September 1996

SINGAPORE-Singapore, a city-state with the highest concentration of beepers in the world, on Sept. 6 honored its 1 millionth pager user be giving him a 22-karat gold-encased pager and a lifetime free subscription. Always quick to embrace technological innovations, Singapore …

ALISO VIEJO, Calif.-Smith Micro Software Inc. announced it has added HotFax Message Center, which features integrated voice messaging capabilities, to its HotFax communications software. HotFax MessageCenter includes both a 32-bit and 16-bit version capable of use with Windows 95, Windows …

DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. announced it has purchased a 25 percent interest in Sociedad de Radiotelefonia Movil S.A., which owns Compania Europea de Radiobusqueda S.A., a Spanish paging company. PageNet said it will provide operational assistance to CERSA. In addition to …

With the fall and winter openings of personal communications services in New York City, the issue of network control will become highly visible. Nowhere else is there likely to be so complex and difficult an installation or one that will …

The ability to press a button to locate your child, find your car in a crowded parking lot or retrieve your lost dog may soon be a reality, said Sunnyvale, Calif.-based SiRF Technology Inc. The one-year-old company has developed a …

More than a year has passed since the Federal Communications Commission completed its first ever auction for both narrowband and broadband personal communications services frequencies. The winners are racing to design, acquire and build out their new digital networks. Some …

FORT WORTH, Texas-Uniden American Corp., the North American subsidiary of Uniden Corp., announced the formation of its Internet Products Division designed to facilitate the convergence of wireless communications with the Internet. By pooling its technology, manufacturing and distribution resources, the …

REDMOND, Wash.-The Universal Wireless Communications Consortium has been formed to champion Interim Standard 136 Time Division Multiple Access and IS-41 wireless intelligent network technologies. “The UWCC was designed as a cooperative decision-making business entity with the express goal of promoting …

States rights vs. federal rights. It’s an argument that is becoming more and more common in today’s wireless industry. It’s certainly not a new argument, and it’s certainly not an argument that anyone expects to go away soon. In fact, …

In response to customer discontent and criticism among consumer groups, WaveTech Ltd. of the United Kingdom introduced Happy Talk. The service is a new way to do wireless, expected to accomplish what its name implies. Lengthy service contracts and stringent …

WASHINGTON-More regional holding companies filed petitions for review at various courts of appeals of the Federal Communications Commission’s local competition and interconnection order in hopes of killing, or at least delaying, commission rules that they view as being anti-states’ rights. …

FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc.’s Advanced Messaging Group announced it has upgraded its Dallas/Fort Worth advanced messaging test system using narrowband personal communications services software to support both InFLEXion and ReFLEX25 advanced messaging capabilities. The newly integrated test system successfully transmitted …

DALLAS-MCI Communications Corp. said it now can package business services a little more tightly under the networkMCI One program. MCI One is a suite of services offered to residential customers; networkMCI One is a similar package of services for businesses. …

WASHINGTON-Public utilities that want to enter the telecom industry had many of the barriers to such action removed by the Federal Communications Commission last Thursday. Commissioners voted unanimously to streamline the FCC’s procedure for determining who meets the criteria to …

BOSTON-Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile announced it has signed a deal to provide its Cellscape service to Walsh Messenger Service Inc., a delivery company serving the New York City metropolitan area. Beginning in October, Walsh Messenger will replace the pagers it …

NEW YORK-A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni has determined that wireless handsets need a certain aura about them in order to be conveniently hands-free when used. Two years in development, their proprietary chip technology employing a weak magnetic …

WASHINGTON-Aside from a computer glitch that pushed the auction of D-, E-and F-block broadband personal communications services licenses back to one round per day, bidders now are coping with the intensity of monitoring number and market changes twice a day. …

CLEVELAND-Allen Telecom Group will introduce seven new products at PCS ’96 this week. The PMR-722GC1 Sector-Extender Repeater and a new line of tower mounted amplifiers are designed to enhance base station performance. The Surveyor Digital Wireless System Test Platform is …

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Mark Golden, senior vice president of Industry Affairs for the Personal Communications Industry Association, has been accepted as a voting member of the Federal Communications Commission’s North American Numbering Council. Golden was chosen to represent PCIA and the wireless …

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas-Allgon Enterprises Inc. and Teledyne Electronic Technologies have teamed up to develop and manufacture plastic technology for certain key wireless communications applications. The Allgon Enterprises and Teledyne Electronic Technologies alliance will develop and produce plastic/dielectric filters and duplexers …

NEW YORK-When it comes to bundling wireless and landline telephone services, AirTouch Communications Inc. will pursue two different strategies, one domestic and one European, key executives said at a Sept. 11 meeting with the Wall Street investment community. On the …

While AirNet Communications Corp. is busy this week demonstrating its PCS 1900 base station system at PCS ’96, the company’s new Korean joint venture, AirCom, is busy demonstrating AirNet’s software driven and protocol independent base station technology in Korea. Communications …

A cellular company in San Francisco is working to provide equal access to all people by providing special discounted prices on wireless phones and service to people with visual or mobility impairments. Since 1992, Cellular One, in conjunction with handset …

CHICAGO- 3607 Communications Co. and Paging Network Inc. announced 3607 will begin offering PageNet’s paging services. 3607’s customers in its nearly 100 markets will have the ability to access paging services by the end of the year, said the company. …

BOCA RATON, Fla.-“PCS and The New Wireless Marketplace,” the first show in the wireless communications series airing as part of The Cutting Edge Technology Report, will be broadcast Tuesday on the Discovery Channel via its transponder. Times for the show, …