SAN ANTONIO-SBC Communications Inc. said it will enter South Africa’s cellular communications market through an equity investment in MTN, one of the country’s two national cellular companies. SBC plans to …
WASHINGTON-The federal government is trying to mend its rocky relationship with the public-safety community, following a series of flare-ups between the two during the past year. Last week, the Federal …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission’s effort to promote narrowband technologies in congested private wireless bands below 800 MHz by adopting flexible channeling schemes and market-driven incentives is running into early problems. …
MONTVALE, N.J.-Israel-based RDC-Rafael Development Corp. said it will exchange its interest in PowerSpectrum Technology Ltd. for 1.8 million shares of common stock of Geotek Communications Inc. PowerSpectrum is a joint …
Motorola Inc.’s Land Mobile Products Sector introduced the MCS 2000 line of mobile radios. The radios are built on a flexible platform that the company said is software configurable and …
DALLAS-Paging Network Inc. expects to gain 8,000 paging subscribers through a $7.5 million cash purchase of Celpage Inc., as specified in definitive agreements between the companies. PageNet completed acquisitions of …
PriCellular Corp. has appointed Mary Tavernini as director of sales and marketing for Cellular One of the upper peninsula of Michigan. She formerly worked for BellSouth Cellular Corp. in Milwaukee …
George Schmitt jumped ship as PCS PrimeCo L.P. leader to join the personal communications services team at Omnipoint Communications Inc. Schmitt will be its president.
Omnipoint Corp. is one among a handful of PCS innovators promised a reward by the Federal Communications Commission for enterprising work in personal communications services. But three years and $350 …
Noting the Federal Communications Commission recently ended state regulation of cellular service rates in California, AirTouch Cellular Communications Inc. announced lower prices and new service plans in its Los Angeles …
August is supposed to be a slow month in the nation’s capital, but even though Congress and the president are out of town there is movement on other fronts. There’s …
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission and Underwriters Laboratories certified Northern Telecom’s 1.9 GHz personal communications services network equipment, the company said. Nortel said its radio base station equipment, based on PCS …
Vigorous consolidation in the U.S. paging industry continues as MobileMedia Corp. closes its $188.5 million purchase of the paging and messaging business of South Carolina-based Dial Page Inc. The rest …
STOCKHOLM, Sweden-L.M. Ericsson has won a contract with Korea Telecom to provide the first phase of a mobile data network based on Mobitex technology. Korea Telecom, a government-run telecommunications company, …
BELLEVUE, Wash.-McCaw Cellular Communications Inc. said it has begun testing switching equipment from AT&T Network Systems Inc. and L.M. Ericsson in two markets. McCaw plans to purchase $450 million dollars …
CHESAPEAKE, Va.-MAP Mobile Communications Inc. said it deployed the FLEX high-speed paging protocol from Motorola Inc.’s Paging Products Group on its nationwide alphanumeric paging network. “The rapid growth of our …
Six consortia met the August deadline to apply for Ireland’s second mobile phone license, which could be awarded by the Irish Department of Transport, Energy and Communications by the end …
Launching personal communications services with a multitude of standards may be the way for industry to sort out the benefits of each technology, but it could set consumers up for …
Korea Electric Power Corp. added eight sites to the existing four sites of its L.M. Ericsson Ltd. trunked system, which uses Enhanced Digital Access Communications System technology. Korea Electric hopes …
