Monthly Archives: February, 1996
LAWMAKERS DISLIKE ADDING BROAD CAST LANGUAGE TO DEBT POLICY
WASHINGTON-Key GOP and Democratic lawmakers last week lambasted Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) plan to add broadcast auction language to debt ceiling legislation, a reaction...
APCO PETITION FOR RELOCATION RE VIEW REJECTED BY PANEL OF JUDGES
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Court of Appeals has rejected a petition to review mandatory relocation of public-safety entities from personal communications services frequencies to perceived lesser-quality...
ERICSSON AND PAC BELL TARGET HEARING AID INTERFERENCE SOLUTIONS
Pacific Bell Mobile Services and Ericsson Inc., in conjunction with Self Help for Hard of Hearing People Inc., said they are developing and testing...
AMERITECH CELLULAR TO USE PINS TO FIGHT GROWING FRAUD PROBLEM
COLUMBUS-Ameritech Cellular Services is combating cellular fraud by requiring all of its customers to use a personal identification number.Company spokeswoman Ellen Butler said cloning...
PCIA IMPLORES FCC TO REMOVE FREEZE ON PAGING APPLICATIONS
WASHINGTON-The Personal Communications Industry Association urged the Federal Communications Commission last week to lift the freeze on paging applications, saying small carriers will suffer...
PRESSLER POUNDS HUNDT FOR SEEK ING MORE FUNDS
WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) slammed the Federal Communications Commission last week for saying it cannot implement the telecommunications bill without adequate...
INTERQUEST’S PRODUCT CONNECTS ROAMERS
WEST POINT, Ga.-InterQuest Inc. announced it is offering a new service that allows wireless carriers to offer unregistered roamers in their market to complete...
AT&T AND AMERITECH JOIN TO OF FER CDPD
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill.-The Wireless Data Division of AT&T Wireless Services and Ameritech Cellular Services have signed an intercarrier agreement that allows each carrier's Cellular...
PCS LICENSEE APT SEEKS INVEST MENT
NEW YORK-American Portable Telecom Inc., the fifth largest licensee of personal communications services in the United States, registered Feb. 20 with the Securities and...
FRAUD-FIGHTING STANDARD GROWS FROM ENGINEERING
Eighty percent of major U.S. cellular carriers employ Systems/Link Corp.'s RoamEx product to fight cellular fraud, but until now the decade-old Jackson, N.J., company...
THE CRIME DEFINED
Cellular theft: A cellular phone is stolen from a legitimate customer and used before the theft can be reported.Subscription fraud: This type of counterfeiting occurs when...
NOTABLE QUOTE
"We will offer a clear alternative...*from the long-distance industry that for years has raised prices in lock step, pocketing savings they could pass on...
SIGNAL BUYS SYSTEMS FROM MOTOROLA INC.
POMPANO BEACH, Fla.-Signal Communications Inc. announced it has signed an agreement to purchase three Motorola Inc. service facilities in south Florida and the related...
PCS STAKES GET TOO RICH FOR SOME C-BLOCK BIDDERS
WASHINGTON-Are the prices being paid for C-block broadband personal communications services licenses getting to be too rich for even the richest blood? If the...
ARCH PLANS $200M BOND ISSUE PRICED FOR SALE IN MID-MARCH
NEW YORK-Arch Communications Group Inc. plans a $200 million bond issue, which received a B3 rating Feb. 22 from Moody's Investors Service, according to...
PAGING WHOLESALER’S IPO COULD RAISE $45 MILLION
NEW YORK-Preferred Networks Inc., a wholesaler of one-way paging airtime, last Friday expected to launch its initial public offering of 3.3 million shares of...
SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH IS EXTENDED BY AT&T
PITTSBURGH-AT&T Wireless Services announced its customers in western Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia and eastern Ohio now have access to the AT&T CellCard, a smart...
CARRIERS COMBATING `CLONE ‘N ROAM’ FRAUD IN MARKETS
Some big-city markets saw a decrease in cloning fraud last year after implementing personal identification numbers, but the effort hasn't beat the bandits. Cloning...
COMPANIES DENY SQUABBLE IN SPRINT-CABLE TV VENTURE
Sprint Spectrum L.P. denies any discord among its member companies, despite revisions to the venture's original plans to launch cable telephony with its wireless...
VIEWPOINT
At some point in most relationships, one partner looks at the other, and instead of seeing Prince or Princess Charming, sees a human ......
TWO FIRMS MUST QUIT EMULATING HANDSETS
PHOENIX-The U.S. District Court in Phoenix ordered One Line Cellular and Cell Phone Extensions to permanently discontinue altering, transferring, emulating or manipulating electronic serial...
INCREASED CHURN, GROWTH MARK ’95 SMR INDUSTRY
The specialized mobile radio industry grew 13 percent last year, but operators reported a steady increase in industry churn during 1995, says a new...
MOTOROLA SNAGS PAGING PACTS FOR THREE CHINESE PROVINCES
FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.'s Advanced Messaging Systems Division announced three contracts for paging infrastructure equipment in China from Hunan Post and Telecommunication Administration, the...
PAGEMART WILL BEGIN COVERAGE IN CANADA
DALLAS-PageMart Inc. announced its wholly owned subsidiary, PageMart International, has teamed with Canadian partners to launch PageMart Canada Ltd., a new nationwide Canadian paging...