Yearly Archives: 1996

KEENEY PICKED FOR FCC POST

WASHINGTON-President Clinton last week nominated former wireless regulator Regina Keeney to the Federal Communications Commission, an appointment that while popular could run into delays...

ANALYSTS SAY CARRIER GOAL IS TO LOCK CELLULAR USER INTO CONTRACTS

Wireless analysts say cellular carriers have two distinct goals in releasing a barrage of pricing plans at this time. Get as many customers on...

MOBILINK UNVEILS NEW LOGO DESIGN

CHICAGO-MobiLink, a service development company owned by an alliance of North America's leading B-side wireless service providers, has unveiled a new logo design.MobiLink, founded...

ENHANCED FLEX NOW IS AVAILABLE

FORT WORTH-Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Systems Products Group has released an enhanced version of its FLEX high-speed, one-way paging protocol.Version 1.8 of the FLEX protocol...

MTEL COMPLETES CONSENT FOR IN DENTURE OF NOTES

JACKSON, Miss.-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. said it successfully completed a consent solicitation approving certain amendments to the indenture of its 13.5 percent Senior Notes,...

TWO 38 GHZ PROVIDERS PULL STOCK ISSUES: ART PULLS IPO BECAUSE OF FALLING STOCK MARKET

NEW YORK-Advanced Radio Telecom Corp., a 38 GHz provider of wireless local loop service, announced Aug. 1 it had pulled a planned initial public...

NOKIA’S FAX CARD MAKES ITS WAY INTO JAPANESE MARKET

ESPOO, Finland-Nokia Mobile Phones K.K. (Japan) has introduced the Nokia Digital Data/Fax Card to the Japanese digital cellular networks.The card enables wireless data transmission...

NSN NETWORK SERVICES DEBUTS PAGING NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY

AVON, Colo.-NSN Network Services introduced Broadcast TNPP for paging networking, technology that combines Telocator Network Paging Protocol sources from a number of locations into...

D. C. NOTES

Next to the bad guys, perhaps the biggest danger to America last week was the government as Congress and President Clinton worked frantically to...

OLYMPIC ATHLETES KEEP IN CONTACT WITH OLYMPAGERS

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-U.S. Olympic athletes in Atlanta communicated with their coaches, teammates, friends, family and press using OlymPagers, alphanumeric pagers that Motorola Inc. provided...

HAUTANEN NAMED PHILIPS PRESIDENT

LE MANS, France-Philips Electronics North America Corp. has appointed Osmo Hautanen president of Philips Consumer Communications Co., a seven-month-old Le Mans, France-based subsidiary of...

PRICELLULAR SLIMS NEW STOCK OFFERING

NEW YORK-PriCellular Corp. last week scaled down a planned secondary Class A common stock offering to 2.5 million shares, from the 3.6 million shares...

ALCATEL TO INSTALL CROSS CONNECTS IN PRIMECO BUILDOUT

RICHARDSON, Texas-PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. has chosen Alcatel Telecom to install SX digital cross connect systems in PrimeCo's personal communications services switching stations in...

PRONET TRIES TO PULL TOGETHER AMID FINANCIAL DOWNTURN, LAWSUIT

ProNet Inc. of Plano, Texas, released bleak second-quarter financial results, said its proposed merger with Teletouch Communications Inc. was mutually terminated and is fighting...

AT DEADLINE BINGAMAN RESIGNS ANTITRUST POSITION

Anne Bingaman, the government's antitrust czar who reviewed huge telecommunications mergers and took on computer software giant Microsoft Inc., said she will leave the...

FCC ADOPTS STRICT HYBRID RADIOFRE QUENCY EXPOSURE GUIDELINES

WASHINGTON-With less than a ringing endorsement from two commissioners, the Federal Communications Commission last week adopted hybrid radiofrequency exposure guidelines that may violate a...

SAPURA TO EXPAND MALAYSIA NETWORK

ESPOO, Finland- Sapura Digital Sdn. Bhd. and Nokia Telecommunications signed a long-term agreement for the expansion of Sapura's nationwide personal communications network in Malaysia,...

WESTERN WIRELESS FIRES UP IN N.M.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.-Western Wireless Corp. has turned on a personal communications services network in the Albuquerque, N.M.-El Paso, Texas, major trading area.The company's service is...

DIGITAL SERVICE WON’T STAMP OUT ANALOG SMR NEEDS

For those who are banking on the growth of specialized mobile radio during the next few years, there is good news and there is...

TAIWAN OPENS TO WIRELESS TRADE

Taiwan opens to wireless tradeWASHINGTON-The Clinton administration said Taiwan has agreed to open its wireless market as part of an overall effort to liberalize...

TELETECH PLANS 4 MILLION SHARE IPO

NEW YORK-TeleTech, a Denver-based customer care service provider, planned to go public last week with 4 million shares of common stock priced from $14.50...

COMPETITION KEEN FOR FINANCE OPTIONS

NEW YORK-High-technology companies have benefited in recent years from the robust market for initial public stock offerings, which in turn encourages venture capital investments....

VIEWPOINT

CTIA President Tom Wheeler called it the biggest issue facing the wireless industry in 1996. Last Thursday, he simply said, "Hooray."The Federal Communications Commission...

TWO 38 GHZ PROVIDERS PULL STOCK ISSUES: WINSTAR COMMUNICATIONS HALTS ADD-ON STOCK OFFER, DEBT ISSUE

NEW YORK-Citing poor market conditions, WinStar Communications Inc. announced July 30 it was halting an add-on stock offering of 4 million shares and a...

ANTI-TERRORISM LEGISLATION INCLUDING WIRETAP PROVISION PASSED

WASHINGTON-Starting the week united but ending it divided, President Clinton and a bipartisan congressional group struggled to agree on an anti-terrorism bill to give...
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