Yearly Archives: 1996

PRIMECO ANNOUNCES LOGO TO TAR GET ALL CUSTOMERS

DALLAS-A logo has been introduced by PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P. that the company intends to use later this year in 11 of its U.S....

PEOPLE

California Microwave Inc. has appointed Dennis Raney executive vice president and chief financial officer. Raney brings 26 years of broad financial experience, including international...

PORTACOM WIRELESS ISSUES PLACEMENT

PLAYA DEL REY, CALIF.PORT ACOM WIRELESS INC. ANNOUNCED IT HAS NEGOTIATED A BROKERED PRIVATE PLACEMENT OF UP TO $6.1 MILLION SPECIAL WARRANTS AT $3.30...

CAN C-BLOCK WINNERS NOW AFFORD TO BUILD OUT THEIR PCS NETWORKS?

WASHINGTON-The dust has settled only slightly since the bidding for C-block personal communications services licenses ended May 6 after 184 rounds strung out over...

MOBILECOMM ENTERS PREMIERE AGREEMENT

RIDGEFIELD PARK, N.J.-MobileComm, a paging and wireless messaging services provider, and Premiere Technologies, an integrator of information and telecommunications services, announced plans to cross...

PRODUCTS

Qualcomm Inc. announced the availability of a single-chip vocodor that utilizes PureVoice, the latest version of the 13 kilobit Qualcomm Code Excited Linear Predictive...

PRONET TO PURCHASE OUTSTANDING STOCK

DALLAS-ProNet Inc. announced it has signed a letter of intent to purchase all of the outstanding capital stock of Georgialina Communications Co. and affiliates...

SEN. PRESSLER RELEASES SPECTRUM REFORM DRAFT

WASHINGTON-The spectrum reform draft bill unveiled by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) last week would privatize much of the nation's airwaves, a...

SPRINT SPECTRUM’S MEDINA SITE HALTED

Sprint Spectrum L.P. has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Seattle challenging a six-month moratorium on tower building put in place...

TELULAR IS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT FUTURE DESPITE RECENT ROUGH TIMES

Telular Corp. said it is emerging from its restructuring "lean and focused," in spite of the $12.4 million in one-time charges it cost the...

NEW DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES REQUIRE MORE PRECISE TEST EQUIPMENT

The introduction of fully digital wireless networks means that marginal readings by portable test equipment are no longer acceptable."It's all ones and zeros now,...

RCR TOP 20 CELLULAR MARKETS

Editor's Note: The cities listed here represent the 20 largest cellular markets in the United States. Ranking is based on the total number of subscribers...

GENEVA TRADE TALKS COULD SPARK LEGISLATION TO OPEN U.S. MARKET

WASHINGTON-The near collapse of free trade telecommunication talks in Geneva last month has raised concerns in Congress, and could provide the spark for legislation...

WORLD BRIEFS

Nexus Telecommunication Systems Ltd. announced it has granted a license to operate its wireless messaging system over 2 MHz in the 900 UHF to...

WTR DISPUTES ARTICLE

To the Editor: I am appalled by the unprincipled attack on the WTR carried in last Monday's issue of RCR. The unverified story was replete...

IN-VEHICLE NAVIGATION SYSTEMS KEEP DRIVERS AND CARS CONNECTED

You may never need, or want, to leave your car once it is equipped with an in-vehicle navigation and communications system. Hitting the market...

CDMA WAITING CONTINUES ON

Code Division Multiple Access has been touted as a success story in Seoul, South Korea and in Hong Kong. Many U.S. personal communications services...

DIGITAL ARRIVALS ARE GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY

NEW YORK-For Coherent Communications Systems Inc. of Leesburg, Va., the new digital arrivals on the wireless communications scene represent a golden opportunity for its...

CORRECTION

The MCI One initial package that includes one-number service, free long distance, Internet services and a calling card is offered for $4.95 a month,...

WIRELESS SAFETY WEEK HONORS QUICK THINKING CELLULAR LIFESAVERS

WASHINGTON-According to a public service announcement aired nationwide in conjunction with National Wireless Safety Week, "Rescue 911" host William Shatner pointed out that more...

CTIA COMMENTS

Dear Editor: Your article in Monday's RCR is a great disappointment in which you misled your readers.Somehow you have turned a story about differences in...

D.C. NOTES

As it was pointed out to me time and time again during the aftermath of last week's C-block broadband personal communications services auction, in...

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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