Monthly Archives: June, 1996
AT&T CUTS CDPD COSTS, FOLLOWING BANM’S LEAD
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...
NEXTEL CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT NEW MOTOROLA TECHNOLOGY
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...
PAGING INDUSTRY EXPERIENCES GROWTH AND CHANGE IN 1995
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...
LOTUS ANNOUNCES MESSAGING UPDATE
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...
PCS PARTICIPANTS PREDICT RAPID MARKET PENETRATION
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...
PAGENET PERSONAL E-MAIL IS AVAIL ABLE OVER COMPUSERVE
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...
FIRMS PREPARE TO OFFER AIRSHIP SAT ELLITES AS VEHICLE FOR WIRELESS
Just when every conceivable type of transmission site on earth and in orbit seems to have been recruited for wireless telecommunications, the industry now...
NEXTWAVE: CDMA BUILDOUT COULD COST MORE IN CITIES
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...
MTEL PICKS ITSELF UP AFTER BUMPY START TO 2-WAY PAGING NETWORK
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...
HARRIS SUPPLIES RADIOS FOR GROUP CS PROJECT
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...
CLARIFICATION
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...
JUDGE FINDS MOTOROLA DID NOT IN FRINGE ON INTERDIGITAL PATENT
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...
BUSINESS BRIEFS
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...
PEOPLE
Preferred Networks Inc. announced Victor L. Jackson has joined the company as vice president of interconnection. Prior to joining PNI, Jackson was director of...
NATTEL ASSAILS NEXTWAVE IN PCS PETITION TO DENY
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...
EQUIPMENT DEALERS!
The July 15 issue of Radio Communications Report will feature the Top 20 Wireless Equipment Dealers. Inclusion will be based on gross product sales...
NATIONAL BRIEFS
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...
PAGENET GARNERS U.K. PERMIT TO OFFER ERMES-BASED SERVICE
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...
CELLSTAR READY TO UNLOAD ITS SAM’S KIOSK BUSINESS
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...
TRADE ACCORD IS REACHED BETWEEN U.S. AND CHINA
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...
OFTEL EXPLORING CELLULAR INTERCON NECTION RATES IN GREAT BRITAIN
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...
LUCENT WILL OFFER CIRCUIT-SWITCHED DATA EQUIPMENT
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...
LG GROUP CAPTURES KOREAN LI CENSE RESERVED FOR EQUIPMENT FIRM
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...
D.C. NOTES
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...
THE OLD, THE NEW AND THE NEAR LINE UP FOR PCS AUCTION
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...
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