Monthly Archives: August, 1996
GREAT GROWTH IS EXPECTED FOR LATIN AMERICAN CELLULAR SERVICES
NEW YORK-In Latin American countries, "where completion of a phone call is cause for celebration in some cases," rising gross domestic product signals increasing...
GTE MOBILNET TO TEST NETWORK USING CDMA DIGITAL STANDARD
ATLANTA-GTE Mobilnet Inc. switched 250 cellular customers in Austin, Texas, from its analog network to a trial network using Code Division Multiple Access technology.GTE...
INSIDE RCR
Sprint Spectrum delays offering -5AT&T, SBC swap properties - 13Telecel expands service in Africa - 18
REASON FOUNDATION ADVOCATES SPECTRUM PRIVATIZATION
Free marketers are giving voice to a rising chorus of demands to privatize electromagnetic spectrum and overturn the 60-year-old regulatory regime enshrined at the...
CALENDAR
AUGUST19-20 A Practical Introduction to Wireless Data, by Motorola Inc. San Francisco Airport Marriott Hotel, San Francisco. (800) 771-2012.19-21 Wireless Communications Conference, by The...
PAC BELL GETS AA RATING ON $250 MILLION IN NOTES
NEW YORK-Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co., Chicago, assigned an investment grade rating of AA- to Pacific Bell's $250 million issue of 10-year notes...
PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE ISSUES SUGGESTIONS FOR SPECTRUM USE
WASHINGTON-Comments were due late last week on the draft proposal forwarded by the Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee, which contained recommendations by five subcommittees...
SMR FIRMS RECLASSIFIED AS CMRS CARRIERS OPERATE IN GRAY AREA
A government summary outlining the reclassification of specialized mobile radio operators "may pose more questions than it answers," said SMR organization leader Alan Shark."Reclassified...
CARRIER INTRODUCES FREE LONG DIS TANCE AS PART OF NEW PLAN
FORT WAYNE, Ind.-Centennial Cellular Corp. has introduced a new call package plan to its customers in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio.In addition to bundling a...
COMSAT PLACES CALL VIA PLANET 1 PHONE
BETHESDA, Md.-Comsat Personal Communications made a phone call from Malaysia to Germany last week with the Planet 1 phone, using the Inmarsat-3 satellite operating...
QUALCOMM LICENSES ASIC TECH NOLOGY TO VLSI COMPANY
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. signed a license agreement for VLSI Technology to develop, manufacture and sell Application Specific Integrated Circuits to Qualcomm's subscriber equipment licensees.VLSI...
U.S. FIRMS WORK THROUGH SLOVA KIAN RULE CHANGES
U.S. partners in a Slovakian phone venture are confident they can restructure their company to meet new license qualifications unexpectedly created by the Slovakian...
SPRINT SPECTRUM DELAYS $520 MILLION DEBT ISSUE
NEW YORK-Sprint Spectrum L.P. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Sprint Spectrum Finance Corp., last week delayed and apparently downsized a planned issuance of $650...
CELLTEST
ZK Celltest Inc. announced narrowband Advanced Mobile Phone Service measurement capability on the ZK-SAM/DX, a system access monitor. The company said the device interfaces...
TELECEL USES AFRILINK TO OFFER COMPETITIVE CALLING
Using cellular and intelligent satellite technologies, Telecel International Ltd. of New Canaan, Conn., is on track to rehaul communications in Africa.The company was first...
WESTERN WIRELESS GETS SCI’S ROUTER
IRVINE, Calif.-Subscriber Computing Inc., a provider of management solutions for the wireless industry, has completed the installation of the first Unix version of SCI's...
VIEWPOINT
Paging stocks have been taking a beating lately as ratings agencies and some analysts worry that plain old paging won't be able to compete...
STATES MUST STOP SINGLING OUT WIRELESS IN AREA CODE OVERLAYS
WASHINGTON-A recently released Federal Communications Commission order now prohibits states from singling out wireless carriers for service- or technology-specific area code overlays.States will be...
NORWEGIAN CARRIER TO TRIAL DCS 1800
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS-NetCom GSM, a Norwegian cellular network operator, announced its trial DCS 1800 digital cellular system. The system, supplied and commissioned by Motorola Inc.'s...
MOODY’S DROPS MTEL’S RATING OUT LOOK TO `NEGATIVE’
NEW YORK-Moody's Investor's Service Inc. downgraded certain outstanding debt of Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp., Jackson, Miss.The New York-based rating agency downgraded its speculative grade...
MCI OFFERS CELLULAR IN NEW YORK AREA
ATLANTA-MCI Communications Corp. announced it is offering local cellular service in the Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, N.Y., markets. Customers in those areas will have...
NARY A BUMP IN PCS PATH TO RELOCATION
NEW YORK-Never mind the summer sun. When it comes to microwave incumbent relocation, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas to personal communications...
SPRINT PRACTICES WITH PCS NET WORK AT GOLF TOURNAMENT
DENVER-Sprint Spectrum demonstrated its 1900 MHz phones last week during the Sprint International golf tournament at Castle Pines.The company provided free personal communications services...
CANADIAN OPERATOR DEVELOPS WORLDWIDE ROAMING NETWORK
TORONTO-Rogers Cantel Mobile Communications Inc. has developed a system that will allow subscribers to roam all over the world with a special cellular phone.Customers...
MICROWAVE RELOCATION PROCESS CONTINUES ITA, PCIA SELECTED AS CLEARINGHOUSES
WASHINGTON-The Industrial Telecommunications Association Inc. and the Personal Communications Industry Association won their fights to become designated clearinghouses that will administer the Federal Communications...