Yearly Archives: 1997

SCHWARTZ WORKS AGAINST EFFORTS TO PRE-EMPT LOCAL REGULATION

WASHINGTON-National League of Cities President Mark Schwartz vowed last week to defy federal regulatory and wireless industry efforts to pre-empt local regulation of wireless...

USERS GIVE CARRIERS POSITIVE FEEDBACK

LOS ANGELES-Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Co. is receiving positive feedback from users of its SmartDigital phone, which combines a digital wireless phone, alphanumeric pager...

BELLSOUTH PLANS TO ADD TO MOBILITY USING IS-136

The mobility service BellSouth Mobility Inc. intends to launch in its new D- and E-block markets not only fills in coverage gaps in the...

STRATEGIS GROUP REPORTS ON PCS

WASHINGTON-The Strategis Group announced it expects wireless phone service to become just as "ubiquitous as traditional wireline residential service," in the United States within...

TCI SELLS $300M OF DEBT TO BUY BACK, REPAY DEBT

NEW YORK-Through its trustee, TCI Group, Tele-Communications Inc. sold $300 million March 11 of capital securities, a debt issue with a final maturity date...

TECHNOLOGY NOW A DIFFERENTIATOR IN BATTLE OF SMALLEST PHONES

"The world's smallest PCS phone.""The world's lightest mobile phone.""The smallest and lightest CDMA phone in existence."The battle for the tiniest phone is no longer...

UNIDEN PREMIERES CORDLESS PHONE

FORT WORTH, Texas-Uniden America Corp. introduced a cordless phone operating at 900 MHz, which the company said allows business users to have a portable...

VIEWPOINT

In between the land of resellers and the land of licensed wireless providers lies a place where MCI Telecommunications Corp. lives all by itself.The...

CONGRESSMAN PROMISES PUBLIC-SAFETY SPECTRUM, LOAN PROGRAM

WASHINGTON-Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) plans to introduce two separate pieces of legislation aimed at aiding the public-service industry in its quest to secure additional...

WORLD ACCESS INC. TO ACQUIRE VENDOR

ATLANTA-World Access Inc. will acquire Cellular Infrastructure Supply Inc. for a combination of cash and stock, according to a letter of intent.The transaction is...

WIRELESS INDUSTRY’S FCC FEES COULD RISE 46 PERCENT WITH NPRM

WASHINGTON-Congress has charged the Federal Communications Commission with raising $152.5 million in regulatory fees for fiscal year 1997, a $26.1 million (nearly 21 percent)...

FCC SEEKS COMMENT ON GEAR CERTIFICATION, SATELLITE ALLOCATION

WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission issued two notices of proposed rulemaking at its monthly meeting March 12, one dealing with streamlining its authorization process for...

GREECE’S OTE NARROWS PARTNER SEARCH TO THREE

Greece's government telephone provider said it has collected bids from more than 15 equipment manufacturers for mobile phone equipment, and has narrowed its search...

NATIONAL GSM SUBS TRIPLE IN 5 MONTHS

SAN FRANCISCO-The national Global System for Mobile communications network grew from 100,000 subscribers to 300,000 subscribers in the last five months, according to GSM...

MOVIE STAR LAMARR RECOGNIZED FOR FREQUENCY HOPPING EFFORTS

BURLINGAME, Calif.-Movie star Hedy Lamarr has received a special award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for her contribution to spread-spectrum broadcast communications.According to the...

WORLD BRIEFS

Metromedia International Group Inc. announced its subsidiary, Metromedia Asia Corp., has acquired Asian American Telecommunications Corp., a company engaged in the development and construction...

INDONESIA NETWORK TO BUY ULTRAPHONE

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa.-InterDigital Communications Corp. will provide its UltraPhone system to Bukaka Sing Tel International of Indonesia, a joint systems operator owned by...

QUALCOMM, SHIELDMATE RECEIVE MOTOROLA LAWSUIT

Motorola Inc. said it has filed its lawsuit in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against Qualcomm Inc. and Shieldmate...

QUALCOMM DEALS FOR MOSCOW CDMA

SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. signed a contract to supply a Code Division Multiple Access system to JSC Personal Communications of Moscow.The system initially will serve...

SILVERLAKE’S NEWEST SOFTWARE IS ADDED TO AIRSOURCE FAMILY

Silverlake Communications Inc. has introduced two products to its Airsource line of paging software.The Calabasas, Calif., company now provides a wireless/personal communications services development...

OPINION

Motorola counters research memoDear Editor: I would like to take strong exception to the tone and substance of RCR's March 3 article on Motorola's 1994...

LUCENT, SAVILLE JOIN FOR BILLING PLATFORM

WARREN, N.J.-Lucent Technologies Inc. and Saville Systems have agreed to co-market Lucent's software applications with the Saville Convergent Billing Platform, according to a general...

MOTOROLA TO INSTALL CHINESE TEST NET

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS-Motorola Inc.'s Asia Pacific Cellular Infrastructure Group will install a trial Code Division Multiple Access cellular network in mainland China. The agreement is...

PENNSYLVANIA COPS HELP COMBAT FRAUD

HARRISBURG, Pa.-A new Pennsylvania training program designed to help police officers crack down on illegal duplication and use of cellular phones drew praise from...

NEXTEL ROLLS OUT IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

OAKLAND, Calif.-Nextel Communications Inc. introduced digital wireless service operating on Motorola Inc.'s integrated Digital Enhanced Network technology in northern California.The enhanced specialized mobile radio...
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