BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.-Motorola Inc.’s Paging Products Group announced West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Pager One Inc. has introduced a FLEX high-speed paging system that it said gives pager users more reliable …
NEW YORK-Two years after it divested itself of its international paging and cellular operations, Pacific Telesis Group, San Francisco, now confronts projections of two years of nearly flat earnings and …
NEW YORK-Orange plc, a British cellular carrier, sold an initial public offering of common stock March 27 that netted approximately $951 million. In January, Orange, Bristol, England, was formed as …
What did he know and when did he know it? Ah, the immortal question of Sen. Howard Baker of Watergate fame. That’s what House telecommunications subcommittee Chairman Jack Fields (R-Texas) …
The South African Police Services announced it has awarded Motorola Inc. and South Africa-based Alcom a contract for a SmartZone UHF two-way radio communications system. Motorola said the system will …
WASHINGTON-MCI Communications Corp. plans to offer cellular service in 20 new major markets by year’s end, including Atlanta, Detroit and Miami. MCI currently buys cellular from both A- and B-side …
WASHINGTON-Developed and developing countries will have 60 million wireless local loop subscribers by 2000, says a recent report published by Economic Management Consultants International Inc. The report, Wireless Local Loop: …
WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission officials said microwave relocation guidelines will be clarified but not fundamentally altered later this month, despite intense lobbying by the wireless telecommunications industry for major rule changes …
WASHINGTON-Iridium Inc., the international consortium of telecommunications companies funding the development of the Iridium system, has become a charter mobile satellite services member of the Global System for Mobile communications …
NEW YORK-InterCel Inc. announced it has filed a registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a $150 million issue of senior discount notes. Net proceeds will go toward the …
OLYMPIA, Wash.-U.S. Intelco Wireless said it has negotiated a volume discount agreement with Motorola Inc. that will give its 200-plus members significant discounts on equipment purchases. USIW also has signed …
NEW YORK-Geotek Communications Inc. inaugurated commercial service in the New York City metropolitan area March 28, for its wireless communications network geared toward mobile blue collar workers. Earlier this year, …
WASHINGTON-Congress late last week was expected to introduce legislation to force the Federal Communications Commission to lift the two-month-old paging application freeze, a source told RCR. The legislation likely will …
BRUSSELS, Belgium-A move by the European Commission to regulate satellite communications systems has been thwarted by the Telecommunications Council of the European Union. The commission drafted a proposal last fall …
DALLAS-As thousands of wireless industry comrades flocked to Dallas last week for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association’s Wireless ’96 trade show, so did their enemies-criminals seeking a cloning rendezvous. Anticipating …
LONDON-The board of directors of Cable & Wireless plc said talks are on again with British Telecommunications. The “exploratory discussions … may or may not lead to a merger of …
California Microwave Inc. announced it is expecting earnings per share for its 1996 fiscal year third quarter ending March 31 to be in the range of 5 cents to 10 …
STAMFORD, Conn.-GTE Corp. has announced it intends to get a foothold in the Brazilian cellular phone market through an alliance with a Brazilian investment group and a Brazilian equipment manufacturer. …
WASHINGTON-North Coast Mobile Communications-gone. GO Telecommunications Corp.-gone. PCS 2000-director and CEO Anthony Easton resigns to “pursue other business interests.” NextWave Personal Communications, GWI PCS Inc., DCR PCS Inc.-cleaning up. April …
WASHINGTON-Andrew Barrett, a Bush-appointed member of the Federal Communications Commission since 1990, joins Edelman Public Relations Worldwide today despite entreaties from Republican lawmakers that he remain at the FCC until …
