As one company fine-tunes its debut for narrowband personal communications services, others bide their time by determining market position and devising rollout strategies.SkyTel Corp.-through its PCS bidding entity Destineer Corp.-plans to activate its nationwide two-way advanced messaging service during the second half of the...
WASHINGTON-American Personal Communications unveiled a new device that helps next-generation pocket telephone firms optimize access to 2 GHz spectrum while they negotiate to move incumbent fixed microwave licensees off that band onto higher frequencies.PathGuard remote measuring units, based on a new APC patent and...
DALLAS-PCS PrimeCo, the four-way partnership of AirTouch Communications Inc., Bell Atlantic Corp., Nynex Corp. and U S West Inc., recruited Texas Utilities Co. of Dallas as an equity partner in its personal communications services business in Texas.Under the agreement, Texas Utilities will have a...
Putting behind what it calls "the roller-coaster year of 1994," specialized mobile radio operator Pittencrieff Communications Inc. intends to strengthen its market presence and its financial situation by merging with Advanced MobileComm Inc. and a number of unrelated SMRs.PCI entered into a letter of...
WASHINGTON-In a major setback for states, the Federal Communications Commission ruled public utility commissions cannot regulate local rates of commercial wireless carriers.The FCC on May 11 rejected petitions from Arizona, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Louisiana, New York and Ohio seeking to retain rate regulation of...
Editor's Note: The following information is a Smith Barney Inc. analysis released April 28. From time to time, RCR plans to print investment opinions and summaries about publicly traded telecommunications companies as a service to its readers.Dial Page Inc. recently reported its first quarter 1995...
Punctuating the onset of narrowband personal communications services, Motorola Inc.'s new InFLEXion messaging protocol is among a family of protocols the company expects to become the new paging standard.Distinguished by its voice and two-way data capabilities, speed, capacity and frequency reuse, InFLEXion reportedly is...
In India, where basic telephone service is scarce and telecommunications unfamiliar, the introduction of paging technology promises new opportunities for both service providers and consumers.After the Indian government opened the paging market last year, granting 94 licenses in 27 cities among 15 companies, partners...
ATLANTA-Two members of an Atlanta business accused by the Federal Trade Commission of operating a deceptive "recovery room" telemarketing scheme have withdrawn their offer to settle with the FTC and intend to fight the charges in federal court.United Consumer Services Inc. and its president,...
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt said the agency will not halt the licensing of personal communications services systems that use the Global System for Mobile communications standard because "we don't believe there is a serious risk of interference to hearing aids" from the...
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. announced its first quarter financial results. Net revenues reached $121.5 million, a 34 percent increase from $90.7 million for the same quarter last year. The quarter ended with a net loss of $6.8 million, or 13 cents per share, compared with...
While the two-month delay of the entrepreneur block auction gave some designated-entity companies more time to wheel and deal for funding and allies, one businesswoman said investors slipped away from her in favor of small-business designated companies."The auction stay diverted attention away from women...
The Post and Telecommunication Administration in the Zhejiang Province of China is reconfiguring its existing paging network, based on Motorola Inc.'s M15 series paging terminals, with an order valued at more than $3 million for new Digital Communications Frame-based paging infrastructure equipment.Motorola's Paging Products...
COLUMBUS, Ohio-CompuServe Inc. has teamed up with a number of wireless companies to enhance mobility for professionals on the road through its Stay In Charge services.Through individual agreements with PageMart Inc., SkyTel Corp. and Mobile Communications Corporation of America, CompuServe has introduced a number...
Following partnership agreements established last December, Northern Telecom Ltd. has issued its first purchase order, valued at $2 million, to Qualcomm Inc. for Code Division Multiple Access-based cellular and personal communications services infrastructure and subscriber equipment, Qualcomm said. Northern Telecom is supplying BC TEL...
The Federal Communications Commission set an Aug. 2 date to begin the proceedings when Telephone Electronics Corp.-after aligning itself with PCS PrimeCo L.P., the consortium of three Baby Bells and AirTouch Communications-dropped its lawsuit challenging FCC rules that give bidding preferences to women and...
Most carriers are unwilling to reveal subscriber numbers because of the highly competitive nature of the business. RCR tallies for total market subscribers, population base and penetration are estimates.Data was provided by Economic and Management Consultants International Inc. and Herschel Shosteck Associates Ltd., and...
SAN DIEGO-Qualcomm Inc. pushed back its previously announced mid-1995 availability schedule for Code Division Multiple Access technology-based equipment.Qualcomm said its cellular infrastructure equipment will be available during the last quarter of this year and in early 1996 for large-market deployment. The company's second-generation cell...
L.M. Ericsson introduced the Prism HP portable, which the company says is its smallest, lightest and most sophisticated high specification radio. It is designed to meet worldwide user requirements and can be programmed to work on both Enhanced Digital Access Communications Systems trunked or...
WASHINGTON-Recent studies showing cellular telephones can interfere with cardiac pacemakers have prompted industry-funded research to see if next-generation, digital pocket phones pose a public health problem in the United States.Wireless Technology Research, a group financed by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association and organized two...
In the wake of the Oklahoma city bombing, the Clinton adminstration and Congress are pressing for changes on telecommunications laws to combat terrorism. Clinton ans Senate Majority Leader Robert Doyle, R-Kan., likely combatants in nexy year's presidental race, each gave preposed to expand the...
DALLAS-MicroCell 1-2-1 Inc. of Montreal selected Northern Telecom to supply more than $90 million of personal communications services network equipment and services over the next three years.MicroCell said it plans to deploy a national network in Canada based on the Global System for Mobile...
NEW YORK-A majority of the board of directors for Lin Broadcasting Corp. approved merging Lin with McCaw Cellular Communications Inc., now owned by AT&T Corp.AT&T made an offer to buy 53.3 million shares of Lin for $3.3 billion. McCaw purchased 52 percent of Lin...
InterDigital Communictaions Corp. said it received an order for UltraPhone digital wireless local loop equipment valued at $17.6 million from the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. Installation in metropolitan Manila is scheduled to begin the second half of this year. The Myanma Posts and...
