September 1996

Exports of telecommunications equipment increased 5 percent during the first six months of this year compared to the same period in 1995, according to the Telecommunications Industry Association. However, the trade surplus of telecom equipment sales was $2 billion for …

Nextel Communications launched a fully digital communications service in Chicago, Milwaukee and other large cities in Illinois, Wisconsin and northern Indiana. Features of the new PowerFone service include digital cellular calling, instant group and private two-way conferencing capability and numeric …

House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Jack Field’s (R-Tex.) swan song is squelched. Though the telecom reform bill he helped craft is the biggest feather in his congressional cap, Fields on a personal level wanted to downsize the FCC as a last …

Have a good day, honey … and don’t forget your transponder! Ahh, those loving words our children will someday bark at their spouses as they head out the door for work. My mother would remind my father to grab his …

Editor’s Note: RCR compiled this list of International Cellular Markets based on information supplied by Washington, D.C.-based Economic and Management Consultants International Inc. and the Office of Telecommunications, U.S. Department of Commerce. Subscriber estimates are for the second quarter of …

NEW YORK-Glenayre Technologies Inc. recently issued an advance warning that it expects its third-quarter net income to be “significantly below” results posted in the same period last year. According to unaudited financial statements available on Glenayre’s World Wide Web site, …

PARIS-France Telecom, with its Mobil Rom consortium, announced it will participate in a bid for a license to install and operate a new Global System for Mobile communications digital cellular phone network in Romania. The Mobil Rom consortium includes Computer …

Dennis Miller is the new president of Midwest Wireless Communications, the company taking over management of Cellular 2000. The transition between MWC and Cellular 2000’s current management company, Pacific Telecom Cellular, is expected to be complete by the end of …

WASHINGTON, D.C.-There were 38.2 million cellular and personal communications services subscribers at the end of June, a penetration rate of 14.5 percent, according to a new survey from the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. More than 10 million new customers signed …

TRENTON, N.J.-To paraphrase an old Barbra Streisand song, “On a rainy day, you can hear forever,” even when making a call to Colorado from a car parked beneath a water tower in the state capital of New Jersey. That’s the …

WASHINGTON-Any previous bets that the auction of the D-, E- and F-block broadband personal communications services licenses would not garner even $1 billion are off. As of Round 25, net revenues for the three blocks total $980.6 million, and the …

FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.’s Advanced Messaging Group introduced Tango Lite, the newest addition to its family of Tango two-way advanced messaging devices at the PCS ’96 Conference last week. Tango Lite, which will operate on the ReFLEX two-way messaging protocol …

WASHINGTON-In a formal ceremony Sept. 16 attended by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt and Assistant Secretary of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Larry Irving, the Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee handed over the final version of its report …

SAN FRANCISCO-Natural Microsystems Corp. announced an enhanced version of the TX2000, a high performance communications processor, in an effort to integrate the core SS7 technology gained in its recent acquisition of TEKnique Inc. The new version of the TX2000 adds …

An association that stresses its “technology-neutral” position has formed to give entrepreneurial-block spectrum licensees a platform for unity and fill the gap left by North American Wireless Inc. NAWI is believed to be defunct, although the company’s founder, James Valentine, …

SARNIA, Ontario-AVL Information Systems and Cincinnati Microwave Inc. announced the QWaveWriter, a system for cellular carriers that provides a comprehensive tool for monitoring signal strength. The product was developed by AVLIS to work with Cincinnati Microwave’s MC-DART 200 Cellular Digital …

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-Ericsson announced the city of Moscow, Russia, will purchase the company’s Enhanced Digital Access Communication Systems private radio system to provide radio coverage for the city and surrounding areas. The Russian holding company, AO ROSIKO, will deliver and install …

Italy plans to issue a tender for a third mobile phone operator this fall, announced the government, which recently passed a bill establishing the guidelines for the tender. A license is expected to be issued by the end of the …

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission shifted into damage control last week after two officials contradicted each other over whether candidates for the Telecommunications Development Fund board were vetted by the White House. Catherine Sandoval, director of the FCC Office of Communications …

THATCHAM, England-Paragon Software Ltd. announced a new version of its FoneMail software that supports short messaging service across Global System for Mobile communications networks. FoneMail provides two-way messaging capability for any personal computer running Windows 95 software, the company said. …

WASHINGTON-U.S. manufacturers have begun mounting a counter offensive to what they see as a European-led, anticompetitive effort to restrict global wireless standards for third generation pocket phones. The controversy surfaced as International Telecommunication Union members developed recommendations on which technology …

WASHINGTON-The House last week zeroed out a little known government agency that in recent years has played a key role supporting wireless ventures by American firms in countries experimenting with capitalism and democracy for the first time . By a …

MURRAY HILL, N.J.-Lucent Technologies and IBM Corp. announced they will collaborate to grow the market for wireless data networking equipment, applications and services. Specifically, the companies said they will work together to stimulate the growth of business solutions that take …

BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J.-The Microelectronics Group of Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it is shipping to wireless equipment manufacturers what it claims is the world’s fastest digital signal processor. The DSP 1620 operates at 120 million instructions per second with a 3 …