology, had gotten out of his wooden shack in Montana, he would have discovered good people doing good things with technology.The Personal Communications Industry...
WASHINGTON-Alexandria, Va.-based Metrocall Inc. made good on its promise to "add strategic geographic and synergistic acquisitions during the first half of the year" by signing definitive agreements to purchase two more radio common carriers. The company reported three other buys in February.Metrocall, which had...
A Korean company has allied with an Indian manufacturer to build pagers and paging systems in India, and directly compete with U.S. manufacturers that claim strong inroads into that nation.Seoul-based Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is pooling money and expertise with Larsen & Toubro Ltd....
When Marc Angell chose to end his career as a television and film director to enter the 220 MHz arena about four years ago, little did he know the drama would continue.What began as a potentially lucrative investment, turned into years of uncertainty and...
APRIL28-1 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference '96, by IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. The Westin Peach-tree Plaza, Atlanta. (908) 562-3870.30 The Telecom Act of 1996: Myths and Markets, by Creamer Dickson Basford. Sheraton Hotel, Needham, Mass. Call Christine Campbell at (617) 467-1521.MAY6 The Emerging Market for Wireless...
WASHINGTON-Before disadvantaged and rural customers can take advantage of existing and emerging telecommunications services, the Federal Communications Commission and its adjunct Federal/State joint board have to decide how to revamp longstanding universal-service requirements to include wireless providers as possible local exchange carriers.As a prelude...
WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) said Congress is unlikely to consider spectrum reform legislation this year, and conceded the bill he wants to craft probably will fall short of the sweeping policy changes advocated by the nation's top technology thinkers."It's going to...
DALLAS-ProNet Inc. and Teletouch Communications Inc. announced a definitive agreement to merge the two paging carriers in a transaction they value at about $181 million.Under the terms of the agreement approved by each company's board of directors, Teletouch's public common stockholders will receive for...
NEW YORK-Operating outside the limelight cast by telecom deregulation and the Federal Communications Commission's C-block auction for personal communications service, the paging sector is pursuing its own profitable agenda in the changing wireless environment.By 2006, paging revenues are projected to more than triple to...
L.M. Ericsson announced it has signed an agreement with the Guangdong Post and Telecommunications Administration for the installation of intelligent networks in the Guangdong province, China. Ericsson said it will implement its latest IN software and hardware. The agreement also includes an IN service...
