Yearly Archives: 1996

SPECULATION OF EUROPEAN MERGERS CONTINUES WHILE PLAYERS WAIT

Lately Western Europe is a tourney of anticipation and waiting where players are evaluating merging options and calculating the competition's next move.The first domino...

PAGENET SUBSIDIARY NOW SERVICES CANADA

DALLAS-The Toronto-based subsidiaries of Paging Network Inc. and PageMart Inc., both headquartered in Dallas, started offering paging services in Canada.PageNet said this is its...

CANADIAN PCS LICENSEES MOVE FORWARD WITH PLANS

Rapid progress to market for Canada's personal communications services licensees is marked by Industry Canada's recent release of license conditions and Bell Mobility's announcement...

CELLSTAR CITES SYSTEM PROBLEMS AS REASON FOR POOR FINANCIALS

NEW YORK-Fast on the heels of resignations by two chief financial officers and a director this year, CellStar Corp. recently braced the investment community...

FIRST HEALTH-RELATED SUIT COULD BE FILED IN BRITAIN

WASHINGTON-Public alarm over potential health risks from mobile telephones that reached fever pitch in the United States several years ago may be about to...

DSP FILES ADD-ON STOCK OFFER OF 3.5 MILLION SHARES FOR CAPITAL

NEW YORK-DSP Communications Inc. priced Thursday for sale Friday a common stock offering of 3.5 million shares at $26 each. The new add-on issuance...

OPINION WTR RESPONDS TO REPORT

Dear Editor: Your April 8th issue, which uses anonymous sources to question the relevance of the Wireless Technology Research L.L.C. scientific program, is incorrect and...

GEOTEK PLANS TO CREATE FHMA EQUIPMENT GROUP

MONTVALE, N.J.-Geotek Communications Inc. said it plans to create a telecommunications equipment company to develop, manufacture, market and license advanced communications systems and products...

LAWSUITS TO STOP MERGER FILED IN DELAWARE COURT

NEW YORK-Six class-action lawsuits have been filed seeking to block the proposed merger between Cellular Communications Inc., based in New York, and AirTouch Communications...

VIEWPOINT

It seems to me the whole auction process has just continued the spirit of tainted opportunity that we have seen in America's short history.It...

WORLD BRIEFS

L.M. Ericsson announced it has signed an agreement with the Guangdong Post and Telecommunications Administration for the installation of intelligent networks in the Guangdong...

GSM DEPLOYMENT EFFORT CONTINUES IN LEBANON

L.M. Ericsson and Motorola Inc. say they don't expect to pull workers out of Lebanon at this time, where two digital wireless phone networks...

WIRELESS NETWORK EQUIPMENT SALES UP FROM NETWORK UPGRADES

Sales of wireless network equipment in the United States grew more than 72 percent in 1995 to $5.44 billion, up from $3.16 billion the...

NEXTEL WINS 177 LICENSES

Nextel Communications Inc. said the 177 licenses it won at auction are a "relatively small thing" considering the enormous holdings it has already.Nextel has...

STUDY LOOKS AT TRUE FINANCIAL RE SULTS OF PCS SPECTRUM AUCTIONS

WASHINGTON-In a long-awaited study, two Clinton administration economists say flaws in Federal Communications Commission bidding rules forced firms to pay relatively more for less...

D.C. NOTES

So there they were on one panel, George Gilder, Nicholas Negroponte and Peter Huber-the creme de la creme of spectrum seers-brought before the Senate...

ERICSSON INC. WILL SUPPLY PCS NETWORK EQUIPMENT

RICHARDSON, Texas-Ericsson Inc. will supply Omnipoint Corp. equipment for its New York-based personal communications services network, the companies said. The equipment is configured with...

PAGING REVENUES ARE EXPECTED TO TRIPLE DURING THE NEXT DECADE

NEW YORK-Operating outside the limelight cast by telecom deregulation and the Federal Communications Commission's C-block auction for personal communications service, the paging sector is...

PRIMECO ANNOUNCES FIRST CALL OVER ITS PCS NETWORK

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-PrimeCo Personal Communications L.P., the wireless partnership of AirTouch Communications Inc., Bell Atlantic Corp., Nynex Corp. and U S West Inc., initiated...

PRONET AND TELETOUCH ENTER MERGER AGREEMENT

DALLAS-ProNet Inc. and Teletouch Communications Inc. announced a definitive agreement to merge the two paging carriers in a transaction they value at about $181...

JACOBS DEFENDS CDMA DESPITE LAUNCH DELAYS

Expenses were significant for Qualcomm Inc. in the second quarter, deeply affecting its earnings and sending its stock down 10 points.The San Diego company...

PRESSLER SAYS SPECTRUM REFORM LEGISLATION IS NOT LIKELY THIS YEAR

WASHINGTON-Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Larry Pressler (R-S.D.) said Congress is unlikely to consider spectrum reform legislation this year, and conceded the bill he wants...

FCC FIELDS PANELIST COMMENTS ON UNIVERSAL SERVICES OPTIONS

WASHINGTON-Before disadvantaged and rural customers can take advantage of existing and emerging telecommunications services, the Federal Communications Commission and its adjunct Federal/State joint board...

TELULAR NAMES MILLARD NEW PRESI DENT AND CEO

BUFFALO GROVE, Ill.-Telular Corp. named Kenneth Millard president and chief executive officer. Millard also will serve as a member of the board of directors.Prior...

TELLABS COMPLETES STEINBRECHER DEAL

LISLE, Ill.-Telecommunications equipment manufacturer Tellabs Inc. announced it has acquired all of the outstanding share capital of Steinbrecher Corp., a Burlington, Mass.-based provider of...
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