September 1996

You can’t keep a good man down. The anesthesia had barely worn off before the national news media was in Tom Wheeler’s face. The New York Times and CNN wanted to know why the wireless telecom industry doesn’t want to …

BEIJING-China Telecom, a division of the country’s Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, has selected Motorola Inc.’s Advanced Messaging Group to supply infrastructure equipment to implement China’s FLEX national backbone paging network in Beijing, Shanghai and nine major provincial capital cities. …

Ameritech Cellular Services announced it has successfully completed a 15-month test of its Code Division Multiple Access network in Illinois. ClearPath, the new name for the system, was tested in a seven-cell test bed reaching from the company’s headquarters in …

NEW YORK-Following on the heels of Motorola Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc., AT&T Corp. announced last week it anticipates lower than expected earnings for the third and fourth quarters of 1996. In a letter to shareholders, Robert E. Allen, AT&T …

The futuresque communications previously only envisioned by StarTrek’s writers are reality in the here and now as demonstrated at PCS ’96 by students of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, in conjunction with Motorola Inc. The communications technology projects exhibited …

TORONTO-Clearnet Communications Inc. has launched its business communications service, a digital wireless telecommunications service that integrates mobile phone, dispatch or group and private call radio, alphanumeric paging and messaging services in one handset. Clearnet said the service uses Motorola Inc.s …

SAN DIEGO-The National Dispatch Center Inc. and Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV have established NDC Voice Corp., which will develop and provide state-of-the-art wireless and wireline voice services worldwide. NDC said the new company will release its initial wireless …

In the Sept. 16 issue of RCR, the headline on page 12, “Editor who got free stake in PCS carrier promotes that firm,” was incorrect. While it is unknown how much Gary North paid for his three shares in C-block …

Centigram Communications Corp. announced it will sell its MobileManager enhanced services platform to Paging Network Inc. for limited testing this year with possible commercial deployment later. Centigram developed MobileManager in partnership with Priority Call Management. It is designed to support …

GREENVILLE, S.C.-PCS Development Corp. announced it has agreed to provide mobile voice messaging services to Metrocall Inc. for one year. Currently, PCSD is developing a narrowband personal communications services network, which will provide a portable voice messaging, or wireless “pocket …

Editor: I look to RCR for timely and appropriate information on the state of the industry. As senior real estate and construction manager for BellSouth International’s foreign cellular projects, I rely on RCR to keep me current with a window …

Objective Systems Integrators, Folsom, Calif., announced it received a multimillion dollar contract from Omnipoint Communications Inc. for its NetExpert framework to be used to manage Omnipoint’s Global System for Mobile communications system. Omnipoint expects to launch initial personal communications services …

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Alcatel Telecom and Motorola Inc.’s Cellular Infrastructure Group will purchase each other’s wireless equipment according to a memorandum of understanding announced Thursday. According to the agreement, Alcatel will be allowed to purchase and distribute Motorola’s Code Division Multiple …

EUGENE, Ore.-The Eugene City Council voted Sept. 16 to put in place a 120-day moratorium on tower building in the area, but accepted applications for sites submitted before the moratorium was established, said City Planner Cathy Czerniak. “We didn’t want …

A California manufacturer is producing a paging repeater that it believes is unique and will appeal to carriers battling high installation costs. The P450 by AML Communications Inc. has a split chassis design. Most repeaters are housed in a single …

The market for handheld devices may get a shot in the arm now that Microsoft Corp. has introduced Windows CE, a 32-bit operating system platform that can support a broad range of communications, computing and entertainment products, including those for …

WASHINGTON-The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association late last week petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to pre-empt excessive or discriminatory taxation of commercial wireless carriers, calling the growing trend “a profound moral hazard.” The filing represents the wireless industry’s most serious attempt …

SAN FRANCISCO-Allen Telecom Group President Erik van der Kaay announced at PCS ’96 that the company’s recent and pending acquisitions position the company as a leading global provider of a truly integrated and comprehensive line of telecommunications products and test …

SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Paging, a division of AirTouch Communications Inc., announced it will add New York City to its paging network. AirTouch currently serves several major cities in the Northeast, including Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore and Washington D.C. “Opening our New York …

WASHINGTON-When it comes to getting a say in telecommunications policymaking in the nation’s capital, firms let their dollars do the talking. And, oh, how the money has talked in recent years, like an endless filibuster gushing in all its gilded …

WAKEFIELD, Mass.-Boston Technology Inc. has agreed to provide Escotel Mobile Communications Ltd. with systems and software for voice messaging services for its Global System for Mobile communications network in India. According to the four-year contract, valued at $3.7 million, Boston …

NEW YORK-Cellnet Data Systems Inc., which provides wireless monitoring networks to utilities, was expected to go public late last week or early this week. The planned initial public offering of 5 million shares of common stock is lead managed by …

NEC America Inc. introduced what it believes to be the first in a new class of pagers: The Beacon data pager. The device is a one-way FLEX pager that uses wireless data exchange software from Microsoft Corp. to transfer and …

Qualcomm Personal Electronics says it is meeting the handset manufacturing contract requirements of Sprint PCS, which intends to launch service in 15 to 20 major markets by year’s end. Even though Sprint recently signed a handset contract with Samsung Electronics …

Northern Telecom entered the wireless handset market in North America for the first time by introducing PCS 1911, a personal telephone that supports voice mail and messaging services, the company said. Nortel was awarded a contract by BellSouth Mobility DCS …