1995

WASHINGTON-A government plan for personal communications services licensees to share microwave relocation costs has received qualified support from both carriers and fixed users, while providing the two warring factions a public forum to continue fighting. The Federal Communications Commission’s proposal …

Sprint is the newest name in pag ing. Sound familiar? Yes, well that’s the idea. Through a reseller agreement be tween Sprint Telecommunica tions Venture and Paging Net work Inc., Sprint Corp. plans to sell PageNet’s services to its long-distance …

Large markets in Latin America are serving as test beds for a range of digital cellular and personal communications services standards, according to a study from Pyramid Research Inc. The report outlines the astounding cellular growth in Mexico, Central and …

Comsearch announced it was awarded a contract from MRCB Telecommunications Sdn Bnd to license Comsearch microwave design engineering software. The software, called Interconnect, is being used to support the design, licensing and implementation of the MRCB microwave network for its …

Lured by a chance to swim in the next wave of wireless telephony and reeled in by entrepreneurs casting about for financial support, some big fish from Korea are jumping into the auction of C-block personal communications services licenses by …

PLEASANTON, Calif.-Pacific Bell Mobile Services and IBM Corp. announced a joint marketing agreement to provide a mobile office solution that will allow people on the move in California and Nevada to send and receive faxes and electronic mail and sign …

HUNT VALLEY, Md.-Private carriers are not the only entities wrestling with an uncertain competitive future. Dealers from large to small are wondering what role they will continue to play as the communications arena and customer needs change daily. At a …

Over a cup of coffee one Saturday morning, Jai Bhagat decided to try his luck with a new spinoff company called Mtel. That was eight years ago. Today he is president and chief executive officer of Mobile Telecommunications Technologies Corp.’s …

A federal case against a Kentucky man accused of creating cellular extension phones is expected to go to trial in what may be the first U.S. criminal case attacking the emulation business. A four-count indictment was issued against Don Billy …

JANUARY 5-8 1996 Winter International Consumer Electronics Show, by the Consumer Electronics Group of the Electronics Industry Association. Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas Hilton, Mirage, Sahara and Sands Hotels, Las Vegas. (703) 907-7600. 9-10 Spectrum Management: The New Realities, …

Unless there is court action, a government shutdown or some cataclysmic event, the auction of C-block broadband personal communications services licenses is scheduled to begin today. Thirteen bidders have made double-digit, multimillion dollar upfront payments, indicating the seriousness with which …

DENVER-ProNet Inc. has acquired Apple Communication Inc. and the assets of Best Page Inc., announced Communications Equity Associates. Since 1993, ProNet has acquired 13 paging operations and has eight additional transactions pending, CEA said. The company has a current subscriber …

Palmer Wireless Inc. said it signed up its 200,000th cellular phone customer. Eight years ago, Palmer began operating its first cellular system in Fort Myers, Fla., and now owns and operates 15 nonwireline cellular telephone systems in Florida, Alabama, Georgia …

MORRISTOWN, N.J.-AT&T Network Systems Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. have signed an agreement to build an open software platform they will jointly market to telephone companies and cable operators. The two companies intend to cooperate in creating an intelligent network software …

WASHINGTON-The United States had mixed success in securing more spectrum for next-generation global satellite systems at the World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva, an event unexpectedly preoccupied with the mammoth Teledesic Corp. network planned by high-tech billionaires Craig McCaw and Bill …

The upcoming chairwoman of the GSM MoU Association is confident that Global System for Mobile communications technology will figure prominently in the U.S. personal communications services market. Gretel Holcomb Hoffman is currently the group’s deputy chair, but is scheduled to …

MONTREAL, Quebec-A consortium formed by Bell Canada International and the Tata Group of India has been offered a license by the government of India to provide cellular telephony services using Global System for Mobile communications technology in the state of …

NEW YORK-AT&T Corp. appointed key executives to head its new $20 billion wireless equipment business, one of the three independent publicly traded companies AT&T plans to create. The equipment business, which will produce a range of networks, systems and software, …

AUSTIN, Texas-A group of paging carriers and resellers filed a lawsuit in Texas accusing the state of forcing wireless companies to contribute disproportionately to a telecommunications infrastructure fund. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District …

WASHINGTON-Radiofone Inc., in what amounts to a new stay request, wants the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati to decide whether the Federal Communications Commission is breaking the law by holding the C-block personal communications services …

A total of 36 companies have declared interest in bidding for 49 percent of a wireless license offered by the Czech Republic, confirming the economic ministry’s belief that participation would be high in the market. Bidders include Southwestern Bell Corp., …

Three Texas cellular customers have brought a class-action lawsuit against GTE Mobilnet, maintaining the company’s $200 cancellation fee is an unfair penalty for discontinuing service, said the plaintiffs’ attorneys Richard Norman and Timothy Crowley of Crowley, Marks & Douglas L.L.P.The …

WICHITA, Kan.-Brite Voice Systems Inc. announced it has signed a contract to provide additional voice-mail capacity to Cellnet, a mobile communications network operator in the United Kingdom. Brite, whose voice mail services are provided on voice services director platforms, will …

A private Dutch company has combined traditional paging with high-tech messaging to produce “Maxing,” an advanced wireless service that Eindhoven-based CallMax bv hopes to offer commercially early next year. Using the service, subscribers will be able to store or forward …

WASHINGTON – The Federal Communications Commission last week approved streamlined antenna structure registration procedures that make owners rather than licensees primarily responsible for complying with construction, painting and lighting requirements. At the same time, the FCC revised antenna painting and …