Channel surfing-Although most consumers still purchase cellular service through cellular carriers, the retail sales channel is creeping up in popularity, according to a survey on cellular buying last year by …
DENVER-RCR Publications Inc. announced two promotions on its sales staff. Mary Gafkjen has been named western sales manager at RCR Publications Inc. Formerly, Gafkjen served as classified sales manager for …
DALLAS-CellStar Corp. has signed an agreement with Usha Martin Telekom Ltd. that will allow a CellStar joint venture company to sell cellular phone service in Calcutta, India. Usha Martin holds …
A small Colorado company has reduced the cost of an average cellular call to the price point of a soda. CellAir Saver is an alternative access service for cellular customers …
AUGUST 21-22 Cyberspace and the American Dream II, by The Progress & Freedom Foundation. Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Aspen, Colo. For information call Katherine Epler at (202) 484-2312. 22 The Telecom Act …
The Intercarrier Service Bureau of GTE Telecommunications Services Inc. and Radio Shack have teamed up to offer consumers out-of-market cellular network activation, GTE announced. Retail stores previously have only activated …
After a majority vote Aug. 2 by Metrocall Inc.’s board of directors not to reappoint Harry L. Brock Jr. as president of the company, Brock filed a lawsuit in Delaware …
ATLANTA- GTE Mobilnet said it signed an agreement with Bell Mobility to license its Tele-Go integrated wireless technology to Bell Mobility. The technology will be introduced in Canada this month …
SEOUL, South Korea-Under a contract valued at $540 million, AT&T Corp. said it plans to supply Korea Mobile Telecom with wireless infrastructure equipment for KMT’s nationwide cellular network. Terms of …
WASHINGTON-Stepped-up lobbying by city, state and county officials and support from a top House Republican likely will weaken the Klug-Manton antenna siting amendment in the House-Senate conference on telecommunications reform …
WASHINGTON-How did a well-intentioned government program to create business opportunities for women, minorities, small businesses and rural telephone companies in the most explosive sector of the telecommunications industry-wireless-become such a …
PARSIPPANY, N.Y.-AT&T Corp. is introducing this month a line of wedge-shaped numeric pagers that target teenagers and meet consumer demand for personal-use devices. Model 3517 will come in bright yellow, …
Oops! Someone told the National Association of Counties, the National League of Cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors about language included in the House’s version of the telecom reform …
GREENVILLE, S.C.-The PCS Development Corp. said it plans to build prototype advanced messaging systems in Atlanta and Boston for conducting user trials the first half of 1996. Motorola Inc. will …
DANVILLE, Calif.-Telemac Cellular Corp. said it has agreed to license its patent-pending debit technology to Trimax Inc. of Taiwan. The contract allows Trimax to manufacture a cellular debit phone that …
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-PageMart Inc. has selected Sun servers, from Sun Microsystems Co., as the network computing platform for a new corporate information system that will automate many company operations, announced …
An 18-year-old Australian emergency lighting systems manufacturer plans to beam into the global, wireless communications marketplace with products company leaders say are ideal for serving low- to medium-density populations. Sydney-based …
RESTON, Va.-American Mobile Satellite Corp. has introduced Skycell Satellite Dispatch Service, a digital point-to-multipoint broadcast system that can operate throughout North America, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands …
MOUNTLAKE TERRACE, Wash.-SEA Inc. said the Federal Communications Commission has type accepted the SEA700 hand-held portable transceiver for use in the new 220-222 MHz radio service. It is the first …
Kicking off a game of wireless executive leapfrog, George F. Schmitt jumped ship from PCS PrimeCo L.P. to join the personal communications services team at Omnipoint Communications Inc. as president-a …
