DALLAS-PageMart Inc. will launch the new Flex Signaling System nationwide early in the first quarter of 1995.Flex is able to increase the number of pagers a transmission channel can accommodate, enhance the reliability of paging signals and Flex pagers automatically adjust to variable transmission...
Houston Cellular Telephone Co. announced that Donald Kovalevich has joined the company as its new president and general manager. He has an extensive sales and market background, the company said, from his brand management experience at Proctor and Gamble with food and paper product...
Cellular carriers in California have asked the Federal Communications Commission to reject a petition filed by the California Public Utilities Commission that asks for continued state regulation of cellular rates.The FCC planned to take control of rate regulation from states Aug. 10 under authority...
MORRISTOWN, N.J.-AT&T Network Systems Inc. announced its PCS Minicell product portfolio, the flagship product in the company's new family of wireless base station products for personal communications services systems.PCS Minicells, according to AT&T, are small, cost-effective base stations designed to operate at 2 GHz...
It's a done deal.AT&T Corp.-the nation's largest long-distance telephone company-and McCaw Cellular Communications Inc.-the biggest cellular operator in the land-are now one.The two firms closed the $11.5 billion merger Sept. 19, following conditional approval by the Federal Communications Commission earlier the same day. The...
Gearing up for upcoming personal communications services auctions, Qualcomm Inc. has introduced several products based on its Code Division Multiple Access digital technology, including the company's first portable phone for the PCS market.Qualcomm's eight ounce QCP-1900 transmits radio frequency power at extremely low levels,...
Positioning itself for the impending rush on broadband personal communications services licenses, The PCS Group, a Minneapolis-based consulting firm, has formed to offer one-stop assistance to entrepreneurs in this emerging wireless industry segment.The PCS Group President Brian Friedman said, "To succeed in PCS will...
WASHINGTON-With huge sums of money expected to be bid on broadband personal communications services licenses later this year, the Federal Communications Commission has adopted a get-tough policy on auction fraud."It's really quite simple, we're going to enforce the rules," said William Kennard, general counsel...
While it is significant that William Kennard, general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission, is one of only a handful of African Americans to make it into government's upper echelon, perhaps just as significant is the fact that he works for Reed Hundt.Hundt, though...
The Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association has filed comments with federal regulators opposing Ameritech's new telephone numbering plan for Illinois.CTIA said the new area code plan is anticompetitive and discriminatory against wireless carriers and customers. Under the new area code plan, customers who order paging...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission, facing intensified criticism from industry and Congress, has set up a task force to help it decide the fate of thousands of specialized mobile radio applications that await processing.The task force, set up two weeks ago, is comprised of Private...
RUTHERFORD, N.J.-Nextel Communications Inc. and American Mobile Systems Inc. have entered into an agreement to merge operations, Nextel said.Plans call for the entire, fully-diluted equity interest in AMS to be exchanged for an aggregate of 3,700,000 shares of Nextel Class A Common Stock, or...
Nextel Communications Inc. says it isn't anxious to jump into another relationship or alliance, and has money enough of its own until 1997."In the aftermath of a broken engagement, we don't want to operate too much on the rebound. We're not rushing, but are...
JACKSON, Miss.-Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp. said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire United States Paging Corp. in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at about $35 million.Headquartered in Wayne, N.J., U.S. Paging is a reseller of messaging services to major corporations. The company has...
Other Iridium investors include: Iridium Canada Inc.China Great Wall Industry Corp.Iridium Africa Corp.Iridium Andes-Caribe of VenezuelaIridium India Private Ltd.-a consortium of Indian financial institutions, investing $32 million, one seat on the Iridium board, rights to gateway service covering Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal and Sri...
SEATTLE-The Personal Communications Industry Association's annual meeting started here last Wednesday with a bang but ended with a bust.About 7,000 people attended the three-day Personal Communications Showcase, more than double the attendance of last year's event. Exhibit and hotel space sold out early. About...
Demand for one-number services may become even greater now that the non-geographic 500 area code is available, according to Accessline Technologies Inc., a company in the one-number ball game."The whole idea of having a personal phone number has become very popular. Now, with the...
Accurate cellular subscriber churn rates continue to be elusive for most people to obtain except those really "in the know" at cellular service companies, which makes it difficult for analysts and consultants to confirm carrier reports that their churn rates are decreasing.BellSouth Cellular Corp....
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STOCKHOLM-An international consortium involving Ram Mobile Data Network GmbH, a German subsidiary of BellSouth Corp., said it has chosen Mobitex technology for its mobile data network in Germany.Gessellschaft fur Datenfunk GmbH, a German consortium, was awarded a license in May from the German Bundesposte...
As a product, cellular voice has been a spectacular exception to the current slow growth rate for most industries. In fact, some experts claim that cellular's coming of age is unparalleled in consumer electronics."I think it's terribly significant that this industry has gone out...
Six regional Bell telephone companies have signed a joint marketing agreement to offer their individual network services and products to new personal communications services providers.Ameritech, Bell Atlantic Corp., BellSouth Telecommunications, Nynex Corp., Pacific Bell and U S West Communications have joined together to offer...
A rose by any other name still smells as sweet.Finnish-based Nokia Corp. hopes the same holds true for cellular telephones.The company's Nokia Mobile Phones Inc. announced late last month it will focus its marketing efforts in the United States on one brand name. The...
Editor's Note: The RCR research and editorial staffs have compiled this list of the 20 largest international cellular markets by country based on information supplied by the Office of Telecommunications at the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association.Ranking is based on...
