Yearly Archives: 1996

D.C. NOTES

Maybe it's true, all this fuss about unlimited access at the White House. Access to spectrum, that is.President Clinton last week proposed a school...

OMNIPOINT SELLS 6.9 MILLION SHARES IN SECOND OFFERING

ARLINGTON, Va.-Omnipoint Corp. announced the successful completion of a follow-on public offering of 6.9 million shares of its common stock at $26 per share.The...

ARTECON EXPANDS TO APPEAL TO VENDORS ON DEADLINE

Equipment manufacturers with contracts to build personal communications services networks are more than rushed to get those systems up-they're in an all-out run, said...

CLINTON, APCO, CONGRESS, WEIGH IN ON CHANNELS 60-69 AUCTION

WASHINGTON-The broadcast auction issue has reappeared on the political radar screen with the same intensity and fanfare that nearly upended the telecommunications reform bill...

SEVEN BIDDERS LEFT IN RE-AUCTION: 4 AUCTION LAWSUITS FILED

WASHINGTON-After an explosive beginning to the re-auction of 18 C-block personal communications services licenses, the original pool of bidders decreased last week to seven,...

OLYMPICS, POLITICS GIVE CARRIERS INCENTIVES TO INCREASE COVERAGE

Wireless providers are staying busy this summer. By the end of this week, the symbolic torch should arrive in Atlanta, starting the 1996 Olympic...

HOUSE COMMERCE COMMITTEE AP PROVES FCC BUDGET AT ’96 LEVEL

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's fiscal 1997 budget was frozen at this year's $185.6 million level by the House Commerce Appropriations Committee last week, leaving...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. has entered into an agreement with Paging Network Inc. to offer PageNet's wireless messaging services, including the company's line of...

DAVIDS AND GOLIATHS PREPARE WIRELESS NETWORKS FOR OLYMPICS

NEW YORK-Measures of Olympic proportions undertaken by the heavyweights of industry have gone into developing the communications systems for the Summer Games, which begin...

DESPITE WILD WIRELESS GROWTH, PENETRATION IS STILL LOW IN ASIA

LONDON-By the year 2005 there will be nearly 120 million cellular subscribers in Asia and the Pacific, according to a new study from CIT...

NEW RETAIL CHAIN HAS PLANS TO OF FER WIRELESS PRODUCTS

DALLAS-A new chain of communications superstores called Communications Expo is scheduled to open its first store in Dallas next month, announced Paging Network Inc.,...

GROUPS MOUNT CAMPAIGN TO AUC TION TV SPECTRUM

WASHINGTON-Fifty-eight arts, education and consumer groups signed off on a July 11 letter to five congressmen to "express*...*profound dismay" on their recent letter to...

ORANGE WINS AD DISPUTE AGAINST RIVAL VODAFONE

U.K. wireless operator Orange plc claimed victory last week after a High Court judge dismissed a complaint made by Vodafone Group plc following the...

PRONET BUYS 931 MHZ LICENSE FROM MOTOROLA FOR $43 MILLION

ProNet Inc. paid Motorola Inc.'s Messaging Information and Media Sector $43 million cash for its 931.9 MHz nationwide one-way paging license and associated Embarc...

APC WILL FORWARD TRADED-IN PHONES TO RECELLULAR INC.

DEXTER, Mich.-ReCellular Inc. announced it has reached an agreement with personal communications services provider American Personal Communications to acquire and remanufacture its traded-in cellular...

CARRIERS SHOW OFF SERVICE AT GOP NAT’L CONVENTION

Lone personal communications services provider Pacific Bell Mobile Systems, regional cellular carriers, paging providers and rental companies will try to leave no stone unturned...

D.C. RESELLER COMPLAINS SKYTEL STOLE CUSTOMERS

WASHINGTON-Claiming that nationwide paging provider SkyTel Corp. has robbed it of prime customers and millions of dollars in lost revenues, paging reseller Time Signal...

PCS CARRIER TO USE CBIS BILLING SYSTEM

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Sprint Spectrum L.P. will deploy Cincinnati Bell Information Systems' Precedent 2000 Wireless Business Management Solution for its personal communications services network.Sprint Spectrum...

RCR TOP 20 WIRELESS EQUIP MENT DEALERS

Editor's Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of the 20 largest wireless equipment dealers in the United States based on...

CALLER PAYS SERVICE IS TESTED BY PAGENET IN THREE MARKETS

Paging Network Inc. of Dallas is introducing a paging service that allows its customers to receive unlimited pages with no monthly fees.What's the catch?...

PAGING COMBINES WITH REMOTE CONTROL TO OFFER ADDED TV VIEWING

Alerting all couch potatoes, VideoGuide Inc.'s state-of-the-art television enhancement service delivers real-time news and information, wirelessly, and is a seven-day TV program guide and...

VIEWPOINT

Does anyone have any common sense any more? (And if they do, are they willing to auction it off to the highest bidder?)While the...

GROUP LOBBIES FCC TO DELAY PCS AUCTION IN LIGHT OF RULE CHANGES

WASHINGTON-Members of an association representing small and minority-owned businesses have banded together with local attorneys and several C-block personal communications services auction winners in...

WORLD BRIEFS

L.M. Ericsson has signed a three-year contract with JT Mobiles Ltd. to supply digital cellular Global System for Mobile communications systems in India. Ericsson...

ALLIANCE PICKS INFONXX FOR DI RECTORY SERVICE

SAN FRANCISCO-The wireless alliance of AirTouch Cellular and Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile has contracted with InfoNXX Inc. to supply directory assistance services in the...
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