NEW YORK-Shareholders of Cellular Communications Inc., New York, were scheduled to vote Aug. 16 whether to approve the company’s acquisition by AirTouch Communications Inc., San Francisco. Once the merger is …
WALTHAM, Mass.-Primark Corp. has acquired Yankee Group Research Inc., a market research and consulting firm in the communications and computing field. The transaction includes cash payments of $34 million and …
Motorola Inc.’s Advanced Messaging Group said Shanghai Guomai, the largest paging carrier in China, is operating using Motorola’s FLEX protocol-based paging system in Shanghai. Guomai has close to 1 million …
Paging stocks have been taking a beating lately as ratings agencies and some analysts worry that plain old paging won’t be able to compete in the sophisticated two-way messaging and …
ust a day after the New York Times published a precarious part of a USAir company memo regarding use of airline phones during an emergency, the airline confirmed the memo …
Using cellular and intelligent satellite technologies, Telecel International Ltd. of New Canaan, Conn., is on track to rehaul communications in Africa. The company was first to introduce cellular service in …
IRVINE, Calif.-Subscriber Computing Inc., a provider of management solutions for the wireless industry, has completed the installation of the first Unix version of SCI’s Intelligent Message Router for Western Wireless …
The paging industry is celebrating the Federal Communication Commission’s recent ruling on interconnection rates-for the most part. The new regulations are expected to save paging carriers money, but new state …
NEW YORK-Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co., Chicago, assigned an investment grade rating of AA- to Pacific Bell’s $250 million issue of 10-year notes sold Aug. 15. The notes were …
WASHINGTON-A recently released Federal Communications Commission order now prohibits states from singling out wireless carriers for service- or technology-specific area code overlays. States will be able to institute all-services overlays …
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS-NetCom GSM, a Norwegian cellular network operator, announced its trial DCS 1800 digital cellular system. The system, supplied and commissioned by Motorola Inc.’s European Cellular Infrastructure Division, follows the …
SAN DIEGO-NextWave Telecom Inc. unveiled its personal communications services demonstration system based on Code Division Multiple Access technology during the Republican National Convention in San Diego. Rep. Thomas Bliley (R-Va.) …
NEW YORK-Moody’s Investor’s Service Inc. downgraded certain outstanding debt of Mobile Telecommunication Technologies Corp., Jackson, Miss. The New York-based rating agency downgraded its speculative grade rating to B3 from B2 …
ATLANTA-MCI Communications Corp. announced it is offering local cellular service in the Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, N.Y., markets. Customers in those areas will have an alternative for local cellular service, …
NEW YORK-In Latin American countries, “where completion of a phone call is cause for celebration in some cases,” rising gross domestic product signals increasing financing demands for wireless communications infrastructure …
Sprint Spectrum L.P. said it is facing the same problem in Oregon experienced by its personal communications services competitor, Western Wireless Corp.-an attempt by the state to tax its personal …
Sprint Spectrum delays offering -5 AT&T, SBC swap properties – 13 Telecel expands service in Africa – 18
NEW YORK-Never mind the summer sun. When it comes to microwave incumbent relocation, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas to personal communications services providers. By late July, about …
OLYMPIA, Wash.-Illuminet and Northern Telecom Inc. announced they expanded their personal communications services equipment agreement to include Global System for Mobile communications technology in addition to Code Division Multiple Access …
ATLANTA-GTE Mobilnet Inc. switched 250 cellular customers in Austin, Texas, from its analog network to a trial network using Code Division Multiple Access technology. GTE said it intends to gather …
