Yearly Archives: 1996

CABLE & WIRELESS ENTERS U.S. CEL LULAR INDUSTRY VIA BANM PACT

Cable & Wireless Inc. has signed a cellular resale agreement with Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile, one of the first steps in introducing its own...

LOW-PRICED EXTRAS BRING CARRIERS ADDED REVENUE

Enhanced services deliver greater convenience, mobility and security to cellular customers, but how much value these "value-adds" provide carriers is uncertain.Depending on the sophistication...

FCC PROGRESSES ON REALLOCATION PLAN

WASHINGTON-Even before the Federal Communications Commission voted last week to solicit comments regarding the possibility of taking back UHF broadcast channels 60 through 69,...

FEDS PONDER SPECTRUM POLLUTION PROBLEM

WASHINGTON-Could there be such as thing as spectrum pollution?That's a question federal regulators are now pondering.While it has not been established that a problem...

NEW FRACTAL ANTENNAS OFFERED FOR WIRELESS

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-Fractal Antenna Systems Inc. said it is offering an antenna for wireless phones that is much smaller than conventional antennas but just...

NORTHERN TELECOM ENTERS AGREE MENT WITH MOTOROLA INC.

DALLAS-Northern Telecom Inc. has entered into a three-year agreement to resell Motorola Inc.'s line of data frame relay access devices, or FRADS, which convert...

CLINTON THREATENS KOREAN SANCTIONS

The Clinton administration on Friday threatened to impose trade sanctions on Korea for blocking access to that country's telecommunications market."I do not intend to...

WORLD BRIEFS

E.F. Johnson Co. has signed a $3.6 million contract to build a trunked radio system for Campanhia Energetica de Minas Gerias (CEMIG), an electrical...

MOTOROLA ASSISTS WITH CHINA NETWORK

FORT WORTH, Texas-Motorola Inc. said it has been assisting the RITT Research Institute of Telecommunications, within China's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, to establish...

PCSI SIGNS CONTRACT TO PROVIDE PACT NETWORK EQUIPMENT

SAN DIEGO-Pacific Communication Sciences Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cirrus Logic Inc., announced it has signed a reseller agreement with Retix to provide...

PEOPLE

PageMart Inc. has appointed Richard Nelson president of the company's wholly owned subsidiary, PageMart International. Nelson, formerly vice president of marketing for PageMart, will...

PORTACOM WIRELESS ANNOUNCES FINANCING

PLAYA DEL REY, Calif.-PortaCom Wireless Inc. announced Asian American Telecommunications Corp. has completed a total of $25 million in financing for its telecommunications joint...

RACING INFORMATION OFFERED VIA PAGERS

MORRISTOWN, Tenn.-Advanced Communications announced it is now offering Racepage alphanumeric racing information service to paging carriers and resellers. Previously, Racepage only was available to...

ROMANIAN GSM LICENSING DE LAYED AGAIN OVER POLITICAL TURMOIL

The government of Romania pushed the tender deadline for two Global System for Mobile communications licenses back by two months, doubled the price for...

SYSTEMS/LINK CORP. UPGRADES SERVICES

HIGHTSTOWN, N.J.-Systems/Link Corp. announced it has upgraded its most successful products and services, including FraudTec, RoamEx and Home & Roam Metered Cellular Service, for...

UNIDEN LICENSED TO BUILD IN FLEXION-BASED DEVICES

FORT WORTH, Texas- Uniden America Corp. licensed Motorola Inc.'s InFLEXion voice messaging protocol, the first manufacturing company to license the technology for advanced messaging...

CTS BACKS OFF PLAN TO TAKE FIRM PUBLIC

SEATTLE-Cellular Technical Services Co. Inc. said it will not proceed with its proposed public offering of common stock."Our decision not to proceed with the...

CHAMPION ADDS TRUNKING TO RE PEATER TECHNOLOGY

Champion Communication Services Inc. is pursuing a trunking strategy to bring enhanced capabilities to its network of community repeaters-a wide area dispatch technology that...

CRAIN REMEMBERED BY FRIENDS, FAMILY

Nearly 1,000 people gathered Wednesday, July 24 to celebrate the life of Crain Communications Chairman Emeritus Gertrude Ramsay Crain at Holy Name Cathedral in...

EU COMMISSIONER SEES `BREAK THROUGH’ IN LIBERALIZATION EFFORTS

The commissioner in charge of competition for the European Union told an audience recently that while there has been a "dramatic breakthrough" in the...

LUCENT WINS CONTRACT TO SUPPLY EQUIPMENT TO GERMAN OPERATOR

NUREMBERG, Germany-Lucent Technologies Inc. has received a contract from Deutsche Telekom Mobilnet GmbH to provide the German phone operator with base stations for one...

AIRTOUCH INCOME RISES 58 PERCENT

SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Communications Inc.'s net income for the second quarter increased 58 percent to $61.2 million, or 12 cents per share, from $38.7 million,...

FCC RATIFIES SERVICE TO HELP PUB LIC SAFETY TO TRACK STOLEN GOODS

WASHINGTON-A newly authorized low-power radio service in the 216-217 MHz band will accommodate planned short-range communications devices for the hearing impaired, health-care telemetry services...

MCI COMMUNICATIONS PREMIERES CELLULAR SERVICE IN 4 MARKETS

ATLANTA-MCI Communications Corp. said it is introducing local cellular service in south Florida including Miami. The announcement comes on the heels of MCI's recent...
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