Monthly Archives: December, 1995
CALENDAR
JANUARY5-8 1996 Winter International Consumer Electronics Show, by the Consumer Electronics Group of the Electronics Industry Association. Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas Hilton,...
GLOBAL MARKETS MUST USE WLL TO MEET TELECOM SERVICE NEEDS
The quickening pace of competition and regulatory liberalization in global telecommunications markets is increasing demand for wireless local loop technology, with annual equipment expenditures...
ERICSSON LICENSES FLEX TECHNOLOGY BY MOTOROLA
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...
LATIN AMERICAN CARRIERS TO USE GTE FRAUD SERVICE
TAMPA, Fla.-TelCel, a provider of cellular service in Mexico, and MovilNet, which provides wireless service in Venezuela, have signed contracts with GTE Telecommunication Services...
PAC BELL JOINS WITH IBM TO OFFER PCS MOBILE DATA
PLEASANTON, Calif.-Pacific Bell Mobile Services and IBM Corp. announced a joint marketing agreement to provide a mobile office solution that will allow people on...
THE WORLD
Comsearch announced it was awarded a contract from MRCB Telecommunications Sdn Bnd to license Comsearch microwave design engineering software. The software, called Interconnect, is...
CRIMINAL CHARGES FILED AGAINST MAN IN CELLULAR EMULATION CASE
A federal case against a Kentucky man accused of creating cellular extension phones is expected to go to trial in what may be the...
ASIAN FIRMS ENTER PCS AUCTION AS INVESTORS IN U.S. COMPANIES
Lured by a chance to swim in the next wave of wireless telephony and reeled in by entrepreneurs casting about for financial support, some...
TIME RUNNING OUT FOR CONGRESS TO VOTE ON TELECOM REFORM BILL
WASHINGTON-House and Senate conferees agreed on key wireless provisions in the telecommunications reform bill last week, but with several controversial issues still unresolved and...
MCI REPORTED TO INVEST $25M IN U.S. AIRWAVES
WASHINGTON-MCI Communications Corp. made a $25 million loan to personal communications services hopeful U.S. AirWaves Inc., according to an interview with MCI's President Gerald...
ERICSSON, OMNIPOINT INK EQUIPMENT SUPPLY PACT
RICHARDSON, Texas-Equipment manufacturer L.M. Ericsson and Omnipoint Corp. have signed an agreement valued at $250 million for Ericsson to supply Omnipoint with Interim Standard-661...
GTE WILL INCLUDE PAGENET PRODUCTS IN ITS PORTFOLIO
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. said GTE Telephone Operations will include PageNet's paging products in GTE's paging portfolio. GTE expects to begin offering numeric and alphanumeric...
GOVERNMENT PLAN SAYS ALL PCS WILL SHARE BURDEN OF RELOCATION
WASHINGTON-A government plan for personal communications services licensees to share microwave relocation costs has received qualified support from both carriers and fixed users, while...
PRODUCTS
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...
PRONET PAGING ACQUIRES APPLE, BEST PAGE ASSETS
DENVER-ProNet Inc. has acquired Apple Communication Inc. and the assets of Best Page Inc., announced Communications Equity Associates.Since 1993, ProNet has acquired 13 paging...
WIRELESS BUREAU CHIEF PLEDGES TO IMPROVE WIRELESS COMPETITION
WASHINGTON-In a bold speech with profound and far-reaching policy implications, new Federal Communications Commission Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Chief Michele Farquhar said she will pursue...
CROSS-OWNERSHIP SCRAP MAY PUT NEW WRINKLE IN AUCTION STRATEGY
Although federal regulators say they don't see a problem in letting some small cellular operators bid "at their own risk" for more spectrum in...
OMNITEL LAUNCHES GSM SERVICE AS FIRST PRIVATE ITALIAN OPERATOR
Omnitel Pronto Italia announced it has launched its Global System for Mobile communications cellular network in Italy, competing with government-controlled Telecom Italia Mobile SpA...
INTERCONNECTION ADDRESSED
The Federal Communications Commission on Friday was expected to propose industry-crafted reforms governing interconnection compensation arrangements between commercial mobile radio service providers and local...
WAYNE SCHELLE
It's the morning after.The reporter arrives at 10: 15 a.m. at the historic Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., (conveniently across 14th Street from the National...
ERICSSON SUPPLIES SYSTEM TO CHILEAN CELLULAR FIRM
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson said it has signed an order for a Time Division Multiple Access/Advanced Mobile Phone System cellular network with Compania de Telecommunicaciones...
AT&T, HEWLETT-PACKARD BUILDING OPEN PLATFORM FOR DATA TRANSMISSION
MORRISTOWN, N.J.-AT&T Network Systems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. have signed an agreement to build an open software platform they will jointly market to telephone...
FCC’S WIRELESS BUREAU PETITIONS COURT TO REVOKE SMR LICENSEE’S CHANNELS
WASHINGTON-The Wireless Telecommunications Bureau's two-year-old proceeding involving Los Angeles specialized mobile radio operator James A. Kay Jr. has escalated to the point where Kay's...
LATIN CELLULAR GROWTH CONTINUES WITH PCS BUILDOUT COMING SOON
Large markets in Latin America are serving as test beds for a range of digital cellular and personal communications services standards, according to a...
D.C. NOTEBOOK
It's hard to tell whether the first session of the 104th Congress is winding down or whether Washington is just all wound up.The GOP-led...