Monthly Archives: May, 1996
CHADMOORE FOUNDER RESIGNS POSI TIONS IN LIGHT OF CHARGES
David Chadwick, a company vice president and director of engineering for Las Vegas-based Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc., resigned his positions following a due-diligence procedure...
CTIA REQUESTS DATA ON AUTHENTICATION
WASHINGTON-Paralleling the start of authentication service in several markets, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association issued a Request for Information to wireless equipment manufacturers, fraud...
NEXTWAVE ISSUES PRIVATE PLACEMENT
NextWave Telecom Inc., parent company of top C-block personal communications services license-winner NextWave Personal Communications, completed May 6 at $290 million private placement. The...
MOTOROLA WILL NETWORK IS COM MERCIAL IN AFRICA
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced it has deployed its wireless local loop network in Benin, Africa, providing phone service for the...
UTILITIES, TRANSPORT BEST BETS TO USE NEW DATA SERVICES
WASHINGTON-The best near-term opportunities for cellular and personal communications services carriers to sell data services are in the utilities and transportation industries, according to...
WESTERN WIRELESS’ IPO MAY RAISE $258 MILLION
NEW YORK-Western Wireless Corp. went public May 22 with an 11 million share common stock offering priced at $23.50 each. At the same time,...
QUESTCOM DEFAULTS ON PCS DOWN PAYMENT
WASHINGTON - C-block personal communications services auction winner BD-PCS Inc. has several legal channels open to it before it is forced to give up...
CLEARNET COMPLETES CROSS-BORDER OFFER
PICKERING, Ontario-Clearnet Communications Inc. announced it has successfully closed an underwritten cross-border public offering in Canada and the United States of 9.2 million of...
BELLSOUTH FINISHES SWITCH CONVERSION
ATLANTA-BellSouth Cellular Corp. and Hughes Network Systems Inc. announced they completed a switch conversion in 15 BellSouth cities and many other smaller markets in...
U.S. ROBOTICS ENTERS WITH ACCESS SYSTEM
SKOKIE, Ill.-U.S. Robotics is entering the wireless data communications infrastructure market with its new Wireless Access System for the company's Total Control Enterprise Network...
SAMSUNG COMMITTED TO DEVELOP ING CDMA EQUIPMENT FOR KOREA
Samsung Electronics Co. has committed $25.8 million to manufacture prototype Code Division Multiple Access equipment for PCS, illustrating confidence that its PCS partnership will...
PEOPLE
Jim Wolfinger, president and chief executive officer of Phoenix-based Choice Cellular, has been named president of the National Wireless Resellers Association. Wolfinger will serve...
MARKET-AREA LICENSING COULD LEAD PAGING DOWN AUCTION PATH
The paging industry is undergoing a major regulatory overhaul.The question is why?As the most competitive sector of the wireless telecommunications industry, it is not...
FEWER OPERATORS CONTROL MUCH OF PAGING MARKET
NEW YORK-The numbers vary depending on the source, but there is unanimity about the trends unfolding in the nation's paging sector during the past...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Boston Communications Group Inc. announced it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of about...
PCIA ELECTS COLLINS ITS BOARD CHAIRMAN
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The Personal Communications Industry Association has elected William L. Collins III chairman of its board of directors. Collins is president and...
CALENDAR
MAY27-28 High Speed Information Services: Strategies to Win the Race to the Home, by ICM Conferences. The Mart Plaza, Chicago. Call Thomas Serafine at (312)...
WORLD BRIEFS
Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it has been awarded a $107 million contract by Escotel to build and maintain a Global System for Mobile communications...
ROGERS CANTEL REFINANCES AT LOWER INTEREST RATES
NEW YORK-Rogers Cantel Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications Inc., sold an $800 million debt issue May 22 to refinance...
SAMSUNG STRONG ON R&D
Samsung said it created many of its own parts for its CDMA equipment. The company has invested $390 million into telecom research and development...
MOTOROLA CONTRACTS $100M GSM NETWORK
Motorola Inc. has been contracted to build a Global System for Mobile communications network in the Czech Republic for operator Radiomobil. The deal is...
AIRMEDIA WILL USE MOTOROLA CHIPSETS
NEW YORK-In its first application outside paging, Motorola Inc.'s FLEX chipsets will be used in Ex Machina Inc.'s AirMedia Live information services product, the...
ADC WILL ACQUIRE SOFTWARE COMPANY
MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. announced its first agreement to acquire a software company-Metrica Systems Ltd. The purchase will be a stock-for-stock transaction valued at about...
CONDUCTUS FIELD TESTS OF RECEIVERS COMPLETE
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. announced it has successfully completed two additional rural field tests of its ultra-low-noise receiver subsystem for cellular base stations.The Conductus subsystem...
ENHANCED SERVICES ALLOW `BEEFIER' PAGING INDUSTRY
New protocol-based paging technologies may not only alleviate carrier capacity problems but also may transform the nature of service offerings from "cheap beeps" to...