Monthly Archives: October, 1996
PEOPLE
Luis M. Larralde is the new international area manager for Hutton Communications Inc. His responsibilities will include establishing new accounts and generating business in...
PAGING INDUSTRY TAPS INTO TEEN MARKET
The voices of young people are getting louder in the paging industry.Paging manufacturers and carriers have discovered just how "cool" teenagers and young adults...
POCKET PHONE INTERFERENCE WITH PACEMAKERS CAN BE CONTROLLED
WASHINGTON-Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. last week declared digital pocket phone interference with cardiac pacemakers not to be a public health problem, saying interference problems...
D.C. NOTES
Dr. George Carlo, head of Wireless Technology Research L.L.C., is a tough one to figure.Should we feel sorry for Carlo because of the lawsuits...
WORLD BRIEFS
Northern Telecom Ltd. announced Telemig, a Brazilian telecommunications provider, has signed two contracts valued at $95 million to purchase Nortel cellular network infrastructure equipment....
MOTOROLA’S ASIA PACIFIC GROUP TO EXPAND TIANJIN GSM SYSTEM
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Asia/Pacific Cellular Infrastructure Group announced it will assist the Tianjin Posts & Telecommunications Administration in the expansion of the Global...
GROUPTALK OFFERS CAMPUS CELLULAR
WAYNE, Penn.-GroupTalk, a new technology designed by Comcast Cellular Communications Inc., provides customized dispatch and work group capabilities for a variety of business and...
CLINTON ENCRYPTION POLICY COULD PROVE TO BE COSTLY
WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration's new encryption policy could force wireless firms over time to use scrambling products that are potentially more expensive and less secure,...
DSC PREPARES INVESTORS FOR DISAPPOINTING RESULTS
NEW YORK-DSC Communications Corp., a major manufacturer of switches for wireless and wireline telecommunications, announced it anticipates posting disappointing revenues and earnings for the...
WTR, CTIA AT ODDS OVER LAWSUIT MONIES
WASHINGTON-The five-year, $25 million industry-funded research program on potential cancer risks from pocket telephones will come to a screeching halt unless wireless carriers and...
CALENDAR
OCTOBER7 Making Sense of the Changing Communications Marketplace, by TeleStrategies Inc. Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, Washington, D.C. (703) 734-7050.7-9 Wireless APPS Convention, by the...
BOSTON COMMUNICATIONS GROUP INITIATES NATIONAL NETWORK PLAN
NEW YORK-Boston Communications Group Inc. has a not-so-modest proposal and concrete plans to execute it: a prepaid wireless roaming network for the Western Hemisphere.Already the...
BELLSOUTH MOBILITY REPORTS LAUNCH OF ATLANTA DIGITAL NETWORK
BellSouth Mobility has launched digital cellular service in Atlanta. After spending $77 million preparing the network for the Summer Olympic Games, the company said...
PRODUCTS
The Micro Digital M75 is a Time Division Multiple Access digital phone from Motorola Inc.'s Cellular Subscriber Group. The Flip Phone meets the Telecommunications...