Yearly Archives: 1996

WORLD BRIEFS

L.M. Ericsson announced it has won a contract from Telecel to provide Digital Cross Connect for Portugal's Global System for Mobile communications network. The...

RCR APPOINTS JERN TO NORTHERN SALES

CHICAGO-RCR Publications Inc. has named David Jern northern sales manager. Jern has approximately 20 years of experience in advertising sales and marketing. In 1994,...

UNLESS COUNTRIES OPEN UP MAR KETS, TRADE TALKS COULD COLLAPSE

WASHINGTON-U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor warned that World Trade Organization telecommunications talks will collapse unless more countries agree to open their markets, a development...

KOREA PLANS TO BESTOW PCS LI CENSES THIS JUNE

SEOUL, Korea-Korea has made yet another policy reversal over its award of personal communications services franchises, while remaining firm about completing the licensing process...

WIRELESS FIRMS WILL FIND STOCK MARKET STRONG DESPITE VOLATILITY

NEW YORK-Recent blips of volatility in the stock and bond markets are no cause for alarm for wireless companies planning to tap the public...

FCC WILL RE-EXAMINE WHETHER MTEL SHOULD PAY FOR NPCS PERMIT

WASHINGTON-Jackson, Miss.-based Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. will have to wait a while longer to learn if it is liable for a $33 million payment...

BUSINESS BRIEF

Spectrum Information Technologies Inc. and Motorola Inc. announced they have reached an agreement to settle the patent litigation that has been pending between the...

GO ECHOES NEXTWAVE SUSPICIONS THAT SOME BIDDERS ARE `FRONTS’

WASHINGTON-Another top bidder in the C-block broadband personal communications services auction has had enough with the possibility of dealing with "front" organizations and speculators...

NOKIA WILL DELIVER PCS INFRASTRUCTURE

WESTLAKE, Texas-Nokia Telecommunications Inc. announced it has been selected as the sole supplier for the initial buildout of American Portable Telecom Inc.'s personal communications...

D.C. NOTES

I've looked everywhere-the dictionary ... the thesaurus ... Bartlett's Familiar Quotations ... Harry Newton's telecom opus. And I just can't find it. I can't...

OPEN DEVELOPMENT PROVIDES CAR RIERS WITH PREPAID SERVICE

Open Development Corp. introduced a network-based prepaid cellular service it says will increase revenue for cellular service providers between 15 percent and 30 percent.Prepaid...

PEOPLE

Robert Franke is now director of distribution for AirTouch Cellular, a subsidiary of AirTouch Communications Inc. In his new position, Franke will be responsible...

PREMIERE TECHNOLOGIES RAISES $117M IN FIRST PUBLIC OFFERING

NEW YORK-Premiere Technologies Inc. sold an initial public offering of 3.5 million shares of common stock on March 5 at $18 each. The share...

QUALCOMM, INTER-TEL TO WORK ON LOCAL LOOP

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. and Inter-Tel Inc. announced they have signed a development, supply and license agreement for telephone switching equipment for wireless local loop...

RESELLERS COULD BE USEFUL LINK IN BUILDING PCS SUBSCRIPTION BASE

Wireless resellers say they aren't sure what will happen when personal communications services enter the marketplace next year, but if PCS launches a price...

SAMSUNG SNAGS RUSSIAN PACT

SEOUL, South Korea-Samsung Electronics Co. announced a contract with Russian telecommunications company IV Telecom to provide equipment for a digital cellular phone system using...

RCR TOP 20 WIRELESS RESELLERS

Editor's Note: The companies listed below represent the 20 largest resellers of cellular service in the United States. Rankings are based on the total number...

U S WEST OFFERS PAGING SERVICE VIA RESALE PACT WITH WESTLINK

DENVER-U S West Inc. is getting back into the paging business by reselling service from Westlink Paging Inc., the California paging operator that bought...

WILDFIRE UPGRADE WILL ALLOW COORDINATED COMMUNICATIONS

LEXINGTON, Mass.-Wildfire Communications Inc. announced an upgrade to its Wildfire Electronic Assistant, a service available through service providers nationwide that coordinates all of a...

THREE-SIXTY COMPLETES SPINOFF TO BECOME $3B CELLULAR CARRIER

CHICAGO - Three-sixty Communications Co. has completed its spinoff from Sprint Corp. to become a public business with a market capitalization of $3 billion."Becoming...

ADC PLANS TO BUY 220 MHZ LICENSES

DENVER-American Digital Communications Inc. announced it has signed a letter of intent to purchase all stock of Pagers Plus Cellular Inc. of Walnut Creek,...

WESTERN WIRELESS SAYS `ALOHA’ TO PCS

Western Wireless Corp. said aloha to Honolulu's wireless communications market by offering consumers yet another way to communicate-via a personal communications services handset.The Bellevue,...

STRONG DEMAND RAISES ARCH’S DEBT OFFERING TO $275 MILLION

NEW YORK-Strong investor demand for a debt offering by Arch Communications Group Inc. prompted the company to raise the amount issued to $275 million...

MOTOROLA TO DEPLOY GSM IN INDONESIA

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.-Motorola Inc. said it has a $30 million contract to deploy a digital cellular phone network for PT Telkomsel in Indonesia.The Global...

WORLD BRIEFS

L.M. Ericsson said it surpassed the 1 million subscriber milestone in February for its CMS 30 system for Pacific Digital Cellular, making Japan one...
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