Yearly Archives: 1996

PREPAID FIRM AIMS FOR CARRIER SEN SITIVE APPROACH

The newest arrival in one of cellular's newest markets-prepaid-is Go Wireless International Ltd., led by an entrepreneur banking his dollars on consumers with damaged...

ERMES STANDARD LIKELY TO REMAIN VIABLE IN EUROPE

While Motorola Inc.'s FLEX paging technology begins to dash across the globe, POCSAG remains the de facto standard in the international paging world, said...

NORTHERN TELECOM TO INCLUDE JAVA CHIPS IN FUTURE PHONES

DALLAS-Northern Telecom Inc. plans to incorporate Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java Software Platform and Java Powered chips into its future telephones for residential, enterprise and...

LG TO PUT DOWN STAKES IN SAN DIEGO: KOREAN KINGPIN TO PLAY IN U.S. PCS

LG Information & Communications Ltd. of South Korea is wagering its hand in the U.S. personal communications services market with plans to begin large...

MARYLAND STIFFENS PHONE FRAUD LAWS

ANNAPOLIS, Md.-Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening signed legislation to strengthen the hand of law enforcement officials in cracking down on wireless telephone fraud by clarifying...

RESEARCH FUND MAY FALL $4M SHORT OF GOAL

WASHINGTON-At a time when Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. is scraping for cash to determine whether pocket telephones pose a potential public health risk, the...

GLENAYRE INSTALLS FIVE MVP SYSTEMS

CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies Inc. announced it has completed the installation of five Modular Voice Processing Systems for Bell Atlantic Nynex Mobile's cellular subscribers in...

WITH WESTLINK BUY OVER, ARCH TO FOCUS ON BRAND

Arch Communications Group Inc. announced it has completed its acquisition of Westlink Holdings Inc. The acquisition expands Arch's operations to a total of 38...

THREE NEW TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES OPEN UP WORLD OF MESSAGING

It's quicker to list which countries do not use FLEX than to name those that do.That's how Larry Conlee, corporate vice president and director...

NOKIA GROUP EXPANDING INDONE SIA ANALOG SYSTEM

The Nokia Group is expanding an analog system in Indonesia, in the face of the deployment of digital systems by numerous other operators there.Earlier...

SAMSUNG STRONG ON R&D

Samsung said it created many of its own parts for its CDMA equipment. The company has invested $390 million into telecom research and development...

CHALLENGE OF TWO-WAY NETWORKS IS TO EMULATE ONE-WAY'S STABILITY

Paging operators have different ideas about what will be the killer application that attracts paging customers to two-way service. But they do agree about...

`VIRTUAL TESTING' BY NOKIA SPEEDS PROTOTYPE PROCESS

NEW YORK-Mentor Graphics Corp. plans this summer to begin selling a new generation of electronic design automation software, developed with Nokia Corp., that officials...

ENHANCED SERVICES ALLOW `BEEFIER' PAGING INDUSTRY

New protocol-based paging technologies may not only alleviate carrier capacity problems but also may transform the nature of service offerings from "cheap beeps" to...

NOKIA ATTRIBUTES PROFIT DECREASE TO ITS MOBILE PHONES DIVISION

Another handset manufacturer saw its company stock drop then slowly rise again following the release of a quarterly report with stagnant earnings.It's the continuation...

BELL ATLANTIC SPREADS BUSINESS APPROACH

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.-Bell Atlantic Corp. announced a major expansion of Bell Atlantic All@once Solutions, a business approach that helps organizations deal with the increasing...

BOUCHER CALLS FOR MORE WORKABLE MICROWAVE RELOCATION RULES

WASHINGTON - Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) said he wants legislation this year to streamline rules governing the relocation of microwave users from the 2...

BOWLER AWARD GIVEN TO HALLER

WASHINGTON-Wireless Telecommunications Bureau deputy chief Ralph Haller, characterized by former Federal Communications Commission colleague James McKinney as "just a simple country boy from the...

BUSINESS BRIEFS

Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. announced it has sold $22.5 million of its cumulative convertible accruing pay in kind preferred stock to a group of...

CCPR CONSIDERING ITS OPTIONS

NEW YORK-One of the independent companies left out of the merger between Cellular Communications Inc. and AirTouch Communications Inc. is considering its options, including...

CDMA WORLD NEWS

SINGAPORE-Numerous announcements about Code Division Multiple Access technology came out of last week's CDMA World Congress in Singapore. The event was attended by about...

CELLEXIS DISMISSES GTE CORP. LAWSUIT

PHOENIX-Cellexis International Inc. dismissed its $525 million trade secret lawsuit against GTE Corp., its subsidiaries and Open Development Corp.The company sued GTE and ODC...

SOUTHWESTERN BELL STARTS AUTHENTICATION

CHICAGO-Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems said it started authentication service in its Chicago market, which operates as Cellular One. The technology is expected to wipe...

WIRELESS WOULD FEEL BITE OF TRADE WAR WITH CHINA

WASHINGTON-The United States and China are on the verge of a trade war that could hurt the wireless telecommunications industry's ability to expand into...

CHURN SOLUTIONS HELP INDUSTRY RETAIN CUSTOMERS

A cellular carrier loses the equivalent of its entire customer base in three to five years, say industry estimates. Not only does churn amount...
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