Yearly Archives: 1996

GINGRICH SPLITS TAUZIN AND OXLEY

With the skill of Solomon, House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) promised to split the powerful Telecommunications & Finance subcommittee into separate factions if the...

MRS. CRAIN RETIRES AS FIRM CHAIRMAN

CHICAGO-Mrs. G.D. Crain Jr., 85, who has been chairman of the board of Crain Communications since 1974, has retired after 40 years with the...

D.C. NOTES

How 'bout the attendees at President Clinton's White House Corporate Citizenship Conference last Thursday here: Robert Allen, chairman of AT&T Corp.; Charles Lee, chairman of...

EXCEL COMMUNICATIONS’ IPO RAISES COMPANY $137 MILLION

NEW YORK-Excel Communications Inc., which plans to begin offering nationwide paging services this summer, sold an initial public offering May 10 with the share...

FCC ESTABLISHES 2-WAY FAMILY RADIO

WASHINGTON-After a two-year process, the Federal Communications Commission established the Family Radio Service, a short-range two-way consumer system first proposed by the Radio Shack...

MOBILE DATA SECTOR STRIVES TO GET PAST ITS FRAGMENTED HISTORY

The cellular telecommunications industry is making steady progress introducing advanced mobile data services as it works to overcome its own fragmented nature as well...

PANEL PROVIDES POINTERS FOR SUCCESSFUL TELECOM PARTNERSHIPS

NEW YORK-Driven by telecommunications deregulation and consumer demand, the emerging industry model is the "super carrier" that delivers a broad menu of services it...

GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION NOW IS POSSIBLE ON HEARING AID ISSUE

WASHINGTON-Negotiations have broken down between hearing impaired advocates and the wireless telecommunications industry on permanently resolving interference to hearing aids by digital pocket phones,...

METROCALL, A+ ENTER DEFINITIVE MERGER AGREEMENT

ALEXANDRIA, Va.-Metrocall Inc. and A+ Network Inc. have entered into a definitive merger agreement whereby A+ Network will merge into Metrocall in a two-step...

MOBILECOMM, MOTOROLA TEAM FOR MOUNTAIN DEW PROMOTION

SOMERS, N.Y.-MobileComm and Motorola Inc. have teamed up with Mountain Dew to launch a program aimed at placing pagers in the hands of teens...

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...

CLEARNET SELLS 8M SHARES OF STOCK

NEW YORK-Due to investor demand, Clearnet Communications Inc. sold 8 million shares of its common stock May 15, an increase of 1 million shares...

FCC AGREES TO REDUCE 900 MHZ BID PENALTY

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission announced it has agreed to reduce bid withdrawal penalties faced by Atlanta Trunking and MAP Wireless, bidders in the recent...

INFERNO OFFERS INTERNET ACCESS TO INFORMATION VIA ALL NETWORKS

It was one book in Alighieri Dante's 14th century classic Divine Comedy trilogy that inspired the name for Lucent Technologies Inc.'s new software program,...

VIEWPOINT

Who are these guys? It's a question that has popped into my mind repeatedly after 20-plus years as a journalist now covering the wireless...
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