Samsung Electronics Co. has sold more than 1 million Any Call digital Code Division Multiple Access phone sets and obtained more than 1.4 million new subscribers in one year. The company said its four CDMA handset models-SCH-100, SCH-100S, SCH-200 and SCH-200F-captured 58 percent of...
With up to nine wireless carriers in every major U.S. city competing for their share of the wireless telephone market, the recent winners of the C, D, E and F auctions are facing some of the most difficult challenges to date in developing infrastructure...
Omnipoint Communications Inc. has been granted access to the New York Power Authority's structures and rights-of-way. Under the agreement, approved by the board of trustees of the New York Power Authority, Omnipoint will have access to the structures and rights-of-way to install equipment and...
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration has balked at a congressional request to make available classified National Security Council documents possibly tied to telecommunications trade and U.S. encryption policy that were removed from the Commerce Department after former Secretary Ron Brown's death in April.Republicans say the White...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.-The Personal Communications Industry Association announced the Industry Award Winners for 1996. Winners will receive their awards at the industry award dinner on Sept. 18 at PCIA's annual PCS conference in San Francisco.The Pioneer Award, given for landmark contributions in the wireless industry,...
The colossal growth of the wireless industry, in particular the buildout of personal communications services and digital cellular networks, has created a supply-and-demand problem-too many jobs and not enough people."It took a period of 10 years to build out the cellular networks, 11,500 facilities....
WASHINGTON-"Let's not fool ourselves-the number one issue is money," said Carl Thompson, the new president and chief operating officer of Vienna, Va.-based North American Wireless Inc., who pulled no punches as to what it will take for the small business or entrepreneur to participate...
Is the C-block PCS auction successful? Is it unsuccessful? Or, as Thomas Gutierrez and David LaFluria ask in an RCR guest article this issue, is it too successful?The answer to these questions depends on your point of view. Yes, in terms of raising money...
The personal communications services industry is buzzing with discussions of technology, the consumer, equipment infrastructure, merging, financing, site acquisition, capitalization, innovation, deregulation, litigation and the list goes on.However, the tremendous job market opening up in PCS and affiliated businesses has been understated. PCS companies...
