BEIJING-China Telecom, a division of the country’s Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, has selected Motorola Inc.’s Advanced Messaging Group to supply infrastructure equipment to implement China’s FLEX national backbone paging …
NEC America Inc. introduced what it believes to be the first in a new class of pagers: The Beacon data pager. The device is a one-way FLEX pager that uses …
NEW YORK-Affordable Message Center, an alphanumeric paging reseller, announced it began offering numeric paging services on ProNet Inc’s. frequencies to all of its indirect resellers in the New York/New Jersey …
MELBOURNE, Fla.-AirNet Communications Corp. announced it will supply personal communications services wireless infrastructure equipment and services to Kentucky-based SouthEast Telephone Ltd., a license winner in the Federal Communication Commission’s PCS …
REDMOND, Wash.-Metawave Communications Corp. is offering a new product for Code Division Multiple Access networks that can expand the coverage of cell sites. The Metawave Echo CDMA Enhancer allows operators …
SAN FRANCISCO-AirTouch Paging, a division of AirTouch Communications Inc., announced it will add New York City to its paging network. AirTouch currently serves several major cities in the Northeast, including …
NEW YORK-LCC International Inc., an independent provider of radio frequency network design for wireless telecommunications, went public Sept. 25 with a 5.25 million share offering of Class A common stock …
CLEVELAND-The private banking division of Cleveland-based KeyCorp is introducing a cellular phone that lets customers do banking and investing anytime and anywhere they want. The KeyMobile phone was developed by …
SAN FRANCISCO-Pacific Bell is testing PACS technology for possible use as a wireless local loop product. A Personal Access Communications System was deployed as a test in San Francisco using …
NEW YORK-Glenayre Technologies Inc. authorized its management Sept. 25 to repurchase up to 2.5 million shares, or 4 percent of the company’s common stock, in addition to the 1.5 million …
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Glenayre Technologies’ Wireless Messaging Group introduced the GL3200, which is a gateway from the Internet to both one- and two-way paging, delivering text messages to alpha pagers and providing …
WASHINGTON-While carriers, manufacturers and the FBI continue to argue about digital wiretap implementation, the wireless telecom industry is quietly lobbying Congress to keep personal communications services and digital cellular licensees …
WASHINGTON-The wireless telecommunications industry last week downed a stealth Federal Aviation Administration effort to raise millions of dollars by charging carriers to process antenna clearance applications. The agency, with backing …
NEW YORK-Citing numerous customer complaints, the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan Dallas has expelled Excel Communications Inc., a large reseller of wireline and wireless telephone services, from its membership. Excel …
NEW YORK-Within two years, AT&T Corp. and Sprint Corp. “will be the dominant wireless players,” said Michael Elling, senior telecommunications analyst for Prudential Securities Inc., at a press conference Sept. …
WASHINGTON-The D-, E- and F-block personal communications services auction topped $1 billion last week, while nine more bidders defaulted in the C-block auction. The defaults on $125 million worth of …
Sagem SA, a French manufacturer, plans to supply Global System for Mobile communications handsets to Omnipoint Communications Inc., a personal communications services operator. According to the contract, valued at $10 …
Wireless Access Inc.-recently licensed to incorporate the ReFLEX protocol in its integrated circuit chipset-is guided by a twofold business philosophy, said Tim Williams, founder and chief technical officer of the …
I’m still recovering from PCS ’96 in San Francisco. Between the 400 exhibitors, about 15,000 attendees and 30 sessions, I just couldn’t take it all in. In fact, PCIA said …
American Tower Corp. is expected to close soon on the acquisition of Prime Communication Sites L.L.C., which will give Texas-based American nearly 200 additional tower sites and complete the company’s …
