May 1996

David Chadwick, a company vice president and director of engineering for Las Vegas-based Chadmoore Wireless Group Inc., resigned his positions following a due-diligence procedure conducted prior to the company’s recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Chadwick co-founded the specialized mobile …

WASHINGTON-Paralleling the start of authentication service in several markets, the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association issued a Request for Information to wireless equipment manufacturers, fraud security vendors and other CTIA members for establishing a national authentication center. The center’s aim is …

NextWave Telecom Inc., parent company of top C-block personal communications services license-winner NextWave Personal Communications, completed May 6 at $290 million private placement. The underwriter was ING Barings. Details of the private placement were revealed in the company’s Form 600, …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group announced it has deployed its wireless local loop network in Benin, Africa, providing phone service for the first time to many remote customers. The network uses a narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone Service radio …

WASHINGTON-The best near-term opportunities for cellular and personal communications services carriers to sell data services are in the utilities and transportation industries, according to a new study from Economic and Management Consultants International Inc. and Zsigo Wireless Data Consultants. In …

NEW YORK-Western Wireless Corp. went public May 22 with an 11 million share common stock offering priced at $23.50 each. At the same time, the company sold a 10-year, $150 million debt issue priced to yield 10.5 percent. The initial …

WASHINGTON – C-block personal communications services auction winner BD-PCS Inc. has several legal channels open to it before it is forced to give up the 17 markets it won at auction because it could not meet a $37 million down-payment …

PICKERING, Ontario-Clearnet Communications Inc. announced it has successfully closed an underwritten cross-border public offering in Canada and the United States of 9.2 million of its class A non-voting shares at $19 per share, raising about $174.8 million. As a result …

ATLANTA-BellSouth Cellular Corp. and Hughes Network Systems Inc. announced they completed a switch conversion in 15 BellSouth cities and many other smaller markets in the Southeast. BellSouth deployed the GMH 2000tm network, which currently services the analog cellular system and …

SKOKIE, Ill.-U.S. Robotics is entering the wireless data communications infrastructure market with its new Wireless Access System for the company’s Total Control Enterprise Network Hub high-speed access platform. The platform integrates local and wide area networks. The access system, initially …

Samsung Electronics Co. has committed $25.8 million to manufacture prototype Code Division Multiple Access equipment for PCS, illustrating confidence that its PCS partnership will win a license for personal communications services spectrum. The Korean government is expected to award three …

Jim Wolfinger, president and chief executive officer of Phoenix-based Choice Cellular, has been named president of the National Wireless Resellers Association. Wolfinger will serve a two-year term as president. Russ Kohlman, owner and principal executive of CellNet Communications, was named …

The paging industry is undergoing a major regulatory overhaul. The question is why? As the most competitive sector of the wireless telecommunications industry, it is not clear whether sweeping changes are being made to accommodate the federal government and large …

NEW YORK-The numbers vary depending on the source, but there is unanimity about the trends unfolding in the nation’s paging sector during the past year: subscriber growth, consolidation in the number of paging providers and overall increases in revenues despite …

Boston Communications Group Inc. announced it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering of about 3.8 million shares of its common stock. The offering will be managed by Alex, Brown & …

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The Personal Communications Industry Association has elected William L. Collins III chairman of its board of directors. Collins is president and chief executive officer of Metrocall. “Bill Collins is a dynamic executive leading a dynamic company,” said …

MAY 27-28 High Speed Information Services: Strategies to Win the Race to the Home, by ICM Conferences. The Mart Plaza, Chicago. Call Thomas Serafine at (312) 540-5698. 29-31 Canadian Wireless ’96, by the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association. Metro Toronto Convention …

Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it has been awarded a $107 million contract by Escotel to build and maintain a Global System for Mobile communications network covering India’s Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Kerala regions. The new wireless network will be fully …

NEW YORK-Rogers Cantel Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications Inc., sold an $800 million debt issue May 22 to refinance at lower rates outstanding indebtedness that had an interest rate of 10.75 percent. The new issue …

Samsung said it created many of its own parts for its CDMA equipment. The company has invested $390 million into telecom research and development this year. A total of 34 percent of workers in the company’s Telecommunications Systems division are …

Motorola Inc. has been contracted to build a Global System for Mobile communications network in the Czech Republic for operator Radiomobil. The deal is valued at $100 million. The network is scheduled to be launched in September to initially cover …

NEW YORK-In its first application outside paging, Motorola Inc.’s FLEX chipsets will be used in Ex Machina Inc.’s AirMedia Live information services product, the companies announced. AirMedia Live will allow computer users to access Internet services without going online. For …

MINNEAPOLIS-ADC Telecommunications Inc. announced its first agreement to acquire a software company-Metrica Systems Ltd. The purchase will be a stock-for-stock transaction valued at about $36 million, the company said. ADC said the acquisition is part of a newly expanded product …

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. announced it has successfully completed two additional rural field tests of its ultra-low-noise receiver subsystem for cellular base stations. The Conductus subsystem is designed to provide enhanced range, improved coverage and improved signal quality in rural cellular …

New protocol-based paging technologies may not only alleviate carrier capacity problems but also may transform the nature of service offerings from “cheap beeps” to “paging on steroids.” Alphanumeric paging, the first “enhanced service” to be offered by carriers, ran smack …