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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …