Monthly Archives: October, 1996
PCS DEVELOPMENT CORP. TAKES ON NEW NAME TO REFLECT MISSION
PCS Development Corp. has changed its name to Conxus Communications. The company believes the new name will better reflect its voice and messaging business.Conxus-pronounced...
BROWN’S RECORDS TO BE STUDIED IN TRADE MISSION INVESTIGATIONS
WASHINGTON-A conservative watchdog group convinced a federal judge to force the Commerce Department to turn over documents of former Secretary Ron Brown in connection...
J.D. POWER, SAFCO TO PRODUCE STUDIES ON TELECOM MARKET
AGOURA HILLS, Calif.-J.D. Power and Associates announced it will jointly produce additional studies on the wireless telecommunications market with Safco Technologies Inc., a company...
PCS AUCTIONS COULD LAST MONTHS AT CURRENT BIDS
WASHINGTON-Bidders in the D-, E- and F-block personal communications services auctions appear to be in no hurry to end it. According to analyst Taylor...
PRICELLULAR ISSUES $140M DEBT TO PAY FOR CELLULAR PURCHASES
NEW YORK-PriCellular Wireless Corp. plans to issue $140 million in senior unsecured debt, mostly to finance its acquisition of four clustered rural cellular properties...
MOBILEMEDIA POSTPONES EARNINGS REPORT RELEASE
RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.-MobileMedia Corp. put off plans to report third quarter financial results until Nov. 1 because the new company president said he wanted...
TRANSCRYPT INTERNATIONAL PLANS TO SELL 3M SHARES
NEW YORK-Transcrypt International Inc., a designer and manufacturer of information security products for wireless and wireline voice and data communications, plans to go public.The...
ITA’S CROSBY UPBEAT FOR ’97 DESPITE PRIVATE RADIO UNCERTAINTIES
There is one universal truth about Mark Crosby, longtime president of the Industrial Telecommunications Association-he speaks his mind, and he speaks it often. In...
BUSINESS BRIEFS:
Powertel, a wholly owned subsidiary of InterCel Inc., launched its personal communications services network in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and plans to launch service by Oct....
PHILIPPINE WILL DEAL IS ONE OF MOTOROLA’S LARGEST
Motorola Inc.'s Asia Pacific Cellular Infrastructure Group has signed a contract valued at more than $100 million to deploy a fixed wireless telephone network...
LCC INTERNATIONAL IPO COMPLETED AS THIRD QUARTER ENDS
LCC International Inc.'s recent initial public offering of 6 million shares coincided with the end of the quarter Sept. 30. The Class A Common...
AIRTOUCH FILES EMERGENCY MOTION TO MODIFY INTERCONNECT STA: FIRM SEEKS ACTION ON NONPRICING RULES
WASHINGTON-AirTouch Communications Inc. entered the interconnection-order fray by filing an emergency motion to modify the appeals-court stay of the order. The carrier believes some...
VIEWPOINT
Tomorrow has always been a bit tricky to forecast. Did John Walter know on his first day at R.R. Donnelley that one day he...
PRODUCTS:
Ericsson Inc. introduced a lightweight, palm-sized cellular phone which delivers up to 90 minutes of talk time and 24 hours of standby time, the...
CALENDAR
OCTOBER28-29 Mergers & Acquisitions in Media and Communications, by Management Circle. The New York Helmsley, New York. (800) 338-3004.28-29 New Paradigms in Telecommunications Research...
ILLUMINET, COLUMBIA TO HELP SMALL PCS NEW CALL CENTER TO SERVE SIX STATES
OLYMPIA, Wash.-Illuminet and Columbia Spectrum Management said they are helping small personal communications services providers clear spectrum using Columbia Spectrum's services. PCS license winners...
SMR CONSENSUS PROPOSAL GENER ALLY FINDS FAVOR WITHIN INDUSTRY
WASHINGTON-The consensus agreement formulated earlier this year by the American Mobile Telecommunications Association, SMR Won, Nextel Communications Inc. and the Personal Communications Industry Association...
RESULTS INDICATE TWO-WAY PREFERRED
WASHINGTON-Almost 60 percent of paging customers said they would be interested in subscribing to a guaranteed voice messaging service, according to a recent study...
PACBELL, WINSTAR ENTER AGREEMENT
NEW YORK-Pacific Bell Mobile Services has signed a three-year contract to purchase WinStar Communications Inc.'s Wireless Fiber service capabilities.Pacific Bell said it expects increasing...
GSM MOU PLANS TO CREATE MULTI BAND WORLDPHONE
DUBLIN, Ireland-The GSM MoU Association is interested in creating a multiband WorldPhone that operates at 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 1900 MHz."Global roaming is...
DIGITAL SHOOTOUT STARTS IN SAN DIEGO: CARRIERS OFFER SERVICE NOV. 1
When Pacific Bell Mobile Services launches commercial GSM-based personal communications services this Friday in San Diego, it will do so alongside a quiet competitor....
AUDIOVOX SEEKS APPROVAL ON SWAP
NEW YORK-Audiovox Corp. will seek shareholder approval next month to exchange outstanding debt for common stock in order to improve its financial strength and...
STOCK MARKET REACTS NEGATIVELY TO AT&T’S WALTER
NEW YORK-John R. Walter, chief executive officer of printing company R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., will assume the presidency of AT&T Corp. Nov. 1,...
PRONET COMPLETES CALPAGE MERGER
DALLAS-ProNet Inc. completed a merger with California-based CalPage, and acquired Georgia-based Georgialina Communication Co. and its affiliates. The acquisitions represent an addition of 72,000...
TOSHIBA WILL ENTER GSM HANDSET SCENE WITH S-SHAPED DESIGN
Toshiba Corp. will throw its bowler into Europe's GSM ring. The company's subsidiary, Toshiba Information Systems UK Ltd., announced it will introduce its first...