NEW YORK-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp., a 38 GHz provider of wireless local loop service that went public last year, has registered to sell a public offering of debt and stock-purchase warrants. In documents filed Jan. 16 with the Securities and Exchange Commission, ART, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., has proposed to sell $125 million in senior [...]

Editor’s Note: The following information is a Smith Barney Inc. analysis released March 29. From time to time, RCR plans to print investment opinions and summaries about other publicly traded telecommunications companies as a service to our readers. Cellular Communications Inc., which rated 2M (outperform, medium risk), announced fourth quarter 1994 and year-end operating results [...]

A new venture company is introducing a technology designed to increase channel capacity for two-way radio networks and other wireless communications systems. Irving, Texas-based Unique Wireless Developments L.L.C. is a partnership formed in February by Unique Technologies International L.L.C. and Wireless Systems Ltd., a Bristol, England-based independent research and development company. UTI will market and [...]

NEW YORK-PriCellular Corp. and Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems Inc. have formed a joint venture in which PriCellular will contribute its cellular properties in the Laredo, Texas, metropolitan statistical area and Southwestern Bell will contribute its properties in Illinois 4 and 6 rural service areas. Under the agreement, PriCellular said it will receive payments during a [...]

SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Communications, a partner in Globalstar L.P.- one of three low-earth-orbit satellites recently licensed by the government-is pursuing satellite-based mobile communications in Japan through a joint venture with Japanese trading company, Itochu Corp. AirTouch has Globalstar service provider rights in several countries including the United States, Japan, Indonesia, Belgium and Portugal, and plans to [...]

U S West Inc.’s recent move to create two classes of common stock not only attracts a new kind of investor, but highlights the company’s emphasis on maintaining cohesiveness for the future convergence of voice, video and data services. “We can expect to see more of this type of arrangement as various sectors of the [...]

Telecom International, Fairfield, Iowa, is introducing a new cellular add-on service technology called Power Number. It provides Follow-Me Number service, designed to locate a person anywhere and voice mail with pager interaction and caller identification included. Real estate agents can use the service to advertise an 800 number with recorded messages about properties; when callers [...]

SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Paging, a subsidiary of AirTouch Communications, introduced Weather-Watch, an emergency information planning service. The service provides information on severe weather conditions as they develop throughout the state of Florida. Weather-Watch uses wireless communications to report National Weather Service advisories within seconds of transmission, 24-hours-a-day. Service subscribers are equipped with an alphanumeric pager and [...]

PHOENIX-U S West Inc. launched a new service in Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz., that makes it easier and more economical for mobile customers to access their office information from remote locations without having a cellular modem back at the office. U S West Cellular Modem Link Service allows customers to use laptop computers, cellular phones [...]

PLANO, Texas-ProNet Inc. signed letters of intent to purchase the paging assets of four privately owned companies for a total of $9.5 million. The companies are Lewis Paging Inc. of Georgia, Gold Coast Paging Inc. of Florida, Denton Enterprises Inc. of Virginia and MetroTones Inc. of Washington, D.C./Baltimore. ProNet said the transactions will add approximately [...]