June 1996

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is offering a 60 percent price reduction for its Packet Data Service, which uses Cellular Digital Packet Data technology, which is optimized for short “bursty” data …

CHICAGO-A group of wireless industry analysts and reporters got a chance to watch Schaumburg, Ill.-based Motorola Inc. atone for past enhanced specialized mobile radio infrastructure sins by introducing its second-generation …

ASHINGTON-Pointing the way to continued success, the paging industry saw dramatic changes in 1995 as a series of firsts were accomplished by both carriers and manufacturers, said Economic Management and …

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-Lotus Development Corp. announced a new version of its Lotus Notes Pager Gateway, a wireless messaging solution for Lotus Notes that allows customers to filter and forward messages to …

EW YORK-Personal communications services are projected to triple their market penetration to 40 percent or more by 2006, according to participants in a “PCS: Here at Last?” panel. The discussion, …

ALLAS-Paging Network Inc. announced it is now providing personalized e-mail and information services to subscribers through CompuServe’s Smart Rules program. The agreement allows PageNet subscribers who are CompuServe members to …

Just when every conceivable type of transmission site on earth and in orbit seems to have been recruited for wireless telecommunications, the industry now is taking to the stratosphere with …

WASHINGTON-If the Securities and Exchange Commission approves S-1 paperwork it filed June 12, NextWave Telecom Inc. could move forward with a planned stock and senior discounted notes sale in the …

NEW YORK-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. hit the ground running last fall with its nationwide SkyTel 2-Way paging launch, stumbled over unforeseen obstacles and has now dusted itself off and resumed …

MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada-Harris Farinon Canada announced it has signed a letter of intent with Group CS Inc. under which Harris will supply $15 million in microwave radio equipment for digital …

RCR’s June 17 article on Page 5 should have indicated that Glenayre Technologies Inc. and other manufacturers affiliated with the Coalition for a Competitive Paging Industry supported efforts to get …

Part of a year-old jury verdict was reversed last week when the technology patent lawsuit between InterDigital Communications Corp. and Motorola Inc. was revisited in U.S. District Court. However, the …

Cellular Technical Services Co. Inc. said its board of directors has declared a two-for-one stock split of its common stock. The stock’s $.001 par value per share will be affected …

Preferred Networks Inc. announced Victor L. Jackson has joined the company as vice president of interconnection. Prior to joining PNI, Jackson was director of interconnection for Paging Network Inc. His …

WASHINGTON-National Telecom PCS Inc., which continues to battle to regain its C-block personal communications services license for American Samoa rescinded by the Federal Communications Commission, last Friday filed a petition …

The July 15 issue of Radio Communications Report will feature the Top 20 Wireless Equipment Dealers. Inclusion will be based on gross product sales in the United States for the …

Paging Partners Corp. announced it was honored as New Jersey’s eighth fastest growing technology company at The New Jersey Technology Fast 50 Awards, held at Newark’s Gateway Hilton. Paging Partners …

ALLAS-Paging Network Inc. announced the United Kingdom government will grant it a nationwide European Radio Messaging Services channel. The company plans to build out the frequency in 1997, initially offering …

CellStar Corp. said it has a tentative Fortune 500 buyer for its kiosk business located in 347 Sam’s Club stores nationwide, the expenses of which led to the company’s disappointing …

WASHINGTON-The United States and China last week averted a high-profile trade war over intellectual property rights that threatened to cut into wireless telecommunications commerce between the two countries. The U.S.-Sino …

Great Britain’s Office of Telecommunications said it is exploring the possibility that wireless phone operators Vodafone plc and Cellnet are charging local telephone operator British Telecommunications plc unfair interconnect rates. …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies announced a new addition to its current Cellular Digital Packet Data system that enables cellular operators to cost-effectively offer data transmission service wherever voice service is …

Lucky-Goldstar won the latest battle between Korean manufacturing titans last week when it captured the only digital Korean phone license being offered to an equipment manufacturer. Foreign entities were not …

Senate lawmakers kept the heat on FCC Chairman Reed Hundt last week insofar as implementing the 1996 Telecom Act. Hundt didn’t let lawmakers force him into a corner, and artfully …

WASHINGTON-Previous Federal Communications Commission auction winners and near winners plus a few new faces were accepted as qualified bidders for the July 3 auction of 18 C-block personal communications services …