Yearly Archives: 1996

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...

TV SPECTRUM COULD CONVERT TO WIRELESS

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is crafting a politically correct auction plan that would convert TV broadcast spectrum into a launching pad for new wireless...

PRODUCTS

IBM Mobile & Wireless Systems announced the IBM 2488 Model 800, the latest offering in its line of rugged, wireless handheld computing devices. IBM...

U.S. ROBOTICS BEGINS CAMPAIGN FOR DATA INFRASTRUCTURE ENTRY

U.S. Robotics is mounting a three-pronged campaign for the emerging wireless data industry.The Skokie, Ill.-based company's Mobile Communications division is a leader in PC...

EUROPEAN COMMISSION WARNS CAR RIERS ABOUT SIM CARD LOCK USE

A stern letter from the European Commission has gone out to dozens of wireless operators and phone manufacturers in Europe about the use of...

SNET ANNOUNCES SOFTWARE UPGRADE TO REDUCE FRAUD

MERIDEN, Conn. - SNET Network Services announced it has enhanced its Network Fraud Control System software to reduce the amount of 0+/0- theft for...

SPRINT SPECTRUM TO ESTABLISH NATIONAL CUSTOMER CARE CENTER

FORT WORTH, Texas-Sprint Spectrum L.P. announced plans to establish a national customer care center and a regional headquarters for its personal communications services in...

TELEMOBILE TO OFFER RURAL USE PRODUCTS

TORRANCE, Calif.-Telemobile Inc. has joined with Belgium-based Telkon N.V. to provide a series of wireless products for what it calls the Wireless Rural Loop."While...

VCSI SIGNS MERGER AGREEMENT WITH VOICE PROCESSING CORP.

DALLAS-Voice Control Systems Inc. announced it will merge with Voice Processing Corp. in a pooling of interests transaction valued at more than $40 million.VCSI...

VIEWPOINT

Oh, the shifting winds of Washington.The bill-and-keep interconnection proposal has been called the greatest issue facing the cellular industry this year. And when the...

WORLD BRIEFS

AirTouch Communications Inc. announced it has officially opened its European headquarters in the Netherlands. The company said it opened the office because its cellular...

AMSC COULD RECEIVE ADDITIONAL SPECTRUM

WASHINGTON-American Mobile Satellite Corp. could receive additional L-band mobile satellite services spectrum if favorable comments are received regarding a June 18 notice of proposed...

AVIC TO IMPLEMENT NEW PAGING SYSTEM FOR CHINESE MARKET

NEW YORK-AVIC Group International Inc. announced it signed a definitive joint venture agreement with Beijing Catch to create a nationwide paging network of at...

BAJA RELEASES PIN CELLULAR SOFTWARE

WEST CHESTER, Pa.-Baja Systems announced the release of its Personal Identification Number Management software.PIN Management allows subscribers to add or change their PIN by...

BELLSOUTH RELEASES NEW IMAGE TO PROMOTE GSM TECHNOLOGY

ATLANTA-BellSouth Personal Communications Inc. has changed its corporate name and unveiled a new logo to promote its Global System for Mobile communications-based PCS-1900 service.The...
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