Monthly Archives: August, 1995
COMTEC RECONFIGURES, ATTACKS TELECOMMUNICATIONS WITH VIGOR
With numerous acquisition agreements in hand and others awaiting, ComTec International Inc. is pursuing business opportunities in specialized mobile radio and other wireline and...
CHINESE MINISTRIES CREATE ENTITY TO BRING COMPETITION TO MARKET
Three Chinese state ministries have created a competitor for China's monopolistic Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications to expand the nation's telecommunications system.China United Telecommunications...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
RCR Publications welcomes letters to the editor responding to articles and commentary presented in the newspaper or stating opinions on other topics relevant to...
CLINTON ADMINISTRATION REVISES POSITION ON CHIP ENCRYPTION TECHNOLOGY
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration last week proposed revising its controversial Clipper chip proposal in a way that reduces federal government oversight without compromising law enforcement's...
THE WORLD
Korea Electric Power Corp. added eight sites to the existing four sites of its L.M. Ericsson Ltd. trunked system, which uses Enhanced Digital Access...
MAP MOBILE IMPLEMENTS MOTOROLA FLEX PROTOCOL
CHESAPEAKE, Va.-MAP Mobile Communications Inc. said it deployed the FLEX high-speed paging protocol from Motorola Inc.'s Paging Products Group on its nationwide alphanumeric paging...
MCCAW ORDERING $450M IN TDMA INFRASTRUCTURE FROM AT&T AND ERICSSON
BELLEVUE, Wash.-McCaw Cellular Communications Inc. said it has begun testing switching equipment from AT&T Network Systems Inc. and L.M. Ericsson in two markets. McCaw...
MOBILEMEDIA PURCHASES ASSETS OF DIAL PAGE’S PAGING BUSINESS
Vigorous consolidation in the U.S. paging industry continues as MobileMedia Corp. closes its $188.5 million purchase of the paging and messaging business of South...
NORTEL’S PCS EQUIPMENT WINS FCC CERTIFICATION
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission and Underwriters Laboratories certified Northern Telecom's 1.9 GHz personal communications services network equipment, the company said.Nortel said its radio base...
INSIDE RCR: MUSICAL CHAIRS PAGE 3
George Schmitt jumped ship as PCS PrimeCo L.P. leader to join the personal communications services team at Omnipoint Communications Inc. Schmitt will be its...
PEOPLE
PriCellular Corp. has appointed Mary Tavernini as director of sales and marketing for Cellular One of the upper peninsula of Michigan. She formerly worked...
REFARMING HITS EARLY PROBLEMS; FCC, INDUSTRY TRY TO HASH IT OUT
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's effort to promote narrowband technologies in congested private wireless bands below 800 MHz by adopting flexible channeling schemes and market-driven...
PAGENET WILL PURCHASE CELPAGE FOR $7.5M CASH
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. expects to gain 8,000 paging subscribers through a $7.5 million cash purchase of Celpage Inc., as specified in definitive agreements between...
HUNDT PLANS TO CUT FCC
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt last week announced plans to reduce the agency's work force by 10 percent as well as close certain...
D.C. NOTEBOOK
August is supposed to be a slow month in the nation's capital, but even though Congress and the president are out of town there...
CELLULAR CARRIER CHAIRMAN JACK BERKMAN DIES AT 90
PITTSBURGH-Communications pioneer Jack N. Berkman, founder and chairman of The Associated Group Inc., died Aug. 3 at his New York City home. He was...
CUSTOMERS WILL BEAR THE BURDEN OF PCS INTEROPERABILITY PROBLEM
Launching personal communications services with a multitude of standards may be the way for industry to sort out the benefits of each technology, but...
THE NATION
Noting the Federal Communications Commission recently ended state regulation of cellular service rates in California, AirTouch Cellular Communications Inc. announced lower prices and new...
ISRAELI INVESTOR INCREASES ITS EQUITY STAKE IN GEOTEK
MONTVALE, N.J.-Israel-based RDC-Rafael Development Corp. said it will exchange its interest in PowerSpectrum Technology Ltd. for 1.8 million shares of common stock of Geotek...
MORE CHALLENGES TO DE AUCTION ARE FILED
WASHINGTON-The entrepreneur block auction for personal communications services licenses that was to begin next week has been postponed again in what has turned into...
APPLE WORKS TOWARD UNLICENSED 5 GHZ HIGH-SPEED DATA SYSTEM
Groups battling for unlicensed spectrum at 5 GHz to create a high-speed data system agree there is industry support for such a service, but...
CONSORTIA PLACE BIDS IN IRELAND FOR COUNTRY’S SECOND NETWORK
Six consortia met the August deadline to apply for Ireland's second mobile phone license, which could be awarded by the Irish Department of Transport,...
SOUTH KOREA TO INSTALL MOBITEX MOBILE NETWORK FOR WIRELESS DATA SERVICE
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson has won a contract with Korea Telecom to provide the first phase of a mobile data network based on Mobitex technology.Korea...
WITH UNIQUE HYBRID TECHNOLOGY, OMNIPOINT PLANS TO PLAY IN PCS
Omnipoint Corp. is one among a handful of PCS innovators promised a reward by the Federal Communications Commission for enterprising work in personal communications...
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