Yearly Archives: 1996

PCS PRIMECO WILL USE CBIS BILL ING SYSTEMS

DALLAS-PCS PrimeCo L.P. and Cincinnati Bell Information Systems announced PCS PrimeCo will deploy CBIS's Precedent 2000 Customer Care and Billing Systems in its personal...

AIRTOUCH LIVE IN KOREA, HESITATES ON LA CDMA

AirTouch Communications Inc. said there are several reasons why it is able to launch a Code Division Multiple Access system commercially in Korea, but...

CELLEXIS SAYS TECHNOLOGY WAS STO LEN BY GTE CORP.

PHOENIX-Cellexis International Inc. filed a $525 million lawsuit in U.S. District Court charging General Telephone Electronics (GTE) Corp., several of its subsidiaries and Open...

VIEWPOINT

First wedding of Baby Bells has many eyes on their siblings ... Ameritech sees no value in mergers ... BellSouth says plans unchanged in...

ERICSSON REPORTS WIRELESS INSTALLED IN PUERTO RICO

STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson announced its digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service wireless communication system has been put into commercial service in Puerto Rico by Puerto...

ERICSSON RELEASES ITS NEW OFFERINGS

DALLAS-According to Ericsson Inc., more than 1 million Time Division Multiple Access wireless customers contract for service worldwide every day. As a result, the...

SHINSEGI TELECOMM LAUNCHES CDMA NETWORK IN SOUTH KOREA

Shinsegi Telecomm Inc. is open for CDMA business in South Korea. AirTouch Communications Inc., 11 percent owner and lead technical partner in Shinsegi, said...

GRASSROOTS EFFORT TO OPPOSE SMR AUCTIONING IS UNDERWAY

An Internet message posted by the private-radio advocate group SMR WON last month was in keeping with its hard-nosed, grassroots campaign to oppose any...

TCSI STOCK OFFERING RAISES CAPITAL FUNDS

NEW YORK-TCSI Corp., a California-based software company serving wireline and wireless carriers, sold 3.45 million shares of its common stock March 27 at a...

PRIMECO READIES TO ANNOUNCE PRODUCT-CENTERED BRAND NAME

Two types of brands are expected to emerge as PCS PrimeCo L.P. prepares to announce the product-centered brand name for its personal communications services,...

PRODUCTS

The Personal Mobile Communications Division of Mitsubishi Wireless Communications Inc. announced the MobileAccess smart phone. The phone integrates a cellular telephone with broad messaging...

JAPAN WILL CONSIDER OPENING UP PERSONAL HANDYPHONE MARKET

WASHINGTON-The Clinton administration has said Japan will consider opening its personal handyphone system equipment market, a potential breakthrough for American wireless suppliers.Last week's announcement...

WEB WILL HAVE ENORMOUS IMPACT ON WIRELESS DATA FUTURE

"The Internet is the killer app!" declared futurist George Gilder at the Wireless Apps '95 show hosted by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association last...

FCC COULD SHIFT RF RADIATION EX POSURE GUIDES FOR POLITICS

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission is believed to be leaning toward radio frequency radiation exposure guidelines that incorporate Environmental Protection Agency recommendations, a policy shift...

HP OFFERS CARRIERS CUSTOMER SOLUTIONS

DALLAS-Hewlett-Packard Co. is combining the core competencies of its test measurement and computer systems businesses to provide a new Total Customer Management solution for...

OMNITEL PRONTO ITALIA OFFERS ROAMING IN 18 COUNTRIES

MILAN, Italy-Omnitel Pronto Italia announced it has reached three new international roaming agreements with Cellnet of the United Kingdom, Airtel Moviles of Spain and...

LUCENT IPO STARTS WITH 112M SHARES

NEW YORK-Lucent Technologies Inc. launched itself into the public equity market last Thursday with an initial public offering of more than 112 million shares...

MCI WORKS AT 1994 PROMISE TO BE `FORMIDABLE’ IN WIRELESS

MCI Communications Corp. surprised the industry when it opted not to participate in the 1994 government auction of new wireless licenses.But while MCI's competitors...

SBC AND PACTEL ENTER FIRST MERGER OF BABY BELLS

NEW YORK-With a push from the new federal telecommunications deregulation law, SBC Communications Inc. and Pacific Telesis Group announced April 1 the first merger...

AIR COMMUNICATIONS ADDS SECU RITY OPTION

DALLAS-Air Communications Inc. is offering an automatic personal identification number security solution for its all-in-one AirCommunicator cellular telephone.The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company introduced the...

MOTOROLA RENAMES ITS PAGING GROUP

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc. has renamed its Paging Products Group the Messaging Systems Products Group. The headquarters for MSPG will be in Fort Worth,...

EON PLANS NATIONAL FOOTPRINT TO SEIZE IVDS MARKET

Eon Corp. of Chantilly, Va., said it plans to offer a low cost wireless two-way messaging service and a host of other consumer-priced wireless...

MTEL REPORTS STOCK BUY BY MICROSOFT

NEW YORK-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. announced that Microsoft Corp. has purchased $25 million of its preferred stock. The sale of $50 million to $60...

NEXTEL EARNINGS FOR ’95 REPORTED

RUTHERFORD, N.J.-Nextel Communications Inc. reported a net loss of $118.9 million, or 62 cents per share, for the fourth quarter 1995, compared with $102.1...

D.C. NOTES

On the same day last week, the nation was a painful witness to high technology's fork in the road.In some remote hills of spacious...
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