Yearly Archives: 1996

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...

`DOUGHNUT’ ANTENNA FIRM PURSUES SPOT IN WIRELESS

A Canadian company believes it is backing a revolutionary antenna that will advance the wireless industry."There is no antenna to outperform it currently," said...

SMR OPERATOR ASKS FOR HEARING ON 152 FCC REVOKED LICENSES

WASHINGTON-As expected, Los Angeles specialized mobile radio operator James Kay, with whom the Federal Communications Commission has had a running dispute over 152 licenses...

KOREA MOBILE IPO GARNERS $338M

NEW YORK-Korea Mobile Telecommunications Group went public June 27 with a $338 million offering of American Depository Shares trading on the New York Stock...

NPPCA CHALLENGES AUCTION REQUIREMENTS

WASHINGTON-The National Paging and Personal Communications Association is leading an effort to challenge new rules that tighten financial requirements for small business bidders in...

PAGING COMPANIES FEEL RIPPLE OF THEIR COMPETITORS DIFFICULTIES

NEW YORK-The investment community is taking a second, less optimistic look at paging, at least in the near term, given ProNet Inc.'s recently announced...

PEOPLE

Don Winters has been named vice president of business development at Coral Systems Inc. Winters will be responsible for all business development efforts, including...

FOUR FIRMS SERVED WITH PETITIONS TO DENY IN C-BLOCK AFTERSHOCKS

WASHINGTON-Of the 89 winners of C-block personal communications services licenses last May, only four were singled out by seven other entities who seek to...

PRODUCTS

Casio PhoneMate Inc. has introduced a new product that combines an answering machine with Pager Link, a device that automatically calls a user's pager...

STOCKHOLDER SUES PRONET FOR `MISREPRESENTING’ IN PROSPECTUS

NEW YORK-Gaetano Rainone, who purchased 100 of the 4 million common stock shares ProNet Inc. sold at $25 each May 31, has sued the...

BIDDING BEGINS ON 18 DEFAULTED C-BLOCK LICENSES

WASHINGTON-A terse, two-line order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit gave the Federal Communications Commission the go-ahead it...

WIRELESS FOCUSES ON STYLE OVER SUBSTANCE ON RF

WASHINGTON-Federal regulators and the wireless telecommunications industry appear close to a compromise on a hybrid radiofrequency radiation exposure guideline, marking a major policy and...

VIEWPOINT

Could the obstacle-plagued auction that took forever to start be near its end?It seems so, although a part of me believes the C-block auction...

WINSTAR COMMUNICATIONS INC. WILL BUY MILLIWAVE FOR $125M

WinStar Communications Inc. intends to acquire Milliwave L.P. and has signed definitive agreements that will allow it to manage Milliwave's 38 GHz licenses until...

VOICE TECHNOLOGY MAKES NTT HANDSET DIMINUTIVE

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. is developing a wearable, wrist watch-size Personal Handyphone System telephone it hopes to bring to market in time for...

MASS MARKET ADVERTISING TARGETS NARROW MARKETS

In efforts to capture a broad range of consumer users, cellular carriers and equipment providers are stepping up marketing and advertising efforts to include...

AIRADIGM ENDURES C-BLOCK, TO OF FER SERVICE IN 1997

Airadigm Communications Inc. is one of the few small business ventures that endured the delays, lawsuits, rule changes and exorbitant bidding prices of the...

AIRLINK DEVELOPS APPLICATION FOR PAGER E-MAIL NOTIFICATION

Airlink Software Corp. wants to wirelessly extend what it calls "this century's hottest marketing media-the Internet."The North York, Ontario-based software integrator is marketing its...

AIRTOUCH TESTING MEDICINE SERVICE

SAN DIEGO-AirTouch Paging is testing a medication reminder service in San Diego, offering the value-added service to customers for $13 a month.Patients are paged...

MOTOROLA LAUNCHES TEST MARKET UNIT

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.-Motorola Inc.'s Wireless Data Group has launched a business unit that will develop and test market limited-edition wireless hardware and software to customers.The...

APCO FAVORS CHANNEL USE FOR PUBLIC SAFETY

WASHINGTON-The Associated Public Safety Communications Officials-International Inc. weighed in favor of a possible Federal Communications Commission advanced-television proposal that would reallocate UHF channels 60-69...
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