RESTON, Va.-Comsat Personal Communications, a division of Comsat Corp., selected Giesecke & Devrient to provide Subscriber Identity Module smart cards for Comsat’s Planet 1 personal satellite telephone. Planet 1 is …
PARIS-France Telecom Mobiles announced it will activate roaming with American Personal Communications this quarter. The company announced in June its intent to deploy roaming functionality between APC’s PCS 1900 network …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson is enhancing its Global System for Mobile communications digital cellular phones with Enhanced Full Rate technology. The technology will be installed in the CH388 digital flip phone …
WASHINGTON-The Environmental Protection Agency is expected shortly to issue a policy statement supporting a new hybrid radio frequency radiation standard, but sources say the EPA is unlikely to retreat from …
OTTAWA-TMI Communications agreed to provide mobile satellite communications services to Cable & Wireless Caribbean Cellular, a marine cellular network operator in the Caribbean. The service, CellSat, allows users to switch …
LISLE, Ill.-Tellabs Inc. said it will supply its Martis DXX managed access and transport network solution to P Plus Communications Ltd., a personal communications services licensee in Hong Kong. The …
CHICAGO-Telephone and Data Systems Inc. said its board of directors authorized repurchase of up to 3 million TDS common shares. “It is our intention to use repurchased shares to fund …
Tele-Communications Inc. said the tracking stock it is creating for its holding in Sprint Spectrum L.P. is designed to raise cash, and shouldn’t be seen as a sign that TCI …
SINGAPORE-MobileOne of Singapore announced it turned on its cellular network for limited use and plans to launch service commercially in April. Goh Chee Wee, Singapore’s Minister of the State for …
DELRAY BEACH, Fla.-Sims Communications Inc. and the American Automobile Association have teamed to offer rented cellular phones to AAA’s 890,000 members in the Carolinas. The product package called “TripFone,” is …
WASHINGTON-In a decision almost surely headed for the appeals court, the Federal Communications Commission last Friday conditionally awarded NextWave Personal Communications Inc. its C-block licenses after NextWave submitted a plan …
NEW YORK-The public capital markets were not kind to personal communications services companies in 1996, but 1997 is looking a bit more hopeful. “The seven publicly traded PCS players not …
Cellulink introduced digital cellular service in the Fox Valley, Wis., region. The Time Division Multiple Access system will work in conjunction with the company’s existing cellular network. Cellulink said the …
To the cynic, walking away from AT&T Corp. and the prospect of being chairman of the world’s biggest telecommunications company to head a wireless start-up with unproven technology was no …
BANGKOK, Thailand-Lucent Technologies Inc. announced it has signed a multimillion dollar contract with Thailand’s Total Access Communication Company Ltd. to supply and install the country’s first commercial Code Division Multiple …
KING OF PRUSSIA-InterDigital Communications Corp. adopted a shareholder rights plan and declared a distribution of one right for each outstanding share of common stock under the advice of Merrill Lynch, …
WASHINGTON- The demand for two-way messaging services is high among current paging users, as reported by Economic and Management Consultants International Inc. in a recent survey, which is part of …
The New Year started out so well. Tom Wheeler and I congratulated each other on bowl wins by Ohio State, his alma mater, and Tennessee, mine. He said he and …
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.-The Communities on Phone Patrol (COPP) program donated 40 phones to 10 Fort Lauderdale, Fla., neighborhoods as part of its goal to distribute 50,000 cellular phones to community …
WAYNE, Pa.-Comcast Cellular Communications Inc. launched its Prepaid Advanced Cellular service in Philadelphia, central and southern New Jersey, Delaware and parts of Maryland. The PAC plan allows customers to prepay …
