June 1995

When it rains, it pours. That phrase certainly has been true for news taking place the last two weeks in the wireless industry. The U.S. digital standards war is getting …

When PCS PrimeCo L.P. announced earlier this month plans to build its personal communications services networks using Code Division Multiple Access technology, CDMA developer Qualcomm Inc. received its first major …

AirTouch Communications Inc. shut down its nascent cellular digital packet data network in San Diego-apparently the casualty of changing approaches to CDPD business development. According to a “report card” issued …

A-Plus Communications Inc. will merge with Network USA Paging Corp. to create a new company that will be the largest independent paging service provider based in the Southeast. The merged …

Wireless penetration rates are just shy of 10 percent in Canada, but are predicted to exceed 40 percent in the next decade, according to a recent study by Redondo Beach, …

DALLAS-Motorola Inc. said it will invest $15 million in Dallas-based CellStar Corp. to hold a 3 percent interest in the company, which is one of the world’s largest wholesale distributors …

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Europe’s high-speed paging systems soon will be linked by a networking protocol developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute and incorporated into Glenayre Technologies Inc.’s products, Glenayre announced. Using …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-GO Communications Corp. signed on two new strategic investors, Alltel Corp. and Nissho Iwai, a Japanese trading company. The new partnerships, along with previously announced investments, bring GO’s financial …

ATLANTA-Mobile America-an alliance comprising Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems, BellSouth Cellular Corp., HSN (Home Shopping Network Inc.) Direct Joint Venture and Wholesale Cellular USA Inc.-plans to sell cellular phones and service …

WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt could be in for a long, hot summer of discontent. This month Hundt, a Democratic Clinton appointee, faces a hostile group of GOP lawmakers …

MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. has entered into an agreement with Kenwood Corp. of Japan to develop and manufacture second-generation mobile subscriber units for Geotek’s U.S. digital voice and data network. …

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With the GOP-led Congress headed full-steam ahead toward passage of landmark telecommunications reform legislation this year, perhaps it is worthwhile to question the conventional wisdom underlying the policies being shaped …

NEW YORK-Republic Communications Corp. completed its acquisition of New York Metro Page Inc., which holds a private carrier paging license in the New York metropolitan area. New York Metro Page, …

DALLAS-Northern Telecom is introducing new switch-based software to eliminate the waterfall sound sometimes heard in Time Division Multiple Access cellular technology. Nortel’s Background Noise Conditioning feature will be available by …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Hungarian Telecommunications Co. Ltd. awarded Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group a $100 million contract for its Wireless Local Loop fixed wireless telephone system to serve 200,000 subscribers throughout …

L.M. Ericsson received an expansion order from Tokyo Digital Phone to supply switching equipment, radio base stations and software for new functions in the TDP digital cellular network. Ericsson values …

The Federal Communications Commission late last week adopted a transition plan to move private land mobile radio users below 800 MHz to more narrow channels of 12.5 kHz by Aug. …

The Communications Ministry of India said 33 consortia, involving more than 60 companies, placed bids for wireless licenses in 20 regions of the heavily populated nation. The government said it …

George Schmitt, PCS PrimeCo L.P. president and chief executive officer, announced the company has decided to go with CDMA technology for its personal communications services network.

WASHINGTON-A cloud of uncertainty continues to hang over the upcoming entrepreneur block auction for personal communications services licenses, this time due to the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in the …

ARLINGTON, Va.-Bell Atlantic Corp.’s Carrier Services division said it is offering Wireless 500 Service to wireless carriers providing cellular and personal communications services. A 500 number is not assigned to …

Whether minorities, women or small businesses, some designated entities planning to bid in the government’s auction for personal communications services spectrum are concerned what effect the Supreme Court’s ruling on …

WASHINGTON-A coalition of hearing-impaired organizations, led by a start-up pocket telephone firm aligned with AT&T Corp., has asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate hearing-aid interference from a European-based digital …

AG Communications Systems, a joint venture between GTE Corp. and AT&T Corp., has introduced INgage, a new family of intelligent network solutions that promises network efficiency and cost minimization. Phoenix-based …