Yearly Archives: 1996

NEXTEL BUYS 30 PERCENT STAKE IN PHILIPPINE WIRELESS PROVIDER

SEATTLE-McCaw International Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nextel Communications Inc., announced it has purchased a 30 percent interest in Infocom Communications Network Inc.,...

MICRONETIC’S IC MONITORS THE IN TEGRITY OF RF PORTION OF NETWORK

Micronetics Wireless Inc. is close to receiving patents for its MicroCal Module, a recently developed integrated circuit that facilitates self-monitoring in wireless equipment, reported...

MOBILEWARE, AT&T JOINTLY TO MARKET SOFTWARE, SERVICES

DALLAS-MobileWare Corp. and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. announced an agreement to participate in joint sales and marketing activities for MobileWare software and wireless data...

NAWI FACES MURKY FUTURE AFTER INITIAL PLANS UNRAVEL

WASHINGTON-Principals of the Code Division Multiple Access advocate North American Wireless Inc. are deep in discussions to decide if the organization has a future...

PUBLIC SAFETY COULD GET SOME TV CHANNELS

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration and federal regulators have promised the public safety community a chunk of TV channels 60-69 in exchange for supporting efforts to...

MOODY’S ASSIGNS NOKIA PAPER PROGRAM PRIME-1

NEW YORK-Moody's Investors Service Inc. has assigned Prime-1 short-term ratings to a planned commercial paper program by Nokia Corp. and two of its subsidiaries.Nokia...

D.C. NOTES

Talk is cheap.Take the Federal Communications Commission's grandiose pronouncements over the past two years on behalf of women, minorities and small businesses.Most disappointing recently...

POLICY IS NEEDED TO PROTECT TELE COM FROM TERRORISM

WASHINGTON-President Clinton last week called for the creation of a commission to develop a national policy to protect telecommunications networks and other infrastructures from...

MOTOROLA, GLENAYRE GARNER PCSD PACTS TO SUPPLY NETWORK

GREENVILLE, S.C.-PCS Development Corp. said it will spend a total of $125 million in separate contracts with Motorola Inc. and Glenayre Technologies Inc. to...

PEOPLE

Comcast Cellular One has named David S. Levine director of marketing communications. Levine will be responsible for all marketing functions for the Cranbury, N.J.-based...

PTS TEAMS WITH ERICSSON TO BE COME PCS OPERATOR

Forget cellular. Personal Technology Services Inc.'s PCS business will compete with the phone company, said Colin Buckingham, PTS' president and chief executive officer.The company...

SIEMENS TO MAKE CDMA EQUIPMENT

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. announced it has signed a multimillion dollar, royalty-bearing subscriber equipment license with Siemens Wireless Terminals, a division of Siemens Rolm Communications.The...

STUPKA TRADES CELLULAR SCENE FOR 2-WAY TASK

The prospect of taking SkyTel 2-Way messaging service from a workable technology to a marketplace product is at the crux of John Stupka's new...

PCS LICENSES ON HOLD FOR SOME AS FCC REVIEWS PETITION CLAIMS

WASHINGTON-A group of 310 C-block personal communications services licenses should be issued within the next two weeks, but it is doubtful that those won...

INTERDIGITAL SETTLES SHAREHOLDER LAWSUIT

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. said it has favorably settled a class action lawsuit filed by a shareholder in November 1994. The shareholder...

D.C. CELLULAR CARRIER INAUGURATES NO-CONTRACT SERVICE PACKAGE

Cellular One of Washington, D.C./Baltimore is introducing an off-the-shelf, no-contract cellular service package called Speak Easy.The package costs about $200, includes Motorola Inc.'s TeleTac...

EDR WILL MARKET PCS DATABASE SET TO FIND TOWER SITES

SOUTHPORT, Conn.-EDR-Wireless Group, a division of Environmental Data Resources Inc., announced it will market a new tool designed to decrease the amount of time...

WHITE HOUSE UNVEILS NEW ENCRYP TION PLAN FOR SOFTWARE INDUSTRY

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration is on a collision course with Congress over encryption policy, as policymakers try to balance law enforcement and national security needs...

ERICSSON TO SUPPLY GSM-BASED SYSTEM TO GHANA OPERATOR

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson has signed an order for a turnkey Global System for Mobile communications system with Scancom in Ghana, Africa.With an initial capacity...

SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS RAIL AGAINST FCC

WASHINGTON-Following what they characterized as an unsuccessful meeting with Wireless Telecommunications Bureau personnel last week, three personal communications services small-business concerns filed a petition...

GTE CHURNMANAGER GOES COMMERCIAL

TAMPA, Fla.-GTE Telecommunication Services announced the commercial availability of ChurnManager following a successful beta test with GTE Mobilnet Inc.The system gathers information on a...

MOTOROLA NETS PACT TO DEPLOY NET WORK USING GSM IN INDIA

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s International Cellular Infrastructure Division has signed a $45 million contract to deploy two digital cellular phone systems for BPL/U S...

WORLD BREIFS

Photocomm Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz., has been awarded a $3 million contract from Motorola Inc. for 831 solar electric systems to power a wireless...

ILLUMINER IS NAME OF JOINT BUSINESS

OLYMPIA, Wash.-Independent Telecommunications Network and US Intelco Networks announced they have changed their name to Illuminer. The two companies merged earlier this year.The new...

HANWA INTRODUCES BATTERY CHARGER

NEW YORK-Hanwa American Corp. has introduced a battery charger that it says can re-energize cellular phone batteries in 20 minutes.The Logical Power Charging System...
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