Monthly Archives: November, 1996
PCS 2000 PARTNERS WANT ACTION ON THEIR LICENSES
WASHINGTON-"That peculiar smell drifting up from Puerto Rico is the odor of burning money. Our money. I'm tired of smelling it," wrote Gary North...
AGENCY TRIES TO SPEED UP BIDDING IN PCS AUCTION
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission this week took additional steps to help hasten the end of the D-, E-and F-block personal communications services auction that...
PAGING’S STOCK PLUNGE IS CAUSED BY FINANCING, FLEX AND A FEW FAILURES
The paging sector's stock plunge this year is mostly a result of the large amount of money raised by "marginal players" in 1995, unexpected...
CES ANNOUNCES NEW NAME CHOSEN
WINTER PARK, Fla.-Communications Electronics Specialties said it has changed its name to CES Wireless Technologies. The company also released a 1997 product catalog and...
VENEZUELAN TELECOM MONOPOLY ISSUES U.S. PUBLIC STOCK OFFER
NEW YORK-Compania Anonima Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela, the country's monopoly telecommun-ications conglomerate, was scheduled to become a publicly traded company Nov. 22 with an...
FCC CLAIMS WIRELESS TELECOM IS SLOWED BY REGULATORY REFORM
WASHINGTON-While the returning Republican-led Congress intends to enforce deregulation next year, the Federal Communications Commission claims the wireless telecom industry is being slowed by...
WORLD BRIEFS
AirNet Communications Corp. entered an agreement with the Thomsen Group of Denmark, appointing Thomsen as AirNet's authorized business representative in Denmark and certain Far...
PEOPLE
Don Smith is the new director of wireless technology and network operations for specialized mobile radio carrier ComTec International Inc. Prior to joining the...
FIELDS BERATES FCC’S HUNDT
... "I hope that Chairman Hundt will read Shakespeare and understand that `discretion is the better part of valor.' And if he doesn't read...
C-BLOCKERS QUESTION FCC INTEREST RATE
Several C-block licensees are questioning the 7 percent interest rate used by the Federal Communications Commission in payment plan notes, but the government stands...
NOKIA TO EXPAND OULU PRODUCTION
OULU, Finland-Nokia Telecommunications announced plans to expand its base station production in Oulu, Finland, due to increased demand. Beginning next spring, the base stations...
VIEWPOINT
How do you market a phone shield designed to protect people from "potentially harmful radiation from your cell phone" when 1.) there is no...
ERICSSON’S GSM SET FOR PORTUGAL
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson will supply Global System for Mobile communications infrastructure to Telecel Comunicacoes Pessoais S.A. between 1997 and 1999 to expand its network...
VIMPEL-COMMUNICATIONS OFFERS 5.4 MILLION SHARES
NEW YORK-Vimpel-Communications, a Russian wireless telecommunications company, went public on the New York Stock Exchange Nov. 15 with an offering of 5.4 million American...
FIRM DEPLOYS GLENAYRE FLEX NETWORK
FAIRFIELD, N.J.-Electronics Communications Corp. activated its own paging system making it a full-service paging carrier.Electronics Communications has licenses covering Long Island, Westchester and Rockland...
WESTERN WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY INFOSTREAM AIDS DATA ACCESS
ISSAQUAH, Wash.-Western Wireless Corp.'s InfoStream technology allows mobile professionals to send faxes and e-mail, and access office databases and the Internet, from a laptop...
CLINTON READY TO BATTLE BURNS OVER ENCRYPTION POLICY PROVISIONS
WASHINGTON-President Clinton has threatened to repeal a key provision of the administration's new encryption policy if it determines that legislation undercuts security safeguards, a...
VALUE-ADDED FUNCTIONS WILL BE FACTORS FOR FUTURE WIRELESS FIRMS
NEW YORK-Single-number portability, delivery of branded content and the growing similarity between switched voice and data are all trends that are moving in fast,...
OMNITEL PRONTO ITALIA INITIATES LAWSUIT AGAINST TIM FOR ANTITRUST
Omnitel Pronto Italia, Italy's privately owned GSM operator, said it has filed a lawsuit against state-owned Telecom Italia Mobile for $62.5 million with the...
MOBILEMEDIA CEO LORELLI TO LEAVE THE FLOUNDERING PAGING PROVIDER
Mike Lorelli will resign as president and chief executive officer of MobileMedia Corp., the latest in a chain of events that has shareholders, industry...
PRODUCTS
SmarTrunk Systems Inc. announced its ST-865KW2 SmarTrunk II trunking logic board, which offers advanced trunking features for Kenwood's latest portable and mobile conventional radio...
CLEARSITE TESTED IN CELLCOM TRIALS
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Conductus Inc. said it installed its ClearSite receiver subsystems in a field trial in three sites in Wisconsin. The trial will run through...
T-MOBIL BUYS STAKE IN SPRINT SPECTRUM
Frankfurt, Germany-based Deutsche Telekom MobilNet GmbH (T-Mobil) bought 16 percent of personal communications services provider American Personal Communications' share of its partnership in Sprint...
ZAIRE CELLULAR SYSTEM STAYS STABLE AMIDST VOLATILITY
Social unrest in eastern Zaire hasn't interrupted the independent cellular network of Telecel International Ltd., which operates an analog system countrywide there."There has been...
DEUTSCHE TELEKOM IPO EUROPE'S LARGEST TO DATE
NEW YORK-In a very successful initial public offering, Deutsche Telekom AG, the German government's telecommunications monopoly, went public Nov. 18.The IPO consisted of 600...
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