Yearly Archives: 1996

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...

THE OLD, THE NEW AND THE NEAR LINE UP FOR PCS AUCTION

WASHINGTON-Previous Federal Communications Commission auction winners and near winners plus a few new faces were accepted as qualified bidders for the July 3 auction...

ITA PLAN SUBMITTED FOR COST-SHARING

ARLINGTON, Va.-The Industrial Telecommunications Association has submitted a business plan to the Federal Communications Commission to become a clearinghouse that will administer the 2...

GTE AIRFONE EQUIPS AIRFRANCE AIRLINES

SHANNON, Ireland-GTE Airfone Inc. is supplying JetPhone, a provider of airline passenger telephony services, with cabin equipment and handsets to be used on Air...

QUALCOMM ENTERS GRAYSON AGREEMENT

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. said it has signed a license agreement with Forest, Va.-based Grayson Electronics Co., a subsidiary of The Allen Group Inc.Under the...

PCS, ESMR MIMIC CELLULAR RESALE RULE

WASHINGTON-Wide-area specialized mobile radio operators and broadband personal communications services licensees now will be subject to the same resale rules under which cellular carriers...

SAN FRAN WILL GET CDPD DEPLOYMENT

SAN FRANCISCO-Cellular One in San Francisco and AT&T Wireless Services Inc's. wireless data division announced an agreement to deliver AT&T wireless packet data service...

COMPONENT FIRMS’ STOCKS CAN GAUGE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY ROLLOUT

NEW YORK-Component manufacturers like Spectrian Corp. are the ones to watch for a sneak preview of developments in deployment of digital cellular and personal...

NEC LAUNCHES GSM PHONE IN ITALY, SPAIN AND U.K.

NEC Corp. of Tokyo has launched its new GSM phone in Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, with plans to expand sales and sell...

FCC PONDERS SPECTRUM ALLOCATION AND THE INDUSTRY’S FUTURE

WASHINGTON-While most wireless operators and manufacturers are planning for only a scant three to five years down the road, the Federal Communications Commission, according...

WORLD BRIEFS

Motorola Inc. and Qatar Public Telecommunications Corp. announced the introduction of a high-speed, high-capacity paging service based on the FLEX protocol in the Middle...

MOBILE USERS CLAIM HIGH SATISFACTION

BOSTON-The typical cellular phone user now makes 10 calls every week but only 15 percent of subscribers would increase usage significantly if prices were...

EQUIPMENT DEALERS!

RCR's July 15 issue will feature the Top 20 Wireless Equipment Dealers. Inclusion will be based on gross product sales in the United States...

RAT TEST FINDS NO CANCER LINK TO CELLULAR USE

WASHINGTON-In a Motorola Inc.-sponsored study producing mixed signals for the wireless telecommunications industry, Dr. W. Ross Adey found that 800 MHz digital cellular emissions...

WIS. PCS PROVIDER PICKS GSM SERVICE

LITTLE CHUTE, Wis.-Airadigm Communications, which holds C-block personal communications services licenses in 13 basic trading areas comprising most of Wisconsin and part of Iowa,...

RECONFIGURED IDEN SYSTEM HITS THE STREET

CHICAGO-After an inauspicious debut that sent it back to rehearsals, the latest wireless extravaganza from Motorola Inc. is ready to return to prime time.The...

POCKET SUBMITS BID ON DEFAULT LICENSES

Pocket Communications Inc. (formerly DCR Communications Inc.) said it submitted a $1.3 million deposit to the Federal Communications Commission Friday to bid on the...

POLICYMAKERS FEAR D.C. HAS AUCTION FEVER

WASHINGTON-Despite Congressional passage of a six-year balanced budget plan last week that assumes $19.2 billion from auctions, telecom policymakers are growing concerned that fiscal...
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